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I hope at least one person that reads this knows what the title is referring to.

So here's pictures of where I'm not employed:

ABC office building


ABC animation building (where Chicken Little was just made, and the new Speed Racer cartoon is in development)....sorry, no pics of the lot, didn't have the camera with me

BUT! Pretty soon I will also have pictures of where I AM employed! (no, not my computer closet)
I FINALLY GOT A JOB! Woo! I'm now the video equipment manager at Moviola (http://www.moviola.com). My job basically consists of taking care of really expensive shit, pulling together rental orders, and making sure we get everything back. From what I've seen, the cheapest camera I'll be handling is roughly $8,000 and the most expensive it $20,000. So...here's hoping I don't drop anything? (plus, as Eli put it, if I'm not happy with the job I know where to get some good equipment)
So yeah...along with getting paid, I also have free access to all the equipment (they're even cool with me freelancing as a videographer with it when I'm not working) along with free membership to our editing suites, and certification classes...which is crazy...because they're the classes that top movie studio editors go to- to brush up on the latest stuff.
According to the dude that hired me (and wanted me to "86 the beard"...hellz no...sir.), all of the men I've been in contact here for freelance jobs, student here from UB, and teachers from UB, this is one of the best gigs in Hollywood....so....w00t!

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Side Note:
This job also puts me in contact with a lot of studio execs who come to get equipment. So Ron and I are currently developing the first stage plans for a full-out movie trailer, which will be shot with the free freakin' equipment I can use, and when the final edit is done I will "accidentally" drop copies of it in camera cases, MWUH HAHAHA!!!!!
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So after I got hired, Brenna (who was waiting outside because she came downtown with me) and I went to see Chicken Little in 3D!!!! Yeah, this crazy movie theater on Hollywood Blvd. (right near where I work) has been showing it in 3D, so in lue of having a job figured why not go see it since we were right there. Hell, it seemed better than wading through the line of Mariah Carey fans getting her autographs across the street from us.
So it was $11 a ticket, which seemed to make since being it was downtown Hollywood...but actually turned out to be worth every goddamn cent.
The theater, it turns out, is an actually THEATER. You know, the kind that often has blaconies, and where people put on plays.

(walls)


(ceiling)

So because it only houses one screen, they go ALL OUT when they show a movie there. Chicken Little decorations EVERY where....just....tons of....stuff.
As we were walking in to be seated there was this dude playing the biggest freakin' organ I've ever seen in my life, rockin' it to medley of Disney songs...without any music sheets...this guy was a SERIOUS world-class act.

The organ alone had HUNDREDS of switches, which he was constantly flicking WHILE playing, and there must of been at least 10 foot pedals that his feet were flailing around and stomping on. It sounded like a full-blown symphony was comming from this one man....drum, symbols, winds, strings....just insane.


So after about 20 minutes of pure rocking out, and consistent applause from the audience, the dude wrapped it up, bowed, and then sank below the stage along with the organ on trap-door like lift.
So the lights dim down, and the abosulotely gorgeous curtain is lifted, and the previews begin. After all the previews, when the movie would typically begin, the house lights came back on and this music just started blaring. A woman came running out onto the stage with a microphone and started signing "Shake your tail-feathers," while in the mean-time people wearing costumes of the cast of Chicken Little came out and danced with the kids in the aisles. It was INSANE! Brenna and I were just laughing our asses off, like....$11 for a movie...a full blown pianist act, and now some woman performing while people in costumes dance with kids? Crazy, crazy shit. So like...when the music starts to end, and you don't think shit can get any crazier, these cannons up in the balcony shoot confetti EVERYWHERE with a thunderous boom. Like, not just some paper here and there, just a mess of confetti flying everywhere.
Then the movie started.

Apparently that theater does shit like that for every movie, so we're going to go there for the opening of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe to see what shannanigans they have set up.

It was funny, when Chicken Little ended (it was a pretty funny movie, Disney is definately after Pixar's ass.....GO PIXAR!!!) and we were watching the credits, I spotted the name of the Vice President of the Animation Dept. ABC/Disney...the same guy I interviewed with a week ago! Hehehe....crazy ol' Hollywood....

So yeah, needless to say, it was a pretty badass day. Speaking of which, here's some badass picks of me that Brenna took after the interview!


Unemployed Derek


Oh...what's this!?


Employed Derek.

Going down the escalator to the subway, there was a huge rush of air that was blowing my tie everywhere, so Brenna took a glamour shot of me...it was pretty ridiculous.


Hmmm what else do I have pics of...here's Long Beach as viewed from the top of a parking garage. Yup, it's actually a small city that's near us!


And here's the Queen Mary at night (it's an old steam ship parked in the harbor, used for tours, dinners, and weddings)


I had videos of the glowing plankton too, but they were way too dark to see anything. I'm going to videotape it with a real videocamera and put the footage up in a week or so....it's cool shit man.

But not as cool as Derek rocking out on Guitar Hero!!!






This is what it may look like if you were my left hand...


Brenna doesn't rock out as hard as I do


But Sha does.


And apparently the Mooninites (from Aqua Teen Hunger Force) are taking over our city...that makes me excited.


Ok....that picture has no relevance what-so-ever.

That's it folks. You can stop refreshing now OP.