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.

OK, so contrary to what you may think, I haven't died. I just take school a lot more seriously now that I ENJOY what I do. That being said, I've been so drained for time now that I had 900 messages sitting in my box when I logged on.

Current/Recent Projects:
Producing a 30-second commercial entitled "Pants Are Important": shoots on Thursday, edits next week

Produced/Edited a 5-minute mini-mocumentary entitled "Jacques Cousteau: The Reincarnation": finished 2 Friday's ago

Writing a 22-minute episode of Arrested Development for my writing class: finshed outline stage, moving to script

Developing a website (and new supplemental design) for my web design class that will eventually become its own section on thegumwrapper.com: due in two weeks

Shot and editing a news story from scratch and did the reporting and interviewing for it: due in two weeks


Shooting and editing the story of a bowling ball and the 3-5 minute journey that it will take: due in three weeks

Shooting and editing a music video for Felix Da Housecat - Ready 2 Wear that revolves around people from the 80s going out on a date: due in mid April

So yeah, I don't know when I'll have time to take photos. I might see if I can get some screens of my pieces, but they're more content-driven then aesthetically-pleasing. i'll try to post more often than once every three months from now on.

Holla back,
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So I'm writing a sample journal so people in my BUSA 1620 class can learn about DeviantArt. Taking a lot of screen shots of parts of the site is not necessarily fun, but it's teaching me how to use some of PowerPoint's more intricate features so I guess I'm happy. Expect new photos sometime tonight as I'll hopefully be updating for the tutorial.

Also, for about a week, I'll be updating a new user named . It'll get photos that I took for a composition assignment and will help in teaching others about DeviantArt. That's about it.

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So I've been making more time to do non-work related things of late and it producing good results.

The website's almost completely finished. Code seems stable on Jace's end, and I just have a few graphics to complete. Look for us to re-launch on July 23rd (the official 6 month anniversary of the site) and be sure to look at it and tell a friend.

I also went out and took some new night shots after a movie the other night and I might have about 3 that end up on here. There's a bunch of potential, but it going to depend on how well I clean it up.

Wen tout to a pub for the first time in a long time late last week and that was a lot of fun. Saw a bunch of people from high school that I hadn't seen in over a year and it was just nice to catch up.

I'm also getting more and more prepared for BCIT. I keep hearing that afriend of a friend is going there next year, so at the very least I'll have something to talk about with my friends (hah).

Jace still has no extra job so I guess I'm living at home until at least January. Argh. Or I'll make a new friend real fast at BCIT and move in somewhere soonish. That is of course if VISA/Scotiabank/BCIT ever re-releases the money that they double charged mr for.

Jace's bday is a couple weeks from now, and I don't care what he says, we're going to the new casion in Richmond and he's going to love it and win big and meet his own wonderful drunk-beating-up Timmy.

Think that's about it for today. So, yeah, I'm busy. And I still wanna go to Playland dammit.

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New workgroup. Yay. I love these things.

It's really sunny all week, but I'm gonna be stuck at work which I am not really looking forward to. I have Wednesday off, so hopefully I'll convince Jace to come to Playland with me. I need to try that new ride.

I *apparently* scratched another car with the Kia the other day, and I swear the guy pulled out while I was driving past him and basically forced me to scratch him, but I'm gonna end up paying anyway. $400! That's like, a months rent. Bah. And on a frickin' Mazda MVP van from like 1994. Cuz he needs to get the whole fricking door re-painted for a 2 foot scratch. It's a good thing I'm making money right now.

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