General Update and tooting my horn.

Since my last post I have been hired on at Twopenguins.com which is a boutique content producer in Portland, Oregon that fucking rocks actually. There are many reasons why but one thing that stands out is I get paid to do what I love to and so does everyone else that works there.

What do I do there exactly? Well everyday is different but I would say I spend about 60% of my time editing video content for a few different exhibition formats starting with web as the majority. We do internals, film and smart phone / iPad content too. I've had my hands on shooting celebrity interviews in NYC, modeling and animating 3D assets, stop-motion animation, LOTS of After Effects, image manipulation, design, writing, technical direction, set and stage design, producing and even voice acting.
However, the way we delegate we work is: whoever is the most excited to do the work gets the work. MOST of the time the point person is the most experienced in what ever challenge / task there is. If something comes up you just say "I would love to do that" and your in. I like to get my hands on as much as possible but there is a lot of video to edit so I have to take care in what I choose. Now I'm not saying everyone walks into the office and just says "I'm going to do whatever I want." Everyone has several assigned daily, weekly, monthly etc tasks and we are expected to put our all into it.

The first month felt like bootcamp. Taking on an emergency edit while learning the workflow and just jumping in. It was a ton of hours - but don't be a pussy right? Part of it was the general excitement and the feeling of relief. I was out of work for a long time and never expected to get in with such a tight nit group. I did a 36 day run - staying the night at the office once waiting for color correction to render (Final Cut Studio 4 needs to be 64 bit NOW!!!!) and going solo on a promotional shoot at venues all over Portland many cool bands (driving my post supers truck).

As we stand now there are a lot of new jobs and challenges on the horizon - one being a pretty serious short - that I hope I get to work on. We just picked up a cool client that wants a ton of content some being regular everyday stuff and some being very cinematic.

All-in-all I couldn't be happier with the situation. I'm learning everyday - software, workflow, the biz and names. The coolest part is I got my dream - living and breathing creativity. There's nothing worse then waiting for the alarm to go off with that gut wrenching job hating feeling. No more, bye bye to all those shitty retailers I applied to. No more warehouse bullshit. No more job hate. I can't say it enough - dream job.

I owe a lot of people my gratitude for giving me the time of day. Giving me knowledge and helping me find out what I love and hate. The list is pretty damn long but the one person that directly recommended me for the job is Courtney Hermann. Thanks Courtney.