August 23rd, 2008 by Scott
Well, Day 2 and Day 3 were a blur! Angie and I stayed with our friends Sandra and Rich in Palo Alto. The Bay Area has pretty good train system, so we took the CalTrain into San Francisco on Wednesday and Thursday.
We did the typical ‘tourist’ thing: seeing Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge, ride a cable car. We also visited the Pixel Corps main office. The Pixel Corps is a Visual Effects guild that I’ve been a member of for a few years.
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Finally, coffee and a bit of sunburn, we wait at the airport to go home.
August 20th, 2008 by Scott
Well, we got up around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning to get finish packing and head over to the Philadelphia Airport. Our plane left at 6 am for California. After landing in San Jose, we checked into our hotel and grabbed a bit of lunch/breakfast (timezone changes are always fun!).
Then we got ready for the gig and grabbed a ride over to the Google campus for a gig that lasted until 11 pm. What a beautiful campus. I snapped a few pics, some of Angie, some of the campus.
We’re heading out for breakfast this morning (Wednesday) so I’m only uploading two of the pictures, but more will follow.
UPDATE:
I’ve uploaded more pictures from Day 1. Also updated the Flickr Set of our trip.
Here are two shots from the flight out. Not sure which canyons these are. Perhaps a small portion of the Grand Canyon? Anyone know?
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August 17th, 2008 by Scott
I have just finished watching Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog…. again! If you are looking for an intelligent, funny, and evil musical, this is it!
Dr. Horrible is an evil superhero who is trying to get into the Evil League of Evils in this three part show. The main character (Neil Patrick Harris) is an evil superhero you are rooting for, despite his problems with Captain Hammer.
I predict that this is going to turn into a Rocky Horror cult classic. I’ve got it permanently living on my iPhone right now and I think it’s going to be there for awhile. Like I said, I’ve already watched it several times and it gets funnier each time.
Enjoy! Here’s the iTunes link:
Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog on iTunes.
August 15th, 2008 by Scott
I finished a video editing gig in Harrisburg then headed over to Lancaster to meet Angie and my mom (I grew up in Lancaster) for dinner before Angie’s gig at the baseball stadium.
After helping her setup her caricature equipment, I spent a little time relaxing taking photos at the park.
Since we got in before the stadium opened, I was able to get a few pictures of empty seats. The one picture of the empty seats I really like because the colors from the setting sun was just amazing.
Then as the stadium began to fill, there was that moment of scattered spectators getting ready for the game. That same setting sun is reflected in the window just moments before it dipped before the horizon.
August 15th, 2008 by Scott
A good friend (Pepka) and I drove down to Atlantic City to catch a show at the Trump Marina. While there, we swung down to The Pier at Caesar’s to enjoy the beach.
I’ve worked at Caesar’s many times doing magic, but this was nice just getting a chance to enjoy the sights and snap a few pictures.
Three seconds after I took this picture, that wave just about soaked my camera back and all my lenses! I saved the bag and lenses but my Sketchers, which I set down next to the bag, took the fall instead.
This was another 50mm lens shot. I just love that lens! Settings were f/4.8 at 1/3000 shutter and ISO 200. I also over exposed it ever so slightly and warm balanced to a bluish card to give it that super warm, summer beach feel. It reminds me a lot of an old film camera I used to have.
