LATOCers in my head

[dermot]

A compound thereof...

Lots on my plate right now - I've got to wrap my head around two high-end animation programs, so some reading
and gnashing of teeth - as well as continuing to work on my own project...

And the recent job stint in LA was a bit wearying to boot.

[wiccawench]

 

[zenobia]

Yes, Dermot, but was it the job in LA or the woman...

[731]

Dermot's latest job stint in LA was a veritable safari of ass.

[dermot]

Dermot's latest job stint in LA was a veritable safari of ass.

Very much so...

In 20 years it was the first time I'd seen the heads of two studios either in tears or on the brink
of a breakdown.

The job was a shitty animated intro animation for a Florida Roller Coaster, all done in a fake gang style,
with the lamest dialog you can imagine:

    "Hey Dude, we're really stoked to take you on this ride! It's gonna rock, man..."   

Pass the vomit bucket, s'il vous plait.

The pay was crap. By the time it was over, I averaged $400 a week. OK, my time averaged 20
hours a week, but that's still shit by industry standards, especially as I was practically co-directing
the animation.

The client was an autistic control freak with no artistic sensibility. Towards the end of the gig we
were told that his policy towards his employees was "Push, push and push them, until they say NO."
Yet another douchebag who's play-acting at being Walt Disney - forgetting the little fact that Walt got
results by pushing people - but only because he was a genius who KNEW WHAT THE FUCK HE WAS
DOING.

The best case scenario would be for Mister Push's stupid ride to collapse, with him in it, leaving him a
quadriplegic-wrongcock for the rest of his miserable life.

[StrangeFire]

LOL Dermot, what a way with words you have...

[wiccawench]

wow it was that fun!?

[kathleen]

Okay, someone mentioned this thread the other day and I just discovered it. How fun to see how incredibly wrong the pictures in my head were! Fair's fair
I'll post mine.

[wiccawench]

  WELL i knew you would  have red in your haiir! Nice to see your face!

[byelka]

That is actually what I thought you would look like, Realtor. Nice to see you.

Dermot, I'm not giving you the fast-eye here or anything because I am a happily married woman, but I think for a lot of women you could have a face like a horseshoe crab as long as you had that wonderful Irish brogue. That combined with your artistic sensibilities and sense of humor...sigh. But I really am not giving you the fast-eye.

When I was 12 I used to live with my dad, who lived on a sailboat. We would sail all around everywhere and I learned all the constellations. I always loved cassiopeia and sirius the best. And how at night it looked like someone had inverted a tea-cup of glitter over you, the sky was so black and sparkly from horizon to horizon. That was around the time that Southern Cross came out and that song reminds me so much of him and those days.

[Six Gun Jim]

Nice description byelka, I have always wanted to sail and that makes me want to do it even more. 

[graveday]

Nice to see you Erratic R.

6gun, I am trying to remember who was talking about their trip around the Med on a sailboat.  She had been on an organic farm in Maritime Canada before that, and hadn't posted in while. 
I had given up on sailing until I got an offer out of the blue to sail on an Islander 36.  Turned out the guy doesn't really like to helm the boat, but prefers handling the lines and puttering.  So I had the wheel all day and it was like riding a bike.  San Francisco bay, gorgeous day.

[wordnerd]

Wow - old times - I had forgotten all these were here
Thanks Kathleen for bringing it back to mind - and to life!

[wiccawench]

 

How fun to see how incredibly wrong the pictures in my head were!

you must say more.....?


was that Capella graveday?

[graveday]

YES.  Thank you Redreamer.  I had just found her name in gardening.  The compelling Capella, astronomically and latocly.