Why...
... is it that I take things so personally sometimes?
Last night I went over to Lee's place to have his mother Sharon show me how to edit things on her laptop off of her Flip. For those of you unfamiliar, a Flip is a nifty little devide that take video and uploads it straight to your computer. Its super easy to use and the editting is also very simple as it turns out. Anyways, Lee and I did a "screen test" of me making a pendant. Lee tried a couple of different things with the Flip and we just sort of were winging it to see how it would look. I figured it would not be usable and I was correct. We had trouble getting things in focus and I am not convinced some of the wire wrapping I do is large enough to properly demonstrate on video. But it started to feel like Sharon was picking on me. And it hurt. I don't know why and its kind of dumb. There was one point where we were looking at piece of the video that I think is keepable. She agreed... and as we sat and watched it and sort of commented on it... she looked down at the length of it. Now, I having been there knew we would have to cut it short to use part of it because the second half was work with wire and wouldn't be useable... but she saw it was 4 minutes long and said "Boring.... *loud snore noises here*" Ouch. That felt a little below the belt. I understand she wants this to be a successful and good looking project. But this was a first time out and Lee and I were picking things up and getting ideas to make it better. And her commenting that because of the length that it was boring... and it was me introducing good tools for jewelry making.... and I WOULD be editting it down anyways.... it just sort of hurt to have her make that comment without taking those things into consideration.
*sigh* I need to not take things so personally anymore.
Last night I went over to Lee's place to have his mother Sharon show me how to edit things on her laptop off of her Flip. For those of you unfamiliar, a Flip is a nifty little devide that take video and uploads it straight to your computer. Its super easy to use and the editting is also very simple as it turns out. Anyways, Lee and I did a "screen test" of me making a pendant. Lee tried a couple of different things with the Flip and we just sort of were winging it to see how it would look. I figured it would not be usable and I was correct. We had trouble getting things in focus and I am not convinced some of the wire wrapping I do is large enough to properly demonstrate on video. But it started to feel like Sharon was picking on me. And it hurt. I don't know why and its kind of dumb. There was one point where we were looking at piece of the video that I think is keepable. She agreed... and as we sat and watched it and sort of commented on it... she looked down at the length of it. Now, I having been there knew we would have to cut it short to use part of it because the second half was work with wire and wouldn't be useable... but she saw it was 4 minutes long and said "Boring.... *loud snore noises here*" Ouch. That felt a little below the belt. I understand she wants this to be a successful and good looking project. But this was a first time out and Lee and I were picking things up and getting ideas to make it better. And her commenting that because of the length that it was boring... and it was me introducing good tools for jewelry making.... and I WOULD be editting it down anyways.... it just sort of hurt to have her make that comment without taking those things into consideration.
*sigh* I need to not take things so personally anymore.