Archive - Why Tom is Tom

we won the national student advertising competition [NSAC]

June 29 0 Comments Category: Why Tom is Tom

This is a little late but the Chapman University team, of which I was a member, won the American Advertising Federation National Student Advertising Competition! We competed against 15 other teams, and some really amazing campaigns. In the end, we were selected as the first place winner. Chapman University posted a press release and even [...]

paying attention [even at the chevron station]

June 07 0 Comments Category: LEDs, Why Tom is Tom

Chevron with Techron. As if we haven’t been beat over the head enough through television, print and theme park placements, our friends at Chevron like to go the Extra Mile. No, I’m not talking about their chain of 7-11-esque quick-marts…I’m talking about the reminder that you are purchasing Chevron with Techron gasoline on the pump itself. [...]

today is my last day of class [looking back]

May 13 0 Comments Category: Why Tom is Tom

This photo is from October 2004. I had just moved to California at the age of 17 to start school at Chapman University. In September I turned 18 and in October I applied to work at Disneyland. The first time, as pictured, I didn’t make it because I said I wouldn’t work on thanksgiving. A [...]

subverting reality one consumer product at a time [TrustoCorp]

April 05 0 Comments Category: Why Tom is Tom

BANKOS!, originally uploaded by TrustoCorp. I saw this Flickr photostream on the Consumerist today. Amazing stuff. TrustoCorp produces a magical assortment of products that subvert your expectations. Kind of like this project I did for a digital photo class at chapman. What this stuff reminds me of is what my friend Max and I did [...]

2009 in words

December 19 0 Comments Category: Why Tom is Tom

Making a wordle from your iChat logs isn’t an easy thing to do. Over the last year I’ve accumulated a frighteningly large amount of iChat logs. Now, before they are all put out to pasture [well, at least in theory] I wanted to see what the major themes of the year were. iChat saves logs [...]

i ‘heart’ themed exit signs

While I was working at Walt Disney World I had a mission: take a picture of every different type of themed exit sign at EPCOT. This seemingly simple task turned into an epic struggle against the salida gods [that is exit in spanish...not the god part]. Below, you’ll see a collection of the ones I [...]