Great Googly Moogly

The weekend is over. I got an email from my roommate/landlord who is in antarctica. he sent pictures of penguins. They are so awesome. I will try to put it in this or the next post.
Work was work, I didn't shoot much this weekend. Today we did a story on a faith based group called Jubillee. It was a good story. The group raises awareness on impoverished nations and how the IMF and world bank should cancel debts. They call it the silent killer. Very enlighting. The group held a rally and cook out. they celebrated hondouras culture and then discussed how they can be a help to solve the problems of south america. I really think thats a good idea.
Nothing in the court log. Snowball violations at Harley Davidson. Cops had to go there, because kids were throwing snoballs in the street. Very good. Only small stuff left. We shot a MOS on Iraq elections. Totally a missoula story. Bad versus good. we shot it at liquid planet. SO i guess it was well informed. I think the elections are great, the war not so great.
I had a good weekend.
Now I am watching POMPEII.. the last day. its very cool. Better than anthropology.

well have a good week everyone.

Penguins from Antarctica. SO great. 

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So today I had to hike another ski hill. Great. Now I am hurtin' I went to a ski aerial championship. VERY COOL. These kids are amazing. So of the jumps were huge. I cut a really cool looking VO/SOT for the 5:30. It was supposed to be a package, but time crunch. Now I am trying to get some homework done. I don't know how well I am doing. I am working on getting information on sony for ad comp. I think samsung is more important. They have been working fast to shoot to the top of the digital food chain. SO thats my project. I don't have any german homework. I got it done, wow. Tommorow I have to go and find some more info for our sweeps stories. those are top seceret still. But stay tuned to KPAX in feb, you will see some really great stuff. This blog thing is cool, i really get a kick out of the whole thing. Now i need to get back to researching re occuring themes in teen search patterns in blogging... any one have any ideas in teen behaviors, or insights.

well comment. let me know
andy

First week almost over

The Schoo week is coming to an end. It has been the busiest of all first weeks in my school carreer. Now i have to really start planning ahead. Ad Comp, i am pushing my way in the door, i really want to stand out and take a leading role, i know i have the skills, now we all need to work together, get a team punched out and roll forward full steam. RTV, i need to get the fire started in myself to get better at directing and improve my shooting. I can use KPAX as a good starting point for future jobs. I need to get orlando locked down. Vegas.. Really need to lock that down. Wait, and then theres maybe boise/nashville for the ad comp class. conflicting with both. Priorities. Well thats this weekends mission.
German first.. of course
I am short on time tonight. Got work to do.

Lake "WannaHock-A-Lugie"

Outside in my driveway there is a lake. which megs titled "lake wanna hock a lugie" I had been giving it various names throughout the melting season. I spent about 30 minutes today scooping ice chunks out of it so they would stop nailing my cars under belly ever time I would drive up. Each time steam would rise from under my hood, and it smelled funny. I don't think the lumina liked it all that much.
School was school. My anthro class was interesting. Did you know that becuase we humans have fingernails we are primates, and rotator cups we are also part great ape. Random. I got thru my German tonight with less pain then normal. I think it might work some times... Tommorow night is the first "social" for our Ad Comp team. Bowling at westside. Should be a good time. Right now I am trying to endode a quicktime for the fluency project cd rom.... I think I have it this time. after about 20 trys. It is such bad image quality, it has to be compressed soo far and with out a really good codec, so other people can play it. I don't know much about cd making, but i hope it works.
In other news.
Law enforcement in the area is really taking a PR beating. The sheriff here who is on trial for rape and assault. Kalispell, a deputy shot and killed a man in marion, out of self defense it looks like, but the full report isn't out yet. I couldn't do it. I respect the officers, but they really need to be held to a higher standard.
I have to gather ideas for Business: Made in Montana for RTV 351. The juniors traditionaly produce a 30 min show for MTPBS on business's in the state useing only Nat sound and interviews, no narration. I am looking for a few good ideas. If you have a suggestion, email or comment. I changed the settings so you don't have to become a member to comment. I would love to hear from any one who views the site. I am working on a guest book, but I need time on my HTML, and school is more important then the BLOG... oh man. I am geek.
I got the encode to work and it looks great, so its burn time ... Sweet I am done with the Fluency video. Pay day - new duds and cell phone.

Great. Night time
Ctrl+S and I am out.
A N D R E W

Where has all the snow gone.

Day two of my semester. The classes have been assessed, I really think this semester will be a nice change of pace from the frantic rave the last few have been. Meghan on the other hand will have a hell of a time...300 level courses are a b****h. But I know she will do well. In RTV 351 we all got together, the production side and the broadcast side, for our first foray in to the world of College tv. It was eventful. I was first in directing... Atkins.. I heard the train bells way before I faded up from black. I started rough, but I got through it. It couldn't be too bad, I guess, it was only a minute show. I was very surprised at the rest of my class, they all did great. I tanked, and to think I thought I was the best, because of more experience... Well I can't be the best at everything. Ha.
German was rough... I hate getting called on, but I can feel it when I am about to be. Its like some weird look, then "Andy, your turn" Damn.... Ummmmm. Geshenkt...um ich don't know. Yeah, I really have to get better at that. Basic Fitness, better known as P.E. was cake, came in, signed in, wrote our goals on a sheet of scratch paper and left. I caught up with Lauren before I got out of the FRC, we had breakfast(Fruhstuck) together. it was cool. Now we have had 4 classes together over all... weird how that turns out, some people you see every semester, some never again. We talked about the soccer team and maybe starting a softball team. It was my moms birthday. Happy birthday to her, also it was the open house for the new hospital in WSS, its soo awesome they compeleted the entire thing. www.mvmc.org is the web site, its really nice. Another of my dads master pieces. My mom and her staff have worked their asses off for the new place, boy has it paid off. Its soo much better then when I used to buff the floors, and so much more floor for nick, who has taken up the mop there. First me, then Nick, as floor master(or slave) at Mvmc. Its funny, I remember when I went with my mom and the BPA crew to get surveys for the grant for the remodel. what an event that was... but hey who knew... my mom.
Well I have spent too much time here, that should be in german land.

Guten nacht.
a2

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Okay I guess this is number 2
My history. short:
College is where I am now. I have been all over.
I grew up in Missoula, its seems like yesterday I was ten playing in the sprinkler and making mud pies. I have many good memories of my childhood. My parents are the most vivid. They have supported me since my treehouse days. Even before that, I knew I could do anything I wanted, and they back me up. Now i am in TV, which I am finding to be in my blood. After 7th grade things good weird, but stronger. I went to camp like I have always, then my dad came an got me and my little brother nick, and says mom is in Whitefish. To our suprise we end up in whitefish shortly after. The following year and half is a smear, my parents are hood winked into buy a failing investment of a health food store, my first real encounters with social class and divsion of econimic inequalities, a dad too far away and snobby violins but pretty music, new friends which now are lost, mostly... but good things came out of whitefish. My friend Kelly Knight, whose beaming beauty got me involved in 4-h, which would later hold me together through the toughest part in my 21 years. Kelly is gourgeous and my smitten for her, kept me coming to 4-H meetings, through the remainder of eighth grade and into freshman year. But before anything there, the store fell through the thin ice of cooked books, and my mom made pbj's and Nick and I started packing. Headed for the country, the flat or so it seemed. WHITESULPHURSPRINGS. We all came together to race the bank for the east side of the divide and to the family vacation(ha) spot, our run down humble hut on the hill. Thats where i had to reverse everything from whitefish to be climatized to the small town atmosphere. My first day was the day before Hallowseve, and then the story gets good. That first halloween. I see what to me is the a prettygirl. Christy... eye lock. a quick relationship. Soon I meet Sadie, and Nicki, they get me back in to 4-H and a project called VID-Kids. A 4-H run tv station. This is my start in TV. I move quickly to get to know all the people and equipment. i move up to contract and Now I am one of the elite. I am the video nerd in a high school of 78. Now highschool is well on its way. Sophomore Year - Rebecca, the girl from Germany, my first true love, it hurt so bad to leave her for camp that summer, and knowing that when i got back, she would be 2000 miles away for an indefinete point of time, all thats left of that year is VID KIDS. Junior Year, mistakes and redemtion. I lost everything, execpt 4-H. I made a huge booboo. and I had to pay. I worked, got my feet back under me. Then things got serious. My Mom had an aneurism, and was flown by helicopter to Great Falls. Where my dad nick and I didn't know if she would still be there when we made the 90 minute journey in late april. I had just performed in the school play the night before, it was a desert theater.... I came home for lunch, my dad sounded freaked, my mom was unconscience and then all i remember is the helicopter and the surgery when we go there. The nurses were really nice in Great Falls and I owe every minute my mom is still here to Dr. Shafer and the talented staff at Benefis. I truly am in debted. A month later, schools winding down, we are back at home. moms home and stable, but weak. My years are blurred. Senior Year, and Graduating time. My years at school were filled with 4-H, BPA,late night emails to a camp friend and my drive to prove my self more and more. Each summer brings camp, new memories and thoughts of when next I will get back to Watanopa, where I met some of my closest and dearest friends. Time to say goodbye to white sulphur, and my moms cooking and dads wisdom on a daily basis. A town i never really connected too. I guess I did but not the way most do. I dont' drink, so alcohol doesn't connect me to my friends or times past.
What does hold me to my past is my constant appreiection with what my family has given me and what I have learned from Nick. His giving is free and knows no real barriers. the kid is my best bud and i so gladly call him my little brother.

Graduate...
I move to missoula, work at target, live in my aunts basement. But the one thing I didn't plan on is meeting meghan. This girl is lightning on a ridge top in a cool summers rain. Two and half years later...snittles means the world to me, i truly love her. I have felt love before, but the respect, admiration, frustration, trust I have with her is something that, I can easily say i would be no where near has proud or happy with what i am and what i know i can do, with out her.
Now we are to this point in time. Happy, secure, and excited for tommorow.

Thats me in a nut shell... I just wanted to get that out.... It really feels good.
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My first time...be gentle

Well this is the first post in what I hope to be a long conversation with myself and others. Today is the first day in my second semester of my junior year of COLLEGE, which means there is only a few left and then the work starts. But as of this date, work has always been a big part in my life. KPAX, is my real job, but school, and A2 productions are becoming more important to me. I am not saying that KPAX isn't important, I am just saying that things are starting to weigh more, I just don't know how much i can hold. For example, school. Its nutz, German is going to get the best of me. If anyone knows a good helper or site let me know. Advertising Comp, intrigues me. A team activity to build a market plan and campaign for Yahoo, target market 13-17. Should turn out to be a good learning experience.
Thats what i have for today. not sure I will be back.