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Friday / iPhone / IU / photo / podcast / television / video — Comments Off on A collection and an assemblage of bits of things
25
Sep 20

A collection and an assemblage of bits of things

Hey! Look! I’m on TV!

Nice selfie, huh? I went to the morning show’s shoot this morning, and then got called into a meeting right after taking this picture. By the time the meeting was over, the morning show taping had wrapped. These students are getting pretty proficient at all of this. Even the engineer, who works every day with professionals, complimented them about that. It’s a business that requires quality at speed, and they’re putting them together nicely.

I spent the afternoon in an audio booth, where I’m producing a tutorial. I did not demonstrate speed today, but I have some nice shots for the eventual package.

Got a nice shot of the Canada geese skipping town today, too.

Just go ahead and go. Quitters.

Sports! Here are some videos the sports gang produced last night. There’s footage of an intramural home run derby because, while we don’t yet have formal varsity sports, everyone is pulling together programs as best they can. It’s kind of charming in a way.

And here’s the talk show for the week, where you will get a history lesson, indeed:

Need some financial advice? Here’s a financial Quick Hit:

And that’s enough for today. To the weekend! Be safe, because you must. Be happy, because you can.

Friday / Twitter / video — Comments Off on We made it through Friday!
18
Sep 20

We made it through Friday!

It’ll get worse before it gets better.

It’s easier to do that if you think of all of this as a public relations crisis rather, you know, a global health crisis, one which we might just be failing at most miserably.

Here’s something more cheery, though. Hope this guy gets to play in front of his dad all season.

Funny shows are funny. IUSTV’s Not Too Late has a new look and a new host. Here’s the first episode. It grabbed me straight away. I’m curious to see where they go with it from here:

The NBA playoffs are a sport where people throw a ball through a horizontally oriented hoop for points and fame. Learn more on the sports talk show, The Toss Up.

And Big Ten football is now officially coming back. The anchor is a guy I had in a freshman class a few years back.

I convinced a handful of his classmates into trying IUSTV, and they’re all still there. It’s pretty great.

Friday / Twitter — Comments Off on Some Twitter things
11
Sep 20

Some Twitter things

Because what I can offer you won’t get better than this stuff right here …

More on Twitter, check me out on Instagram and more On Topic with IU podcasts as well.

Friday / IU / photo — Comments Off on Approved sidewalk painting
4
Sep 20

Approved sidewalk painting

Well, you presume it was approved. A good stencil lends an air of legitimacy and authority.

These two were on sidewalk slabs near one another, just outside our building on campus. I wonder how many different bits of sloganeering that the Office of Sidewalk Painting created. It’s a big campus.

The #LocaleStrong thing is a bit tired. We should have retired that one with Boston. Let them keep it, they did it well. Now it’s a Beantown thing, and we all need our own hashtags. I just counted the mentions on Twitter. There’s been 62 uses of that hashtag since the beginning of the term two weeks ago. Most of them from official accounts. A few of the individual usages have been tongue-in-cheek. One was showing off a picture of the stencil work.

Just down the way, on the same block, some of the other signs were destroyed, and thrown into the creek.

I guess they didn’t see the stenciled, approved, graffiti.

Friday / music / video — Comments Off on The preferred Alanis
28
Aug 20

The preferred Alanis

It’s been a day. It’s been a day in a week. It’s been a day in a week in a month. It’s been a day in a week in a month in a year.

And it was a GREAT day to see this. Just play it.

It is quiet in the house. I am sitting by a window downstairs and, watching this a third time I noticed there are four or five other people in the video. I was too busy the first two times watching this mother doing her job, providing a stay-at-home anthem while holding her beautiful child.

It’s so, so perfect.

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