OLD SCHOOL JJSP PICTURES

BEHOLD!

Here's a collection of

poorly scanned

photos

from my years at 

J.J. Sedelmaier Productions.

It's hard to believe everyone has 

only become

more beautiful 

as the years have gone by.

Well, except for

animator

David Wachtenheim:

Here he is in shock 

at one of our commercial project's

impossible deadlines:

Here's designer

Gideon Kendall 

drawin'

Pycho Trainer

shoes:

Assistant animator

Mike Wetterhahn

getting his

fiber on 

for a

Fiber One

commercial:

Animator

Dean Lennert 

haunts

one of my earliest mentors

Bryon Moore:

JJSP

Production Queen

Irene

"don't do that, do this"

Cerdas

Animator/Designer

Ben Price

designing some 

Beavis and Butthead:

We helped 

intern

Athena Fliakos

realize that animation is a job

reserved for

dummy heads.

Robert Marianetti's

talent for growing facial hair

was trumped only by his 

talent for getting done whatever needed to get done:

Animation

production workhorse

Masako Kanayama.

 lived down the street from me

and I spent many nights 

running stacks of drawings over to her 

for coloring.

Mr. Sedelmaier with

Barry Vodos on the left

Ray Kosarin on the right

Nate Kaunfer in the back.

And Dean's head.

(i'm not sure why i don't have more pictures of Dean,

he was an integral part of the studio!)

Me doing exposure sheets for

Schoolhouse Rock

(or penning a letter of protest)

I think someone died in this picture.

But Dave photobombed it

so we'll never know who.

Irene and

Schoolhouse Rock

designer

Bill Peckman:

This was,

I dunno...

maybe my 

25th birthday

celebrating

25 years 

(and counting)

of ridiculous hair:

And here's a sooper triple bonus

ASIFA-EAST Executive Board 

picture taken at our annual end of year party:

First row L to R:

Dean Lennert and John R. Dilworth

Second row:

John Gati, Candy Kugel, Tissa David, Bruce Knapp

Third row:

Dick Rauh, Dorky McDorkenstein, Janet Benn, Bill Lorenzo

Those were fun days

back in NY!

PICTURES OF PARIS

It's no secret we took a lot of pictures in Paris:

 Here's a view from the Pompidou.

Note the lack of tall buildings,

which is nice.

Notre Dame

(no sign of Quasimodo amongst the gargoyles)

The view from the Trocadero

near where we were staying

I got this when I ordered an iced coffee.

Mo asked if it came with a toy.

We went to an arts center that had lots of

really cool installations including this 

foil wrapped tower:

Basilique du Sacre Coeur

in

Monmartre

Sooper cool ceiling in a department store:

We walked through a market near

our apartment in

the 16th Arrondisement.

It kinda made our 

Farmers Marker in Studio City 

look like a bad buffet lunch.

Lovers write their names on locks, 

clasp them to the bridges 

and then throw the keys into the Seine.

If you collect keys

get yourself a scuba suit and go diving!

Chocolatier

Patrick Roger

featured a 

gihoogic

chocolate panther in their window:

And a chocolate 

dinosaur ribcage

because

SHUT-UP

CHOCOLATE!

THIS

IS

BREAFAST:

Canal St. Martin 

was

sooper artsy and fun:

It's the kind of place where this goes down:

Getting to the

Arc Du Triomphe

looks easy.

But as soon as you step foot in the street

the cars attack.

I suggest taking the underpass I 

didn't know about.

And 

enough with the wine already:

As you can see...

Paris rocks!

GLEN E. FRIEDMAN

Sometimes...

when I need a little inspiration

I'll hit the bookshelf and check

a book by

Glen E. Friedman.

You might not know who he is.

But if you're a child of the 80's

you've seen his photographs.

ESPECIALLY

if you were into

skateboarding

punk rock

and 

rap.

Mr. Freidman shot all 

that was cool in those days;

Like...

The Dogtown Boys:

Black Flag:

Run DMC:

And 

of course

The Beastie Boys:

Not to mention

Ice T

Fugazi

Tony Alva

L.L. Cool J

Public Enemy

Stacy Peralta

Bad Brains

and any

other

band/rider

with a

rebellious streak.

 Henry Rollins

(lead singer of Black Flag)

said this about Mr. Freidman:

The bottom line is that he was there at the beginning of 

so much cool stuff in so many different areas it's not funny.

Yeah.

For me,

his pics are a 

lightning bolt

that's struck

a single moment of

attitude.

It might not be pretty.

But there's 

always a

feeling of

movement

edge

and 

grit

in front of 

his lens.

If you like that kinda stuff,

pick up 

THIS

It rocks.