John Davidson
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My family owned a country store/gas station in the middle of nowhere in south Georgia and I spent the first 22 years of my life working there. In fact, when I worked free as an intern for Ted Turner’s News Station (CNN), I would go home on weekends and run the gas station for cash. Some of the great things you will learn from this career choice are:
1. Knowing what each repeat customer chews, smokes, and rolls on a daily basis. How some people can smoke 4 packs of Dorals each day and not die will become a constant source of dismay.
2. Becoming intricately familier with local comedians and finding infinite joy in clever retorts. E.G. “Do you want a bag with that?” gets ‘I’m bout to bag it!” HAHAHAHA! That never gets old. Even after the 16,000th time it is used on you in a single day.
3. Disseminating consumer feedback and navigating sticker shock. This comes in the form of surprise that eggs at a gas station might cost more than costco.
4. Learning that many people, despite years of training and tutelage, are incapable of placing effluence in or even near the public toilet.
5. People will buy a 4 cent peice of gum with a one dollar food stamp. They will do this ALL DAY until they deplete the entire booklet of food stamps they received. Then they will ask for you to convert $58 in loose change into dollars. This would seem infuriating but by this point you’ve already gone completely insane.
6. You will be shocked to see the same people with nothing to do come in over, and over, and over, and over again EVERY DAY. It makes you want to suggest a pre-planned shopping trip to a larger store to save money, but you won’t because you’ve already gone insane (see #5).
7. You will be handed money that clearly has been placed in an area of the human body that you do not want your hands anywhere near. This will be normal.
8. On a strange note, you’ll develop a near savant ability to make change mentally without consulting the cash register.
9. The juice that is formed at the bottom of a gas station exterior trash can is a romantic blend of beer, rain water, cola, runny diaper, and a new, undiscovered disease. When you empty the trash can, this electrons in this juice are negatively charged and will attract themselves to your body and clothes regardless of your efforts to prevent it. The smell will never, ever come off of you and you will vividly remember it for the rest of your life. In fact, upon death, this will likely be the last sensory memory to flash across your mind.
10. Every customer that comes in from the first of the month until about the 15th will be completely wasted. The fourth week of every month will be the saddest week of your life.
11. You will make many late night condom sales. You will be shocked that some people are in actual need of condoms. You will pray to all Gods that you never be forced to see who (or what) the condom will be used with.
12. You will have some really great customers. One day they’ll ask you to take a check. You will take it. It will bounce. And you will never see them again.
13. The levels of boredom you achieve will do wonders for you later in life, especially when you start writing comedy.
And that’s why I stay in TV.
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My 2 cents. Nothing beats the original but I always loved this guys cover.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHFcg1Bg83w
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I’m NDA free, baby.
-Sent from my iWatch.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Used it last weekend for my nephews wedding. We used the free Rode app because the paid one wouldn’t install for some reason. I literally forgot about it until 3 minutes before they walked down the isle. Plugged it in, hit record, and begged somebody to give it to my nephew.
Awesome, awesome, awesome. No distortion and we got all the good audio on a very windy day with no wind noise. There are worse ways to spend $60.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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You know, I leave you kids alone for 10 minutes so I can play xbox…
I just mean that with new mac pros and the hinted update to FCPX that pretty obviously is being tailored to it, fall should be a pretty interesting time for FCPX. Ironically, I had no idea that Discovery LA was doing this so it’s pretty cool to see that development.
In terms of the network we work with that’s switching, it’s still on hold – perhaps they’re waiting for this new mac pro. I think that most networks are holding back to see x ‘get there’, especially with shared storage. Probably all that really needs to happen is for X to start incorporating a variant of sparse disks and event manager x from within the program, make the project icons dark gray, and then call it something like ‘film widget’ and it’ll take off like hot cakes.
Gotta run – it’s double xp weekend on COD!
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Wait till the fall. It’s going to get crazy.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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I’m cutting my nephews wedding on an iMac with a Black Magic Mini monitor via Thunderbolt on a 1080p 19″ Samsung we got from Wal-Mart for about $150. I don’t think it looks as good as a bigger TV, but for our small home office it’s easy. When we shoot, the monitor is awesome for helping get accurate focus when we need it and it’s super portable.
Thats the $300 answer you’re looking for. 🙂
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Are you sure you had the aperture all the way open? It takes a little playing with it to get that look right. I have the 1.2 L Canon, and while it can certainly get a little bit better results because of the greater aperture, you should be getting great stuff with that 1.8.
Without ND filters, you’re going to have to crank up the shutter speed to get that look right. You’re going to be in manual mode for this. Were you in manual?
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Check out the $99 Canon 50mm 1.8. In bright light you’ll probably want to get some ND filters for it. The trick is getting the aperture as low as possible. The lower the ap, the more you’ll get that shallow depth look.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.
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Just to throw it out there – we recently got the F&V K4000V Tungsten/Daylight LED light panels and really really like them. Being able to control the color is super useful and they can all be controlled simultaneously with a remote as well. While they can’t compete with sunlight, they’re fantastic and super portable. Very happy with them.
https://www.fvlighting.com/k4000-led-studio-panel-3-light-kit.html
We got the bi-color ones.
John Davidson | President / Creative Director | Magic Feather Inc.