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I think I'm going to have an ulcer, or have my hair fall out. I was so stressed out yesterday. I've been art directing an advertising project for our group the past week. Concepts signed off on Tuesday with the client and we shot yesterday. I spent three days lining up models (a 14-19 year old hispanic girl and appropriate baby/toddler, and a stroller) and I got a phone call from our photographer 3 hours before the shoot saying we don't have the studio and have to cancel on everyone. I freaked out. I made all the phone calls I could think of, found out somebody had the lab checked out but wouldn't really be there the whole time. Everybody showed up, we tore down and did a minimal setup, just threw them on a blown-out white background and I guess that I'm going to be working a LOT in photoshop. We shot them, gave the models gift cards to starbucks and I think everybody was reasonably happy. Except for me of course, because everyone else shot about 300 frames and we have a total of 40. Hope they work out. Whatever, I'm sure it'll be alright. I'm done worrying about it at this point.
Oh yeah, in all the confusion in the photo lab someone reversed the prongs on the connection to the digital 4x5 camera back and gave it the power for the computer at full voltage, melted the thing. $10,000 of photo equipment up in smoke, literally. No insurance that we know of, and our department sure as hell can't afford another one. There goes Poly's only professional level digital photo equipment. So needless to say, things were tense in the lab.
So last night Jess and I went for a drive and watched Alfred Hitchcock's "39 steps". My first Hitchcock movie, and I enjoyed it. Was waaay tired though. We're gonna watch big fish and 7 years in tibet later in the week.
It's Saturday, and I'm going to try to have a good day today. I'm going to go hike Bishop's with Katie's dog Zack, because I'm not in the mood for mountain biking [ as blasphemous as that sounds ]. I'd need to be in much better shape to go riding right now. Then my parents come down for dinner, and I go to an engagment party and a birthday party. Crazy.
I also have to prep for a 5 minute speech on Monday. Not looking forward to it. I hate speech. No seriously. All I need is a D, maybe I can skip one or something...
no probably not.
Oh yeah, in all the confusion in the photo lab someone reversed the prongs on the connection to the digital 4x5 camera back and gave it the power for the computer at full voltage, melted the thing. $10,000 of photo equipment up in smoke, literally. No insurance that we know of, and our department sure as hell can't afford another one. There goes Poly's only professional level digital photo equipment. So needless to say, things were tense in the lab.
So last night Jess and I went for a drive and watched Alfred Hitchcock's "39 steps". My first Hitchcock movie, and I enjoyed it. Was waaay tired though. We're gonna watch big fish and 7 years in tibet later in the week.
It's Saturday, and I'm going to try to have a good day today. I'm going to go hike Bishop's with Katie's dog Zack, because I'm not in the mood for mountain biking [ as blasphemous as that sounds ]. I'd need to be in much better shape to go riding right now. Then my parents come down for dinner, and I go to an engagment party and a birthday party. Crazy.
I also have to prep for a 5 minute speech on Monday. Not looking forward to it. I hate speech. No seriously. All I need is a D, maybe I can skip one or something...
no probably not.