Showing posts with label color. Show all posts
Showing posts with label color. Show all posts

Friday, June 20, 2025

Friday 5 for June 20: What color is your parachute?

Will photographers and models be essential in the future when anyone can just tell AI to create a photo shoot with a virtual model such as this simplified one above?


Friday 5 for June 20: What color is your parachute?

Questions from Scrivner's Friday 5 page.

1. Which job on a film crew would you most like to do, and which would you be best suited for?

I was a producer for our student TV show many moons ago in college. That involved trying to round up a ton of chickens (talent and crew) to be in same place at the same time doing the tasks they signed up for. We had about a dozen people working on this for a short time and it was always a pain to get everyone there at the right time, rent the studio and finish the shoot within a prescribed time. And then there was post production which back in the day was all on 3/4 inch Sony U-Matic tape.. going from master to slave, etc. and cutting it in electronically on this big analog mixing board thing.

Today most of the stuff can be done on computer(s) depending on the size and scope of the production. Surely professional level movies and TV shows take a lot of people to put together... just watch the credits at the end of these... all kinds of specialists employed to get a show produced. Hence the huge budgets to get anything made.

Lisa and I wrote this for Assistance League of Hawaii and I storyboarded it out. We had it produced at Olelo TV in November. Somebody else coordinated the other parts like scheduling time, and bringing in the talent. It took a while to put together and it is only 40 seconds in length.

2. Which job on a hotel staff would you most like to do, and which would you be best suited for?

Probably working in their marketing department producing newsletters, taking photos, maybe updating their website, doing social media photography... who knows. I don't stay in hotels very much but I am sure they do a lot of marketing and media.

3. Which job in a hospital would you most like to do, and which would you be best suited for?

I am probably best suited for dying in the hospital. Got close to that once. That will probably happen again. 

4. Which job on a cruise ship would you most like to do, and which would you be best suited for?

Um... probably similar to hotel. I would rather work onshore for their marketing department. Can't stand the thought of being cooped up on a ship, in crew quarters for most of the year. If I had to work on board ship, probably ship photographer, but I would prefer not to.

5. Which job on a fashion magazine would you most like to do, and which would you be best suited for?

I don't have any fashion industry experience, but then again being a fashion photographer may be nice but very demanding. Models can be difficult to work with. I'd probably be better suited for working as a production artist on a computer doing the graphics, page make-up. etc... though I have been out of mainstream print media for quite some time now. A lot of the Mac programs have changed over the last 20 years, much of it not good... especially Adobe products with their horribly expensive subscription model. I used to work in advertising many years ago. A lot of jobs above may be replaced by AI.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Friday 5 for November 29: WHITE

From Scrivener's Friday 5 blog:

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1. What’s the best white food?

Refined WHITE SUGAR because it makes a lot of other foods taste good. However too much SUGAR is not very good for your health. It takes a fine balance between how much good and bad you get out of SUGAR.

2. What’s your favorite white article of clothing?

None. Don't wear that color very often.

3. What are your thoughts on telling little white lies? No opinion on this.

4, What’s an impressive white animal? White Tiger. 

5. What are some songs in your iTunes (or other media player) whose title contains the word white?

The only reason why I am really answering this one is to list my top 10 most played tracks with the word "WHITE" in its title.

1. White Bird - It's a Beautiful Day
2. Black and White - Three Dog Night
3. Billy Bones and the White Bird - Elton John
4. White Lightning and Wine - Heart
5. White Horse - Laid Back
6. Then Came the White Man - The Stampeders
7. White Lies - Book of Love
8. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane
9. White Lies Blue Eyes - Bullet
10. White Sandy Beach - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

And of course I also own THE BEATLES WHITE ALBUM on LP, CD, digital and cassette.












Friday, April 30, 2010

Friday 5 for April 30: Red

Fun With Light

RED: The color a lot of people's bank accounts will be after the State of Hawaii and Federal Government tax increases take more of our money!!!

And now the questions as asked from the weekly Friday 5 website:

1. What is your favorite red food?

Probably some sort of sashimi dish or poki aku or ahi. For you mainlanders that is raw fish. Yum!


2. When were you last caught red-handed?

When I accidentally cut a finger with a knife a few months ago.

3. What's your nicest red article of clothing?

A shirt that I wore to the Tax Day TEA Party. That shirt symbolizes all of the red ink our wallets and bank accounts will incur after the tax increases passed by the Hawaii State Legislature and the Obummer administration kick in.


4. Who's got the loveliest red hair?

Can't think of anyone I know personally.

There are hundreds and thousands of famous personalities with that trait. I guess for me it would be Marcia Cross an actress who is on the TV series "Desparate Housewives". I think singer Neko Case is pretty too. Years previous, I'd also vote for actress Molly Ringwald. She was pretty sweet in the movie Sixteen Candles.

Of course who is a true red head these days since anyone can color their hair red or all other shades of the rainbow.

5. What are your thoughts on the 2002 Baz Luhrmann film Moulin Rouge!?

Never saw the movie.