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Monday, May 12 2008
Commencement Info Session
Yes, we have to sing that song, too.
Just got back from the Commencement Information Session thing. If you didn’t make it, or didn’t pick up a program, here are the important bits:
Arrive by 9:30am on Monday, May 19th to your line-up location.
School of the Arts (Performing Arts, VMA, WLP) and Interdisciplinary Studies Arts majors go to the Courtyard Marriott Empire Ballroom, First Floor 275 Tremont Street.
School of Communication (CSD, Journalism, Marketing Communication & OPC) and Interdisciplinary Studies Communication majors Citi Performing Arts Center [formerly Wang] Basement 270 Tremont Street.
Make sure to bring your cap, gown, and Gold Key sash if appropriate.
Leave your bags, coats and backpacks in your room or apartment, as storage is not available at the line-up sites.
Practice your alphabet - it will assist the ushers with a smooth line-up process. [wtf?]
Upon arriving at the Citi Performing Arts Center or Courtyard Marriott, please find your line-up location and stay there!
No alcoholic beverages are permitted at the line-up sites or Commencement [so be sure to get them into your system both before and after]
Try on your cap and gown before Monday. You may find that you need hairpins or safety pins.
Be sure to turn off your cell phones.
Conduct yourself in a manner consistent with the celebration of the day.
Your attention and cooperation will be most appreciated.
Thursday, May 8 2008
Done. Celebrate. Do something fun.
Sometimes I wish tassels were more fashionable.
We’ve finished. Rather than just getting smashed, take the $20 you were throwing down on your fourth straight night of black-out partying and do something substantial, k?
- Lewis Black will be at the Boston Opera House tonight, May 8th.
- KRS-One at Harper’s Ferry if you would prefer some hip hop.
- The Boston Pops are doing a Bernstein Tribute this weekend.
- You dorks probably want to go to Mac Camp Boston.
- Ozomatli at The Paradise! Badass world fusion stuff.
- Kaiju Big Battel comes to the Roxy.
- Some Blackberry challenge happens at Faneuil Hall Saturday, too.
- Cut Copy, Black Kids and Mobius Band play The Paradise Monday.
- Superman screens as a part of the Coolidge’s Science on Screen series.
- Afrissipi out at Johnny D’s Uptown Tuesday.
Thursday, March 6 2008
Lessons from The Magic Kingdom, Part II
You sound like one of the guys on that commentary I watch all the time.
Storytelling Through Animation
2/28, 12:00PM, Max Mutchnick Campus Center Multipurpose Room
Making his directorial debut with 1994’s The Lion King, Roger Allers expanded upon a career as an animator, writer, story supervisor, and storyboard artist. He spoke to an attentive crowd of Emerson students and faculty as a part of the Professional Development Conference.
Allers opened his talk with us urging us to follow that which excites us. Allers had been fascinated with art and animation his entire life. After graduating with a degree in fine art, he decided to travel, notably living in a cave for some time. Always fascinated with animation, he purchased a do-it-yourself animation kit, produced a small bit of work, and came to work at an animation studio in Boston in 1974. Hearing of a professor at Harvard teaching animation, armed with his portfolio and what he called a “mix of determinism and naiveté,” convinced the professor to let him audit the class. This experience sparked an interest in more narrative work.
Leaving Boston behind, he fell into a storyboard position at Disney, where he helped develop ideas for the film Tron. Considering video games barely existed at this point in development for the film, there was a considerable amount of creative elbow room. Storyboard artists would be given script pages, audio samples, artistic renderings, and be required to dissect a scene. “What is interesting or unique here? How are these characters special?” Boarding scenes allows for the first step towards visualizing a story. The actions, the pacing, and the rhythm of a scene can now be extrapolated and understood by other members of the project.
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Tuesday, March 4 2008
Lessons from The Magic Kingdom, Part I
Chris Montan wears expensive jeans and wants you to be successful.
Beyond Networking
2/28, 11:00AM, Max Mutchnick Campus Center Multipurpose Room
Chris Montan is currently the president of Walt Disney Music. He’s acted as the Executive Music Producer on just about every significant Disney feature, stage production, or animated release of the last twelve years. His son happens to go to our school, and he was so kind as to bestow some of his most insightful precious stones of knowledge upon us as a part of the very valuable “Professional Development Conference.” What follows is what he had to say.
Entertainment is a hard business to get into, and hard to stay in.
There’s is always some day, some event, some serendipitous moment that acts as your big break. You need to work to improve chances and prepare for that luck. Be ready when your door opens. He was lucky enough to make a huge lateral shift through corporate trees of Disney when Eisner and Katzenberg were reorganizing the company.
Only do things you are perpetually passionate and excited about. Noting the clichés of the statement, he refers to passion as what your friends can see really excites you. For example, Bette Midler has been a long time buddy of his, and as long as he has known her, she approaches every new project with the same excitement as she ever has.
Continually educate yourself in fields that really fascinate you. Give yourself as much information as possible. In college, Montan read all he could about successful singer-songwriters, because that was what he wanted to do with himself. Don’t be the disengaged student that drops out of school their sophomore year when you get bored or realize you’re not doing what you want to do.
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Friday, February 22 2008
An Open Challenge To Josh Samataro
I’m not going to lie. I’m a big deal around these parts. Did you read my Securitas feature? It was down right incredible. People tell me I’m funny all the time. Hearing it bores me. You know what I’m also bored of? This no talent hack named Josh Samataro. Josh has made a career out of ripping me off. We both go to Emerson College. We both have late night talk radio shows. We both cried when The Patriots went 18-1. Now he follows me to The 1880? Enough is enough. I’m drawing the line in the sand.
Listen up Josh! I’m sick of your shenanigans and the fact that your last names has three A’s. You think you’re the new funny guy around these parts? Time to bring it. I’m issuing an open challenge to you. Try and beat me in any of the following:
-Lazer Tag
-Mini Hot Dog Eating Contest
-Go-kart race
- First Blood Match
- Home run derby
-Clue
- Evening Wear Fashion Show
- Hand Stand Contest
If Josh is man enough to face me in any of these events, The 1880 will provide full in-depth coverage. The ball is in your court Samataro.
Wednesday, February 20 2008
WARNING: Science in the skies tonight.
leppre.">Is this what Nick Drake was talking about? Photo by leppre.
For the three science majors at Emerson, you might be interested in the event happening tonight in the cosmos. You better check it out, because the next time it’s going to happen is in December of 2010. So, get on the rooftops of your Allston apartments and look up– it’s a Total Lunar Eclipse. This, of course, is where the earth will block the light from the sun on the moon. It starts tonight at 8:43 PM ET, will reach it’s full eclipse at 10:01 PM ET until 10:51 PM ET, and fade away at 12:09 AM ET tomorrow morning.
The moon will appear red, and does not require any sort of special equipment (you know… those crazy glasses you need to see a solar eclipse) to view. Just look up into the sky. The cool thing is, it’ll block out a lot of light, so planets such as Saturn (which will be near the moon) will be visible during the eclipse. So, while you’re lighting your cigarettes outside of the LB, take a second and look into the sky. Too bad it won’t be light enough to look at the nude photos of Lindsay Lohan [NSFW] in New York Magazine. That was a completely tactless drop. Enjoy the eclipse.