Update

by Matt | May 14, 2003 | Imported Entry

Lets see, what to talk about… well, classes are going ok so I suppose that’s good. I had a reasonably good critique in Personal Vision on Monday and I’ll have a Fashion critique next Tuesday. I have one shoot semi-planned for this weekend and I hope to have another (possibly two) as well.

As always, I’m not quite settled on a new webpage design. I was so close to liking my new design then I come across pages that blow it away design wise and I get envious and go back and redesign mine again. It’s a never ending cycle.

The Matrix opens here tonight (although it’s not really supposed to). Technically it opens the 15th (tomorrow) so a 12:01am showing is completely legit but the theater here is showing it at 10pm. Something tells me they’re not supposed to do that. I would go except I’m in Savannah and going to an opening night movie here is retarded. Everyone that could possibly ruin a movie for someone else will be there tonight. “That guy” that’s talking on his cell phone, or “that girl” that won’t shut the hell up. I’m sure you know the type. Yeah, well, there’s an over-abundance of them here. Instead, we’re going to go to an early-afternoon matinée on Friday. I’m not sure how much better that will be but we’ll avoid everyone who’s at work and/or school that way.

Started really looking for work too. I’ve got a few places to look in New England and Lauren’s mom sent along a list of places near Houston. That should be a start. This is also the reason I want to spruce up the webpage as well. I’d like to make a good impression in that category and I don’t feel like the current page does that. Especially not with the way it’s split and more or less un-updated, with the exception of this page obviously.

News Item: Copy protection results in unplayable disk… umm, duh.

Lastly, this weeks desktop.
Screenshot.

Icons: a mixture of Dirceu Veiga’s Comics and Everaldo’s Crystal.
Theme: Classix 10k Update
Wallpaper: ??? Can’t remember

Shit-tastic

by Matt | May 11, 2003 | Imported Entry

Well, that photo shoot didn’t really happen. Originally we had set a time of 6pm but I asked if we could move it back a little to 7 just to make sure everyone had enough time to prepare and get there. I got there at 6:30, set up lights and a table-top set-up and waited. At 7:45 I was fed up and packed my things to leave. The girl who was supposed to be there at 7:00 walked in a little before 8:00. I had told my friends who were in the studio to say that I had gone home angry if anyone asked. She asked where I was and Matt Ferral said I had gone home really pissed off (which I was). I stepped forward and added that it was very unprofessional, turned my back to them, grabbed my things and left. They shut the door behind them and left on their own.

I simply don’t understand people. I was treating this professionally and I expected others to do the same. I was there when I needed to be. I was ready to go. They walk in an hour late like everything is fine. I had shit to do. I had photos I needed to be taking on my own. I was doing this out of the kindness of my heart. I wasn’t getting paid, I didn’t even know this girl. All I was trying to do was help out Sean, my friend.

I apologize to him if he’s reading this, I know this complicates your graphic design work and I’m sorry. But seriously, if I was a paid, professional photographer and she had hired me to do this job I would have walked away. I would have said “find yourself another photographer because my time isn’t free.” I know that sounds harsh but it’s the real world. If she was going for a job interview or was meeting with a client of her own and she was an hour late, she would have just lost that client.

15 minutes I could understand, that would have been fine. Half an hour and I would have been a little angry but would have dealt with it. But letting me sit there for an hour, without even calling my cell phone is pretty damn rude. I think she had the number and if she didn’t she certainly had my home phone number and my roommate was here all night, he would have given it to her. Still, to this very minute, it’s 11:00pm and still nothing from her. Not “I’m sorry, my car broke down” or “I’m sorry, I couldn’t leave work.” Nothing.

I know it’s mean, but it’s finals and I’ve got lots of stuff on my mind and not a lot of time left. Find yourself another photographer, cause this one doesn’t put up with that shit.

Wedding Shower & Photo Shoot

by Matt | May 11, 2003 | Imported Entry

Last night was our first official wedding shower. Actually, Lauren had a lingerie shower last week but this was “our” first shower. Sula and Wayne, a very nice couple from church, put it on for us. It was actually a double-header and it was for Josh and Liisa as well (yes, thats the correct spelling of her name). It was a “tool and gadget” themed shower and we were given some wonderful gifts by our friends. A big thanks to everyone that came. I think Lauren is going to have an additional shower once she’s back in TX as well as her bachelorette party later in the summer. I get to look forward to my own bachelor party toward the end of the summer as well. There were all sorts of delicious snacks and some good friends so it was a pretty fun time. We even got a “hand truck”, also know as a dolly, for help with moving which I thought was a rather ingenious and back-pain-saving gift.

Today Lauren is working on a project on CAD and I have a shoot scheduled for 7pm. Sean’s friend, a jewelery major, has some pieces that she made that she’d like to have pictures of. I’m not getting paid but I am going to use them in my own portfolio if they turn out well. That should be interesting.

In the meantime I’m taking some pictures for personal vision since I have a critique on Monday. I’ve been really slacking in that class, not giving it my full 110%. Actually, at this point, its probably somewhere around 75%, so that’s not good. It’s not that I don’t want to do work, I’m just tired of school in general and I don’t really want to force creative ideas out of my head at the moment. Call it spring fever or senior-itis if you will, or call it the hockey playoffs, whichever works best for you.

That’s about it. Later.

Quick update

by Matt | May 7, 2003 | Imported Entry

Webpage update:

Reduced number of entries on page and banned 6 (!) IP addresses that were spamming my comments. Damn I hate that crap.