Robina and Art Clokey
(creator of Gumby)

From the logs, I've seen that there have been quite a few visits to Daddyo from those searching for information on Robina, so I thought I'd post some info and links regarding Robina's career as a filmmaker and in the film industry in general.

When I first met Robina, she was working in casting. Here is her entry in the IMDB that lists some of her credits.


In addition to her work as a filmmaker, Robina was also Manager for the 2002 and 2003 Sundance Film Festival's House of Docs, and was the Festival Coordinator for The Mill Valley Film Festival for the past six years.

In the past few years, Robina worked on a feature length film on the life of Art Clokey, creator of Gumby, entitled Gumby Dharma.

From the San Francisco ASIFA Nov. 04 Newsletter comes some information on the premier of the film:

"In October the Mill Valley Film Festival presented a rough cut/work-in-progress screening of GUMBY DHARMA, a feature length documentary directed by Robina Marchesi, with new animation by Tim Hittle (Canhead [Oscar nomination, 1998], Potato Hunter and former Gumby animator). It includes interviews with Ray Harryhausen, Henry Selick, Gary Meyer (Balboa Theatre), Kevin Rehr (now a Pixar producer), Tim Hittle and Steven Buckley (animator who worked on Gumby). Hittle's animation team included Amy Adamy, Wendy Fuller and Anthony Scott.

This last minute addition to the festival was sold out. It was a much-needed benefit to cover the director's recent medical expenses. Despite her fragile health Robina attended the event and answered questions from the audience. The screening also offered the producers a chance to pass out questionnaires about how the work can be improved before it is released. They plan to incorporate some of the suggestions into the finished work. "

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I just received this email from Michigan Peaceworks and thought I'd pass it along to share with others...

Alternative Graduation Celebration
for three suspended Howell HS seniors:

Saturday June 11th
6:00 pm
Page Athletic Field
Howell City Park, 415 N. Barnard Street.
Howell, MI

Background: Three Howell high school seniors, Derrick Weber, Shayna Kamilar, and Vinnie Mascola, were recently suspended for protesting anti-gay graffiti.

One of their friends, who is gay, played the lead in the school play, "Pippin." The announcement for the play was painted on the school rock, but was spraypainted over with the words "God hates Fags."

Upon seeing the hate message, Derrick, Shayna, and Vinnie spray-painted the word "Loves" over "hates." Then they proceeded to spraypaint "Love" on the school's sidewalks and driveway.

The next day, the three turned themselves in and offer to pay for the clean up of their graffiti. Instead the school administration suspended them for ten days, then for the rest of the year. Their suspension includes prohibition from all school activities, including graduation.

On June 11th, the parents of the three students will proudly hold an alternative graduation celebration for them.

If you cannot attend the ceremony but would still like to express your support, please send congratulations, gifts, and any donations to Derrick Weber, Shayna Kamilar and Vinnie Mascola, care of Derrick's mother, at the following address:

Colleen Chrzanowsiki
2290 Hickory Circle Dr.
Howell MI 48855

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For all my fellow web designers /developers /IA's out there, I'm currently reading a great book from the folks at 37signals titled "Defensive Design for the Web : How to improve error messages, help, forms, and other crisis points".

This straight ahead book shares a series of rules and guidelines that will help you design sites that guide users through crisis points and mistakes that happen when searching or browsing throught your site. The book shares simple but well thoughtout rules along with screenshots and documentation for each one. At $16.95, it's a great tool for any designer/developer/IA.

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Following closely on the heels of Jeremy's birthday, today is my dear friend Kim Davis' 43rd birthday.

I met Kim 21 years ago back when we both had radio programs on WQAX. Not only is she a wonderful and gentle soul, she has dedicated her career to making the world a better place through her work as an Educational Consultant at the Indiana Resource Center for Autism at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community. She's also president of the IU GLBT Alumni Association.

Happy Birthday Kim!

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Today my son Jeremy turns 11. My (not so) little guy has really come into his own as a rock drummer and is even in a band!

When my kids were born, lots of people told me time would fly by and it really has. Friends who don't have kids seem to see time in periods of a year or so, while I now think in four to five year blocks. With Jeremy entering Middle School and Sasha on the verge of High School(!!), in four years I will only have one child left at home. My how time flies.

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I've been working in my garden a lot lately and it's exciting to see it really take off. Unlike lots of the spring gardens here in Michigan, my garden only really hits it's stride as spring turns to summer. It's also somewhat of a late blooming garden; the lilacs in my backyard are just now blooming, while most lilacs bloomed almost a month ago.

Last year I foolishly decided to get rid of the grass in my front yard and replace it with a flower garden - big mistake. I should have made the change gradually. But still, my front yard garden now has some wonderful Siberian ('Caesar`s Brother) irises, four wonderful foxglove, hostas and my gladiolas are just coming up.

I've also been taking on the task of fixing my front flagstone steps and walkway, a task that involves a lot of patching with concrete. My body is sore, and my hands a bit cut up, but it feels great to get the garden and house into shape.

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From looking through the logs, I see that for some reason, lately I've been getting lots of International traffic. In a short time early this morning, the logs showed visitors from:
Kyrgyzstan
Sweden
Istanbul, Turkey
Macerata, Italy
New Zealand
Japan

The interesting thing is that most had no referring link, meaning they didn't get here via search engine. Clearly there is a great need for Rev. Scrappy throughout the free world. =D

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I just heard back from my pal Tim Hittle, and thought I'd pass along the following information he sent regarding a grant that is being set up in the name of his wife, Robina Marchesi.

From Tim:

We ask that you make a donation to support a filmmaking grant set up in
Robina's name, in lieu of flowers for her memorial. This will be a one
time grant that will be offered by local non-profit organization Film
Arts Foundation.

This grant will be offered in the spring and granted to an emerging
female independent filmmaker. We believe this is a wonderful and
impactful way to keep the spirit of Robina's filmmaking talent and joy
for filmmaking alive.

If you are interested in donating to Robina's Memorial Grant, please do
the following:

1. Make check out to: Film Arts Foundation (FAF)

2. In memo line on check (lower left corner) write: for "Robina
Marchesi Memorial Grant"

3. Send directly to:
Film Arts Foundation (FAF)
Attn. Merrie Snead
145 Ninth Street, #101
San Francisco, CA 94103

If you are interested in knowing more about Film Arts Foundation,
please visit their website at: www.filmarts.org.

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I think I need this product to communicate with Sasha

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I guess with a name like Plaid Pantry, you can't expect too much from this Northwestern chain of convenience stores. Their web site has one thing going for it though - there's no plaid to be seen anywhere.

Visiting Plaidpantry.com is like going back in time to say, 1996. Frames? Check. Animated Gifs? Check. Tables with borders? Check. 7-year old IE and Netscape Icons? Check.

If it weren't for the fact that there's a link to download Firefox at the bottom of the page, you'd guess that this page had not been touched in years.

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Every now and again I like to go and check what search terms lead people to daddyo. Below are some of the search terms that got folks here today:

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From my dear friend Marvis Foley, I just learned of the death of Robina Marchesi, the wife of our old Hoosier friend Tim Hittle.

Only in her late 30's Robin was diagnosed last fall with Pancreatic Cancer, and the thought of what Tim must be going through really puts in perspective any of the day to day troubles most of us face.

If you'd to honor Robin (or anyone who's suffered from this terrible disease), the Hirshberg Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research is a great place to donate to.

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