The boys in my office are real nerds. I love sitting with a bunch of IT guys and data jockeys...it's like ear candy all day long. I listen to their little debates about Spiderman's webs (controlled scionically, or not?) and their discussions about implementing an office-wide Wacking Day and how, inevitably, everything comes back to Star Wars.
I love it! They just don't know how adorable they are! 2.0's D&D habit makes me want to pinch his little cheeks. ODG is a little more mainstream; he has this cool, California-style facade, but it's fun to watch him get excited about programming pranks and Storm Troopers. And then there's AIG, with his adorable (damn him) ratty jeans and sexy (damn him) Puerto Rican grin. After a lengthy discussion about whether or not Batman could kick the Predator's ass, AIG called us all into the IT training room, which is basically a bank of computers with a big giant projector up front. After filing in, he busts out with this in full screen on the projector:
HOLY AWESOME.
Okay, first of all, that guy who played the Joker? Not bad! It kinda got my heart racing for Heath Ledger's Joker, which promises the creepy element that this dude has plus incredible acting that apparently gave Michael Caine the willies. Not to mention, the production values are sort of mind-bogglingly good for something free on YouTube... Which got me thinking about shorts.
No, not shorts (although it is almost 70 degrees today and I have a master plan to go watch the sunset over the Hudson River after work)... SHORTS. Short films...and how much fun I used to have making them. And how easy it would be to get back into it.
It reminded me of a discussion I had with the Producer about how Podcasts and new media are the wave of the future. Although I tend to disagree with him about traditional corpo-funded production being a dead end, I very much agree that the Internet has much to offer me in terms of creative self-expression. In fact, I'd almost forgotten about this discussion - and really that was the thing that initially piqued my interest in him. Thinking outside the box is hot.
During the singleness epiphany and social-life explosion of the last couple of weeks, I haven't really had time to process that discussion and come around to it, but then on Sunday PDF's Boyfriend mentioned that someone was looking for a Director's Assistant and got that bug crawling up my leg again...and armed with a brand-spanking-new resume and Aunt J's very kind endorsement to basically everyone she knows, I am making a renewed effort to pursue production work. So it was very much on schedule that AIG brought to my attention this amazing little Batman video!
Okay, maybe not amazing - the Joker dialogue is pilfered directly from the comic books (which is kind of cool, but also kind of unimaginative), and totally does not relate to the whole Batman/Alien/Predator stuff. I guess you could say it's nerd porn: what little story that is there exists in tandem to the real action rather than in support of it. Whatever; it's still cool. And my nerd boys are cool for loving it.
I love it! They just don't know how adorable they are! 2.0's D&D habit makes me want to pinch his little cheeks. ODG is a little more mainstream; he has this cool, California-style facade, but it's fun to watch him get excited about programming pranks and Storm Troopers. And then there's AIG, with his adorable (damn him) ratty jeans and sexy (damn him) Puerto Rican grin. After a lengthy discussion about whether or not Batman could kick the Predator's ass, AIG called us all into the IT training room, which is basically a bank of computers with a big giant projector up front. After filing in, he busts out with this in full screen on the projector:
HOLY AWESOME.
Okay, first of all, that guy who played the Joker? Not bad! It kinda got my heart racing for Heath Ledger's Joker, which promises the creepy element that this dude has plus incredible acting that apparently gave Michael Caine the willies. Not to mention, the production values are sort of mind-bogglingly good for something free on YouTube... Which got me thinking about shorts.
No, not shorts (although it is almost 70 degrees today and I have a master plan to go watch the sunset over the Hudson River after work)... SHORTS. Short films...and how much fun I used to have making them. And how easy it would be to get back into it.
It reminded me of a discussion I had with the Producer about how Podcasts and new media are the wave of the future. Although I tend to disagree with him about traditional corpo-funded production being a dead end, I very much agree that the Internet has much to offer me in terms of creative self-expression. In fact, I'd almost forgotten about this discussion - and really that was the thing that initially piqued my interest in him. Thinking outside the box is hot.
During the singleness epiphany and social-life explosion of the last couple of weeks, I haven't really had time to process that discussion and come around to it, but then on Sunday PDF's Boyfriend mentioned that someone was looking for a Director's Assistant and got that bug crawling up my leg again...and armed with a brand-spanking-new resume and Aunt J's very kind endorsement to basically everyone she knows, I am making a renewed effort to pursue production work. So it was very much on schedule that AIG brought to my attention this amazing little Batman video!
Okay, maybe not amazing - the Joker dialogue is pilfered directly from the comic books (which is kind of cool, but also kind of unimaginative), and totally does not relate to the whole Batman/Alien/Predator stuff. I guess you could say it's nerd porn: what little story that is there exists in tandem to the real action rather than in support of it. Whatever; it's still cool. And my nerd boys are cool for loving it.
