Apr 202011
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Just about ready to eat herb chicken. Talking about going to the LA 3D club meeting tomorrow night. Gas is expensive. Hope there’s something good showing…
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Just about ready to eat herb chicken. Talking about going to the LA 3D club meeting tomorrow night. Gas is expensive. Hope there’s something good showing…
I travel about twice as far as you do to the meetings, so I really hear what you’re saying (although Lawrence Kaufman has a nearly 100 mile round trip to the meetings, so maybe neither of us should complain). I’ve been a Club member since 1980, and I almost never missed a meeting up until a couple of years ago. But, then the meetings started getting so disorganized, and I didn’t really like most of the programs. I pretty much stopped coming to the Club.
Instead of just giving up, though, I decided to get involved, and I took over as Program Director in August. Since then, I’ve tried to get shows for the meetings that are pictorially exciting or historically interesting. I’m glad to hear at least one of the shows from April turned you on. By the way, the upcoming meeting program is always listed in the 3D News, as well as on the Club website, so you don’t have to guess about what’s going to be shown.
I think you’d be more interested in the competitions if you were an active still photographer yourself. For me, the competitions have always been an opportunity to see the work of other photographers, to get ideas and inspiration from their work, and then a motivator to get off my ass and produce images of my own. Competitions have always forced me to try harder, and have really been central to improving my photography over the years. Plus, most of our members don’t have their own digital 3D projection gear at home, so the competitions are often the only chance to see their work up on the big screen.
The other important aspect of coming to the meetings is networking with the other 3D fanatics. In casual conversations at the last meeting, I picked up some important and useful tips on the use of grayscale coding of 3D images, and some other CGI techniques. If you’re actively involved in 3D content creation, there’s probably no better technical and artistic resource in the entire world than the collection of 3D geeks that occurs at a montly LA 3D Club meeting. It’s really an amazing gathering, and we’re lucky to have it a mere 20 or 35 miles from our homes.
Roger. Glad to hear it was worth the gas money. “Normal” “Extra good” sounds good. I only wish you’d remembered what the content of the slides shows was so I’d now more specifically what I’d missed. See ya next month for the movie competition, if that’s what’s up next.
Yea, I wouldn’t like the competition thing either. Nor judging. Yuk! How do you choose the best of a pile of (whatever)? Too subjective. Nevertheless, as long as you are having F-U-N.
I went. I saw. I left:
So, did you go? SOS? Any good news? Howz the Carb man?
Great video! So personal and intimate, I can relate. My mileage is 28.8 one way, 57.6 miles, round up to 60! That’s… $15.00 in gas??? I hope it’s good.
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