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5
Nov 21

Best way to end a fine Friday: lasagna

In the studio this morning with the morning show crew. They produce two shows there, normally. But the guest for the second show stood them up. So they shot promos.

This is audio and video taken from my phone. The studio quality shot will, of course, be better.

Also, things are moving so fast at IUSTV right now I’m not sure if it is the newest show any more. And it certainly won’t be in another few days. The sports gang is about to launch their second new show of the semester. They’ll be running four when the new project gets underway.

Anyway, Erik started doing a bit of physical comedy which, of course, was a big hit.

He’s tripping over the lower third, you see. Not sure how I managed to hold the phone almost-still while shooting the monitor there. I knew it was coming, and was already giggling.

And then this one, it’s avant garde, and perfect for a Friday morning.

Student media needs to be fun sometimes, that’s all. And I always want to make sure they have fun around all the very real work they do.

This afternoon the Media School put a classic on the big screen.

I don’t think I’d ever noticed how the first two things Norman Dale says in the movie are basically “Everyone here is rude.”

Here’s the last sports show the sports division shot Wednesday night. They’re new show should be released in the next few days — it’s another collaboration with the campus radio station, a good and productive habit they’ve been in for years.

I’m going to have to create a flow chart to monitor all of the releases. The student-run television station is now producing … nine weekly shows and a small handful of podcasts every week, and live hits from almost every home game the university’s 26 varsity sports play.

There’s a lot of great quality in there.

Saw this on the drive to the house. I made a detour to try to get a clear shot. It was a lovely evening for a hot air balloon ride. If you were wearing a light jacket.

We’re enjoying a nice few days of beautifully mild weather. It’s supposed to hold through the middle of next week, at least. May it ever be so.

I also made that this evening’s contribution to the running Indiana Sky Study series which you can find on Instagram.

And here’s part of the fall foliage festival. We’re in the peak moments now.

And it’s lovely to enjoy it on a calm, slow Friday evening.

The biggest problem is the shortening day. I need more evening daylight to soak up views like this.

And like this.

This tree is right at the entrance to our neighborhood, and the sun was at the perfect angle to make that shock of red really stand out at precisely the moment I drove through. By the time I’d parked and walked back up there, it was already a bit muted.

I’ll have to catch it again this weekend or sometime in the daytime next week. Because, of course, after we fall back an hour I won’t see a lot of daylight after work until … January or something.

So I better go outside in the mornings. But that’s a worry for next week. Until then, enjoy the weekend, and the weather, and the trees!

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29
Oct 21

A colorful post

I’m not sure if it was daylight, yet, when I got in the car this morning. Mornings can sometimes be hard to remember. It was definitely still dark when I woke up. The bedroom windows face to the south, and the eastern horizon is a bit high because of the tree line. And, it is, sadly, that season.

I recorded a podcast this afternoon. I’ll share it on Monday. And I had a fine series of emails. Also I played with cables, fulfilling my life’s ambition to untangle a mess left by someone else.

This was one of the views on the way back to the house to start the weekend. There was no sun, but there was light. Certainly looks like the spooky season:

In the backyard:

And I guess we are now in leaf season. Here are a few of our maple:

This is another tree in the yard. It may come down next year:

We took a walk and I found this growing at the edge of the woods:

And here’s our maple from above:

Finally, in case you are scoring at home, the look today was blue and brown, with pink and green accents:

Friday bold! It’s a good way to mark the end of a busy few weeks.

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22
Oct 21

A full and exciting day to wrap an incredibly full week

Studio this morning. Two shows were shot, one included an interview with a tarot card reader.

And another discussing student films.

And then I hosted this conversation.

We had a full room for the Emmy-award winning director and Murrow-award winning producer. We talked about skillsets, they told media war stories, discussed hard days, good days, and how to do all the things you want to do in those broadcast internships and first jobs. They were, of course, terrific. I wish you’d been there to hear it.

While that was going on technology was breaking in the TV studio. Good thing we have backup cameras! There was an event to shoot and stream tonight, celebrating five exceptional alumni. And that was to be streamed — on Zoom?

On Zoom.

Zoom?

Yep. Three branded platforms to choose from, and that important program highlighting prestigious graduates was put on Zoom.

So there’s no feed to show you, unfortunately. Perhaps the recorded version will be uploaded somewhere eventually. (I’m an optimist, and team long-tail.)

Anyway, it was about 7 p.m. before I left campus. An 11-hour day today, and five of the last six days have been late days for me. I’m … tired.

The daily duds: Pictures of clothes I put here to, hopefully, help avoid embarrassing scheme repeats.

But I looked good! Old Calvin Klein shirt and a cheap Apt. 9 tie (hey, it has some heft and a great texture). It was Friday, so a casual dark blue suit.

How about the mespoke pocket square though? I made that one this summer. It got a nice compliment by a random person passing by today.

I was also sporting mespoke cufflinks, which I made earlier this year.

Now I just need to make a way to take better pictures of the cufflinks.

And a nice long nap. I need to make a way to take a nice long nap. I feel like I’m due a weekend and, wouldn’t you know it, we have one of those coming up. I hope you do, too! And I hope it is great!

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15
Oct 21

Easing into the weekend … with an 11-hour day at the office

My morning started with a meeting. I used the Zoom option, because some people have trouble with masks. My day ended with another meeting. There was no Zoom option. I wish there had been a Zoom option. But not because of the masks.

My day should have ended with that meeting, but I ended up running into a prospective student and her father and talked about the school for a while. And I shot an instructional video and finally left the office at 7 p.m. On Friday. All of this was made possible because that Friday afternoon meeting ran until 6 p.m.

In between those meetings, though, I caught up on a week’s worth of emails and many of the small chores that fill up everyone’s work week. I also went to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles to get a temporary handicapped driver placard. The Yankee can’t drive for a few weeks, doctor’s orders, but parking on every college campus in America is a premium commodity, and she’ll be limited in her walking distances the next few weeks.

So I got the temporary tag. And I updated my car’s registration, as well. And this was the time of the day when the sun broke through the clouds. It was a wonderful moment to be outside doing things.

The other thing I did was to notice that the BMV office is close to Carson’s, the best barbecue in town, so I picked up a sandwich to take back to the office.

It isn’t Bob Sykes, but it will do get the job done in the moment.

I haven’t updated this space with any of the student television this week, so let’s get caught up.

The morning show introduced us to some service dogs and had some other great segments, as well.

The best part is when they’re trying to introduce the dogs, who are trying to be service animals, and one of them immediately hides under the chair. You couldn’t have coaxed that out of that pup any better. Never work with animals, they say. Whoever says that doesn’t appreciate the joy of the spontaneity.

Here is one of IUSTV’s new shows this semester. Bring in a student filmmaker, have them talk about a project they’ve produced. It’s pretty cool.

I say one of their new shows, because there are two new shows this term. Here’s the first episode of a new sports project, almost everyone on it is an underclassman. I’m excited to see where they take this as it grows.

Of course that isn’t enough sports for you, but not to worry. I’ve got more sports for you. Here’s the oldest sports show in our catalog. They produced this one Wednesday night, and it has all the highlights and the looks ahead you’ll need for the weekend of IU sports.

And tomorrow is homecoming around here. (Naturally they have scheduled a top 10 conference foe for homecoming.) The Toss Up has your deep dive ready, right here.

One of the entertainment crews was in the studio this evening, as well. And we should see that episode early next week. I’ll have it here in a timely fashion.

Until then, have a great weekend, and don’t forget we’ll have Catober updates on Saturday and Sunday.

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8
Oct 21

Check out this podcast!

First thing this morning it was into the studio. The morning crew had a program to shoot. An interview, stuff going on about time, a little feature on alumni, and so on. It’s a tight little show and it’ll be out on Monday.

They also produced the new show, Behind The Curtain. It features an interview with a short film director. The project they are highlighting in the new episode is a send off of 1960s and 1970s horror movies. That’s not my genre, but the interview made it sound interesting. So I’ll be watching that at some point next week.

But until then, you can check out …

Professor Laura Littlepage has been studying rural homelessness in our neighboring county. As in so many things, the circumstances and the stakes and the solutions are different in urban and rural contexts. So when I found this study I was immediately interested in learning more.

There’s a story in that conversation about a person living in a trailer that slide into a creek. Then the trailer had to be hauled out of the creek. There are stories about people living in tool sheds out back of someone else’s house. And there’s a story about someone living in an outbuilding without the owners’ knowledge. That’s no way to live. One of the big takeaways is that it’s hard to understand the true scale of the problem — that community leaders themselves struggle with that — and it’s difficult to do much about it until you do. It’s an interesting interview, if I do say so.

Which gets us caught up with everything for the day. I think I’ll have a seat and try to do as little as possible for a day or so, which means …

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