LAST POST!!! Last Day / Cain Park / Recycling

this is my last blog post.

its so sad.

just kidding.

i hate blog posts.

i think they are really stupid.

and a waste of my time...

if you couldnt tell from previous posts.

ANYWAYS.

as we wrap up our adventure, its good to keep in mind that this is not the end. i will actually be working (getting paid) with vincent all summer whenever they need me, so thats a little positive end to the project.

in this last post, I am looking at 4 final photos to post and i am going to spend a paragraph each talking about them...

so first thing we did this week was pull the cain park summer order. since cain park, being outside, can only do shows in the summer, it doesnt make sense for them to own much of their own equipment, so they rent from us. but wow do they rent. they rented over 150 source 4 ellipsoidals from us, which all had to be put together and tested. that was a fun 3 hours doing all of that...


next up was another slow day, so i organized the boxes for the sales department. super fun times. I also sorted paperwork for justin, the inside sales guy and he was talking to me about working for the disney on ice tour and work in the entertainment world in general. it was pretty interesting. plus i got to learn about how another part of the company (sales) functions, which was cool.

the last thing we did today before leaving was to sort through all of the metal scrap. the entire time ive worked at vincent there has been this huge bin of metal that needed to be sorted, so it seemed fitting that on the last day we finally went through it. we sorted it into copper, steel, aluminum, and computer parts. it was really messy but a good thing to get done.

we also got mitchells ice cream today :)

that was fun!


well thats all forever! goodbye damn blogs. i hate you.

here are the final photos

Browns / Draft Day Movie

so i lied.

i didnt actually get 5 posts done last night like i wanted to.

BUT fear not! i'll do the other two tonight.

ive already done 4 in one night... what could be worse than that?
literally, there are starving kids in africa who are thinking to themselves, at least i dont have to do blog posts...

in our last episode, we were at the intercontinental hotel downtown, doing lighting for a cleveland clinic event. lets jump forward almost another week from that to this past thursday.

JT gave me another opportunity to do some production work, this time at the browns training facility in barea. there was a movie shooting there this past weekend called "draft day" and it stars kevin costner and jennifer garner. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2223990/ if youre interested.

anyways we were tasked with setting up several large truss arches and hanging banners from them as well as setting up several truss uprights for the lighting crew to put lights on... yes if youre keeping up, we are a lighting company thats not doing the lighting (at least for this one event). It kind of makes sense though, because its a movie and we specialize in more of a theatrical style.

so we went in and took about 4 hours to load all of the truss in and set up the event. the scene was the draft day party and it looked pretty cool when it was done. i got to meet the production designer, stephen and he was really nice also. it was really interesting to actually work on a movie set and see how many hundreds of people are all there doing different jobs just to make the movie happen...

then saturday morning at 8 am we were back to load the entire thing out. they shot it on friday. load out only took about two hours, which was nice. typically load outs take about half as long as load ins so that made sense.

between the two events i only hurt myself like 5 times! woohoo!

here are some pics of the set up, before, after, and the plans...

Wrapping Things Up

Wrapping things up in Savannah was pretty interesting. It was cool to look back and think: wow, we had a lot of things planned that we didn't do but a lot more stuff happened to us than we ever expected. We attempted to set up an interview with the famed water colorist Mary Whyte to talk to her about her take on the changing economy and small business industries in the South, and we were quite close to making it work when she got invited to the international water color summit in China! She was one of 10 or so artists to be selected, and it was just our bad luck that our trip coincided with this huge advancement in her career. Needless to say she was not able to fit in time to talk to us after that development, but we were excited for her and thankful for how courteous and kind she had been to us. We also attempted to get in contact with the owner of a local book shop, but our plans fell through with her as well. On the other hand, we did a lot that we hadn't initially planned. Those last minute decisions and unplanned escapades resulted in some of the most fun, educational, and amazing experiences we had the whole time. We took a road trip to Hilton Head, ate mountains of doughnuts, went on a ghost tour, met some nice people, met some mean people, got food poisoning, walked through downtown every day, got to know and amazing couple, laughed a ton, and had the most amazing time. I know I'm going to cherish this entire experience so much, I'll look back at the time I spent these past weeks fondly. Special thanks go to Caroline, who was the best roommate, sister, weird cat lady, personal cheerleader, and friend I could have asked for on this trip (Caroline, if you're reading this, I am complimenting you. Enjoy it while it lasts.) I can't say I regret a single thing I've done over these past four and a half weeks, and I feel so thankful to have been able to make this last little part of high school the best they could have been.

Final Post

Well, it's been quite the adventure these past four weeks. Writing my final report was a great way for me to realize how much I truly learned about writing, Savannah, and myself. It was one of the more rewarding things I have ever done. Thanks everybody for sharing your stories, it was great reading material for me and Bella while we were away, and it was awesome to see how much you learned in your respective fields. See you all tomorrow!

WHat do I write abouttt

It’s kind of hard to write a whole bunch of blog posts when all we do is weeding, I’ve used every possible idea that I have.  This seems to be an issue. I’ll just wing it. On the bright side, I did have a lot of great puns over the experience (shocker there). Just a few of them; (every time we saw a deer: OH DEAR!) or when we saw a dam blocking some water “DAM that’s crazy!”. Well now im just rambling…this is awkward. I guess today was sort of interesting because we went off site for the first time, to collect trees from a donor.  These trees are going to be used for the second biggest event of the year at the nature center.  This is a tree planting ceremony, which honors important people in the community.  This also helps raise money for the nature center, while providing entertainment for the entire nature center and the entire community. Anyways, this is the last blog post, so I bid you all a grand farewell, and it was awesome hearing about all of your great projects, and I look forward to seeing the presentations on Friday!

Bittersweet Endings

The last day on the job was a bit of a bore, we continued to water plants in the morning, and watched some a freshman class attempt to do what we have been doing all of project.  Unfortunately we later had to go back down into the marsh and correct their mistakes, though they gave it a valiant effort.  Hawken is taking a trip down to the nature center tomorrow, for part of the internship day I’m assuming, which should be interesting, even though I won’t be there to watch.  The final day was a little bittersweet, as it was nice to finally be done with project, and look toward graduation, but it was also extremely sad, because I have become such close friends with a lot of the people who work at the nature center, as well as the other senior project students.  Towards the end of the day, I made sure to talk to each of the employees in the center, hoping that I fulfilled what they were expecting, and made sure to get my goodbyes from the two main people who helped us, Sarah and Jessica.  Once again, it was bittersweet but in the end, totally worth it!

Bird Banding round 2

Most people tend not to approve of the concept of bird banding, because it can be considered torture and painful for the birds.  However, many people also believe that it is beneficial for tracking birds to gain information. The nature center has three volunteers who do bird banding three times a week, and have been doing so for 13 years!  The lead lady claims to have banded over ten thousand birds in her efforts.  The process is simple, the birds fly into an almost invisible net and are carefully removed and receive a almost weightless bracket with a code number, and have a few important characteristics recorded.  These characteristics are weight, wing span, where they were found, and what type of bird they are.  The professionals here are very careful with the birds and there is rarely any harm done to the birds.  This is a very controversial topic and not usually supported by citizens, but the intentions are to gain information for the Nature Center. I am not in full support of the process of bird banding, because it could be potentially harmful to the birds and we should let them be, but it was definitely an experience.