Being a Golden Retriever, Shane needs to either be swimming or holding something in his mouth. Indoors that means a stuffed animal, which has been a puppy for the past few years. The puppy retired today and was replaced by this bunny – which has been in his mouth or under his chin since he got it this afternoon. There’s kind of a Linus/Blanket connection that happens with him and a stuffed animal.
This was a big day for our CMU ETC students – they “soft launched” the projects they’ve been working on all semester. We celebrated with some R&R this evening by having a BBQ at our house. I was so busy cooking that I forgot to take pictures of the real meal, but we did s’mores for dessert.
This is a candid picture, but it looks like a posed picture from a magazine. I mean really, one person cooking and everyone else standing around being entertained by it? But you can see that everyone else was already eating theirs. BTW, Soo here is trying the advanced s’mores technique where you jam the chocolate INTO the marshmallow before you roast it – that melts the chocolate, too. Yumm.
PDI/DreamWorks hosted our Carnegie Mellon ETC students today. We had presentations from Scott (VFX Supervisor) and Beth (Director of Character Technology), lunch with CMU alums there, and a great tour from Hoyt. Thanks Marilyn and Jim for setting this up.
It was especially fun for me to see all my old friends and the incredible work everyone is doing. What fun!
Senator Obama was in town today. We were fortunate to be able to attend one of the fund raising events.
It seems I know a lot of drummers. We went and saw Mojophonic tonight, my friend Peter is the drummer, Jack sings and plays guitar, and Evan is on keyboards. (Sorry, I don’t really know the other guys.)
They were great – some rock, some funk and a lot of fun.
Jason and I were out for a beer tonight at the Dutch Goose and music from his band Soul Patch came over the jukebox. Jason plays drums and sings, and now poses for cheezy photos.
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Summers in Rangoon – the album on the Rock-ola
Sooner or Later – the new album
Closing huddle at the end of the Lacrosse game. We won 15-4.
Likes: chocolate, long hops, and of course my peeps
Dislikes: dogs chewing on me, washing machines
It’s his 16th birthday today!
I was working on another Strobist lighting exercise. The idea is to use one strobe to light the subject, and to create a specular reflection off the wall behind. This is actually one of my test shots, the ‘formal’ ones being a bit too, well, formal.