Well, it's been crazy the past few days. I will go through it chronologically.
On Saturday, I waited for Adrian's bus to get in from Chicago and edited the Mason Proper bowling footage, as you might have noticed from the previous entry. When he finally arrived, we worked a little and then went to see The Hard Lessons and My Dear Disco at the Blind Pig. The bulk of the people at the concert were there for My Dear Disco, which seems to have experienced a surge of interest and fans over the past few months. The concert was pretty good except for the fact that we were standing at the front, apparently in the area where the most enthusiastic fans like to do sort of a cross between grinding and moshing. This resulted in my spending most of the concert pushing back with all my weight against a group of 40-50 enraptured bleached-blonde pseudo-hipsters. That part was not very enjoyable.
On Sunday, Adrian and I spent most of the time working on the issue and we got to destroy the papier mache robot Danielle and Stu made for him. He left in the evening, but happily I had finally made some substantial progress on the issue.
On Monday, I continued working on the issue and a good number of people came in to proofread. In light of my recent successes with Movable Type on this blog, I started working on setting up Movable Type for the Garg website, along with a new domain name (www.gargmag.com). I've run into a few technical difficulties, but hopefully they'll get worked out soon.
On Tuesday, I finally got around to checking out the necessary video equipment for the video project that has to be finished by midnight tomorrow. I did some shooting around StuPub and Zack and I finally hashed out the finished form of the Mason Proper interview, the last major missing piece in the issue.
Today I headed to class only to discover that Terry Lawson had mysteriously cancelled class and proceeded to the office, where I spent the next three and a half hours laying out the Mason Proper article and polishing up the rest of the issue. I also did some research online and found out that the video camera I was using has a 4-pin Firewire port and my computer has a 9-pin Firewire port. I went to Film History, then a screening of Snow White, and then the first NYA meeting of the semester, and then Danielle picked me up to go grocery shopping and look for the elusive 9-pin to 4-pin Firewire cable. Our search was unsuccessful, as apparently the 9-pin Firewire port is part of a grand scheme to not allow me to connect my computer to anything.
Anyway, tomorrow, I have a complex master plan for getting all the things I need when I need 'em. We'll see how well it works out. Just another day or so, and things will probably be back to a reasonable pace. I hope.
On Saturday, I waited for Adrian's bus to get in from Chicago and edited the Mason Proper bowling footage, as you might have noticed from the previous entry. When he finally arrived, we worked a little and then went to see The Hard Lessons and My Dear Disco at the Blind Pig. The bulk of the people at the concert were there for My Dear Disco, which seems to have experienced a surge of interest and fans over the past few months. The concert was pretty good except for the fact that we were standing at the front, apparently in the area where the most enthusiastic fans like to do sort of a cross between grinding and moshing. This resulted in my spending most of the concert pushing back with all my weight against a group of 40-50 enraptured bleached-blonde pseudo-hipsters. That part was not very enjoyable.
On Sunday, Adrian and I spent most of the time working on the issue and we got to destroy the papier mache robot Danielle and Stu made for him. He left in the evening, but happily I had finally made some substantial progress on the issue.
On Monday, I continued working on the issue and a good number of people came in to proofread. In light of my recent successes with Movable Type on this blog, I started working on setting up Movable Type for the Garg website, along with a new domain name (www.gargmag.com). I've run into a few technical difficulties, but hopefully they'll get worked out soon.
On Tuesday, I finally got around to checking out the necessary video equipment for the video project that has to be finished by midnight tomorrow. I did some shooting around StuPub and Zack and I finally hashed out the finished form of the Mason Proper interview, the last major missing piece in the issue.
Today I headed to class only to discover that Terry Lawson had mysteriously cancelled class and proceeded to the office, where I spent the next three and a half hours laying out the Mason Proper article and polishing up the rest of the issue. I also did some research online and found out that the video camera I was using has a 4-pin Firewire port and my computer has a 9-pin Firewire port. I went to Film History, then a screening of Snow White, and then the first NYA meeting of the semester, and then Danielle picked me up to go grocery shopping and look for the elusive 9-pin to 4-pin Firewire cable. Our search was unsuccessful, as apparently the 9-pin Firewire port is part of a grand scheme to not allow me to connect my computer to anything.
Anyway, tomorrow, I have a complex master plan for getting all the things I need when I need 'em. We'll see how well it works out. Just another day or so, and things will probably be back to a reasonable pace. I hope.
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