SIGGRAPH 2006 – Day 6
Day 6 – another long day – I’m speaking today so I figured I would try to pick up some of the slack in the meantime.
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First we went back the e-tech and I saw this robotic hand.
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And the this very nice very large autostereoscopic display. I liked it but I knew better than to ask for the price.
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So. How many MIT guys does it take to get me an invitation to the Open House on Friday? Well one but it takes 3 days. Seriously these guys kicked but in getting me the Open House invitation and are all a bunch of hard working and really smart guys. Thanks.
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So we went to the job fair. I’m not looking for a job but I have friends who are and I like the loot.
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Amongst the varied companies was this game developer for cell phones.
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weta had the longest line. I guess everyone wants to live in New Zealand.
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This lady works for a slot machine company. They had great key chains and coasters. I want to design slot machines.
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Theses guys sell a 3D force feedback mouse thing. I don’t know who they were rtying to hire.
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The people from about where a hoot. She had all type of silly give away stuff and real reasons for it. Plus she really liked talking to us and gave us silly crap. They give away toothbrushes!
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The guys who sell those golf video games for bars where there with a bar like setup but alas no keg.
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ATI had even better stuff here than on the show floor. The bags were not paper and they even had this light up fan with a message that changed, Very high tech.
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The Art Institute People were even nicer here than on the show floor. They were looking for online faculty and took my info – though I doubt they want me to teach for them.
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With our swag and info in hand I went to attend some courses in the educators program and met up with Ed and Ed – you know what they say: Two Eds are better than one. Don’t groan THEY really say it.
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Courses were fun and informative.
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Look its my old friend and colleague Darrell Bailey from IUPUI . Great program and facility over there.
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Now this is a bizarre story. This guy in the hallway starts talking to us (which is normal at this thing) but he hands me his info – some background some images and I realize that its Jeff Jacobson from planetjeff.net who I do not know in person but whose work I have been following and who I have on a to do list that I need to call him when I get home and talk about stuff. And there he was. So we talked about sutff!
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Mei-Fen Chen and her colleagues from Robert Morris College – they were very nice but would only be photographed as a group.
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And here is Darrell and his wife Herminia Wei-Hsin Din (who I heard speak earlier).
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The talk went great – people saw the images and my co-presenters were interesting. No photo of me talking cause it’s a dark room with these bright lights in fact I don’t know if there was anyone in the audience you couldn’t see. Jenny assures me that there was like 100 people there.
So we went back to the exhibition floor so I could show the IUPUI guys the multiple screen solution thing my Scalable Display Technologies and this guys was a fountain of local color and told us some funny stories – I’m kinda looking forward to after the show now and seeing some of the Boston he was telling us about.
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Ok here is one for Kido who placed on comment asking for Disney information and pictures. I don’t have nay information but I took a bunch of pictures of the Disney booth for you:
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This one is hard to see but they line for teapots circles around at the Pixar booth and instead of a crazy free for all they had the security guard (on the right) get people in line while a bouncer looking guy (on the left) watched the boxes from behind. It was super efficient!
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New toy alert! Oh my goodness. It’s a 3D printer that makes sense and we can afford (about $15k). It uses sheets of plastic that it cuts and glues with a plotter like device. Very nice and a clever design.
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The CIA ladies again looking great (as always).
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Jenny and I with Shrek from the HP booth.
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This really nice student volunteer who handed out the 3D glasses for my talk.
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Look its Mike Hilliard from The Cleveland Museum of Art and also Treasurer of the local chapter.
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So this guy (on the left) and I (on the right) keep passing each other. His cane and vest are lighter in color mine are darker but its like looking in a mirror. He stole my look! Actually he was nice enough to take this silly photo with me.
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Albert William from IUPUI who does some amazing work over there and is just a nice guy too.
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So the day was over and we were getting ready for find out parties. Ken swore he knew where he was going but he really looked lost to me.
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First we went to the Chapters Reception.
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Here is Deseree (I hope I spelled that right) who was on guard in the Pixar booth.
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We took this bridge over to the World Trade Center and I saw Boston (and felt the heat)
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The World Trade Center
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The Contributors Reception started at 6:30 and the regular reception at 8.
They had all types of food and helpful people.
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Even Chinese (my fav) and you didn’t take plates it was like oversized takout containers.
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They were taste testing some new Sam Adams beer. I sampled myself a keychain.
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The talented Julia Detar (note the Blue vest). I’ve seen her work at it is very good. She was being very official (note the headset).
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This guys was running around in a Segway – it looked fun and he said he really liked it.
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I got us invited to the Electronic Arts part so we headed over and it was right next to Fenway Park where the Cleveland Indians were playing (and lost).
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The party was at Jillains.
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And there was Brian on the way in. I like this folder cause it looks like he is carrying the big Yellow umbrella.
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The place was huge!
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Food and an open bar.
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Free Bowling (with advanced technology that told you how to makes your spares).
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Jenny and Aaron weren’t wearing socks but they gave them out.
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Jenny gets a Spare.
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Aaron gets a Strike.
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Aaron won.
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They also had pool but we didn’t play.
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I had taken a picture of our hosts – they were so nice to invite us but it got corrupted (I think it was a conspiracy and that EA only employs vampires in PR – think about they always look good and you only see them at night)
I did however meet Rick Anderson who is working on a game of his own – he is also from Ohio.
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Here is an EA PR person talking to Aaron – I guess she isn’t a vampire but she is pale (or the flash was too bright).
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Look its Marco and Oliver. Marco says if I keep taking his picture that he won’t get invited to any more parties and then I reminded him that he isn’t invited to most of the parties he goes to (kidding).
We sat around for a while talking and kidding and someone asked how old he was and he said “I’m 30 but next year I will be 31” (he meant next week) but it was too late it was the funniest line of the evening.
He said if I posted this story he would get his revenge but I told him I could Photoshop and American beer into his hand and use it as blackmail. It’s the last story of the night I will post so that he can have his revenge in a comment if he likes.
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I am all partied out! I present first thing in the am – 8. So one more day at the show and then some more goodies this weekend. Stay tuned.
Jared