// March 23rd, 2007 // 9 Comments » // Uncategorized
Work has been ramming me with major loads of projects, deadlines and assignments. I just recently got promoted to Assistant Marketing Manager and I’m scared shitless. I have so much more to learn now and prepare so when we hire more people, I’ll be telling them what to do. I’ve never done that before. I’m more scared of just failing more than anything but I know I’ll get through this. This is so trivial. Come on, I’ve been through much worse. Ok, done venting about work. Now school: I was mad thinking I can do 15 units and work full time. But you have to consider the facts before I registered for 15 units. a) I just recently got hired as a simple web and marketing developer and b) I needed three classes worth of prerequisites in order to take the correct classes 2nd term. How was I to know I was gonna get promoted? O_O Anyway, i love my classes. Two of my favorite classes have been very beneficial and fun for once.
- Communications 380: Web Design & Production
- I get a student web page and so far we’ve only covered the basics (which I already know) but no harm in a review of Dreamweaver, Photoshope and Image Ready. Here’s my student web page. (it’s lame but didn’t want to get to elaborate)
- we just finished the midterm so thus concludes the basics. We’re now walking into Flash and GoLive
- Communications 358: Graphic Communications
- This is a real cool class. We’re doing a lot in Illustrator and InDesign and the professor is this young, creative woman who’s actually been through a lot of fields of work so has something to teach us. We just finished with the basics and turned in our midterm project which was inspired by Jan Tshichold.
- And here is my midterm project.
- Communications 350: Principles of Advertising
- This is your basic lecture then quiz, lecture then quiz, lecture then quiz class. Very mundane and boring. I wish we can just get straight to Creative Strategy & Execution. BLAH!
- Communications 351: Writing for Advertising Industry
- The professor is nice. She’s kind and understanding. I like that she does not go over a lot of grammar requirements and writing structure because that’s not what the class is about. Yet, you get retard students who’ve taken writing 1 and 2 (because those are the prerequisites of the class) asking what’s the purpose of a thesis statement or how many paragraphs define an essay. Pfffffft! I hate that!
- We have team projects due for our final and my team sucks so far. No one responds to my emails. I assigned them all a role and sent the email to the professor. Heck if I care if they bitch at me. I gave them 1 week to respond. LOSERS D:
- Human Sciences & Communication 320: Intercultural Communication
- HUGE lecture hall class. Very interesting and very interactive.
- We got assigned to group and have a final presentation to prepare for. However, I like my group. We’re all very proactive and we communicate well.
I also bring some interesting videos. The first is from BBC3 and it’s about how the world ends in i think three different scenarios. It’s about 55 minutes long but worth it. It’s not cheezy as you would think other “end of the world” documentaries are this is filmed in a “real time” kind of way:
This will make you laugh. The poor bears, just give them the damn food you evil humans D:<
And this has got to be the most loaded fantasy film movie casted with so many great actors: Claire Danes, Charlie Cox, Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais, Jason Flemyng, Peter O’Toole, with Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro
Most of them you wouldn’t THINK of them to star in a fantasy film. The film is called STARDUST and it’s out this year in August. (more images here) I saw the trailer on some site on Monday and I can’t for the life of me find it. Once I do, I’ll share.
And one last thing. I love ancient mythology. Greek, Roman, Asian, Latin, Native American, Indian… you name it. That said I bring you:
“The Ancient Book of Myth and War” opens at
Gallery Nucleus (30 West Main St., Alhambra, CA) this Saturday, March 24, from 7-11pm. The show of paintings, illustrations and prints based on classic myths and legends features work by four exceptionally talented animation development artists currently working at Pixar:
Don Shank,
Scott Morse,
Lou Romano and
Nate Wragg.
With their already crazed animation dayjobs, I have no idea how they find the time to create so much amazing art, but if the show isn’t enough, the work is also being collected into an 80-page hardcover book. A limited number of copies will premiere at the show this Saturday and the book can currently be pre-ordered on Amazon. This Sunday afternoon, there’s also an (almost sold-out) four-hour workshop/painting demo with the quartet. Details for that event are available here.
I was so close in calling the fucking IT guy again because we were having problems with our FTP client and uploading the new pages for a website. But I did one more check on a different FTP program (dreamweaver) and it worked. I WIN AT LIFE! I’m so happy I didn’t have to call the fucktard. Trish, co-worker, whom I have grown increasingly fond of (we didn’t start out on good terms) worked very well together. I am pleased at the results and I just got an email from the boss lady who’s also very pleased because of the abuse of her caps lock tab and exclamation marks. LOL I had to rush like a freak after I finished the project. It was already 3:10 and I had to be in class by 4pm to take a test. I arrived without looking at the time for fear of how I late i was but to my surprise it was precisly 4:00pm as I stepped out of my car. Walked into my class and everyone was still waiting for the instructor to pass out the test! SAFE! Yeah, so I just finished the test. It was pretty easy… Intercultural Communications is very interesting kids. 
