Coming up!

I have been a bartender the for the better half of the last decade. I have worked in various bars ranging from restaurants, sports bars, lounges, and night-clubs. Every bartender as well as many consumers/frequenters of the local watering hole knows that many characters are found at these spots. I am doing a series of in depth-interviews with some of these local barflies to find out just what type of customer they might be.

Everyone stay tuned, find out what type of customer you are when out on the town.

Sorry Everyone!

Sorry Everyone I have been out for awhile, summer happened, last semester of school this fall and graduation coming up in December, I will be back on track shortly. Now, enjoy this video of Ronald Jenkees playing some keyboard, I have been following this guy for awhile, he is always coming up with some fresh tracks!

http://www.youtube.com/user/ronaldjenkees?blend=1&ob=4

Week 21-"This is the end, the end, the end my friend."-The Doors

Monday 11:30-4:00=4.5 Hours

Thursday 11:30-5:15=5.25 Hours

Hours left for credit 9.75-9.75=0

This last week I had to brainstorm for ways to do better branding for Visual Image in their social media. I am pretty much spent on all the creative ways i can do this for her. She asked me to find out what people were talking about things that might be helpful for her to post about. I told her since it was summer time, she should post about music festivals happening this summer. I typed up a list for her of all the big festivals that my friends usually attend in the summer. I also suggested other stuff being talked about are things like the oil spill, going green, and well I am of the age where everyone is getting married, so that's at the top of my list, all the bachelor party's happening this summer. I told her that I would still keep up with her, and send her anything I can think of, even after I have left.

On my second note I started my summer internship at Ackerman McQueen. They are completely different from VI, it has such a corporate feel and is such a big company, that you can tell that the culture is completely different. Well at least i will be getting experience in a different type of environment. I guess working for Ackerman would be like working for one of the big boys in Chicago, New York, or LA.

Well that's it for my VI experience. I cherish my first real world experience in an agency, I have learned far above and beyond what is learned in school. I feel that there is almost no comparison to real world experience. I look forward to continue to grow and expand my knowledge in the advertising industry.

Week 20-I can only give so much

Tuesday 8:45-10:00, 11:45-3;15=4.75hours

Thursday 11:45-3:45=4hours

Friday 11:30-3:15=3.75hours

Hours left for credit 22.25-12.5=9.75

This is the next to the last week of my internship, I met with my internship coordinator Chelsea this morning to go over some of the AR stuff I have been working on. I have sent her all the information on all the programs and have given them enough info, on all the AR stuff I have found. She wanted me to go further, and she wanted me to find out what it takes to get this started. Chelsea also asked me to send her my presentation. I have no problem in sharing my work, I just advised her that I will gladly continue to help her out, as long as she agrees to give me a great reference, as well as pass on my name to anyone who might need someone like me to work for them.

So I researched more on tutorials on how to get started with AR projects. I sent Chlesea two tutorials on how to get started. I did not necessarily understand them as I was watching them, but I sent them to her anyway. I feel that i have given her enough information on how to get started on using AR. I do not necessarily know how to do it myself, but I do have friends that do know how. I am still learning, so I cannot give her all she wants, but I feel that I have given her enough info to where if they do a little bit more digging, it will not be hard for them to embark on this journey. I really hope they utilize this tool.

Week 19-Last week I shined, where do I go from here?

Week of 5/10-5/14, 2010

Wednesday 8:30-3:00=7

Thursday 11:00-3:00=4

Friday 8:30-5:30=8

Hours left for credit 40.75-18.5=22.25

Blake Behrens wanted me to look up the different programs that I use to create some of the Augmented Reality stuff. So this week I have been researching all the different programs that are used to start this stuff. I have found Autodesk, Blender are some of the more popular programs used to create some 3D models. I am researching the websites and figuring out which ones might be the most user friendly.

The owner Tim Berney gave me a project this week to import a batch of pictures to a Power Point presentation. Well, If I had a PC sthat is easy to do, but I have a Mac and there is no way to import a batch of pictures. I did not know any way around it so i dragged and dropped each of the 457 pictures onto a separate slide in the presentation.

The Powerpoint was too big and would not save, my program crashed, and I lost all the work. I was frantic, i did not know what to do. Tim kept on telling me that that there is a way to do it without having to do it one by one. I found out Tim has a PC. You have to download a plug in for mac to support that function. I was in the doghouse because this needed to get finished. Marketing Director Jacquelyn Lamar, heard that I was in panic, and helped me out, but the same thing happened to her. She just sent the picture files off and told Tim he was going to pick which pictures he wanted in his presentation.

This just shows that I am still learning on how to deal with situations like this, I did not know what to do. For the first time since I have been here, I felt like I was under the gun. Thanks to Jacque helping me out, I got through it alright.

Week 18-My time to shine

Week of 5/3-5/7, 2010

Tuesday 8:30-1:00=4.5

Thursday 8:15-12:15=4

Hours left for credit 49.25-8.5=40.75

I have been cramming in school, and cramming to get this presentation prepared. I have a final on Friday and this presentation on Thursday. It's been taking me awhile to figure out Powerpoint, how to convert the Youtube Videos to video format to insert it into my presentation. Just like when I was helping Alison, with Advanced Academics, it all comes down to formatting. That has been the biggest problem for me is knowing how to use all the programs to a perfection.

In my presentation I went over key examples of how other advertising agencies have used AR as a marketing tool, give them some examples, let them try it out for themselves, then went into other industries have used AR, and then had question time.

Everyone was very pleased with my presentation. I had a few people give me some recognition for a good job, and they are having me look further into using AR. The programs it takes to use are 3D modeling programs, which I have no clue on how to use them, but I am going to find out how it works.

It's funny because, I was creating hype in my mind for this presentation. I knew that what I was presenting is something that VI had never seen before. When i gave my presentation, I almost expected a Hollywood ending where everybody applauses, and asks me to join the team. That did not happen. Everybody just got up and went to lunch.

Week 17-Almost showtime

Week of 4/26-4/30

Tuesday 10:30a-2:30p=4 hours

Thursday 8:30-12:30=4hours

Friday 8:30-11:00=2.5 hours

Hours left for credit 59.75-10.5=49.25

It's crunch time on this presentation. I really need to start getting it together. My problem, just as in my other projects is streamlining information. I found so much info on the subject, and I still feel that I need more, but less at the same time. I have found many different uses for Augmented Reality (AR), the problem is finding practical uses and relating it to how it could serve Visual Image clients.

I also have projects and presentations due in my other classes. So its all grinding on me. I have not had the luxury of much sleep lately, I am just trying to get through this semester. It's all almost over.