April 2008
“opening oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, building more...”
– points from Bush speech today. Why does no one have the balls to make a “put a man on the moon in 10 years” type speech? ”No more oil dependence in 10 years”. I’d vote for that person.
New Orleans 3 years later
Our waitress one night told us her home in Lakeview had 18ft of water and was destroyed. The whole neighborhood, gone. The insurance company declared it wind damage and denied claims. There is a class action suit, which will get dragged out in courts and could take 17 years to resolve. She is still paying the mortgage.
“$17B IN 3 MONTHS; RECORD PROFITS FOR OIL COMPANIES”
– headline on Drudge right now (well updated - originally said $14B)
Coachella to Jazzfest →
Sean Penn funds bio-diesel busload of volunteers from CA to NOLA to help rebuild homes.
I updated the .mac Jazzfest 2008 gallery →
a small sampling of the photos I took.
Hotel pick for New Orleans →
We only stay in locally owned New Orleans hotels now. This year we got turned on to Olivier House and will stay there from now on.
New Orleans
I cannot adequately describe my love for this city. Last night we went to our favorite restaurant, Jacques-imo’s. Amazing food, great people. Paul Allen (Microsoft billionaire) was there with Dan Aykroyd and and a party. Somewhere mid dinner our waitress brings out shots of Patron… then the owner Jack comes by tells her to bring us a bottle of Champagne. Later, as we leave, he has...
.mac gallery - our photos from New Orleans →
I’ll add to this as internet connection allows…
Flight has run out of rum & vodka - jazzfest has begun!
Chris Rose: The man with a Jazzfest plan →
WatchNOLA.com: The 60-Second Jazzfest interviews: Paul Sanchez (formerly of Cowboy Mouth)
“Girlicious may be the ultimate example of reality shows bringing the decline of...”
– (I only saw a few seconds because Jenn switched to the Gilmore Girls… which was oddly comforting)
New Theme
Hope you like the new look for the blog. I have been prowling the themes available for tumblr for a long time and you may have noticed I have been changing the look from time to time. This one is called Scrapbook which I think fits a blog and I think it’s one of the nicer themes.
WatchBrilliant Rob Riggle piece from Tuesday’s Daily Show.
“To judge by the ads, the most loyal adherents to CBS’ quasi-journalistic...”
– … that’s the opening to an article on Slate subtitled “Why CBS should shutter its news division”.
This Week in Photography - 5 steps to a great... →
“Soldiers voting for George W Bush is akin to chickens voting for Col. Sanders.”
– Tomas Young, injured soldier and the subject of a new documentary Body of War. Phil Donahue is Executive Producer of the project and a CD (and iTunes) has been released with tracks from people like Springsteen, Tom Waits.
Planes, Trucks and Taxis
I wrote a while back about how I don’t understand how an industry like trucking could exist in a model where fuel cost was not built in per mile… as in the trucker should not be hurt by fluctuations in gas prices. In Vegas I had multiple cab drivers complain about too many cabs on road and gas prices (and a million other things - grumpy cabbies in that town). Again, in this day and...
The Mike Wallace Interview →
Fascinating interviews from the 1950’s by Mike Wallace with people like Frank Lloyd Wright, Steve Allen… many more.
Why do I even have a to do list when Gridskipper... →
Tim Conway's character on 30 Rock (claiming to have wandered the halls of NBC all night):
I didn't run into another human being all night long, except one gigantic lesbian. Who is Conan O'Brian and why is she so sad?
Six Minutes of Tim Robbins Controversial NAB... →
I never wished I attended a keynote at NAB, until this.
Can't wait for Marty's next game at Wrigley →
Check out this audio from Cincinnati Reds announcer Marty Brennaman talking about Cubs fans.
Good to be home
We were busy at NAB. We did 3 fxguide podcasts including hosting a barcamp before one for fxphd students, shot 2 fxguidetv episodes, Mike did a VFX Show podcast and Red Centre one, we did half of the Flame Master Class, had a fake fxguidetv episode in the Autodesk User Group, recorded two fxphd classes including organizing a shoot at the Neon Boneyard for one, Mike spoke at a RED seminar, the...
One benefit of being so busy at NAB is I have not seen a frame of Pope coverage. I did hear he gives an awesome speech.
5 ways to use Twitter for good →
Side Show
I always see things at NAB that have nothing to do with my area - that I find fascinating. That is actually one of my favorite parts of this business - the wide variety. Ran into two old friends who brought me a couple of those moments for this NAB. One has a side company that provides video connections between TV stations, corporate clients, uplinks, etc. So they all own a video connection to...
WatchThe Onion: Wildly Popular ‘Iron Man’ Trailer To Be Adapted Into Full-Length Film