Who does Christopher Robinson think he is, anyhow?
I’m an interactive advertising creative with credits producing, writing, photographing, and filmmaking state-of-the-art projects for such names as:
Verizon Telecom, Callaway Golf, Sharp HealthCare, Hay House Radio, CBS, ProFlowers.com, Cherry Moon Farms, Secret Spoon Sweets, RedEnvelope, PETCO, Penguin Books USA, Neiman-Marcus, Universal Studios, 20th Century Fox Pictures, FX Channel, Sony Pictures, Rolex, Gateway Computers, Align-Mark, MadCatz, Acura, Honda, Toyota, Lexus, Mazda, Hyundai, Kia, Coca-Cola, GRAMMYs, and more.
Why work so hard? I simply love what I’m doing… and thrive on the opportunity to continually improve in each discipline. I’m also currently, one page at a time, writing a novel.
With an already busy plate, why would Christopher Robinson do this blog thing?
Way back in 1989, I kept a public journal on the MiniTel. Very few people know what that was, but it was a predecessor to the Internet as we know it. Then I earned access to the ARPAnet while it was still being developed for academic uses, where I maintained a public journal on my own website and interacted with the first Internet users. As soon as MegNut launched Blogger, I jumped on board and kept a, true to the word, blog — and did so for years — because it’s enjoyable.
Finally, I’m bringing some of my blogging endeavors on over to my own site. Mainly, I just want to create odd-ball stuff and interact with you. I want to know if you like, hate, or loath what I put on here and why, as long as everyone’s respectful in my Internet home.
While I know Associated Press style backwards and forwards, I default to my preferred Chicago Manual of Style when and where I can. Since I own this site, I get to do Chicago style. That’s part of my fun so don’t ruin it.
Why is Christopher Robinson such a smart ass on here?
For art. I’m actually an easygoing person who can see all sides of every issue and be at complete peace and harmony with everyone… Seriously.
However, for art to be good or meaningful — in any of its forms — the artist MUST take a stance, even if it’s just a brief temporal viewpoint. For kicks, I tend to take one extreme viewpoint or another, which always seems to put me in the smart ass hot seat. Regardless, I have fun while providing well-researched facts that I find intriguing to the issue or story. Just note I could so easily, in almost all cases, see and empathize with the opposite viewpoint.
Often, I use fictional characters or scenarios to set the scene. As an indie screenwriter and playwright, I’ve found that fictional characters and situations can be beautifully used to bring out Truth.
As such, these creative devices are more true than if I wrote my life out on the page as a word-for-word dictate of my revelation. Indeed, the fiction elements are even more intimate than the non-fiction. That probably doesn’t make sense to most people, but I certify it’s true. Thus…
WARNING: The characters and situations mentioned in this blog may not be word-for-word true, but the facts and emotions behind them most certainly are.
I hope you enjoy the site.
