| | Much has changed since I last seriously posted here, and I am just now exiting an all consuming whirlwind of activity.
Around the beginning of the year, I gratefully accepted an offer for a second job as an adjunct professor at California Lutheran University to teach 3D animation and 3D painting. Being a professor has been one of the most rewarding things I have done with my life. It's one thing to imbue the information, but to inspire the students get excited and express themselves.....that is the place! I love it, I have been getting great reviews, and the administration would like me to teach twice as many units in the fall semester. :]
The marketing job has been consuming as well. The NAB2007 conference just concluded last week. For the last month my job has been wrapped around preparations for this mammoth event. NAB is a conference that typically draws about 200,000 people and is held at the Las Vegas Convention Center (one of the largest in the world.) This usually means working 12 hour days for nearly a week and a half and staying up to party until anywhere between 11:30pm and 3:30am. It's hard, exhausting, and oftentimes fantastic.
One fun thing I did in Vegas was attend a VIP wine tasting event. I sampled $120+ dollar bottles of wine and enjoyed some very charming dialog with colleagues and contacts on the streets of New York.
I met the gents that did the Superbowl Doritos commercial and chatted with them quite sometime. Apparently they used our software to produce the doritos chips. Very nice guys - and I was surprised to find that they were each only about 21 years old.
Every time I visit Vegas I am in awe that the place even exists. Its monuments dwarf the ancient wonders. It is paradoxically fun and sad. There is much to do there but, something else is always mixed in - as if the dry air is lightly haunted by the lives destroyed.
Now I find myself at the other end of a time tunnel, just catching my breath and plotting my next move. In one sense everything is going unbelievablely well, but there is also something else. People are moving around - everything is changing so quickly. Life seems shorter somehow. More fleeting. Meanwhile, my life is tabula rasa - and there is an overwhelming sense that now, more than ever before, I must seize hold and carve the life I want to live and offer what I can to this swiftly tilting planet.
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| | Posted 4/23/2007 5:20 PM - 33 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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