Archive for May, 2005
Em-er-son
Monday, May 16th, 2005From the Majestic, I watched the Class of 2005 graduate in the Wang.
Denis Leary ’79 received an Honorary Doctorate. For the record, the only way you can receive a doctorate from Emerson is to receive it honorarily, as Emerson does not have a PhD program. Honorary degrees only prove the secret truth about colleges: higher education doesn’t matter. Actions speak louder than words and successful actions speak louder than expensive pieces of paper that somehow certify competency. Be loud enough long enough and some college or university will want to graduate you to pad their endowment.
Denis Leary had the best commencement speech ever. Paraphrased: “People tell you this was the best four years of your life. I’m here to tell you that that’s bullshit. Life is not short and it only gets better.”
Fade to Awesome
Sunday, May 15th, 2005The EVVY Awards are finally over. I didn’t win. But what do you expect from these guys? The judging coordinators didn’t exactly get industry professionals for this category.
More importantly, the shows were fantastic! I laughed, I cried, I cued and rolled tapes. There was a mistake made by one of my tape operators, but it happens. This year was the first year The EVVY Awards ran through The Vin Di Bona Studios, the first year to shoot anamorphic (i.e. widescreen), the first year for an international award of distinction, the most competitive show ever with the most categories and industry professional judges (save the website category), and probably a few other firsts, bests, and mosts.
The EVVY Awards has the best group of people (both faculty and students) that I have worked with at Emerson. I cannot speak highly enough of Advisor Pete Chvany. The man is just amazing. I have loved and hated, but never regretted, working on the show this year. It just doesn’t get any better than The EVVYs at Emerson College.
Live from Studio B
Saturday, May 14th, 2005
While I may be an Afternoon Producer for The 24th Annual EVVY Awards, I am the Tape Operator Assistant during the Afternoon Show. I just have to make sure the Tape Operators are happy and rerack the loop graphic tapes every now and then.
Needless to say, I have free time during the Afternoon Show. So, I am watching the EVVY.org traffic stats soar, text messaging the Executive Producers, and enjoying the show.
Come see my show!
Saturday, May 14th, 2005I feel like an eight year old going door-to-door around the neighborhood asking people to come see my show, but The 24th Annual EVVY Awards consumed a significant amount of my and my friends’ creative efforts this past academic year. If you are free from 2-4 PM ET and/or 6-8:30 PM ET on Saturday, you can watch the webcast. You will need WiMP (a.k.a. Windows Media Player) because Emerson’s IT department is comprised mostly of morons who refuse to click twice to enable the built in MPEG-4 streaming server on the XServes.
P.S. I designed the “show edition” of The EVVY website, among other things.
Summer Bummer
Wednesday, May 11th, 2005I’m working like crazy this week to finalize everything for The 24th Annual EVVY Awards. I was particularly motivated in my role to make this show awesome because my grandparents would be visiting Boston and Emerson for the first time since they dropped me off here as a freshman. But I just got the call that they won’t be able to come and I cried when my Meme told me the news. I guess I had more built up inside of me about their visit than I realized.
Speechless
Tuesday, May 10th, 2005There’s really nothing left to say.
Quote
Saturday, May 7th, 2005Man, the guys in first class are taking forever to leave.
— Fat man beside me on plane
That’s ’cause they’re all drunk!
— Old woman behind me on plane
Mad at Photoshop in Tiger
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005I did an archive and install type upgrade of Mac OS X.4. This ****s up Photoshop and Adobe has no fix. So if you haven’t upgraded, do an “upgrade” upgrade, not an archive and install. My second most important app is now dead in the water and I cannot express how #$%^&*(