This is a time-lapse from LA to the Nevada State line played in reverse. I wanted to get the entire time-lapse from LA to Vegas but the battery died on my GoPro Helmet Cam before we made it there. A friend and I were driving out there for CES so we left around 5:00 in...

A while back, I submitted a tv show treatment to my boss and the girl in charge of development at my work. The basic concept stemmed from an email conversation I had with my friend Casey about an article I found online that was about Ashrita Furman, the man who holds the world record for most...

Today at work, I was killing time during a render, when I stumbled across a great use for the Back To My Mac function of MobileMe. Essentially it is a feature that allows you to remotely connect to your Mac over the internet and see your files as if they were attached to your local computer as...

I have been sitting on my URL of derekdoi.com for quite some time now. For the past 5 years or so, it has just been cloning whatever was on goodbyemailbox but I figured it was about time to use it as a portfolio site. If you follow the link, you will find stuff I have worked on, old and new,...

If you haven’t been going to Eric Koziatek’s Comedy Collision show in Santa Monica every 1st Friday of the month, then you might have missed the greatest time traveling movie since Back to the Future III. We wrote this pretty much on the fly and shot it in about an hour. Jesse was...

The incredibly bizarre and hilarious short film “Darling Darling” by Matthew Lessner is now available for downloading from the iTunes Store. I went to school with Matt and was lucky enough to view this movie several times both at school and at film festivals and it never gets old....