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IU / Tuesday / video — Comments Off on Live to tape
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Jan 17

Live to tape

The unfortunate part about showing off the finished product of a television project is that you can’t really point out all of the other people who are hard at work on these projects. Take these two shows the IUS-TV set produced tonight:

There’s about 10 other people working on the show as it is being created, plus another small handful who have already had their fingerprints on it somewhere or another. And there will be another dozen or so on tomorrow’s sports show, a handful on the morning show that gets produced Friday and then a whole new group doing news on the next program after that. Pitches, production, live reads, graphics, audio and so on. I get to watch all that happen.

Not bad for a bunch of volunteers who have to put up with me.

Friday / IU / photo / video — Comments Off on The last line in the song is “Ice to your blood, friends!”
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Jan 17

The last line in the song is “Ice to your blood, friends!”

We started a morning show today. Well, Lydia and Gabrielle did:

That opening is pretty great:

Fun fact, I used to do a morning show that used “Morning Mood,” which is a part of Opus 23 of Peer Gynt. And now there’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King.”

I wonder if they know the meaning of the song.

This was their first episode, so it’ll be interesting to see where they go with it. That’s always the challenge, grow something new. Three of the four other shows they are producing right now have been around before we all got here. Last term we launched The Toss Up, a sports talk show, out of thin air. And soon we’ll have a night show to go along with this morning show.

It is cool to see students producing work, creating new things. But to watch them start a new program from scratch, that’s particularly gratifying.

Today passed quickly. I spent no time in front of a computer today. There was a meeting and then that show and then another appointment and then a critique session and some other batch of errands and that was a full day. I sat in a parking lot and started reading the day’s news at the end of the day. That took almost all night. And, now, here we are.

IU / photo / Thursday / video — Comments Off on Eatin’ with Ernie
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Jan 17

Eatin’ with Ernie

There’s a place about three blocks from our building on campus that serves reasonably passable cajun food. Also, they have sweet tea. And it is quiet. And you can sit at a table with Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin. Or you can dine while looking out on …

Which goes nicely with my old line about dining with whomever you are reading, or reading about. So, today, I had lunch with Ernie Pyle in Paris.

Which, hey, the wind chills in both places were the same today. But I bet Parisians didn’t get flurried on during their walks back to the office after lunch.

Ernie walked on these paths as a student almost 100 years ago now. I wonder what he’d think of what he could see here today.

Sports show the students shot tonight:

IU / photo / Tuesday / video — Comments Off on Camera three? Camera two!
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Jan 17

Camera three? Camera two!

I watched two shows get produced this evening. First was What’s Up Weekly:

Sierra and Sheila are going to take you through all the important and cool events going on around town. And there might be some fashion and celebrity gossip thrown in there, as well. They have a lot of fun on that show.

And here is the group getting ready for Hoosier News Source:

Tonight Sophia and Mackenzie are on the desk, and you see Lauren and Meredith who are doing a bit of floor directing and last-minute wrangling before the cameras started to roll. It was a decent-sized show:

This is the best story of the day. What the tweet doesn’t tell you: this was from 1,800 meters away. Her Majesty’s best man did this from more than a mile away:

The story says the bad guys were about to start shooting at a group of women and children.

Best headline of the day: The Girl Behind The Sparkle-Shooting Prosthetic Arm Is Just Getting Started:

The last 10 months have been a whirlwind for Jordan, who was born with a left arm that stops just above the elbow. After Fast Company first wrote about Jordan’s sparkle-shooting arm last March, she’s presented it at events all around the country, including a trip to Disney World, where she won the Dream Big, Princess award. Autodesk and Dremel gave her a 3D printer to use at home, and Awesome Without Borders chipped in $1,000 for filament.

“It’s just crazy,” Jordan says of everything that’s happened over the last year. “Good crazy. There’s no such thing as a bad crazy.”

And, finally, The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece.

IU / photo / Thursday / video — Comments Off on Remember, or forget, either way its fine
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Jan 17

Remember, or forget, either way its fine

Sometimes you park in the lot across the street from the building. Sometimes you park in the lot one block over from that. Depending on the time of day, you might have to park one block away from the building, in a narrow little, older looking parking deck.

That’s where I parked today. And in that deck they have painted numbers on the doors so you know where you parked. And that stencil artist decided to be extra helpful …

But then someone came along and said “No, no, no. We can’t have that.”

And you wonder why.

Thursdays are long days. I stayed on campus until almost 9 p.m. tonight. I was watching a few shows being recorded. Here’s a sports show the IUS crew taped tonight:

First show back this semester. So now all of the rust should be knocked off and it’ll be onward and upward from here. There was also a talk show tonight, but it won’t be released until the weekend.

I should have shared these yesterday, but I forgot. So here is the news show, Hoosier News Source:

And What’s Up Weekly:

And that’s plenty for now. Except for whatever I don’t remember.

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