Married 47 years.

The year was 2010. 

The KIA Soul Hamsters.

CREDITS
Agency: David&Goliath, LA
Founder & Chairman: David Angelo
Chief Creative Officer: Bobby Pearce
Executive Creative Director: Gustavo Sarkis
Creative Directors: Basil Cowieson, James Cohen
Director of Broadcast Production: Paul Albanese
Executive Broadcast Producer: Curt O’Brien
Chief Strategic Officer: Wells Davis
Associate Planning Director: Ed Gibson
Senior Project Manager: Genie Lara
Junior Project Manager: Paul Stephens

Managing Director: Jeff Moohr
Group Account Director: Mike O’Malley
Management Supervisor: Aleks Rzeznik
Senior Account Executive: Annelise Lorenzo
Product Information Manager: Mark McNaul
Director, Business Affairs: Rodney Pizarro
Business Affairs Manager: Daniella Vargas

Digital Account Director: Marco Koenig
Digital Senior Account Executive: Rebecca Hanson

Production: MJZ
Director: Matthijs Van Heijningen
President: David Zander
Senior Executive Producer: Eriks Krumins
Producer: Donald Taylor

Editorial: Work Editorial
Editor: Jono Griffith
Executive Producer: Marlo Baird
Producer: Brandee Probasco
Assistant Editor: Josh Sasson

Visual Effects: JAMM
VFX Supervisors/Lead Compositers: Jake Montgomery, Andy Boyd
Senior Flame Artist: Brian Hajek
Executive Producer: Asher Edwards
Producer: Ashley Greyson

Color: MPC
Colorist: Mark Gethin
Executive Producer: Meghan Lang

Music Editing/Sound Design: Stimmung
Creative Director: Rory Doggett
Sound Designer: Gus Koven
Executive Producer: Kristina Iwankiw

Licensed Music: “Ace of Spades” By Motörhead

This is America

Sabika Sheikh (17 years old) would have returned home to Pakistan when her program ended in June. She was killed in the Texas school shooting May 19, 2018 in Santa Fe.

"Sabika was in the United States on the State Department-sponsored Youth Exchange and Study program, helping to build ties between the United States and her native Pakistan," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement." Sabika's death and that of the other victims is heartbreaking and will be mourned deeply both here in the United States, and in Pakistan."

WATCH: Sabika Sheikh made this video to express her feelings about being accepted into the YES program.

Read the story from Voice of America:
https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-girl-among-dead-in-texas-shooting/4401020.html

This is America...

Mouctar Diallo came to New York City from Guinea seeking a life “for the better.” Then he entered the bruising world of Sanitation Salvage. On Nov. 7, 2017, Diallo wound up crushed to death under the wheels of a Sanitation Salvage truck. The men he’d been helping lied to the police, saying their dead colleague was a homeless person who had come out of nowhere.

It has taken months for his family to find justice.

That's Mouctar on the right.

Read the whole story from Voice of America:
https://projects.voanews.com/treated-like-trash/

Childish DiVito

I strive to be curmudgeon...

cur·mudg·eon
kərˈməjən/
noun
noun: curmudgeon; plural noun: curmudgeons

    a bad-tempered or surly person.

Origin
late 16th century: of unknown origin.

https://vimeo.com/blog/post/danny-devito-is-a-curmudgeon-in-curmudgeons
https://vimeo.com/159449591

Danny DiVito rhymes with Childish Gambino.

Design Mistake

Can you name this car? 

Ridgewood Mountain Village

In Pinellas County in 1958, real estate developer Charles Cheezem opened one of Florida‘s first retirement communities, Ridgewood Groves. Selling retirement homes in the peninsular county, with its temperate winter weather and high number of sunny days, proved effortless in the postwar economy. The nearby city of St. Petersburg had long served as a haven for aging Americans. The addition of air-conditioning in postwar suburban housing allowed communities like Ridgewood Groves to flourish in the Sunshine State.

In a marketing brochure for Ridgewood Groves, images of active retirees appear alongside promises of ―five producing citrus trees with every home. The potential resident could choose from five floor plans, all named after orange varieties – the Mandarin, the Seville, the Tangelo, the Valencia, and the Duncan.

The need to connect the community to oranges pervaded so strongly that the photographer hand painted unripe green oranges the color orange before capturing the cover photo. This manipulation of nature by man conveyed a natural quality inherent to Florida, symbolized by the orange.

Ridgewood Groves was expanded in 1962 to the south creating Ridgewood Mountain Village with aggressive marketing to retirees.