Happy Holidays everyone!
I wish everyone a warm and happy holiday!
A little laugh for all those fans of the Mac VS PCs commercials.
Featuring Santa!
Facebook and Yumi
I’ve been pursued by many of my contact list to join various social networks, such as Facebook.
It’s a great network, but I’ve also seen it as an “addictive” medium to zap up my “productive” time.
Plus, how can you keep your professional and personal aspects of your life separate?
Is it even possible?
Would I really want to go after my buddies for posting pictures that I find inappropriate online?
I think I’m just going to keep it “old-school”- phone, email and parties.
Copyright changes
Everyone knows how much of a BNL fan I am (they need to upload more podcasts!!!), and I’ve been suscribed to their RSS feed for their blog.
I was surprised that Steve from the Barenaked Ladies titled his recent blog entry- “Lousy News”.
For all you creative content creators and artists- this is an important issue that may affect our Canadian rights for copyright- read on!
Fundraiser at the Railway
It’s been a hectic time after graduation from my New Media Program.
Without the typical academic class schedule and structure, it’s a challenge to get some things done sometimes.
I’m working on my productivity and time-management skills.
To-do lists, Base-camp, agendas, cell-phone calendars.
I’m trying to tick off as many projects and tasks during the time between leaving work and going to bed.
I haven’t been scheduling in much fun time-which leads me to this-
Come on over to the Railway Club tomorrow night, Thursday at 8PM.
My awesome pal, Angel, is holding a For the Kids Fundraiser for the BC Childrens’ Hospital Foundation.
Tickets at the door are only $10.
And you can be assured- all proceeds are going to the Foundation.
See you there.
http://www.bcchf.ca/getinvolved/eventcalendar/independent_events
C’est déja Novembre?!
Fresh 2007 was fun.
Rushing past was Halloween- I stayed super low key this year. I wasn’t in the biggest mood to go and frighten the little trick-or-treaters on Hallow’s eve.
I said good-bye to my internship. I had decided to leave after a couple more office sessions because reality had come knocking on my door.
It was either-
a) Stay at Hot Tomali and continue to “experiment” with their demoreel
b) Find a job
Reality check-
a) I had a choice to either finish the demoreel or not.
b) How do you motivate yourself to show up at the office everyday when all you face at the end of each day was an emptier and emptier fridge? The internship fed my curiosity and padded my experience on my cv, but loom of bills and hunger was just too close to spend my time volunteering at an agency.
I left.
I had a great time with Hot Tomali. Life at an agency was a different experience from the other jobs or internships I had. It was another learning experience, with major insight with client relations, proposals, advertising and business.
Will I ever choose another in-house agency experience?
Why not?
Everything has it’s ups and downs. I’d definitely would love to be surrounded by other creative and passionate professionals in a design house, ad agency, or production house and be paid to do what I love.
Right now- I’m out and about the GVRD inviting you to get pampered at the local salon.
Don’t cringe.
It’s actually pretty fun.
When was the last time you talked to over 100 strangers in-person, within the course of 6 hours a day, 5 days a week over an area of 20 blocks?
C’est déja Novembre?!
Fresh 2007 was fun.
Rushing past was Halloween- I stayed super low key this year. I wasn’t in the biggest mood to go and frighten the little trick-or-treaters on Hallow’s eve.
I said good-bye to my internship. I had decided to leave after a couple more office sessions because reality had come knocking on my door.
It was either-
a) Stay at Hot Tomali and continue to “experiment” with their demoreel
b) Find a job
Reality check-
a) I had a choice to either finish the demoreel or not.
b) How do you motivate yourself to show up at the office everyday when all you face at the end of each day was an emptier and emptier fridge? The internship fed my curiosity and padded my experience on my cv, but loom of bills and hunger was just too close to spend my time volunteering at an agency.
I left.
I had a great time with Hot Tomali. Life at an agency was a different experience from the other jobs or internships I had. It was another learning experience, with major insight with client relations, proposals, advertising and business.
Will I ever choose another in-house agency experience?
Why not?
Everything has it’s ups and downs. I’d definitely would love to be surrounded by other creative and passionate professionals in a design house, ad agency, or production house and be paid to do what I love.
Right now- I’m out and about the GVRD inviting you to get pampered at the local salon.
Don’t cringe.
It’s actually pretty fun.
When was the last time you talked to over 100 strangers in-person, within the course of 6 hours a day, 5 days a week over an area of 20 blocks?
Fresh 2007
Mark off your calendars-
Thursday, October 18th from 5-8pm.
Radical Entertainment near Main Station at 369 Terminal Ave, Vancouver, B.C.
Come check out what I’ve been up to all year at BCIT in the New Media Design and Web Development program.
It’s our night to shine.
Plus- there’s a lot of door-prizes.
I’m not kidding about the door prizes…
During the Tech Expo at Photoshop World in September, there were many companies kind enough to provide some of the door prizes for October 2007. Thanks to Peachpit Press, Graphic Authority, O’Reilly Media, Wacom, Lynda.com, e Frontier, and everyone at Photoshop World.
I can’t wait!!!
My portfolio is live and running!
I guess “Your portfolio is running, you’d better go catch it.” doesn’t sound good as “Your fridge is running.”
It’s been a long time coming- my portfolio done in Flash is up!!!
I kept my portfolio exclusive to itself and anything else about me external- like my blog and my bio so visitors can see the other side of me that’s not about “work”. Eventually, probably when I reorganize and redesign my site in the future, I’ll be including my blog and my bio on my website.
Give me a shout- email or leave a comment here and let me know how the site is. I appreciate any constructive feedback to make the experience even better!
Thanks all my classmates and instructors for all your help!
Joshua Davis & Vidfest
Slipping out of the morning session of Trendsetters, I was excited to be on my way to Opus Hotel on Davie to see Joshua Davis yesterday.
He was holding a workshop on the last day of Vidfest, and I wasn’t really sure of what to expect. Looking at his recent photo of himsef posted on Flickr, he looks so scary in his picture- I thought it was going to be an ultimate serious tone for the workshop that afternoon. For the strangest reason, I also pictured him “lecturing” with a British accent…
Wow- he’s hilarious.
I’ve never giggled so much at a workshop or in class.
After he was introduced, he showed us a YouTube vid of Stevie Wonder’s drum solo.
I bet halfway through it, everyone was wondering why Josh was showing this.
It was an analogy of Actionscript 1.0- and I quote JD -
“How there was a shitload of stuff.”
He went through his past and history, about fine art to where he is now.
When he mentioned Linux, PERL and all these other programming languages, my eyes glazed over.
I had to rush back to BCIT in Burnaby after the four-hour session.
I did want to attend the Happy Hour downstairs at Elixir, but I hate going back on my word about being late for my evening class.
I’m inspired to take what I learned from that afternoon and incorporate it into my future motion works.
Especially his story about how his first time moving to New York, he encountered the subway. When he first got on, he was so excited. In his younger years he was always excited to ride the subway, “hi-fiving all the passengers.”
“Whee heee, no seatbelts! We don’t strap in!”
Back in his hometown, he never rode a subway before, so the only thing he can compare the subway to was a roller-coaster.
On the screen, while JD was sharing his story was, “It’s hard to see your environment when you’re in your environment. Look for the visible invisible.”
Overall, I left smiling thinking about his reason for the need to create.
“…I know you guys think I’m rich, or I’m a millionaire or something. But I’m not.
Ok, so I do work on big projects, but those don’t come often. I only do like 2-3 a year…
I love teaching students at where I am now, at the New York school of Design, but almost all of the students I encounter come into design for the wrong reason. Don’t do it for the awards, fame, the money…”
“Sometime I’m on panels or juries for design competitions.
I’m always asked,”Why did this person win, why did this person not win?”
…My answer is , “Because that person (pointing at the winner) looked like he did that piece not to win, but because he wanted to do the piece.”
“I think I have a problem… like OCD or something…. I have this need to…
CREATE….I don’t know why… it’s like I wake up and I have to make something…”
That need.
I thought I was the only crazy creative person.
Looks like us “crazies” with that need span across the globe.
What a dysfunctional family.
Vidfest Creative Exchange Conference 2007
I’m exhausted.
I think this is the reason why blogs can be so hard to update.
After a long day, no one really wants to sit down in front of their computer, racking their brain trying to summarize what happened earlier in the day.
But here goes-
Mark, Matt and I zipped to the Vancouver International Film Centre on Davie and Seymour. Earlier this term, I asked Dennis from New Media BC if they would like us to tape some of the sessions at the Creative Conference. I have to admit Vidfest (I went to the one in 2005) was one of the reasons of why I went from broadcast studies to new media- which looked way more exciting and creatively hands-on.
It was strange thing to have ancient history open up a presentation by Ori Brafman- with the Incas and Apaches, but he did have a point to bringing them up.
I need to go find his book and read more about The Starfish and the Spider models for digital media organizations.
Matt and I shared camera-handling for simultaneous sessions- we switched between macro sessions (in the theatre) and micro sessions (in the lobby). There were four macro and four micro sessions altogether, with additional opening and closing keynotes.
I covered the first couple micro sessions outside in the lobby about IP and bite-sized entertainment. I’m so glad that the conference wasn’t as focused on the gaming and animation industry. Honestly, I was glad there was some talk about things that I was more passionate about because there are already other dedicated gatherings for those industries.
IP has a different meaning between content providers.
Internet Protocol popped in my head when I saw IP.
However at the conference, IP meant Intellectual Property.
It’s a major issue amongst very large organizations, wanting to control and own every property they are a part of.
Bite-sized entertainment- When is North America going to adopt this “pay-by-cellphone” capability?
It’s highly popular in UK and in Asia, where mobile-payments shadow usage of credit cards. The only implementations of this payment that I have seen locally are parking meters. This would be such a great and convenient thing to bring to other services in North America, especially to Vancouver.
There were a lot of business owners and managers who attended this conference. The main issue hanging over our heads was money- How in the world are we going to make money?
One can give away so much, but is there a guarantee that there will be pay back? There was no clear answer revealed amongst the speakers of several sessions. For those involved in digital media, we’re all still in the experimental stages of finding that new formula for making money.
The traditional model worked for broadcasters, I quote from one of the speakers-
“It’s all about the money. The shows are created as filler in between the advertisements. That’s why there’s so much crap on television.”
With flourishing new media and audience wanting more- there’s no definite current formula to making money. Major studios and broadcasters had always depended on this model. There’s also the issue of intellectual property- to control and own its value.
It’s hard for these organizations to work with different and newer business models of today. Advertisers are used to relying on audience metrics being able to count on the eye-balls to be exposed to their clients’ product or message. With PVRs and TiVos, these metrics are even becoming more challenging and difficult to accurately calculate.
Eventually, these organizations will have to understand and let go of their control of their properties. Audiences these days don’t need to have advertising thrown in their faces, annoying as those flies flying around as the result of Vancouver’s garbage strike (three months and counting to this day…)
One speaker mentioned that the main market that advertisers are targeting- the18-to- 30 year olds – they need to gain their trust in the brand and product.
It’s like the never ending circle- content is created.
How do we deliver it so the audience doesn’t have to cringe when they have to pay for it?
And usually that’s when some advertising comes in the picture.
Putting advertising aside, there was another prevalent subject amongst Vidfest speakers today-
Content is king.
No matter what particular part of the industry we’re from- whether gaming, broadcasting, animation, film-making- we’re all in it for the same reason.
Entertainment.
The glory of sharing ideas, stories, and concepts.
Whatever platform you’re on- an iPod, online on a Mac, on a PC, on a TV, it doesn’t matter. The main thing is really- what are you trying to communicate? What is your message? Why do you want my attention? Does this pique anyone’s interest?
Almost completing this intensive one-year program, I just realized how much they emphasize so much on how to use the tools. There’s that deeper concept of communication that was touched upon a few courses over the terms, but I think those getting into this program need to understand, sure you can learn these tools, but do you really want to be another cog in the wheel?
I was extremely pissed when our previous video instructor kept emphasizing “Shazam. It’s what clients want to see.”
I regret for not skipping over that class, I thought that the instructor will give me new insight. I didn’t learn anything new in that class- I just really was the tech help for some of my classmates. It was frustrating how our class video instructor never emphasizing the most important thing- you’re trying to share a message, not bombard the viewer with the latest thing in cuts and filters.
The story/message comes first, but make sure your cuts justify your story.
I guess that’s why many artists have the need to take a longer program, like film-school or take courses for an art degree. There’s that need of time to take to further develop and refine their communication skills. It’s not only about the technology and trends, but it’s first foremost emphasizing the content. The content’s got to be interesting in tune with the fancy effects to draw in people, or it’s just all glitter with no substance.
Balancing the quality, with approvals and deadlines sometimes can be hard to practice.
Overall, I realized today that facing the world of digital media, there is always the issue of money, ownership, and time. I truly wonder where this is going to go? What will truly come out as the best-money-making-model for the web and mobile?
I was too tired to make it to the Mixer and Happy Hour.
How much more standing can I take in one day?
I didn’t stay long enough to find out.
It was a very thought-provoking day.
Thanks to the coordinators of Vidfest by New Media BC.
Thanks to the AV guys for helping me out with hooking up audio with our cameras- Matt and John.
Thanks Mark Whitehead, thanks Matt Morrison.
This would’ve been a different experience without you guys!
Now I’d better get some rest so I can get to class in morning, go to downtown for Joshua Davis’ workshop and come back for an evening class.
I like keeping busy and learning new things, and yes, I do get sleep.
Vidfest 2007
What every digital and new media professional is waiting for every year- VIDFEST!
This year it’s being held in the beautiful Vancouver International Film Centre (also known as VIFC) on Davie and Seymour in Downtown Vancouver.
On Saturday, I checked out the POPVOX awards and the opening gala.
There was a lot of competition in the awards, and there was a lot of outstanding work showcased that night. I didn’t realize that there are so many companies locally in Vancouver- phew.
I’m usually on-the-ball when it comes to dressing up when going out. I think I should’ve thrown on a skirt or something- everyone was fabulously dressed too. Food was great, but I had to run off so I could pick up Trevor’s equipment from the wedding he was doing 2 blocks away.
Too bad I couldn’t snag him and a couple other passes for my buddies. I just wanted for thank Tre for lending his professional equipment out for shooting on Monday and let him check out how the vast the Vidfest was. Oh well, so I owe my buddies dinner then.
Running a little late, I missed about half-an-hour of the premiere screening of the Sanctuary.
Trying to figure out the missing storyline and getting into the amazing CG world of Sanctuary, I couldn’t help noticing some scenes with some spill and fringing. Eh, I don’t think they can see that when the podcasts are downloaded. It was a fun story- “There are no such things as monsters.”
Sanctuary is the first television show meant for online and done in HD.
Wow- those are not the things that go pleasantly together.
How does one shoot HD and compress it well enough for the quality to be outstanding, but also does not take forever to download? We’ll find out soon enough.
Tomorrow is the Creative Exchange Conference- tonnes of speakers and attendees all gathered together to discuss the future of digital media.
Lots of things related to networking, web 2.0, technology and tonnes of other ear-piquing subjects.
Hope to see y’all there.
Online portfolio blues
Whenever I want to write on my blog, I have to write during a state of relaxation.
ie- Whenever I know there aren’t dishes to wash in the sink, or another task to complete on my daily bloating to-do list.
Honestly, the days following up to my trip to Las Vegas I spent mostly focusing on developing my online portfolio. It was such a struggle- I tried my best with Action-scripting in flash.
I was close to becoming as bald as my dad- so much “pulling-out-my-hair” moments while I was trying to create a website for my portfolio pieces.
I prioritized as much as I can, but I ended up doing completing half of my online portfolio interface, not leaving enough time to do my business plan before I left.
Las Vegas is NOT the best city to concentrate in.
There are so many things to see, there’s no way one would want to stay in their hotel room and do their homework.
I ended up e-mailing in my business proposal for my Enterprise class on Monday, September the 13th in the morning for Britt and Denise to print. A hard copy of the final assignment was required to be handed in before the end of class (which was Monday at 12pm).
In the next following days- after I finally present my portfolio for class today, I’ll catch up on writing other things I’ve been busy with.
My online portfolio is done.
Phew.
I might change the structure for content management after I attend the Joshua Davis workshop on Tuesday (featured in Vidfest 2007).
Photoshop Las Vegas 2007
Wow.
I made it back. 6 days and 5 nights on my own in Las Vegas. That was a blast.
I’ve learned a lot from my first trip out and first Photoshop Conference.
I have to admit though, it was a pinch disappointing. This year’s conference was really targeted toward photographers. The classes that I was interested in and attended were at beginner level. I did pick up some tips, but I have to admit I sat in some sessions thinking- “I learned THAT last term in my program.
Next time, I’m going to take time on the first day to plan my conference experience. Another Photoshop World attendee and I thought that they should’ve labeled the classes- begginner, intermediate, advanced…
On the bright side, I got to sit at a podcast taping of Photoshop User TV in the Peachpit/Kelby Training area on the Expo room floor.
Mis-communication is global- about a dozen of us sat at the Microsoft Theatre wondering why the Photoshop Guys weren’t setting up. I guess with all the frantic panic of set-up time, nobody contemplated on putting a sign pointing to the other set- “Photoshop User TV taping changed to Kelby Training stage”.
I’m really not complaining about my experience- I just had really really high expectations before attending this conference.
Signs EVERYWHERE would’ve helped a great deal- no signs at front end of the hotel. Please, don’t advertise “Mandalay Resort & Casino” when it actually happened at “Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino- Convention Centre.” I’ve learned from the many “usability” lessons from my New Media Program- we’re thinking less these days, please make directions or signs “OBVIOUS” to everyone. Save me some walking, I had to travel from the North end of the strip to get here, I’d rather save my energy listening to instructors.
I felt really lost on the first day- I followed other attendees from the front of the hotel, walking past the main lobby, the many slot machines, restaurants, a long hall toward the South Convention area, to a Photoshop World Information Booth, redirected to the escalators, went up a floor and finally ended up standing in line to get my pass.
Internet access was ridiculous- $750/day?!
What?!
Setting up wi-fi networks are easy and I had expected access to it to be as easy, fast, and low-cost/free.
I waited until the last day of my trip to plant my bum beside the Fashion Show catwalk that was in front of the Apple Store at Fashion Show Mall.
Overall- Photoshop World was an “okay” experience.
I loved Las Vegas, just not Photoshop World as much. I came here mostly on my own dime. Without the student award for the pass, the likely chance of myself travelling outside my country to attend a convention would be slim unless I was going to represent a company who was covering my expenses.
Las Vegas, I can’t wait to see you again.
Just sometime in a different season where it isn’t so sweltering for me.
Because SNL really sucks now
Because SNL really sucks now, by yumiang
SNL has its moments- highs and lows in ratings.
One of the reasons why I wanted to get into broadcasting was to work on live productions. I want to visit New York and watch a live taping of SNL before it ’sucks’ even more. (I miss Chris Kattan, Will Ferell and Jimmy Fallon).
It’s an intensive week for all those part of putting SNL-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live#Production_process.
The show must go on.
From a chick’s point of view
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It’s the last night before the fair at the PNE is officially open to the public on the 18th (tomorrow).
I took a stroll in the barns to check out the early arrivals.
So many moo-cows, llamas, pigs, sheep and chicks.
It was nice to take pictures without the usual crowds.
I can’t wait for the mini-donuts and Dal Richards!
From a chick’s point of view
From a chick's point of view
It’s the last night before the fair at the PNE is officially open to the public on the 18th (tomorrow).
I took a stroll in the barns to check out the early arrivals.
So many moo-cows, llamas, pigs, sheep and chicks.
It was nice to take pictures without the usual crowds.
I can’t wait for the mini-donuts and Dal Richards!
Cram cram cram
It’s almost half-way through fourth term, my final term here at BCIT. I’m so excited that I’m close to graduation, anticipating new companies and enterprises to embark on.
As well as I plan out my day, week, and further out in the month there always seems to be different dry spells and hot spots.
At the beginning of the term, about five weeks ago I was at ease trying to find another place away from the YMCA in downtown and its construction and figure out which company to do my practicum with.
Holy toledo, the summer gets hotter and my schedule got tighter.
I bought a new agenda to keep my appointments and my to do lists in earlier in July.
Earlier this week, I met to talk to Thomas at Hot Tomali about starting my practicum with them. I wonder if he noticed the tonnes of writing in my page for this week…
My book is crammed with “Don’t forget this,” “This is due today,” “Homework, homework!”
I wanted to finish my portfolio by the end of term so I have it ready for Industry Night, October 18th.
My buddy, Trevor wants help with one of his clients’ wedding music videos and I want to start on a new demo reel.
Looks like I have less than 3 weeks to launch my website, dvd, demoreel and my print portfolio.
I want to have my demoreel and website ready for Photoshop World in the first week of September. (Thank you student scholarship!)
Watch out Las Vegas, here comes Yumi.
With the wrenching heat and knowing I’ve got tonnes on my plate, I’m swimming in a constant pool of sweat.
Phew.
SuperNews! – Gates vs. Jobs
Could you not feel the Mac love in this SuperNews installment?
iHouse- one of my fave parts of the video.
Oh marketers, what’s next for Gen Y?
And how do we label the next generations after Z?
Double As?
That could potentially be mistaken for bra sizes or batteries.
I hope the future generations won’t be total “boobs” or become marketers’ main source of power and energy.
HSBC Fireworks & New Media
The annual HSBC Celebration of Light over the waters of English Bay again was spectacular this year. I kind of do wish that the fireworks showcase was on just to commemorate my classmates and I for working their butts during this intensive program for the past three terms.
Fireworks were spectacular, even with a some downtown buildings in the way.
I didn’t feel like swimming through the crowds all scrambling to get through the beach barriers, like last Wednesday during Spain’s performance. I climbed over a concrete barrier to get out of the mosh-pit of a crowd that night- so I decided to watch the light show from the windows of my apartment.
Having no radio, I tuned to Rock 101 online to listen to their simulcast of the Celebration of Light music. I was crossing my fingers for Canada (who was todays performance) to have at least one Michael Buble song like last year.
Not this year, it was even better. Throughout the whole 20 minute performance there was a showcase of hot jazz from the early ages. They threw in a rockabilly song in the middle of it and that totally reminded me of what advice I was given for my demo reel- I’ve got to showcase that I’m able to edit to the beat, slow and fast and show off some other tricks, too.
The fireworks reminded me of the colour-theory classes I completed during the first half of the program- New Media focusing on RGB colour spaces because most of the production and work are screen-based. A lot of the fireworks were big balls of red, green and blue.
I’m going to continue in some studies in motion graphic design and animation. The fireworks remind me of creating particles in After effects- birth rate, death rate, how often should these particles burst… I love learning!
Web Marketing class
Instead of starting another blog that would eventually be taken off because of the end of this course, Web Marketing, I’ve decided to just continue with my blog I’ve started at the beginning of this program. To differentiate the posts that are personal from the ones for class- I’ll tag with my “business” categories.
I can’t wait for the rest of the final weeks of my new media program to unfold in this last term.
We’ll see how it goes.
Bugs, ew.
I hate bugs.
I hate de-bugging on IE6, I hate those creepy crawlers, ew!
I finally took a couple hours off to myself after coming back from my final day of work.
I’ve made a decision to focus on my final term in my new media program so I can work on my kick-ass portfolio…
So I decided to finally open my fresh new DVD of King Kong. I bought it awhile ago- but life just got in the way of me watching this beautiful story.
During the part when the cast was on Skull Island, when they were stomping through the jungle with all those giant mosquitos and they were stuck in the dark with all those critters reminded me of last Saturday.
Attacked.
I was constantly attacked by those damn mosquitoes.
Last Saturday I was out on a shoot with Jason, it was tough.
I don’t mind the challenge of shooting in hot grimy weather, but the mosquitoes made it hell.
The crew was parked in the lot of the Langley Community hall taking a lunch break and some photos- but there were swarms of those buzzing critters.
I thought I was fine- not getting bitten and resting in the car as we were waiting for over an hour to cross with the Albian ferry. Two days later- I found over 20 bite marks all over my body.
Got 5 on my back, six on my hands, a lot on both of my arms, and a couple on my legs.
I came to work on Monday and it looked like a got into a fight with my right knuckle all swelled up (there was a bite on the edge of my ring finger).
“What did you do? Get into a fight?!”
Yep, I fought those darn Fraser Valley mosquitoes and lost.
Lost it real good.
Anyways- back to class on Monday. I can’t wait!
Copyright infringement
It’s getting close to the end of term 3 here at BCIT for us New Media students.
Workshops on the weekend had started for Photoshop and Javascript, and I’ve really got to start on my final projects.
Our Media Law class is coming to an end- the final exam is this coming Friday.
I came upon this article from design boom regarding copyright infringement.
Oh those chairs!
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/read.php?CATEGORY_PK=&TOPIC_PK=1364
