Roy asked me if I had any examples of work I had done in the past for
web design. He wanted to get a gague on the kind of work I was
capable of. So I loaded up the last 5 sites or so that I had
made, and he watched on, didn’t say much of anything as i lead him
though my tour.
The entire conversation, in fact, ALL the conversations I have had with
roy, the man maintains very good eye contact. Something I noticed
about people… .well afer i showed him my work, he didn’t look me in
the eye for most of the conversation. He said… good… very
good… it, umm, give me a good idea of what your are capable of.
Then he smiled and walked away.
We decided then that it would be best for me (and he suggested this)
that i should start to learn video editing. I couldn’t have been
any happier when he said that, for learning video editing was my
intention this whole time!
I spent 3 hours today on a g5. Took me about half an hour to
figure out the mac interface, and learn a few quick keys, make some
foldiers, and copy a few files. Mac are pretty easy. After
that, the rest of the time was spent in final cut. TIME FLEW
BY! I learned how to cut clips, apply and render to the timeline,
cut music, extend clip times, and transitions. Also figured out
where my freaking main timeline kept dissippearing to. I spent a
good half an hour in total just trying to get that thing to come back
on the screen!
Anyway, the 3 classes I had today kick ass. Accounting, taought
by Martin Spenser, seems like its going to be good. Spenser is a
cool guy so far.
Tech stock…. oh MY GOD! The new tech stock room in ballintine
is soo fucking inspiring. It looks like soemthing out of a
movie. Each student has a silver, nylon-mesh reclining swivle
chair recliner with wheels, a section of massive real-wood, two tier
desktop which supports a duel 15 inch LCD screen setup, powered by a
suped up Dell p4. Not to mention, the software on the computer
for tech analysis is AMAZING. It processes ALL the
stock prices from ALL the markets of the previous day, and the day to
date in under 3 minutes! The rest of the room features fun things
like stock tickers, real time clocks of japan, london, US… a plasma
screen TV which we watch CNBC on….(no good sports on during our
class, or we could wartch that said Lloyed) A white board with
fucking MARKER capture, and a digital projector setup. Even the
teacher’s podium is pimped out, and the professor, Scott Lloyd (who i
like already, a PhD wearing a t-shirt on the first day of class) can
put anybody’s PC screen on the projector with a push of a button.
Another random fact about Ballentine.. in the main lobby, hanging 20 ft
on a main wall, is one of steve cook’s ‘robert’s’ painting!
this one, in fact:
And ECO, which is in chaffee, right next to work, is being taught by my
old friend Sean’s dad, Rick Mcintyre. He is a funny dude!
He told all the students to spend this weekend on the beach while the
weather is still nice.
And work, like i said earlier, rocks. The next two weeks is all
about me training on final cut, and maybe macromedia director.
Then, at the end of 2 weeks, Roy will have an STA project for me.
All and all, school went way better than anticipated!
NOW, time to fire up WoW and see if i can close the level gap between me and Alily…
Here;s a random picture from my notebook,
airless_wonder 1:18 pm on September 30, 2005 Permalink
i’m very interested to know what this fuzzy pinkish thing is in the foreground. yet another side to the coin? the “death guard in pink feather boa” side?
perhaps an until now unheard of species of bird that was popular for display during medieval times… perhaps a kind of lens fungus of which the photographer was victim… perhaps some wiley cotton candy…
hmm……