The Brownlee Series: Short Films
A series of darkly comic short films written by Chicago actor/writer Michael Brownlee. Directed by Steve Baldwin. The first short, "The Loan's The Thing," was shot and edited in October 2008. The follow-up, "He's a Wonderful Shot," was completed in December 2009.
Watch the Brownlee films on our Youtube channel.
Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists
Over the past ten years Joe has been in charge of dialog recording, sound design and mixing for Getting To Know's line of animated artist videos, including Van Gogh, Rembrandt, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Mary Cassatt and Andy Warhol. The video series has won six Notable Children's Video awards from the American Library Association. Recently, Getting to Know has expanded into U.S. Presidents, and Joe has mixed the George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson videos as well.
Watch clips of the Artist and President videos.
One Spirit DVD
To create a video companion piece for Jean Latz Griffin's book "One Spirit: A Creation Story for the 21st Century," Toxic Bag coordinated video shoots in Chicago and Yucca Valley, CA, created an animated short based on Jane Gaunt's artwork, and edited 2 documentaries; one on the creation of the book itself, and one on creation myths and stories around the world. Joe Griffin composed the music for the two "One Spirit" meditation videos. Watch a clip of "One Spirit"
"...The book only contains a couple of hundred words, but those words and the pictures accompanying them speak volumes...There is a terrific DVD that tells the tale in more detail, and includes three meditation guides with some delightful music. Highly recommended." --Richard G. Petty, author of "Healing, Meaning and Purpose"
