Assembly Blog

Woke up early this morning (8.30). Had a creeping feeling ot heartburn because of rather greasy late night snack around 0.30 last night. Went outside facing the sun for the first time in after a long, long while. God, that felt good! I munched my breakfast breadroll in no hurry and enjoyed the warm caressing of the sun. After a rather cold sleep that came as a pleasant surprise, even if I had to sacrifice my nightvision needed inside Areena.

I have now stayed up 49 hours and had nine hours of sleep somewhere in-between. 9/49 is quite a horrible ratio to keep, almost a half of the actual need. Unfortunately I’m just not such a sound sleeping guy. Immediatly if there’s some discomfort I wake up and quite probably aren’t capable to fall asleep again, even if the source of discomfort is removed.

To do: couple of more ads for the Interactive and two other inserts. We spent two hours last night shooting some obscure rather obscure stuff at the request from our reporter. I hope he has A Vision concerning the material waiting on the DV-tape to be logged, captured and edited.

But first a cup of coffee!

First day of organizers Assembly (Build day 1) is almost over. My sense of time is already beginning to distort. I have no clear notion of the world outside Hartwall Areena. This is spooky.

I have my editing computer set up except for the editing software and network. And considering that I already have my first insert to edit, this is kinda bad. Well, I guess I have to resort to my lousy (in terms of CPU power, memory and hard disk space) laptop to get things rolling.

Tired - already |-p Hopefully sleeping helps.

Phew… Thought I never got around doing more than 10 minutes straight Assembly related stuff at a time. Now when I found the time and/or energy it’s half past one a.m. :-P Well, atleast I’ve now done my part for improving the communication between my group members by writing some stuff down into our intranet page. Who needs sleep anyways…

The party is still a good week away and I’m already beginning to burn my candle from both ends. I hope I catch myself before it goes too far - burnout shouldn’t be on anyones personal agenda. After all, we’re doing this for fun (with serious mind, of course) :-)

Tme to hit the sack.

Ja niin myös minä liityn tämän sähköisen päiväkirjan kirjoittajien joukkoon. Nimi on Jaakko “jazzu” Vallo, ja toimenkuvaani kuuluu kameran heiluttelu kentällä (joskus harvoin, ymmärtääkseni) ja hiiren heiluttelu editissä (melkein jatkuvasti) Interaktiiviset ohjelmat -osaston alla, jota ToM johtaa. Omaan valmistautumiseeni on kuulunut lähinnä ohjelmaideoiden pyörittely ja jonkinnäköisen graafisen ilmeen pohtiminen tälle ohjelmalle, mutta toistaiseksi on ollut vähän inspiraatio, tai ehkä lähinnä jokin konkreettinen visualisointi mieleen tulleista jutuista hukassa. No, onhan tässä vielä ruhtinaallisesti aikaa ennen Areenalle siirtymistä, ja toki keskiviikkoiltana ehtii vielä monen moista juttua väsätä…