Operation Career

Missing Images

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:54:00 +0000

I've managed to rid the site of all the spam comments. My next order of business is to re-initialize all of the images that I had linked which was a bear in the first place. Maybe Blogger has updated making tables a little easier, maybe not. I've been busy getting my DVD Portfolio and resume ready as well as getting things set up for a job fair coming up in Cedar Rapids. Here is a link to that event.

Kirkwood Job Fair Flyer

Beyond that I'm still working retail until I'm able to secure something more within my field. I'll be posting some of the places that I'll be applying to soon. I hope to be sending out resumes within the next week or two.

I'll get to work on getting the rest of the cobwebs outta this place soon.

An Update

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:49:00 +0000

Yes, I am back to working on this site. I have taken a hiatus and have some to tell and some to talk about. Sometimes it just takes a little mothballing for things to gather and formulate into new stories or it takes time to reflect on the old ones. I have noticed an abundance of comments, much of whom are obviously spam bots, but if you're interested in losing that excess weight please click here, j/k.

Much to my chagrin though it seems that I have lost quite a few links which means some extensive retrieval or editing through the backlogs of entries. Oh well, nothing like a good polish to give the old gal a good new look. I may even update the template and etcetera. Until my next update.

Have fun vloggers.

For Now

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:47:00 +0000

I also wanted to state that for a period of unspecified time this vlog will be out of commission. Unfortunately I don't have the resources at this current time to continue it, but it may well be reopened sometime in the not so distant or distant future. Thank you for your patronage, comments, and I hope that you have enjoyed yourself while viewing my works.

Sincerely,
Tyler

This vlog was created for the University of Iowa Class
F/V Production: Alternative Forms
(Video Blogging / Podcasting)

Our course website is located here-Vlogging AllStars

Webisode 10 - The Villa

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 22:42:00 +0000

The Villa de Chantal was a convent in Rock Island. It was built between the years 1900 thru 1929. Through those years it was built in three sections. The first housed the convent, the second contained the chapel and additional housing spaces, and the third was the boarding school.

I stumbled across The Villa while working on a final project for a Photojournalism Class at the University of Iowa. My instructor's advice was to change focus to this historic building because it was more interesting than my previous idea and would fit better to the time restrictions I had for the remainder of the semester. I took his advice and spent 5 weeks driving between Iowa City and Davenport twice a week to take pictures of this building.

A few months after shooting this project The Villa burned down. These were some of the last images taken of it and for posterity's sake I have since taken follow-up pictures of it to contrast the before and after. I was in all intents and purposes hoping to come back to The Villa and share it more accurately with the striking colors some of the stained glass it held and take more black and white pictures of it. Unfortunately, it will have to be remembered like this and in my mind. I will miss it, even if I was only visiting it for such a brief amount of time.

The Video

The Images

Double Post

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 10:02:00 +0000

This is a double post due to the fact that I was negligent in submitting a previous in-class assignment. I will update later this week with the images that accompany The Villa portion of this post.

Speed Vlogging

The Villa

Greasy Spoons

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:39:00 +0000

So I enjoyed the "Still Movie". I think it sorta fits w/ my style. It also might be how I update in the future once I'm done w/ the university if I decide to keep this vlog. I hope to, but it all depends upon how I can update it.

These images are from a documentary photo project I did called Greasy Spoons. I went around some restaurants in a 40 mile radius of my home and took pictures. These are the cheap, greasy, great food and great atmosphere places to eat. The homespun places that you'd love to live down the street from.

Webisode Eight

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:19:00 +0000

Due to illness I hadn't been able to get this up. I apologize for the delay. This update is in the theme of stillmovies. It is an update on my current Photography project centered around the word Mundane and it's possible meanings.

Webisode Seven

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:58:00 +0000

Here's Webisode Seven. Hopefully before you watch this you've seen the short film La Jetee. Great movie that was the inspiration for 12 Monkeys. I also used it to an extent. This entry felt good to make, stepped outside of my comfort zone with it. I wasn't for sure how it was going to be assembled, I had made a couple of different storyboards. It all just came together in the end, move this here and that there kinda thing. Drama + a little Experimentation = Fear for Me. I think it worked well though. Enjoy.

FreeVideoCoding.com

Webisode Six

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:27:00 +0000

So I had an interview at Dillards a week or so ago and I thought I'd share it w/ people. I snuck a camera in and recorded it, unfortunately it had no video only sound. I did some fooling around and made some video for it. Check it out.

So the images are taken from the models on Dilliards site and I just made everything around them. For just the editing of the image part, I did it frame by frame and it took me a total of about 1 1/2 hrs for photoshopping and 8 hrs for frame-by-frame match-up to sync. That's not counting the time it took to record, which was for all total footage that I shot about 45 mins. I liked how it turned out for what I had to work with.

I'm gonna try doing some narrative pieces on myself and what I'm doing in order to liven the vlog up a little rather than stick w/ the talk to the camera approach. We'll see how it goes.

Webisode Five

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:48:00 +0000

Here's the first of three documentations of one of my jobs. Two that pay and one that's volunteer. And yes, I have three jobs plus being a full-time student. If I weren't busy what would I be? Hope everyone who visits takes a look at my previous post to checkout some of my images. I'll have that quick linked on the sidebar in the near future.

Goals to achieve by next post:
-Hear back from recent job interview and finish recording the entry for that.
-Link the photos on the sidebar.
-Find more potential job sites and make a vlog entry about that.

As with any of my goals, they are subject to change and modification. Obviously it's easier to throw more goals out there so that you can manage to get some of them done and eventually all of them.

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 22:19:00 +0000

So I kept my promise with getting the images ready. I'm hoping that there'll be no linking issues. I'm using a site called Pureupload and it was very user friendly. I adapted what I was going to be shooting for my most current vlog entry from showing the websites that I'll be using for job searching to footage of one of my workplaces.

Order of Images

Greasy Spoon- This was a semester long project for my Photo Journalism Class in which I traveled to four or five different restaurants that fit the description of a greasy spoon and took photos of their interior and exterior.

Photo Services- Images taken during Iowa Football games versus Ohio State and Iowa State.

Bonnaroo- Photos that I took during a summer vacation to Bonnaroo in Manchester,TN. Included is a panorama of the band Radiohead made from two separate images and Ben Ottewell the lead singer of the British band Gomez.

The Villa de Chantal- A glorious old convent in Rock Island that I shot photos of before it burned down the following summer. These were taken for a final project of my first photography class.

Work in Progress- A project based loosely around the word Mundane that is being shot for my current photography class.

I've had difficulties finding job related websites that I trust or that seem to have anything to offer hence why the next vlog post won't be about job related sites. Though for a future entry I plan on documenting a job interview or something related to such being as I plan on applying to work at Dillard's at Coral Ridge Mall. Remember, this is a blog about documenting my increasingly exciting* employment.

*increasingly exciting-sarcasm, I know it's not the most fun to watch but it's mainly for me and you're along for the ride.

P.S.- This entry has a lot of love in it and a lot of coding. I've had many problems with it and I know it's organization has some to be desired for. I can only do so much w/ the blogger set up for editing the format. I'm still constantly looking for a section or type of code that I can use to organize it better graphically.

P.S.S.- I was surfing when I found this and I want it -

It's a tripod that can literally go anywhere. Supposedly they can hold a digital SLR camera w/ no problem. It'd make for some really neat shots.

Webisode Four

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:17:00 +0000

So this is the first of my independent posts, which now makes me entirely responsible for any and all content without restriction. With that said I make no apologies for what I do or do not show because it is my intent to show you exactly what I want you to see, otherwise I wouldn’t bother editing.

Primarily this blog functions for me and me alone. I like to document my life so then in the future I can look back and reflect upon how I have or have not changed. The fact that I have it posted in a “public” place such as the Internet helps me to gain input into what I should or should not do by way of comments from others as well as keep in contact with loved ones near and far from me.

Though it is also my intention that Operation Career will function on the premise that I will document what I’m doing in order to find employment beyond college. Hopefully others will see how I have succeeded and failed and this will help them to reach their own goals.

This entry is not the permanent format for future posts but a good representation of what one should come to expect from my entries. I will establish what I have done and what I will do in order to reach the short term and long term goals I set for myself. I will use direct address as well as other forms to illustrate what is going on in my small, but self-important corner of the world. So share the laughter, the melancholy, and certainly the wine, let’s kick this donkey and get the show on the road.

Thank you,
Tyler

P.S.- I'm toying with a couple of things so bear with me.

Webisode Three Part Two of Two

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:36:00 +0000

Here's the second part of the full uncut version of Webisode Three. I didn't color correct or edit it any further than adding the intro/outro and fixing the sound slightly.

Webisode Three Part One of Two

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:30:00 +0000

Here's the first part of the full uncut version of Webisode Three. I didn't color correct or edit it any further than adding the intro/outro and fixing the sound slightly.

Webisode Three

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:50:00 +0000

So I wanted to try shooting a little more from the hip and it felt a little better than my two previous where everything was mounted on a tripod. I think I'm going to alternate between the two for future posts.

SO, this post is the final of our guided assignments for the class I'm taking and its focus was to describe your favorite place. Obviously this one is about my car whose name is Pumpkin. I'm also posting the uncut version in two parts, which I think is equally entertaining. I filmed it originally as a one shot for effect and what I thought was funny is that in the uncut version I do a lot of talking about my car and go off on a tangent or two before finally showing the car which is brief in comparison to the rest of the piece. It was meant to be humorous and different to try a different style than I had previously done. Enjoy.

Webisode Two

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:02:00 +0000

I couldn't find anyone to interview so I thought I'd interview myself. A la Tyler interview's Future Tyler, a whole ten months in the future.? But, I couldn't get my time-machine to work, so here's the update.

Webisode One

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:21:00 +0000

noreply@blogger.com (Tyler) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:16:00 +0000

Welcome to watching me try to get a job.