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Caught the Twins/Royals game last night in Minneapolis with Zach, Dan and Megan. Mike Max basically said there was no way Royals pitcher Mark Redman would beat us last night. Thanks for the jinx, Maxie (Redman shut us out, 2-0). As good as Garza pitched, it really makes you wonder what Soriano […]

The limits of my culinary skills were tested last night during my quest to make manicotti. I mostly followed the video on ctrl-alt-chicken, with a little help from a few random recipes found on google. It can only be categorized as an unqualified success:

Zach holding the grade A eggs required for this recipe.

Manicotti […]

Season finales tonight = excitement: 

Home at last.  Testing the HD functions of the cameras tomorrow; sleeping for now.

We’re editing the final parts of our last video. After lunch we view all the projects, then we call it a conference.

At long last…the hotel room tour.
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Today was the shortest day this week in terms of hours spent working on something, but by far took the most out of everybody.
We started off the day scouting out the parking lot location at which we were to shoot an employee appreciation rally. Like most indoor parking lots, it was not well lit. […]

Avid Express, I totally dominated you. I still say that Final Cut Pro is a better, more intuitive program for editing video. Avid is basically the same (one just has to find the right buttons and commands to do editing in the Avid environment) though it lacks the pretty interface that I love […]

Corporate-paid dinners could be the finest thing in life.
The first full day of video convergence was long, yet educational. The high definition video cameras are pretty ace; some pretty exceptional content is sure to emerge. We shot some press conference and police scene style footage, definitely entertaining.

Kari and Mike film an on the […]

Long day, longer update later. Thought I’d check in after reading Liz’s blog post for today. I got appeasment after sending the e-mail in question. Snakes on a Plane was a stupid movie idea that should not be celebrated in any way. I’m completely glad it bombed. Also, the whole […]

Outside of the rather uneventful drive, the Des Moines experience is progressing quite nicely.
The hotel (downtown Renaissance Savery) is pretty nice. It’s apparently a historic site, so some of the features are classically dated, in a good way.
Dinner was pretty much amazing. We ate at Centro, an Italian restaurant in the […]

I’m off to Des Moines for a 5 day conference on video and new media solutions. We get a fair amount of free time, so I’ll be updating this blog with some frequency. We’ve got two high definition video cameras waiting to be used, as well as two new PowerMacs and two absolutely […]

Shot and edited a pretty interesting video involving the specifics of making garlic shrimp for the Times weekly food publication, “D’lish.” Raul Templonuevo, owner of Kay’s Kitchen in St. Joseph, went through the process Food Network style (all animated and the like). I might actually try to make this sometime; it doesn’t look […]

So no Soriano. I can completely understand not mortgaging the future for a 2 month rent-a-player, but sometimes you just have to throw your hat over the wall.

Maybe we’ll be able to pick up this guy on waivers…