Awards and Website Credits
Visit our main page for mpegs of the series.
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Special Credits
Recording & Mixing Studios Command Post specializes in working with independent filmmakers, music videos & industrials. We were their very first Internet project and they bent over backwards for us (as they seem to do with all of their clients). Now please, don't all of you go booking time there--we still need to get in to do our shows! -- April 2000. |
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Cloud Tiles We've collected a number of nice images over the years from sites which have fallen off the face of the Earth or mutated into horrible, horrible creatures. However, there is one site, BackgroundsArchive.com which is pretty darn good! There, you will find some nice cloud tiles and spectacular nature images like the one which graces our main page. (I flopped and turned that one 180 degrees to make a continuous checkerboard image!) All of the images shown here have been reduced in size; to see them in their full glory (and how they work with text) just click-on the image to see the tile in action on our site. -- February 2007. |
Test Pattern Tiles |
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Credit Tiles (These tiles are shown in their full size so you could download them directly to your computer.) This design reminded me of the turn-of-the-century (19th/20th century) filligree that "theatre people" chose to associate with. That's why I'm using these tiles with any pages (including this one) which deal with the cast or individual actors. And like the Test Pattern tiles above, these tiles were originally available for free download at Webpagedesign.com. -- November 2003. |
Paintings The painting on our Irish broadcast page is by Thomas Blackshear. Visit his site to buy merchandise and reproductions of some of his paintings (unfortunately, other paintings are now completely in private hands)! -- September 2006. |
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Behind The Scenes Photos ALL of the photos of the cast & crew at work were taken with Kodak single use cameras (mostly with the model called "Versatility"). These cameras are incredibly simple to use and with Kodak processing you can end up with film negatives and a choice of prints, CD-Rom and/or jpegs emailed to your account. We've had some experience in the archive world and can tell you that the more formats you save your "assets" in, the better. Negatives can fade and get scratched, CDs can oxidize and become unreadable and digital can always get blown away! The answer? Get all three! We'd leave a bunch of cameras out for the cast & crew to take shots of one another but the ball really didn't start rolling until we promised to some of the people that we wouldn't post a photo of them without their permission. After that, the film flew freely! -- August 2014 |
Animated Rollovers "Major Domo" is the name of the mailing list program which comes bundled with the Apache web server but we thought it might also make a swell name for our mascot. -- May 2005. |
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"The Soul Patrol" Font You can't have a website nor an entertainment series nowadays without creating your own special, unique and very applicable font! A good font should help to set the mood for the public's experience. (And it also makes it easier to protect trademarked merchandise!) With this series and website, I wanted to give the feeling of the stifling bureacracy, rules and regulations faced by the patrol. The font should be holy and uncompromisingly inflexible! I accidentally found a perfect example of what I wanted when visiting the Los Angeles City Hall in the 1980's to file a DBA for "The Cosmic Forces." The City Hall was in disarray in all manners, including fonts, because it never had a major rehab since opening in 1928. Of the many fonts used in the building, one stood out which served as the inspiration for what I would later christen, "DK Civic." Initially I used the program for such endeavors, Macromedia's Fontographer (and in this case, Version 4.1 for Power Macs). The program had some limitations, number one of which was the inability to accurately document the construction of a character. (You would find yourself asking, "How did I arrive at establishing that curve in the "S"?) And so one would need to graph that out on a sheet of paper; hence the accompanying image. But once you understand how GIMP works, you realize that all one needs is a Photoshop-like program to create a typeface. (Programs like Fontographer have the unnecessary additional burden of exporting.) Using what had been established in Fontographer, I recreated the characters in GIMP along with building new characters. (But you still have to keep track of how you formed each character!) -- January 2006. |
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Radios Our collection of radios (one for each episode) came from Don Adamson's now defunct Antique Radio Page! And what a collection, everything from crystal sets to plastic transistor portables! I just wish he had continued on with later models and foreign brands (Sony!) but that perhaps is for another page one day. (The radios shown below are not to scale to one another.) -- August 2014.
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