Sunday, August 10, 2008
Hello, LA. Goodbye, Black Moses.
Today was a travel day to Los Angeles accompanied by five graphic communications students for the ACM SIGGRAPH conference. This conference is one of the best places to go to get a perspective on what role digital graphics has in our culture, our entertatinment, and basically our lives in general. This is because it is part academic conference, part artistic showcase, and part industry trade show. In the next few days I will be sharing experiences and perspectives on Siggraph. It has been seven years since I last indulged in this digital graphics overload
This is this year's crew. They have already had their first star sighting on the airplane. Danny Glover sat in the row in front of us, the first row in coach. He moved to Beaverton several years ago and was likely taking the trip down south for some business. I was impressed because he kept his seat in an upright position and did not put his seat back and hammer on my legs. Something that happens too often on flight I am on
The sign painters on the north side of the Hotel Figuerora were pretty cool to watch on our way back from a fine Mexican meal of halibut fajitas and other delights
I'm not sure why the flags were at half mast officially, perhaps for the 500th casuality in Afgahnistan. In my funkasphere, they certainly would be flying low for Isaac.
posted by well-executed buffet at 9:59 PM
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