Jimmy Gilmore – Writer – Director

Image by triple­man via Flickr Decid­ing what to fill the screen with can be chal­leng­ing. And it’s also the sub­ject of my lat­est post over at the agency blog.

Image via Wikipedia Note: A few weeks ago a pub­lished a review of desk­top Twit­ter apps. Desk­top Twit­ter apps are great but browser based clients are pretty darn robust these days too and cer­tainly wor­thy of your con­sid­er­a­tion. A col­league of mine was recently hav­ing prob­lems with her AIR app func­tion­ing prop­erly and switched to a […]

Image by Titanas via Flickr Edi­tors note: I spent a lit­tle over a year work­ing on the Red Cam­era developer’s other busi­ness, Oak­ley. I’ve worked on mostly dig­i­tal the last cou­ple of years and haven’t cre­ated an actual TV spot in awhile. The last national TV shoot I was on we filmed with 35 millimeter […]

Image by deb­cll via Flickr Watch­ing my two and four-year-old daugh­ters learn about life can be a lit­tle dis­con­cert­ing at times. They fall down try­ing to do some­thing new, cry because they’re frus­trated with a dif­fi­cult task, or they try to get mommy to do it because it’s hard. As adults, we for­get how painful real […]

I believe being a great cre­ative doesn’t mean being a great cre­ative all the time. Part of the task of get­ting great work pro­duced and not hav­ing it ruined before cross­ing the fin­ish line involves enter­ing what I call air-traffic-controller mode. It’s a phrase I came up with to describe what I do as a […]

Image via Wikipedia I know peo­ple who are bright, ener­getic and engaged in per­son but don’t come off that way online. They have Face­book pro­files that are never updated and Twit­ter accounts they haven’t posted to in weeks. Or worse, a blog that has gone entirely dark for months. Sure it’s hard to keep up […]

Image by PunkJr via Flickr I’m writ­ing this from “video vil­lage” on the set of a video and print pro­duc­tion in LA. I’ve been really, really busy with this cam­paign so I haven’t had time to blog as much this last week. So what bet­ter time to address blog­ging fre­quency – which is exactly what […]