Im sooooooo sick

I have come down with the worst cold, I have not been eating right plus I have a few extra days of last week, which means rest for most people, but I work straight midnights, so I try to switch over to spend time with my family, so I have a few restless nights, I finally get switched over and a cold hits, and I have to go back into work! So I have to stay up all night with a cold that is getting worse by the second! And I would do it all again if it means I get some extra time with my girls!

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Summers Almost Here!!!

How can I tell?  BEER COMMERCIALS!!!  oooohhhhhh yaaaaaa.  First one out of the gate is great, the instructions from the client "not warm, HOT, Sweaty, SEXY"  Heres a before and after pic for your viewing enjoyment!


I keep reading in all the industry rags how his year has been slow for commercials.  In the three years I have been working on them this is the busiest I have been, and the scary thing is we are now heading into our busy time, I may not be on live as much in the future. I feel I may be getting a little burnt out working 6 days a week, but then I think of MJ, Phreaks and others, juggling full time jobs, school and family.  Who am I to whine!

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Work or Play

Sooooo .... ;; Lots of peeps have asked me "what do you do, and why do you get to play video games while you do it" ;; So here is a example. ;; I studied Television Broadcasting in Collage and when I graduated I got a entery level job in a post production house here in Toronto. ;; From there I had a choice of what to learn, ;; Online Editing (not the creative kind of editing), compositing (painting out wires, light stands ect) or colour correction. ;; I picked colour correction, for a couple of reasons. 1. It was the more creative option, 2. There was more of a demand for it 3. It would pay more sooner. ;; So I have now been a colourist for over 13 years, and I love it as much today as I did when I started. ;; The company I work for is called Notch (notch.ca), we are a Telecine only post production house, and all we do is comercials! ;; So what does a colourist do? ;; We colour correct, or colour grade film and video. ;; Film / Video is shot and then we make it look the way our clients want. ;; Below are 2 images, one is a flat scan of a frame of film and the other is a finished scan of the same frame. ;; It is a bit like useing photo shop, only more power full and the images are moving.






The bonus of working for a small company that caters to a creative clientell is fun and relaxation is encouraged, we have 2 colour grading suites each with an xbox and a ps2, a screening room with a big screen HDTV that we hook the xbox up to all the time, a pool table, ping pong table and a fozbal table. ;; Each suite also has a kick ass stereo in it, a MAC and PC and a bar fridge. ;; I work unsupervised at night, so I get the run of the place. ;; If I am waiting for film to come from the lab, I fire up the xbox. ;; Once I colour grade a bunch of stuff, I play Halo while it records. ;; Most nights I can get in a little bit of gaming, some nights are way to busy for any, and others, like 2 nights ago, I was waiting for film until 4am, so I played for ;; about 5 hours.

Well thats it for now, if I work on any thing cool in the future I may post some pixs.

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Updated pix of my girls

Carson is 2 and a 1/4 and just had her first haircut today, and Milla (me-la) is now 7 weeks

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Its Been Awhile

Been busy as hell with the new baby, the 2 year old and being back at work (straight nights until someone dies). Milla is doing great, she weighs 9lb 14oz now, so she is eating like ... her dad she has a little baby acne which looks to be clearing up now (I call her my little zit, much to my wife’s dismay). Work never lets up, I am a colorist in the film business, I transfer film to video, and currently all I work on is commercials. Usually the first 4 months of the year are slow, but not this year. I cant wait to see what happens now as we head into what is usually our busy time. Well that’s enough from me for now; maybe I will post an updated pic of Milla soon.

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