this guy wants to film me for 7 seconds for a commercial for a lenovo
tablet. He will pay like $400 or so, which i will donate to sudoroom.
he will bring a release which will need to be signed by John (the owner)
i told him to send me the release so i can show it to John, so we know
ASAP whether that will be an issue (of course it shouldn't be)
does anyone know what Johns' schedule is, or if I can get his phone number
so I can coordinate with him about the release?
i figure it's a sign that this guy wants to film me hacking robot, and i
was planning on hacking robot anyway, and i'm about to get it to work.
thanks,
-jake
PS i know, it would be nice if Lenovo would just give us a pile of
laptops, i will ask believe me.
-jake
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Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 17:03:14 -0700
From: John Tomma
Subject: filming roboticist
Hi Jake,
Paul Freeman gave me your name... he knows me by my nickname "Frisbay" - we went to college together and I recently moved out to the bay area.
Anyway, I'm a video producer and I'm working on a Lenovo web commercial in which we're hoping to feature a DIY type roboticist.
Lenovo is releasing a new tablet that has what they're calling an "infinity" screen. The commercial is basically an exploration of what infinity means. We'll be having people
in different situations saying a short line about infinity (a guy parachuting out of a plane, a woman doing yoga on a surfboard, someone traveling across a suspension bridge in
Malaysia....).
Filming would take about an hour or so. It would be a tiny crew, just me and 1 assistant - we'd work with existing light. In the final commercial the robot section would take
up about 3-8 seconds, so it's not a lot of footage I need. Basically a shot of some work being done with electronics or hardware on a robot, and the "infinity" line.
In principle, the brand is looking for someone around 22-30 and my understanding is you're around Paul and my age. Perhaps you've got youthful looks and it would work :-) or
perhaps you work with someone younger who would enjoy being a part of it. If someone looks early 30s that probably would be OK.
Since it's a web commercial, budget is tiny, but I have around $400 budgeted to pay whomever we feature and rent the location if necessary.
One potential challenge is that for legal reasons, I would need a location release signed by the owner of the building, not the lessee. If you're the owner of the location
where you work, that won't be a challenge, but if not, we'd need to work that out beforehand. One workaround is to film the bits we need outside where we won't need a building
location release.
The biggest challenge is the timeline. Web commercials often have crazy turnaround times. I got hired 2 days ago, and I have to submit the edited video by Thursday, so I would
need to do the filming sometime tomorrow. Or if there is no other option, Tuesday late morning. I could also potentially film later today, although I'm sure you already have
plans.
It should be a pretty cool spot - I've got filmmakers in Malaysia, Bulgaria, Canada, and LA all working on it.
Please let me know if you're interested. Obviously it's incredibly short notice and a small budget, so I totally understand if it isn't practical.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
Thanks!
John
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Hello,
Just fyi all, someone tried to switch all the valves around on the bike
pump for some reason which meant they didn't work on either presta or
schrader valves..and also lost a weird-ass grommet in the process which
broke the schrader.
I had to order a rebuild kit from TipTop ($5). It comes wednesday.
Hi all,
april from EFF here. Writing to invite you all to a Wikipedia
edit-a-thon I'm helping to organize this afternoon at Wikimedia HQ (or
anywhere!). We want to improve the pages of the Zone9 Bloggers and other
journalists who are currently in jail in Ethiopia.
In April 2014, six members of the Zone 9 Bloggers and three associated
journalists were arrested in Addis Ababa and now face terrorism charges
for their writings. They were additionally charged with conspiracy for
using basic encryption tools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/San_Francisco_21
We're meeting today from 1-5pm at Wikimedia (149 New Montgomery Street:
Floor 6). One of the Zone 9 bloggers, Endalk, who currently is seeking
asylum in the US, will join us. Endalk was also a policy fellow at EFF
this summer.
Maybe I'll see some of y'all there!
All the very best,
april
PS: this is my first post to the list; hopefully, it is appropriate.
please excuse me if not. I'd like to be more involved with Sudo,
as I recently moved to the area to work at EFF, have dear friend already hacking there,
and have always worked with hackerspaces in some capacity where ever I'm based. will surely
meet some of y'all in the near future
thanks for doing all that work!
one thing: the DSL modem would be better off as close to where the
telephone line comes into the building as possible. There is bandwidth
loss with distance from the telco, especially in an electrically noisy
environment like inside omni and next to ethernet cables.
conversely, there is no "loss" over ethernet (it either works or it
doesn't, mostly) so it's better to put the DSL modem where it works best
and run ethernet to it.
also, for documentation perhaps some written info on a notebook tied to
the server rack? i think it might be foolish to put everything on a wiki
on the net :)
-jake
Max B wrote:
> - We moved the modem from the backspace area to the sudoroom server
> rackplatform. We were able to keep the crazy phone + ethernet situation,
> butwith many many fewer crazy wire splits and adapters hanging off
> ofethernet cables. It's a lot cleaner now
Very good finding Matt.
If some of you are like somebody I know, who doesn't check bank/cc accounts... Now its a good time to do it.
Many Thanks!
Matthew Senate <mattsenate(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>_______________________________________________
>sudo-discuss mailing list
>sudo-discuss(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>https://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/sudo-discuss
Hi all!
I decided to set up a new mailing list to cover all the traffic related to
construction across the Omni building, to lighten the load on the main
omnilogistics list a bit:
https://groups.google.com/group/omni-building
It's a google group, and it's set to be world-viewable. Anyone can post,
but posts from non-members are moderated (that way, anyone from any of the
member grousp across the Omni can reach the list, but we can keep spam
under control).
I will be sending out some direct invites to people who have expressed
interest in the past, or who have already been doing any construction
related work. But meanwhile, feel free to access the URL above, and send a
join request.
Are you good with your hands? Know a thing a or two about electrical,
drywall, painting, plumbing? Or would you just like to learn? Prefer work
parties over sit-down meetings? This is the mailing list for you!
Patrik
PS: We're supposed to have a "Building / Space Operations working group",
which I think was also supposed to include things like managing room
reservations etc. But since that group has never met anyway, I figure we
can turn this new platform into whatever we want it to be.
can someone pick some up, omni will pay you back
We need them to bag plaster, lath, etc. and have run out -
Put them up by the mezzanine / ballroom where all the plaster / giant hole
is?
Thanks in advance wonderful human whomever you are -
Best,
David
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Max B <maxb.personal(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> tl;dr: We fixed some janky old wiring, replaced a server that was
> bloated, and added a wireless AP. There's bunches more to do and to
> document!
Thank you so much!!! I swear my other email was a total coincidence, I
didn't realize you were sending one at the same time. :)
I am so grateful, and our neighbor collectives throughout the Omni are as well.
I hear that certain somebodies were working very hard yesterday to fix
Sudo's network. And I am very grateful. Haven't lost a single packet
all day.
Thank you!!! <3<3<3
