Robert Thomson This is what I do

Archive for October, 2009

All Couch, No Gratin

Wednesday, 28 October, 2009

My third trek out to find a couch was successful. I felt like the bitchy princess sitting down on so many couches, only to jump up again to proclaim: “How can you charge $3,000.00 for something so uncomfortable?” Don’t people want to be welcomed into their furniture? Most of these pieces were like trying to [...]

Couch Potatoes

Saturday, 24 October, 2009

Went out for a late breakfast and drank too much coffee. The Big & Spicy omelet at Daybreak is great, but altogether too much food with the toast, pancakes and hash browns. Love the hash browns.
Ended up going down to InDesign, EQ3 and Biltmore Domicile but was hard pressed to find something that was great [...]

Ha Ha Funny

Friday, 23 October, 2009

On Tuesday I began work on my new short film project. It’s going to be funny. Supposedly. Seriously…I promised people who are close to me that I would not do any more weepy stuff and what better way to come out of one of the worst years ever than to make people laugh? Or at [...]

All About “If”

Wednesday, 21 October, 2009

“If” is based on a short story I wrote and published in my second book Need. The original story was about a destructive relationship that ends, leaving the story-teller depressed and wondering whether or not he was right to leave his partner.
The filmed version began as a visual exploration of loss, grief and mourning. Instead [...]