The doggie paddle days of summer
So as I step onto the diving board at the west end of our pool I dribble once and heave the basketball towards the hoop on the east end. I miss, I always do, but at least I hit the backboard. I take the two more steps to the end of the plank and jump (not dive) in. As I skink like a rock there are three things that go through my mind.
1. Why didn’t I take a bigger breath before I jumped in?
2. Why am I 23 years old and still unable to efficiently move in water?
3. How could my resume be better?
1 and 2 are easy, because I’m a poor swimmer, and because I’m a poor swimmer.
3 is where it gets tricky. My resume doesn’t suck, it just wouldn’t get the me the sort of job I want. Like I talked about a few weeks ago, I have learned a lot this last year in Arizona but my work still resembles the videos I made in high school and that honestly keeps me up some nights.
I was browsing SA the other day and came across a thread of people’s 3D renders, I was blown away. There are a lot of goons, and many of them are pretty talented but I would have never guessed that work of that caliber was common for the 18-35 nerd crowd.
Lately when I see work that is better than mine I am usually jealous of the production value, the shot composition and the lighting. The areas that for a long time I felt I had nailed down. I am so much more creative than I once was, but somehow I just can’t keep up with the basics of production.
I’ve got a pretty big decision coming up, I’m pretty sure I know what I am going to do but I’m not yet 100%. The bachelor’s program at Collins is diving up between Film/HD production and Visual FX. The FX degree looks awesome and I would love to know more about 3D animation and compositing, but I really not very good at all that and don’t think that I could catch up in 2 years. So I’m pretty sure I am going to stick with Film/HD production, I still want to shoot actual film for once, and I need the time to work on my lighting and composition skills.
Jeannie did this the other day and I figured i’d give it a shot. These are some track’s from albums I’ve been listening too. It’s a bit random but they all have similarities.
Bright Eyes – I Must Belong Somewhere
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – Let The Cool Goddess Rust Away
The Bravery – Believe
M. Ward – Chinese Translation
Peter Bjorn and John – Paris 2004
Stars – Midnight Coward
I’m going back in the pool
David Hildreth
P.S. I took some pictures of my new place the other day, I’ll take a few of my room and then upload em.
Posted: August 13th, 2007
at 12:19pm by David Hildreth
Tagged with margo, music, projects, resume
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I’ll be continuing to pray that you follow your heart and do what God is directing you to do. Sounds like the pool must have gotten cleaned! Quite by mistake I played the first music selection and in the middle of it I decided to play the second one. Somehow both of them were playing at the same time! So I opened ALL of them! Very interesting sound! Looking forward to the PICs.
Dad
14 Aug 07 at 08:52