The ACLU is always looking to generate content to explain current threats to privacy, social justice, and civil liberties. I began working with the ACLU in 2000 developing a series of information graphics for their website spanning a number of topics, including Women’s Rights, Prison Abuses, and Supreme Court case involvement: Timeline of Women’s Rights […]

The MF Doom “I Hear Voices” music video was created to allow Sub Verse Music the ability to promote their artist at Shockwave.com. This piece was created by digitally ‘tracing’ actual video and assembling these tracings frame-by-frame in Macromedia Flash. This one composition was then exported into a variety of formats, including self-running ‘projectors’ that […]

(Palo Alto, CA) – After working with the American Civil Liberties Union for a number of years, Micah Laaker was honored by the 5th Annual Media That Matters Film Festival for his contribution to the ACLU’s Pizza Surveillance Feature. The pizza feature took the top honor in the Civil Liberties category. Using Macromedia Flash to […]

(New York, NY) Last night, after years of hype, excitement, and bold claims, "Star Wars Episode 1, the Phantom Menace" was released to audiences nationwide. Micah Laaker, having friends in powerful places, was able to secure tickets for the very first showing in New York at 12:01 a.m., Wednesday, May 19. Recent rumors had circulated […]