Stuart does some bean bag surfing, I don't know if they will invite the brits back! was a great night but don't think I an EVER going to drink vodka red bull again!
Wednesday 25 April 2007
Sunday 22 April 2007
Where has all the good wind gone?
OK so 7 days of competition and only one day of racing, today's not looking too healthy either, we've just been given a modified schedule which has reclaimed our next two days off, and has pushed into the week off that was scheduled for May, luckily I'm OK as I'm paid to be here all the time anyway (I don't get days off) and I'm sodding off for three weeks in May WHATEVER HAPPENS! There are mutinous rumbles in the TV compound though, with lots of people unhappy about the fact that we are hearing about all this from press conferences that we are covering! you could actually hear the crew groan during it this morning!
I'm also being made to feel very guilty for asking the runner to go 8 miles away to Starbucks for me..... It was nice to have some weak milky coffee again rather than the Spanish thimble full that makes your spoon stand up while you are stirring it! Funnily enough all the organisers where bothered about was the fact that t he cup had Starbucks written on it as one of our sponsors is a famous European coffee company, the picture above was taken just before they made me cover the logos with gaffer tape! you couldn't make it up!!
Friday 20 April 2007
Thursday 19 April 2007
Most expensive non event?
Day 4 of the Louis Vitton cup and...............................
hmm 4 days of non racing, not enough wind, in fact no wind at all, we are making highlight programmes of highlights! all our days off are now extra race days, everyone's pissed off!
Oh well its curry night tonight, maybe there will be more wind tomorrow!
Friday 13 April 2007
sugaRAPE!
I Lent a copy of the brilliant Chris Morris and Charlie Brooker comedy Nathan Barley to one of my fellow engineers Wayland, Last night myself and a couple of others went around for a spot of supper, and after buzzing the intercom got a 45 second SUGARAPE! after the first episode he was hooked!
That evening I stuck an episode on as I went to bed, it actually made me miss Soho a little bit.......but only a bit!
If you haven't seen it give it a go, especially if you work in the meejia.
Thursday 12 April 2007
Im Back!
No posts for the last couple of days, Judith came over to see me over Easter weekend, obviously there was no wind for one of the previous days racing so Saturday's reserve day became a race day! and if it could go wrong it went wrong........ and when I wasn't at work I was spending as much time as possible with Jude........... I will see her again in 3 weeks :-(
Managed to escape for two days after all though so jumped in the car and drove down to my parents in Murcia, stereotypically turned up with 2 bags of washing! thanks Mum!
Had a nice rest in "little England" and it was great to see the folks, and my brother. Unfortunately I will miss my brother Colin's 30th birthday but I'm sure he won't notice, and we'll have a drink in the UK in May.
Back to the grindstone today, pulled up in the car park this morning to 25 Maori warriors performing a hacker! Tourism New Zealand are really here in force, and the Prime Minister Helen Clarke is hosting a BBQ here on Saturday, should be quite interesting.
Racing starts again on Monday, but before hand we have a kind of opening ceremony (again) called the parade of boats. Unfortunately that means us engineers will spend the rest of the weekend re-patching the gallery's for the racing!
will post some photos of the operation after the weekend.
Stay Chilled!
Managed to escape for two days after all though so jumped in the car and drove down to my parents in Murcia, stereotypically turned up with 2 bags of washing! thanks Mum!
Had a nice rest in "little England" and it was great to see the folks, and my brother. Unfortunately I will miss my brother Colin's 30th birthday but I'm sure he won't notice, and we'll have a drink in the UK in May.
Back to the grindstone today, pulled up in the car park this morning to 25 Maori warriors performing a hacker! Tourism New Zealand are really here in force, and the Prime Minister Helen Clarke is hosting a BBQ here on Saturday, should be quite interesting.
Racing starts again on Monday, but before hand we have a kind of opening ceremony (again) called the parade of boats. Unfortunately that means us engineers will spend the rest of the weekend re-patching the gallery's for the racing!
will post some photos of the operation after the weekend.
Stay Chilled!
Saturday 7 April 2007
Bens Brain
Its funny how people try to sabotage other people because they are jealous
Can you really call yourself an assistant editor if all you do is digitise tapes? I would call you a digitiser
People find it very easy to blame equipment, to cover up the inadequacy of their knowledge
over and out
Can you really call yourself an assistant editor if all you do is digitise tapes? I would call you a digitiser
People find it very easy to blame equipment, to cover up the inadequacy of their knowledge
over and out
Monday 2 April 2007
Slo-Mo RIB
Spent my first day out on the water with the ultra motion camera today, and I must say I was quite impressed. I installed laptops in some funny places but I think on the back of a rigid inflatable boat (RIB) has got to be the most mad so far!
For some reason the Ultra motion camera has been designated a post production item, hence why I'm hanging on for dear life with a laptop in the back of a boat while the cameraman shouts hurry up on the download so he can shoot something else. The basics of how it works:
The camera head is set into a looping capture with (depending on the frame rate you are capturing at) around 5 seconds of record before it loops. you have a chap with a laptop (Me) hooked up to the camera, that operates the trigger, when the camera is triggered the capture is then saved into the camera head, so if you are capturing at 500 pictures per second you may set it to capture 250pps before the trigger and 250pps after the trigger, this is completely customisable as to how you want it. Then you select an in and an out point on the capture and save the file out to the hard drive of the laptop, this then downloads it from the camera head and saves it out as the file format you want, all this with the boat bobbing up and down quite heavily!
I loved every second!
For some reason the Ultra motion camera has been designated a post production item, hence why I'm hanging on for dear life with a laptop in the back of a boat while the cameraman shouts hurry up on the download so he can shoot something else. The basics of how it works:
The camera head is set into a looping capture with (depending on the frame rate you are capturing at) around 5 seconds of record before it loops. you have a chap with a laptop (Me) hooked up to the camera, that operates the trigger, when the camera is triggered the capture is then saved into the camera head, so if you are capturing at 500 pictures per second you may set it to capture 250pps before the trigger and 250pps after the trigger, this is completely customisable as to how you want it. Then you select an in and an out point on the capture and save the file out to the hard drive of the laptop, this then downloads it from the camera head and saves it out as the file format you want, all this with the boat bobbing up and down quite heavily!
I loved every second!
Sunday 1 April 2007
Google tisp
I forgot it was April Fools day today! until I came across this Google advert for broadband. When your working solid without a day off or weekend you tend to lose track of what day it is!
Check out the full site: http://www.google.com/tisp/
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