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IU / photo / television / video / Wednesday — Comments Off on Anyone want to go bowling?
13
Sep 17

Anyone want to go bowling?

I visited the surplus store this evening. The surplus store is where all of the furniture and old equipment and supplies from the nine Indiana University campuses come to find a new life. If you need binders or filing cabinets or random chairs or old classroom desks or Adidas gear you’ll come away happy every time. It is worth a periodic visit for other things, too, under the You Never Know principle.

Lately, though, most of the stuff I’ve seen worth admiring has been in some mysterious “Not for sale” section behind staff only rope lines.

Tonight, though, I found these:

They must have been on display in some larger athletic department area. The images are pixellated up close, but you’d be impressed by all of the old logos from middle-of-the-road bowl games of postseasons past.

A television show the students produced last night:

And here’s another one:

And there will be two more tomorrow night.

IU / photo / Tuesday — Comments Off on This is one of my favorite autumn jokes
12
Sep 17

This is one of my favorite autumn jokes

You find the first maple tree you can, because it is always maples, owing to their physiology, and you wait until the first leaf goes. Then you point that out:

And you say “Maple leaves are quitters!”

You can tell a lot about a person by the sorts of jokes they like. The people that like that joke, the people that get that joke, are worthy of more such cynical, nerdy humor.

Anyway, I saw that leaf today. I had to deliver a lecture on recording sound — photographs yesterday, sound today, television tonight, video tomorrow, that multimedia experience is paying off this week! — gathering and editing. On the way back to my own building afterward was when I found that leaf, the first real sign of autumn, the first real quitter of the season.

And thus begins the long sigh into winter.

IU / Monday / photo / Twitter — Comments Off on I do the photographic Don’ts – sometimes on purpose
11
Sep 17

I do the photographic Don’ts – sometimes on purpose

I delivered a lecture on photojournalism composition to a graduate class today. So we talked about the rule of thirds and margins and the golden ratio and visual storytelling and all of that.

My favorite section — after Step 1.) Removing the lens cap — is the Don’ts section. Don’t do grip and grin shots. Don’t shoot buildings. Don’t put people right up against a wall. Don’t let mergers creep into your shots. Don’t do the Facebook photo poses. You know, the let’s all get together and squat down, or throw fists on hips or, my favorite, just stand in front of a thing. It’s good for Facebook, not so much for the work you’re trying to do here. I show the students, who are always paying close and careful attention, several examples. I used this one of my mother-in-law for the Facebook photo:

Also, I need a haircut.

Yesterday’s sports talk show from the sports talk guys:

From the Department of You Gotta Love People:

cycling / Friday / IU / photo / video — Comments Off on Let’s get into this weekend!
8
Sep 17

Let’s get into this weekend!

This morning’s ride powered by four hours of sleep and nineties tunes. It was air-cooled by 53° temps and accompanied by this guy:

And this morning we were in the studio shooting a morning show. Well, the students were in the studio. I sat in the back of the control room watching them through a monitor:

And here’s a show from last night, when we were so much younger:

And possibly more awake.

IU / photo / television / Thursday — Comments Off on We should all be like microchips
7
Sep 17

We should all be like microchips

This is that picture-of-a-picture thing, a bit hastily done:

Last week we had a little event in the building where they officially named the studio’s control room after an old IU graduate. He went out into television, had a good start to his career, did graduate school, went back into the news business. And then he’d ultimately go on to help build a few of the stations you might see on cable today. Ed Spray became a successful television executive, a president of Scripps and remains a nice and unassuming gentleman. So he and his family and a few friends were on campus for the event.

Someone accidentally left behind a few photographs. And the pictures made it into an envelope which made it to my hands today on the way back to the rightful owner. And I wanted to share a quick glimpse of the old gear.

This is what the new stuff looks like, a fraction of the weight, a lot more ability.

Wouldn’t it be great if people worked like technology does in that respect? Knowing more, weighing less?

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