Monthly Archive for November, 2009

…or really, a case of the yellow. Spent the last two days in the media center at a nearby school. I was in need of color correction tools beyond the scope of my own monitor, and found them herein. A few highlights:

• Learned how to target boot my mac so it can be used as an external drive– great for transferring files between computers if you’ve got a firewire.
• Fine tuned the edits in the Apostles’ Creed video I made for Lychgate Productions– it will be available sometime next week on our website. My friend Matt contributed enormously to this effort.
• On my third visit to the lab, my security was compromised as a new lab rat discovered I was not, in fact, a student. Nor was my informant a student. Oh snap. I quickly backpedaled, which might have included several small felonies, and managed to stay, right when the computer I had been using was snagged by some green necked undergrad. Rather than a carefully staged par de duex, I chose a separate computer. Enter woe. The ensuing hours included “deleting” my home folder (read as Wilson’s digital life), combining expletives in innovative ways, calling Apple support and nearly destroying the operator only to discover that my files were not, in fact deleted, but had somehow–mysteriously– been moved to another folder. Panic settled sabatoged  into suspicion. Personally, I suspect that the snotty nosed undergrad suspected my espionage into the media lab andmy computer.

After hours of fighting near disaster in generously wide variety of forms, I finished editing and…. lived happily ever after?