Name Mashing

Mashing names seems to be the game these days. Mashing names are popular in the bio-tech industry with Genzyme, BioRad, and my favorite Metabolics (incedentally I would walk by all of these on my way from the 'T' to my apartment in east Cambridge. Metabolics went out of business or changed locations and the sign on the building started to fall off letter by letter). I once visited Metabolics and everyone working there seemed obsessed with the correct pronunciation of their company. I kept emphasizing 'meta' while I gather the 'correct' pronunciation was 'metabol' followed by 'ics' as in metabolism. This one was fucking silly, the mashing of words.

So I cringe at the naming of this blog, bobandtamar. I chose my name first as tamarandbob is hard to read I think because tamara is a common name but not the name of Tamar, obviously. Oh, am I already making this blog fucking boring?

I have been into the name mashing for quiet some time. In junior-high (age 16?) my artistic counterpart, Dean Ruggles, and I formed a collaboration we called 'RoCudDean'. We made 8mm stop frame animation movies. In hindsight, I am pretty damn proud of this creative venture into making something. Dean was the brains behind everything. He now works as an illustrator for a video-game company, I am not sure on this. I would like to get in touch with him and will call his parents to do so.

Here is Dean from one of our stop-frame films


And here is a page with a link to a compilation of our films (scroll to the bottom).

ok, bye bye

Day 1 of the bobandtamar blog

Here is the next attempt at a successful blog. I am creating this with the hope that Tamar Sarnoff and I, Robert Cudmore, can build a blog together. This idea is probably like most other ideas, very uninteresting. The idea here is not so much to aid in communication between the two of us as we work on a long-distance relationship but to act as a staging area for collaborative synthesis.