you can't make this stuff up

The real kicker is that you pretty well know they're going to get flooded with responses.....


Craig's List!
Where lives and stuff are as cheap as they are mediocre.

Driver w/neurosurgery experience (Beverly Hills)

Creative Medical center is seeking entry level driver. Must have insurance and clean medical record. Prefer candidates that are experienced with use of specially developed minimally invasive stereotactic techniques and a desire to pursue a career in treatment of vascular malformations.

•Location: Beverly Hills
•Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
•Please, no phone calls about this job!
•Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

No....I'm sorry, the original ad is funnier. Its true you cant make this stuff up!!!

Emre Tufekci
http://www.productionpit.com

lol
While I've gotten staff editing jobs by painting the cyc and hangin' shelves, man I didn't answer an ad to do it. It was more like "sorry we don't have any positions open at this time" with me responding "oh you just don't yet!"
If hiring initiative, an ad is not required. If exploiting an editor for his car, on the other hand...

Steve - on a few occasions I have rendered files on laptop while driving to a meeting, the airport or train station. You thinking texting is dangerous while driving, try using Adobe Encore behind the wheel.

I see the occasional ad looking for people with an HD camera to shoot news stories about their local community for like $25 per story. Bad news.

Personally I am looking for an administrative assistant who can type, make travel reservations, manage my expenses, send faxes and who owns a RED camera.

Know anyone like that?

Mike Cohen

I think we need to add some more pedals and integrate the radio and cruise control buttons on the steering wheel. We could add a jog and shuttle function to the radio dials and air conditioner knobs. All of those buttons most drivers can use without looking.

Didn't the Lightworks have pedals or a touch screen interface?

Apparently at NAB 1982 or so when the Lightworks was being demonstrated, using raw footage from Return of the Jedi, it was the most popular booth in town.

Ron, if the members of this forum come up with a new product idea, like in-car editing, who owns the IP?

Incidentally, a car makes a quiet audio booth in a pinch.

Years ago before I joined the company, they had a yellow Winnebago called The Banana. They had an edit bay and drove around the US and Canada filming and editing surgery. Only problem was there were four guys living in the thing too.

Mike

You guys need to starting thinking OUTSIDE the box. Sure, editing in the car is fine... but what about distributed rendering? Just think, you could have the entire New York City taxi fleet working on rendering your output. What the heck, they're just sitting there anyway... might as well put them to use!

Mark

[Patricia Shanks] "The only problem is ... how to make the entire process hands free. Perhaps a stylus between the teeth? Go ahead. Go ahead. Tell me I'm onto something."

Hmmm... you could get rid of that useless airbag in the steering wheel and replace it with a trackball.

...keep your hands off it in a sharp turn of course or you'll be pulling in clips from the trashcan.

On second thought, maybe a Wacom tablet with a base that fits snugly into a cupholder would be the ticket...although where would I keep my cheeseburger?




TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Quite impressive, Mike.

It would look even fancier with one of those color-coded Bella keyboards.

Now this is what I call multi-tasking.

Ron Lindeboom

It may be time to resurrect the old CMX voice-activated software, integrate it with Avid's new Max-T online editing software and keep your dog in the car with you!

Nick Hrycyk
Digital Image Studios

Men can steer with their thigh.

Steve Wargo
Tempe, Arizona
It's a dry heat!

Sony HDCAM F-900 & HDW-2000/1 deck
5 Final Cut (not quite PRO) systems
Sony HVR-M25 HDV deck
2-Sony EX-1 HD .

Ask me how to Market Yourself using Send Out Cards

my old driving post facility:
http://grinnerhester.com/bus1.jpg
http://grinnerhester.com/ship.html

Y'know, I don't actually have a problem with this at all. It's one of the many ways how this industry and many others have been built. You want to become an agent? Start in the mailroom. Want to become a producer? Start as a personal assistant.

On one level, sure, it's exploitation. More important, you want more from your assistant than somebody for whom being an assistant is the best job they've ever had, or the only job they want. Unless you really ARE an exploiter, you want somebody who can grow into another role over time.

My first job in the visual arts was as an assistant photographer, ie, I carried the bags. Then I showed him the pictures I took on my own time, and took his criticism. "Great eye, kid, but it takes many hundreds of photos to know what you're doing in the darkroom." He was right, of course.

My next step was taking the assignments he didn't want (school board)...and from there into editorial and layout, and on and on until I owned my own company. But the only reason my boss hired me is because he knew I was at least a decent photog and that I wanted his job.

Oh yeah, and things I learned from those lame school board meetings, and hanging in the newsroom and listening to reporters laugh at candidates and hacks helped me make political consulting and campaign management a big part of my business.

I started that first job making nothing.

This is similar to how -- what's that you say? Bob ZELIN??? -- Zelin and other people I know got their start. Working for next to nothing at a job that was NOT their goal, but enough to get them in the door. They moved up because they asked a lot of questions, and started doing jobs nobody else wanted.

So to me, this driver/editor job listing falls into the categories of, "Fun to mock," and "If you don't want it, don't take it," but most important, "Wow, I remember those days! It was gruesome, but it got me where I am today."

Consider it a Rorschach test. Are you closer to the beginning of your career, or closer to DEATH? Because hey, that's how it went, and that's how it goes.

Yr pal,
Timmy



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Mike Cohen,

I believe it was the EditDroid (a Lucasfilm experiment at a nonlinear editor) that used RotJ footage to create a standing-room-only presentation at NAB back in the day.


-Andrew

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)

[Ron Lindeboom] "I jumped at the chance and used it to get every ounce of experience...."

And to go back to the top of the thread, if I had the opportunity to get a foot in the door AND drive...wow, I don't know how much better it could get. To quote your friends and mine, "Beep beep, mmm beep beep YEAH!"







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