I just got approved by my professor to take independent studies in her Filmmaking course (I passed both of her previous courses). Not only that, but she will help advise me as I craft a thesis film to be used to try to be used in applications for film schools.
Sorry New York City, but California and, by extension, the Best Coast is more enticing and I've decided to make my residence there in terms of film school/school with a good film program (I would like to apologize in advance for my previously salacious and incorrect remarks about the West Coast).
Got all my work done for the week already. Free food and drinks at our company's open house this afternoon. Then getting on a flight for a two week vacation tonight. Wheeee!
I just got approved by my professor to take independent studies in her Filmmaking course (I passed both of her previous courses). Not only that, but she will help advise me as I craft a thesis film to be used to try to be used in applications for film schools.
Sorry New York City, but California and, by extension, the Best Coast is more enticing and I've decided to make my residence there in terms of film school/school with a good film program (I would like to apologize in advance for my previously salacious and incorrect remarks about the West Coast).
Full on feast provided by one of our students. Talking a solid 4m of food. Mythbusters live afterwards! Went to chill at a friends apartment afterwards and found out there's a fully furnished Secret Room. Inside said Secret Room was something my apartment had been sorely lacking: a silverware caddy for the dishwasher.
I just got approved by my professor to take independent studies in her Filmmaking course (I passed both of her previous courses). Not only that, but she will help advise me as I craft a thesis film to be used to try to be used in applications for film schools.
Sorry New York City, but California and, by extension, the Best Coast is more enticing and I've decided to make my residence there in terms of film school/school with a good film program (I would like to apologize in advance for my previously salacious and incorrect remarks about the West Coast).
California (L.A.) is very much centered around the film business and a lot of my classmates moved out there. Gotta warn you, it's very cut throat and not as much geared toward indie stuff, but if you can hack it, it a good place to make a living doing something in the industry. Also, I don't get the whole "East Coast/West Coast" rivalry. I would probably be happy in both places, but FUCK do I not want to drive in L.A. You need a car to get anywhere, and it is so spread out. I am a train girl at heart.
If you've lived in a city that's set up like a grid your whole life, then LA is a tough transition in terms of finding your way around. As for it being "cut-throat," well, it's like any creative profession. You start at the bottom and don't get paid, get your foot in the door any way you can, all while essentially working a second job doing your own stuff and honing your skills while you wait for the big opportunities to come. If you're passionate about something, it's what you're gonna do anyway.
Have you been to Boston? It's not a grid. It's designed like someone wound up a pair of chatter-teeth, taped a marker to the back, and made the lines it drew into roads. Part of why we have such bad drivers is because the roads make no God damned sense.
That's the nice thing about Boston: we may have shit drivers, but I can get just about anywhere with a T Pass and my feet. Can't say the same for LA.
To be fair, we're better than our blue-license-plated neighbors to the direct south.
Basically, what I'm saying is, if Rhode Island suddenly became unable to issue drivers licenses for ten years, the average accident rate in southern Massachusetts would be halved.
Have you been to Boston? It's not a grid. It's designed like someone wound up a pair of chatter-teeth, taped a marker to the back, and made the lines it drew into roads. Part of why we have such bad drivers is because the roads make no God damned sense.
I have, wasn't really talking to you, was more comparing NYC to LA. But I think LA drivers get a bad rap for driving for similar reasons. Or maybe because they just are impatient and drive way too fast.
The reason Boston's roads are so fucktarded is because they're mostly based on old cattle-driving paths.
This is the most repeated wrong thing about Boston. The second-most repeated wrong thing about Boston being that it's not the best city in the country, but I digress.
The reason Boston's streets are so weird is because it was originally set up (much like many other colonial towns were) with a spoke-and-wheel style road system, centered around a church in the town square. Then, we filled in a whole shit ton of Boston Harbour (Boston was originally a penensula. The entirety of the Back Bay, for example? Pure landfill. As is most of the South End.) and kinda slapped that onto the system, too.
Speaking as someone who's lived and driven in both Boston and LA, LA's road system makes much more sense. Everything is a grid. I have never gotten lost.
Also, Omnutia is here now for an extended stay. We're talking months. Boo-yah.
This is the most repeated wrong thing about Boston. The second-most repeated wrong thing about Boston being that it's not the best city in the country, but I digress.
The reason Boston's streets are so weird is because it was originally set up (much like many other colonial towns were) with a spoke-and-wheel style road system, centered around a church in the town square. Then, we filled in a whole shit ton of Boston Harbour (Boston was originally a penensula. The entirety of the Back Bay, for example? Pure landfill. As is most of the South End.) and kinda slapped that onto the system, too.
That's the nice thing about Boston: we may have shit drivers, but I can get just about anywhere with a T Pass and my feet. Can't say the same for LA.
To be fair, we're better than our blue-license-plated neighbors to the direct south.
Basically, what I'm saying is, if Rhode Island suddenly became unable to issue drivers licenses for ten years, the average accident rate in southern Massachusetts would be halved.
True that. Me and my dad have been looking into getting into my license, and we've decided to send me to a security drivers school (they teach you everything bodyguards have to know when they drive). The one we chose is in Rhode Island. "If you want to learn how to fight, you don't hang around pacifists.
True that. Me and my dad have been looking into getting into my license, and we've decided to send me to a security drivers school (they teach you everything bodyguards have to know when they drive). The one we chose is in Rhode Island. "If you want to learn how to fight, you don't hang around pacifists.
That sort of driving is pretty fun. Not that I've learned from an official school, I don't know all the tactical stuff, but I picked up the maneuvers just from fucking around in cars.
However, don't those sorts of schools usually require you to actually a)have your license, and b)Be over the age of 18?
True that. Me and my dad have been looking into getting into my license, and we've decided to send me to a security drivers school (they teach you everything bodyguards have to know when they drive). The one we chose is in Rhode Island. "If you want to learn how to fight, you don't hang around pacifists.
That sort of driving is pretty fun. Not that I've learned from an official school, I don't know all the tactical stuff, but I picked up the maneuvers just from fucking around in cars.
However, don't those sorts of schools usually require you to actually a)have your license, and b)Be over the age of 18?
A yes, but my Dad wanted to plan all this out before I even got my permit. B not all of them. Maybe that's an Australian thing.
A yes, but my Dad wanted to plan all this out before I even got my permit. B not all of them. Maybe that's an Australian thing.
Makes sense. It's a good thing to learn. If you want to do it in hard mode, try doing a J-turn in a cargo van with no power steering.
And I'm not surprised it's not all of them there, it's probably just an insurance liability thing down here, plus we tend to get our licenses a little later than the US.
I grew up in Michigan (car central) before some recent saddening changes to the laws that make it more difficult to get a license at the formerly usual age of 16.
Learner's permit the day I turned 14. Full driver's license the day I turned 16. Drove myself everywhere after that.
I could have gotten my license at 16 but didn't until I was 18. I didn't have a car anyway. I got a permit at 14 and learned to drive in my dad's 3/4 ton cargo van in Chester, CT on route 154. Route 154 has a steep incline on one side that in many places is just a rock face, and the Connecticut river on the other. It's extremely narrow and windy and has no streetlights. That was really something. The only visibility out the back of the van was from the side mirrors.
The only visibility out the back of the van was from the side mirrors.
Hey, my van has windows. I can see all around, so that's pretty nice. Good for sightseeing, actually, with the big bench in the back, lots of leg room and all that. However, in an oddly sensible move, it doesn't have power steering, but it does have enormous power brakes - I'd suppose because when you're carrying a ton-and-a-quarter(or thereabouts), you don't need to steer too fast, but you sure as shit want to KNOW you can stop when you want.
I drove a fair bit growing up half in the country, but I didn't get my learner's till I was 16 and change. Got my license pretty quick after that, though.
My current van has a reverse camera, huge mirrors, and windows all around. I feel spoiled. My wife is afraid to drive it. I keep telling her that her Honda Fit has less visibility all around than "my" van does.
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I just got approved by my professor to take independent studies in her Filmmaking course (I passed both of her previous courses). Not only that, but she will help advise me as I craft a thesis film to be used to try to be used in applications for film schools.
Sorry New York City, but California and, by extension, the Best Coast is more enticing and I've decided to make my residence there in terms of film school/school with a good film program (I would like to apologize in advance for my previously salacious and incorrect remarks about the West Coast).
(But seriously, cool, hope you can get yourself into a great school)
Also, I don't get the whole "East Coast/West Coast" rivalry. I would probably be happy in both places, but FUCK do I not want to drive in L.A. You need a car to get anywhere, and it is so spread out. I am a train girl at heart.
I drove my car into Boston once.
Once.
Now as deep as I dare go is Longwood. Much more usually we'll stop at Riverside station and ride the T from there.
Basically, what I'm saying is, if Rhode Island suddenly became unable to issue drivers licenses for ten years, the average accident rate in southern Massachusetts would be halved.
The reason Boston's streets are so weird is because it was originally set up (much like many other colonial towns were) with a spoke-and-wheel style road system, centered around a church in the town square. Then, we filled in a whole shit ton of Boston Harbour (Boston was originally a penensula. The entirety of the Back Bay, for example? Pure landfill. As is most of the South End.) and kinda slapped that onto the system, too.
Also, Omnutia is here now for an extended stay. We're talking months. Boo-yah.
However, don't those sorts of schools usually require you to actually a)have your license, and b)Be over the age of 18?
B not all of them. Maybe that's an Australian thing.
And I'm not surprised it's not all of them there, it's probably just an insurance liability thing down here, plus we tend to get our licenses a little later than the US.
Learner's permit the day I turned 14. Full driver's license the day I turned 16. Drove myself everywhere after that.
I drove a fair bit growing up half in the country, but I didn't get my learner's till I was 16 and change. Got my license pretty quick after that, though.