Opening ceremonies at school. Jared and Dan pass the torch!
Going downtown to check it out. Watch out for the wallet grab!
We have skills. Do no question it.
Weeping at my loss.
Just posing with some Russians.
Going to BPs for Valentines Day.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
photographs
Pictures for you! Heather will be posting the rest on Facebook soon. But these are just for you!
Monday, February 15, 2010
and the Olympics take off
This weekend was weird and great at the same time.
Friday was my last day at my practicum until after spring break. It was a long day, but pretty exciting once I got home.
The caf just opened a new lounge area where the "Asian" seating area used to be. It's pretty nice--TVs, couches, etc. They hosted a big event for the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. I went and filmed a bit. Talked to Toph for the first time. It was weird, a little bit... but not too bad. Later that night, Dave M. and Sara B. had a double bubble chewing contest in my apartment. Heather had about four hundred year old double bubble (a massive tub of it). Dave and Sara have been stopping by all year because they love the gum, for some reason. So on Friday they had a competition to see who could chew the most gum. They finished the bucket... 70 pieces between the two of them. Crazy kids.
On Saturday, Heath, Sara, Heidi, and I went into downtown to check out the Olympic festivities. It was raining, and cold... and we went in without a plan. We could have been a lot more organized and covered a lot more ground, but it was still pretty sweet. Most of the roads were closed off and the crowds were insane. Just a few hours earlier there had been a protest at The Bay where people had thrown rocks and paint at their windows and the SWAT team had to come in. Later we saw it on the news and one of the "anarchists," as they called themselves, was really angry that the police had guns--as if this gave them every right to deface property. Um, hello?? They're police/SWAT! Of course they have guns!
After seeing that, we went to the art museum in Robson square because it was free. We tried to go to the aboriginal pavilion but we missed the matinee show, so then we went to the Russian pavilion in the science museum. It was pretty cool, although there wasn't much to do. We ran out of time to see the torch, so we walked to the free train, and then from there walked to Heather's siblings' apartment for dinner and otherwise good times. All in all we spent 15 hours downtown. Pretty crazy and tiring, but fun.
Jamie out.
Friday was my last day at my practicum until after spring break. It was a long day, but pretty exciting once I got home.
The caf just opened a new lounge area where the "Asian" seating area used to be. It's pretty nice--TVs, couches, etc. They hosted a big event for the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. I went and filmed a bit. Talked to Toph for the first time. It was weird, a little bit... but not too bad. Later that night, Dave M. and Sara B. had a double bubble chewing contest in my apartment. Heather had about four hundred year old double bubble (a massive tub of it). Dave and Sara have been stopping by all year because they love the gum, for some reason. So on Friday they had a competition to see who could chew the most gum. They finished the bucket... 70 pieces between the two of them. Crazy kids.
On Saturday, Heath, Sara, Heidi, and I went into downtown to check out the Olympic festivities. It was raining, and cold... and we went in without a plan. We could have been a lot more organized and covered a lot more ground, but it was still pretty sweet. Most of the roads were closed off and the crowds were insane. Just a few hours earlier there had been a protest at The Bay where people had thrown rocks and paint at their windows and the SWAT team had to come in. Later we saw it on the news and one of the "anarchists," as they called themselves, was really angry that the police had guns--as if this gave them every right to deface property. Um, hello?? They're police/SWAT! Of course they have guns!
After seeing that, we went to the art museum in Robson square because it was free. We tried to go to the aboriginal pavilion but we missed the matinee show, so then we went to the Russian pavilion in the science museum. It was pretty cool, although there wasn't much to do. We ran out of time to see the torch, so we walked to the free train, and then from there walked to Heather's siblings' apartment for dinner and otherwise good times. All in all we spent 15 hours downtown. Pretty crazy and tiring, but fun.
Jamie out.
Monday, February 8, 2010
oh canada
hokiedina, i have some cool stories for you.
as you probably know, the olympics are being held in vancouver this year. weeeell it has been quite great lately.
the russian figure skaters are practicing in abby, so heidi and i drove down the other day to see them. for free. no big deal. they let you in for twenty minutes at a time. well we were at the end of the line, so by the time we got in there weren't any seats left. i was content to stand at the back, but heidi talked to a volunteer and she ran off to find us seats. a few minutes later she came back and said that there were two seats left in the VIP section.
no big deal.
so we got to sit in the VIP section, directly behind the coaches, a couple rows from the ice, in the middle of a ton of russian spectators. and, to top it all off, the man sitting next to me spoke english pretty well, so he told us things that the coaches said and joked around with us a little bit. it was excellent.
we saw Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev, one of the ice dance couples. so they didn't do a lot of jumps, but they have some really cool lifts and excellent footwork. one of their numbers is really cute--very russian. i am torn between rooting for my country or the nice russians who let us watch them practice.
then today, i went to my practicum, a little bummed because the torch was being run through today and i couldn't go with heath and the robson boys to watch. but as soon as i got to work, my boss invited me to go see it with him and his wife. so we went out at about 9:30 and got a spot right by where one of the torch exchanges was. and thanks to miss tashayar, i had a disposable camera in my purse. excellent.
i'm so stoked on this olympic business. too bad we're having almost record high temperatures and they're having to ship in snow. hah. oh Canada...
Jamie out.
as you probably know, the olympics are being held in vancouver this year. weeeell it has been quite great lately.
the russian figure skaters are practicing in abby, so heidi and i drove down the other day to see them. for free. no big deal. they let you in for twenty minutes at a time. well we were at the end of the line, so by the time we got in there weren't any seats left. i was content to stand at the back, but heidi talked to a volunteer and she ran off to find us seats. a few minutes later she came back and said that there were two seats left in the VIP section.
no big deal.
so we got to sit in the VIP section, directly behind the coaches, a couple rows from the ice, in the middle of a ton of russian spectators. and, to top it all off, the man sitting next to me spoke english pretty well, so he told us things that the coaches said and joked around with us a little bit. it was excellent.
we saw Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev, one of the ice dance couples. so they didn't do a lot of jumps, but they have some really cool lifts and excellent footwork. one of their numbers is really cute--very russian. i am torn between rooting for my country or the nice russians who let us watch them practice.
then today, i went to my practicum, a little bummed because the torch was being run through today and i couldn't go with heath and the robson boys to watch. but as soon as i got to work, my boss invited me to go see it with him and his wife. so we went out at about 9:30 and got a spot right by where one of the torch exchanges was. and thanks to miss tashayar, i had a disposable camera in my purse. excellent.
i'm so stoked on this olympic business. too bad we're having almost record high temperatures and they're having to ship in snow. hah. oh Canada...
Jamie out.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Practica
Heyo,
I just got back from my practica so I thought I would write up a quick update for you all. It’s the end of my third week working for David V. and I have logged over sixty hours so far. I’m pretty pleased with what he’s been having me do. Right now we’re putting together a documentary for a program called Salts, which is out of Victoria. I spent a lot of time going through interview footage, just cutting it down and understanding the story. Now I’m cutting down the B-roll footage and will soon be cutting together my own section. We started with around fifty hours of footage and will need to cut it down to a forty minute film by next Friday.
Other than that, today I helped him polish off the final edits on a couple Kaltire Olympic commercials that will be airing soon. I have also helped him film an interview and met a member of the band Swollen Members–a co-writer for a show he and my supervisor are working on.
I’m so stoked about this internship. Today while we were waiting for the commercials to export numerous times, my boss and I talked about life, school, God, and the power of prayer. His big advice so far about this industry, beyond getting connections and being willing to work crazy hours for no pay just to learn and get to know important people, is to pray. I really appreciate him. He has a lot of knowledge and is still humble. He knows that he doesn’t know everything–there is always room to grow and to be a student. In this industry, you should always be in a student mindset.
Jamie out.
I just got back from my practica so I thought I would write up a quick update for you all. It’s the end of my third week working for David V. and I have logged over sixty hours so far. I’m pretty pleased with what he’s been having me do. Right now we’re putting together a documentary for a program called Salts, which is out of Victoria. I spent a lot of time going through interview footage, just cutting it down and understanding the story. Now I’m cutting down the B-roll footage and will soon be cutting together my own section. We started with around fifty hours of footage and will need to cut it down to a forty minute film by next Friday.
Other than that, today I helped him polish off the final edits on a couple Kaltire Olympic commercials that will be airing soon. I have also helped him film an interview and met a member of the band Swollen Members–a co-writer for a show he and my supervisor are working on.
I’m so stoked about this internship. Today while we were waiting for the commercials to export numerous times, my boss and I talked about life, school, God, and the power of prayer. His big advice so far about this industry, beyond getting connections and being willing to work crazy hours for no pay just to learn and get to know important people, is to pray. I really appreciate him. He has a lot of knowledge and is still humble. He knows that he doesn’t know everything–there is always room to grow and to be a student. In this industry, you should always be in a student mindset.
Jamie out.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
raindrops
I broke up with Toph yesterday.
That's all I have to say about that.
Tasha's laptop was stolen yesterday.
Pray please.
All of our films were on it.
We don't have any copies of the files.
That's all I have to say about that.
I do not know
Where does it go
When it goes
Suddenly though
Everything’s slow
Round each corner there’s a chance
People searching glance to glance
Moving bout real fast
Like insects and fish when they’re scared
And they sing the same old song
Though it’s been so very long
They sing, raindrops falling on my head
But that doesn’t mean that I am dead
-Regina Spektor, times two.
That's all I have to say about that.
Tasha's laptop was stolen yesterday.
Pray please.
All of our films were on it.
We don't have any copies of the files.
That's all I have to say about that.
I do not know
Where does it go
When it goes
Suddenly though
Everything’s slow
Round each corner there’s a chance
People searching glance to glance
Moving bout real fast
Like insects and fish when they’re scared
And they sing the same old song
Though it’s been so very long
They sing, raindrops falling on my head
But that doesn’t mean that I am dead
-Regina Spektor, times two.
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