There was a live comedy show tonight. The students at IUSTV streamed it as a three-camera shoot. I did not work on this, but I am glad they did. We are big proponents of working on live events, and I, personally, want them to do it a lot. It’s a wonderful experience, doing live shoots in the field. Also, this is quite entertaining.
I didn’t work on this event because I did enough other stuff today. My morning started with producing promotional videos for about two hours. We should get about 36 videos out of the effort, which brings to mind a project I’ve been working on more than three months now.
Well, transferring all of the files so a student can edit them should bring the project to a close for me. The project will continue on, and I’ll be glad to see it’s successful completion, knowing so many people have worried over it. I hope I didn’t worry them over it.
I also brought a poet into a studio today, so she could record … get this … some of her poetry.
At least I hope it was hers.
Then I did recruiting things. I got to tell Alex’s anecdote. I mentioned him here yesterday. A year ago, Tuesday, he was doing his tour as a high school senior. Wednesday he was anchoring for the award-winning IUSTV sports division. The point being that students get involved early, often and throughout their time here, no matter their areas of interest. It makes for a wonderful learning opportunity.
Which was how I ended my day, teaching students how to use our newest video/podcasting studio, Studio 11. (We now have seven studios, six of them in the building where I work, and three more podcast booths besides. They help make a great tour.)
But if you can’t tour this place, let’s take a tour of the sea.
We ran across a small school of tang. I think they’re tang. That’s what we’re going with here. Anyway, aren’t they lovely?
Sometimes the vase coral just appear seemingly out of nowhere. (You still look inside them.)
I always enjoy the little rocky outcroppings and coral growths in the middle of the sand.
Sometimes you have to look up, because sometimes there’s something swimming above you. Like this turtle!
Same turtle, equally cool photo, for different reasons.
I think this camera, which I bought before this trip, takes better video than photos, but sometimes, when the light is right, the pictures are brilliant.
More of our friends, the yellow tube sponge.
Look at all of these little fish floating around their neighborhood reef.
There’s a sergeant major, a black jack (Caranx lugubris), damselfish and more are in that photo. And more in this one.
And two more fish right here.
I love that pose.
