Music for the Eyes - Música para los Ojos
Oh! how much a breaking news this last Sunday made me remember about my professional beginnings in the world of TV Broadcasting, Computer Graphics, VFX, Computer Animation, MIDI and Multimedia technology. Way way before Adobe Photoshop & After Effects even existed.
When far ago, in the good old days, my sleepless days used to pass by surrounded by not so small hightech gadgets which day after day I had to battle against a bunch of dip switches, jumpers, memory addresses, wires and whatnot to tame their whims and make they obeyed me to do the job as these shoulda be done.
Yeah! I was kinda 'Cranky Gandalf' tech wizard. But not so pink at the time. };)
- Quantel Paintbox
- Ampex Digital Optics ADOs
- AVAs and 1&2-inch-wide open-reel VTRs
"Kind of a musical Warhol"
"You Might Think" won the first MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year and was nominated for five more awards (best special effects, best art direction, viewer's choice, best concept video, and most experimental video) at the 1984 MTV Video Music Awards. The video also won five awards (best overall, best conceptual, most innovative, best editing, and best special effects) at Billboard's 1984 Video Music Awards and four awards (best achievement in music video, best editor in music video, best engineer in music video, and best camera in music video) at the Videotape Production Association's 1985 Monitor Awards.
So, You Might Think?
People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay. «Ric Ocasek»
R.I.P. Bro! Yeah, I'll keep LAUGHIN'!!
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