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McCloud lecture
Nov. 21st, 2006 01:20 amSo the plan for today was to get up early, work out, do laundry, fix up my résumé, do some shopping in Manhattan, loaf around at the NYU Starbucks sketching till around 6:30, catch the Scott McCloud lecture from 7 to 9, then head uptown to the SFFWA reception.
The actual practice was: Slept late, skipped the gym, did laundry, fought with MS Word, wasted time reading blogs, did some shopping in Manhattan, couldn’t find the lecture hall, saw the McCloud clan crossing the street and followed then figuring they’d know where the lecture hall was, discovered they didn’t know either, found it using Vindigo (still the most useful app on my Palm), enjoyed the lecture, hung around after and went with the amorphous dinner group (to the Apple Restaurant & Bar — warning, Flash site with music) which finished up around 11:30, came home. In addition to seeing![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
goraina, who I seem to run into at every NYC comics-related event, I also saw marionv, and chatted over dinner with Gary Tyrrell of Fleen.
McCloud’s presentation is great. Some of the material is covered in Making Comics, but there’s plenty that isn’t, like his life story condensed down to 150 pictures. I jotted down a couple of pages of notes. The guy next to me was taking his notes down in comics form with a red Sharpie. And the woman next to him had been doing some Sharpie sketching before the presentation. Just imagine if the whole audience had been taking notes with Sharpies! The fumes could have provided that swiveling-through-the-third-dimension aspect McCloud was talking about.
The actual practice was: Slept late, skipped the gym, did laundry, fought with MS Word, wasted time reading blogs, did some shopping in Manhattan, couldn’t find the lecture hall, saw the McCloud clan crossing the street and followed then figuring they’d know where the lecture hall was, discovered they didn’t know either, found it using Vindigo (still the most useful app on my Palm), enjoyed the lecture, hung around after and went with the amorphous dinner group (to the Apple Restaurant & Bar — warning, Flash site with music) which finished up around 11:30, came home. In addition to seeing
goraina, who I seem to run into at every NYC comics-related event, I also saw marionv, and chatted over dinner with Gary Tyrrell of Fleen. McCloud’s presentation is great. Some of the material is covered in Making Comics, but there’s plenty that isn’t, like his life story condensed down to 150 pictures. I jotted down a couple of pages of notes. The guy next to me was taking his notes down in comics form with a red Sharpie. And the woman next to him had been doing some Sharpie sketching before the presentation. Just imagine if the whole audience had been taking notes with Sharpies! The fumes could have provided that swiveling-through-the-third-dimension aspect McCloud was talking about.