Oh hey, happy new year. I hope things are going well for you. Here are some videos I directed, shot and edited lately.

This penguin video was on the front page of Funny or Die! I shot it for the very talented people in the UCB sketch team “Bonafide” and it was a fun afternoon.

Mike is a very funny beard person. This is a little promo sketch thing for a hypothetical talk show that I hope he actually makes. I did not edit this one.

Here’s a new promo for Second City Late Night! It’s about breaking down race boundaries.

Did you ever see see Cuties in the Crowd? This is the sequel to that.

I put together a new cinematography reel. I really like putting these together.

Hey, maybe think about having me shoot, direct or edit your next comedy short or web-series.

Here’s a new video I made. “A man is visited in the night by a demonic force. (The demonic force makes it awkward for everyone.)” It’s a little halloween-y, but right for every season.

Check out this cd I designed for buddies the Weekend Pilots!

Uploaded some new things to flickr. Also, updated my photo portfolio thing.

New video that I wrote/directed/shot/edited! “A girl refuses to do anything interesting, much to the dismay of her narrator.” Starring my friend Caitlyn!

Monday marked the one year anniversary of my web-comic “Fifteen”. (This is probably my twelfth year or so of making comics in some form? I’m kind of scared to compare this to the first time I tried to go daily sophomore year of high-school… This is the end of this parenthetical:)

I started the comic after a cool friend told me a weird image they have of brainstorming (they imagine a hand coming out of their head to grab ideas). I stole that and made it into a joke. I did another comic the next day and then 144 other comics over the next year. I had been about to explode but then I had something creative to do, so things were kind of alright.

Here are some thoughts/philosophies I’m putting here mostly for myself, since, you know, the internet’s pretty much got everything figured out and doesn’t need my help.

Treat everything as practice. Talent is really just creating the structures for daily improvement and following through on it. When you write a joke or draw a cartoon, you are doing it so that the next joke or cartoon is better. Do your best and do it as often as possible.

Sit down, do the work, and have confidence that something will happen. Especially during the first few months when I was doing the cartoon daily, I knew that if I tried to write something I would succeed (eventually). Sometimes it took a few minutes, sometimes it took a few hours, I just had to put in the time and keep spitting out ideas. Even if I wasn’t always happy with the final cartoon I could always at least find an idea that I found funny. There is something funny in everything if you keep digging.

(Fun Fact: I named the thing “Fifteen” because I wanted to trick myself into believing I would only devote fifteen minutes to it a day. Maybe one of the comics took that long? The rest took anywhere from a half-hour to three hours, probably more with writing time. The video ones took two to three days.)

If you’re not doing anything, you’re not doing anything well. If you want to create something, don’t let the fear of it being bad stop you. There’s something worse than “bad”, and that’s “not actually existing”—so just make your thing and get it out into the world. More often than not, it will be better than expected and you will become stronger.

I’ve been thinking about comedic voice a lot lately. Have one. Anyone can write a joke—try to write the jokes that only you can write. Follow the things that you find the funniest. Love things and turn them into other things. Don’t try to conform your sense of humor with what you think people want to see. Have opinions and a viewpoint.

Thanks to everyone who has been supportive, it really means a lot to hear that people (that sounds like a TON of people, maybe I should just say ‘persons’—even one person supporting is amazing) like what I’m doing. There have been a lot (again, a lot to me. Not so many in internet perspective, but that’s alright, yo.) of nice comments, messages and reblogs that have made my heart sing. (The takeaway: I need to get in the habit of telling all the amazing creative people whose work I stalk that I think they’re geniuses. Creative people need to hear it.)

I wish this was a better blog post. Here’s a painting of Claude Monet wearing a Canada shirt for no reason. I made it for someone awesome a few months ago. (I hope she didn’t throw it away!)

Links: Fifteen: A web-comic / Some of my favorite Fifteens to get you started / I’m on twitter but I’m bad at it.

Here are a few videos I’ve worked on for people lately. I directed, shot and edited these. Other people wrote them!

Second City Late Night with Howie Kremer Promo videos:
May: Promo 1: Gum, Promo 2: Flexing.
April: Promo 1, Promo 2, Promo 3.

“Cuties in the Crowd?” A sketch/short that I made for some nice people I met once.

So apparently one of the biggest organized crime busts ever took place the other day, arresting over 100 mobsters from all the major New England crime families. There’s been a lot of talk about how awesome their mobster nicknames are.

I took the top twenty mobster aliases and made up character designs for them. Check them out, this is as close to journalism as I get these days.

I designed some album cover artwork for friends The Weekend Pilots.

Need anything designed or illustrated? Send some emailz.

I’m really happy with how the lettering came out. I drew them! I drew those lettersss!

I’m going to post the 100th Fifteen comic later tonight.

100 days, 100 comics. Yeah! Seems like a perfect time for YOU to start reading my daily webcomic, eh?

In order to get you started, here’s a few of my favorites:

1. Reaching for Ideas
10. Thinking
11. Intern
13. If You Love Tennis
17. Los Angeles Comics
19. My Face Fell Off
20. Life Tips
22. Dinosaurs
25. Sharkboat II: Dogboat
26. Do The Right Thing
36. Bubbles
37. Look At This Jerk
41. The Darkness
44. Monkey Business
51. Astronaut
53. Tornado
60. Exercise
62. Let’s Go To The Movies!
63. Angelic Intervention
64. International Art Thieves
68. LA Comics
74. The Mothman
78. World’s Tiniest Violin
88. Chilean Miners

So, in summary, Fifteen — a webcomic that updates every day, by Ryan Moulton a person who exists.

EDIT: Also, I am a person who can’t remember the address of his own project, because I was linking to the wrong website in the previous paragraph for a while. WHOOPS.

I recently designed and developed a website for Nancy Nayor Casting. A few of the films Nancy has cast include Road Trip, The Whole Nine Yards, The Grudge, Exorcism of Emily Rose and When a Stranger Calls.

I created a clean modern look for her site and set up a CMS to make it much easier for the website to be updated regularly.

And I guess I’ll just mention that if YOU want a website designed for your small business, film project, “personal branding initiative” or anything really—then please get in touch.