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Thursday night – take three

Today was the final (I hope) step in the IBM commercial I’ve been helping make. It all started several weeks ago in Grand Central Station.. 4 hours of filming.. 2 hours of interviews.. and three.. count them three … audio recordings.    We did the final recording today at Vermont Public Radio. It was actually pretty cool.

VPR has a really nice audio recording suite in their Colchester studios..

Their nice audio guy, Sam.. helped us get set up and patched me into the recording folks own in NYC.

It was pretty easy.. we just went through the script a few times.. and voila .. we’re done..

I think the ads will strt appearing on or about March 3rd.. It will be cool to see the finished product ..   look for them and let me know what you think !

Not much esle happening today.. so I’ll end there..

Have a good night freinds.. nite sam
-me

wednesday night – powerless

Long night on the red-eye back home. Got to jfk at 5:30 AM.. that called for a nap in the beutiful newish jetblue concorse,,,

Got back to vermont around 10 and went straight home.. it was snowing like crazy.. maybe 18 inches.. 

In honor of the snow, the power lines were down all over th eplace.. our power was off for more than 10 hours.. I managed to work at home despite the phone and internet being down. Thanks goodness for cell phones.

Gabe and diane came home to a dark house… we took advantage of the power being out by going out and building the most inslanely cool igloo in the back yard..

Diane built a fire pit while Gabe and I dug out the cave..

We eventuallly dug out enought that both gabe and I could sit inside..

I gotta admit.. I’m having trouble staying awake at this point.. I have 3 nights wiht less than 5 hours of sleep and I’m not going to stay conscious …

ok…  not the most informative blog..but be happy that I’m getting a good nights sleep
nite freinds.. night sam
-me

Tuesday night – boarding

Yikes..
   Looks like another short post.. I’m at the burbank airport just in time to board the flight back to JFK.. It’s been a long and busy day out here. Started with a 7am recording session for the IBM comercial I’v ebeen working on.. It was a very cool expereinvce.. Margarita mix studios..It looked like an upscale resturant.. food and drinks every wehre, cool adobe decor.. and the most hightech recording equipment I’ve ever seen. Evedently they use this place for doing lots of animated features.. My session took about an hour..
   Just as I was leaving My buddy Jeff J showed up. to do the voice over for his  commercial . I was great seeing him . It was a cool experience.. the only catch is.. I htin kI need to rerecord it soemtime this week.. oh wel..

Looks like we’re boarding.. I’ll try ot get the pictures loaded before we take off.. but not sure I have time.. more tomorrow.

-jc
 
Ahh.. it’s tomorrow morning.  and I’m at JFK. . here are the pictures from yesterday

Here’s Margarita Mix- the very nice recording studio I went to yesterday..


Here’s the add I’m working on..

Larry and ryan are over in the control room

While I knock out the audio in the booth..

I left a few samstones in that beautiful place..

As I was leaving. My buddy Jeff shoed up to work on his commercial…

here he is showing off his freshly sha ved legs… he’s a major triathalte.. anything to reduce resistance.

Later in the day, I took a break to walk around some of the pros left over form the  Colony Season 1..

Here’s the trike… I loved the controller on that build..

the controller has the cutest evil face.. don’t you think ?

I also found the voltage controler for the solar setup.. Not many other things hanging around.. .. It was fun to touch these things again..

OK.. boarding for Burlington.. more later..
-me

Monday night – old friends

Long, fun day.. started with a 6AM work call with japan. Very exciting stuff..   Then caught a plane to LA over soem gorgeous mountains

The rest of the day was full of very interesting meetings.. but given that they were work meetings.. nothing I can go into here.. just lots of cool creative stuff.. this is the stuff I love the best about my work..

After work. I met up with some of my good friends from the Colony.. Here are Gadget, Morgan. Johnny V, and Michael. It was so wonderful catching up !

And that was my day… doesn’t sound like much.. but it was really fun and interesting.
I gotta wake up in a6 hours to go do some recording for work.. so I’ll sign off here.. More tomorrow.

Gnite all, Gnite Sam
-me