And so I sit waiting for my flight to Austin. All I can do is plow through the 1,000+ songs on my playlist, make flirty eyes at the filthy blond across from me and do a bit of writing (like this).
For those in Austin, spot me by my t-shirt-of-the-day:
My holiday gift to you is my holiday gift to myself. Last night I bought one of the sweetest shirts I’ve ever seen but there’s a bit of backstory required.
First, you need to check out THIS AMERICAN LIFE. Maybe you’ve seen the cable show but you should really listen to the radio program or podcast them like I do.
Second, you need to listen to this story (it runs about 14 minutes).
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Now check out the shirt I bought by clicking on the TAL logo below. Don’t cheat. Listen to the whole story first before clicking below.
Jealous?
Lastly, this is public radio so they operate off the generosity of your donations and this year it’s easier than ever to support THIS AMERICAN LIFE. You can now text the word LIFE to the number 25383 and you’ll make a one-time donation of $5; it’ll show up on your mobile phone bill. After you send the text, you’ll need to reply YES to the confirmation and you’re done. If that story and shirt made you smile, why not do the right thing and show this great radio program a little Christmas love.
Started the day early today, tried to crash the LOST panel but the line was so long I decided to cruise the exhibit floor again.
FYI, there was a steampunk meet-up today so there were a ton of folk in awesome costumes.
Note to all, if you want to wear a costume to Comic-Con and do so with style, go steampunk.
I then jumped into a line thinking “30 minutes would be enough time to get into a ballroom for a FUTURAMA panel. Um, no. I missed that entire panel and most of the SIMPSONS panel that followed.
Undeterred, I lined up extra early for my “Writing for TV” panel which meant I sat through “A Spotlight on Seth” and they didn’t mean Rogan or McFarlane. This guys, this illustrator… wow. He projected a PowerPoint highlighting works from his sketch book and then proceeded to tell twelve seemingly unrelated autobiographical stories. It was like a mini episode of THIS AMERICAN LIFE. My attention was rapt. This artist has a new fan.
The “Writing for TV” panel was just what I expected (I’ve been to hundreds of these by now) but the funniest moment came when the writers started heckling a woman in a military costume and then she said, “this isn’t a costume, it’s my uniform.” How quickly they tripped over themselves to thank her for her service (FYI, she was a communications liaison).
After that I wandered towards Hall H (I heard someone call it “Hall Hell”) expecting a 5 hours wait to hear Kevin Smith talk.
Imagine my delight when I walked in without any wait. I was bummed that Kevin didn’t show any clips of his upcoming movie but the crowd loved him anyway.
After that it was time for a steak dinner and then back to the After Effects grind (gotta take 2k stills, do a basic gamma correction, animate them along their X, Y and Z axis to give the illusion of a hand-held camera and then crop, adjust & resize them for a 1920 x 1080, 29.97 HDTV timeline).
(Ugh)
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