Just Another Day…

Author: Thomas Tomchak

  • SkyDiveChicago Edited Video – Finally

    I can’t thank my assistant editor Scott Roberts enough for putting this together for me.

    I just dumped a bunch of footage and photos on him and said “Hey, make me something cool when you have time”. Well, we’ve been busy but he finally finished it while I was traveling and I’m pretty excited about it. My heart still drops when I see it, but at the same time a part of me wants to do it all over again.

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  • Spring Cleaning – Post Production Style

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    Now that we have a little down time, some long overdue maintenance and cleaning started today. It’s amazing how much dust had built up in the rack, and especially in the RAID drive systems. It was so bad we had to roll the RAID systems outside to blow them out one drive module at a time.

    I was also able to rework much of the first rack and remove things that we no longer use. We also had a battery backup unit that needed new batteries.


  • Google + Invites For The Taking

    If you’ve heard about the new Google + service and are interested in checking it out, I have some invites to give out. Just send me an email and I’ll send you the invite.

    If you have not heard about it yet, you can find out more by going to plus.google.com.


  • A Happy Birthday Indeed

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    Even though I had to work what ended up being a very long day (9am until just after midnight), there were two things that really made my birthday a great day.
    First, all of the Facebook and email well wishes from friends and family. On the surface it seems so simple and in some ways impersonal, but psychologically it was a awesome. All day my phone was “dinging” with new messages every time a new message was posted, and it was just nice to know that people took the time to write something.

    Second, the crew threw me a mini-birthday party at the end of the night just as I was finishing up and all the shoots were done. My last several birthdays have been on the road, and this was a gift in itself and made me really happy. I always tell people it’s no big deal and not to do anything, but if you’ve ever actually had people do nothing for your birthday, it’s kind of depressing.

    Anyway, a big thanks to everybody – especially the on-site crew. Turning a year older today wasn’t so bad after all.

  • Seattle Edit Suite