June 4-6 Tracey and I traveled up to Brantford for this year’s annual Walter Gretzky Street Hockey Tournament. As fans of filmmaker Kevin Smith, we made the trip and had an amazing time last year. Last year I took a bunch of pictures of the event and was invited to take more this year by Ming, the View Askew web guru and Hockey event organizer.
This year really was a step up. I was given access to take photos from the bench and from within the rink after the game. Having that close proximity to the players allowed me to get some great shots.
Spending the weekend down in Brantford also gave us the opportunity to meet a lot of the players on the other View Askew teams.
Aside from taking pics, I also designed an iPhone app for the tournament that featured all of the View Askew teams. I will do a post on the app in the next few days.
I just wanted to drop a huge thanks to Ming Chen he really is the MVP of the View Askew organization.
All of my pics from the tournament, can be found here:
Day 1: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eplatero/sets/72157624205809682/
Day 2: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eplatero/sets/72157624218270814/
Day 3: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eplatero/sets/72157624218380378/
Today, was a day from Hell…. Started off OK, but slowly went downhill.
This afternoon I had a video shoot that started off very well. There was a slight hiccup when we noticed that we forgot 1 half of our wireless lavalier mic across town, but somebody went and grabbed it with 2 minutes remaining before the main focus of the shoot that we were hired to do started.
After two hours of shooting, I looked at the second camera and noticed some green banding across the image…. basically meaning that the footage from the second camera was now unusable. Because of the time limitations of shooting DSLR, for corporate presentations, we run a two camera shoot and offset the start times so we can deliver a seemless video file covering the entire event.
After seeing this image, I was very distressed.
Notice the Green horizontal banding across the image?
So this means that we are going to have to send a camera off to Canon to get repaired, and I’m going to have to work some major magic in Final Cut Pro to deliver this video.
10 Minutes after this, I received a phone call that clouded my head even more.
After driving back to the office, I thought that it would be best if I took the cameras back with me and apply the new firmware update and see if I could resolve this green banding issue. When loading the camera case into the car, I put my iPad on top of my car. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I NEVER DO!!!
Driving home, I heard a rattling noise on my car, and looked out the rear view the and saw something black fall from my car. It took a few seconds but then I pieced it together….. IT WAS MY IPAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I stopped the car, turned around to pick it up, got out of the car just in time to watch a pickup truck run it over.
It was truly one of those “NOOOOOOOOOOO” moments. The thought actually crossed my mind about running out in front of the truck, but it all happened so fast. Hoping for the best… my heart sank as I picked it up, and turned it on to a white screen with coloured lines.
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I honestly think that the iPad did survive the actual fall from the car, the apple case i bought does provide some protection.
The back of the unit is very dented.
So, the perfect end to the day.
I really did enjoy having my iPad, even for 12 days. I guess lesson learned, NEVER put anything on top of your car!
I just made my 2010 Oscar Predictions! Make yours with the Official Oscar iPhone App.
Music (Original Score): Up, Michael Giacchino WON
Animated Feature Film: Up, Pete Docter WON
Costume Design: Nine, Colleen Atwood NO
Writing (Original Screenplay): The Hurt Locker, Written by Mark Boal WON
Actress in a Leading Role: Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side WON
Visual Effects: Avatar, Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones WON
Cinematography: Avatar, Mauro Fiore WON
Film Editing: The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis WON
Sound Mixing: Avatar, Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson NO
Art Direction: Avatar, Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair WON
Best Picture: Avatar, James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers NO
Actor in a Leading Role: Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart WON
Documentary (Feature): The Cove, Louie Psihoyos and Fisher Stevens WON
Sound Editing: The Hurt Locker, Paul N.J. Ottosson WON
Makeup: The Young Victoria, Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore NO
Actress in a Supporting Role: Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air NO
Actor in a Supporting Role: Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds WON
Foreign Language Film: The White Ribbon, Germany NO
Documentary (Short Subject): China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill NO
Music (Original Song): The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart), from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett WON
Writing (Adapted Screenplay): In the Loop, Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche NO
Directing: Avatar, James Cameron NO
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