Howard Nourmand

Howard Nourmand grew up in Hollywood, so it's perhaps not completely surprising that he had therapy at an early age.

"I went to a private school, and in those days they didn't have counselors on staff," he says.

"But I was causing so much trouble that they hired a therapist just to see me.

We sat down, and the therapist pulled out this card with an inkblot - it was a Rorschach test, of course - and asked me what I saw.

Well, I immediately thought, 'I'm going to milk this for all it's worth.' And I told her all this dark stuff: 'I see devils!' 'I see dogs attacking people!'"

Was this the typical acting out of an angst-ridden teen? Hardly.

Confesses Nourmand: "I was in the third grade."

Twenty-odd years after his sinister elementary school period, Nourmand is again reinterpreting that classic analytic tool.

Only now he's made it the visual centerpiece of his latest design project: the very inventive title sequence for the film "The Dog Problem," conceived and created on his Mac.

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