So, yeah. I kind of left DeviantArt for a LONG time. It's been over 2 years since my last journal post, so I'm gonna try to condense things.

When last we left off I was nearing the end of my first year at BCIT. I was busy with school related things, but hadn't had much hands on practice with anything TV-y.

My first year ended with me completing these things:
-producing our 5 minute mockumentary on Jacques Cousteau
-producing a commercial about a guy with no pants
-editing and lighting a commercial about beer that we shot like an infomercial
-producing, shooting and editing my music video for Ready 2 Wear
-assistant directing for our half hour news program BCIT Magazine
-writing a couple scripts
-shooting and editing a few stories
-winning the Rogers Scholarship for doing well in things (I guess)

In the summer I interned and then worked for a TV show called Make Some Noise (which aired on the CBC) about 15-25 year olds who are making a difference in the global world. I learned a hell of a lot there and made some awesome contacts.

When I went back for my second and final year in the fall, I did these things:
-produced a 30 minute dramedy, Quarter Life Crisis, about a guy who doesn't know where his life is going and everything around him begins to fall apart
-produced a 30 minute drama, Ether, told from the point of view of a handgun as it gets passed around from person to person
-produced a 20 minute live-to-tape program, Spotlight on the Soaps, which was a mock soap opera review show, complete with live reenactments of actual soap opera scenes
-produced, assistant directed and covered many other positions for many episodes of our tri-weekly half hour in house news show BCIT Magazine
- shot and edited many stories for BCIT Magazine
- continued interning at Make Some Noise
- wrote spec scripts for a documentary about "The Price is Right" and a drama entitled "Vice Grip" about people with horrible moral vices
- won Best Drama and Best Video from the Broadcast Educators Association of Canada for Ether

Then school ended, and I thought I'd get a bit of a break, but that didn't quite happen. I got an offer before school ended to Script Assist for a show the Production Coordinator from Make Some Noise was working on. So I worked as Script Assistant on Making It Big for episodes 3 through 13. It was an awesome show, my first time on a real set and I loved all the people on it. Big shout out to Andrew Anthony (our host) who deserves to take a nice big vacation with all the work he does.

Before that wrapped up, I worked semi-full time at the same production (Force Four) company doing research for a CBC documentary and an HGTV show, some production coordinating for a public awareness video about visually impaired persons, assistant edited a teaching video for a new teaching method and several other things.

From there, I went on to work for about 5 months at The Shopping Bags as their Field/Office Production Assistant. I learned a lot about different products, met a lot of great people and never had to worry about having the same day twice. I also spent a LOT of time in my car driving around Vancouver trying to find places and things to make the show work. I also got to work with Brian and Mark (Vancouver's best camera and sound team) a whole lot, and if it hadn't have been for them the job probably would have driven me crazy.

I was then poached away by a producer friend from Making It Big to work on the CBC's 6 o'clock news program Canada Now. I was researched/associate producer for the Current Affairs department and it was something I had never really done before, but I had a lot of fun doing it. I got to craft, shoot and edit a few stories and helped out a lot with a lot of other ones. I was essentially a journalist, which I hadn't seen myself doing before, but it taught me a lot.

I then moved on to production coordinating a CBC documentary about the shortage of family doctors in Canada, but about a month into it, it was turning out to be more of a research job and less of a production coordinating job and I wasn't fast enough with the research so I was let go. Which I'm now fine with, because I don't like research that much anyway.

Which is where I am today. I have an interview for another on-set job as an associate producer tomorrow, and I think I have a good shot at it. Anything to get me out of a desk chair. I need to be out on set again.

In addition to the work, I've also started partying a lot since school ended. I have a fairly steady group of friends who I go out an drink with on Cheap Ass Mondays, Inappropraite Tuesdays, Awkward Wednesdays, Celebration Thursdays and all those days on the weekend that don't get specific monikers but do get a lot more drinks. We party, we have fun, we take non-dA appropriate pictures of each other and then we stumble home and try and do it again real soon. We also post stuff too often on MySpace and FaceBook, which is sad, I know, but whatever.

I still watch too much TV (thanks TiVo), but I think it's generally less than I used to. I still love TV, and I'm glad I figured out how to work in an industry I love. I'm gonna try and get back into photography as a means of NOT just taking drunken pictures of my friends, because I still do love it, but I haven't had the time for it. I almost lost my lovely DiMAGE F100 about a month ago, and ever since I got it back, I've remembered how much I loved it back at UBC when I used to take tons of pictures of nothing all day long.

So that's my life now. Maybe I'll go back to regular posting and try to reconnect with old dA friends, and maybe I won't. We'll see. Keep on being awesome though dA, because I still ove you, even if I don't visit as often as I should.