Recently I assisted Paula in the beginnings of her home office makeover. As with many busy professionals Paula’s office had become a clutter of stuff in bags, items not being used and of which now accumulated on Paula’s office floor. There are still deeper purging that needs to be done and new systems to be created. However, the process has begun and Paula can now hang-out and enjoy her office space.
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I read this is in The Next Web and I’m sure it’ll be making the rounds going viral.
QRSlate is a film slate for iOS and a Desktop Importer for Mac OS. QRSlate allows you to automatically import and embed metadata included on your movie slate into your clips, as well as find the slate clap, lay down markers, and more! It organizes your editing project for you.
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Another one of my skills is that of organizing. Earlier this year, I assisted a dear friend/producer who was pulling together this NOVA special: Cracking Your Genetic Code. This is a fascinating documentary which answers many questions and raises a few more.
When dealing with technology we are constantly asking ourselves about the wonders of the how we can use the technology. Now think about if you were able to know your own DNA? It is already affordable to check your DNA and know what types of illness and disease you might be predisposed to.
Cracking Your Genetic Code is a NOVA special airing March 28, 2012 on your local PBS Station that dives into these questions. Have a peek here:
This film gives some heartfelt examples on how technology has elevated the patients’ health and lives. It explores the moral dilemmas raised by new technologies. Will it help or hurt us to know the diseases that may lie in our future? And, what if such information falls into the hands of insurance companies, employers or prospective mates?
This is the new era of personalized, gene-based medicine and I believe we’ll be seeing a lot more of this. Tune in next Wednesday night, March 28th to see for yourself: NOVA | Cracking Your Genetic Code.
Way back in the days of Ziggy Stardust, I stood on the floor of the Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin awaiting David Bowie’s appearance on stage. As we all lingered, Mr. Bowie toyed with us by showing a short clip of the 1929 movie: Un Chien Andalou. I innocently watched this black and white film.
For this who don’t know the storyline, I highly recommend watching this short 40 second film and see Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali’s most famous scene. Spoiler alert, short as this is, it is NOT for the squeamish and these images could follow you for life. As a young Midwestern gal, I was completely unprepared for what Ziggy was sharing with us. The packed arena groaned at the end of this film. I guess I wasn’t the only one caught off guard.
Now, these many, many years later, Ziggy’s sense of humor [or whatever sensation Mr. Bowie was attempting to teach us] has changed to an aqueous one. For those uninitated to the schematics of our eyes, aqueous humor is basically the fluid that flows in our eyes and also in simple terms maintains the intraocular pressure and inflates the globes of our eyes amongst its many other functions. But how does aqueous humor impact me this week?
Well, it has to do with the narrow angles of my eyes. Without boring you, the space between my cornea and the iris of my eye has narrowed. This, in my Ophthalmologist’s world is called: Narrow Angles, Closed Angle or Angle-Closure Glaucoma and leads me to be at a high risk for glaucoma. Fun times [I’m being sarcastic, for those who don’t know me well]. Have a look for yourself, in the image below.
Which means, I’m having some surgery today, wherein the Ophthalmologist will be using a laser to blast a very fine hole into my eye…more precisely my iris. They tell me my eye will be numbed, a sort of contact lens inserted and the laser will blast into my eye.
The whole procedure will go something like this short video.
Being a visual designer I’m actually-as many of us I’m sure are- very in love with my vision, so having this type of procedure done to my eye has given me the very same hibbie-jeebies that David Bowie’s pre-concert flick gave me those-oh, so many years ago. Only this time, it’s happening to me. And adding to the drama, today’s procedure only involves my right eye. I get to enjoy the fun all over again, with my left eye, in two weeks.
Now maybe my Ophthalmologist didn’t want to freak me out, so he only told me the basics of this procedure. His nurse called me and gave me more details and when I signed consent papers she gave me a very basic handout describing the surgery. I went out and researched the above medical video, which brought up those crazy, eye-slitting images Ziggy Stardust embedded in my half-baked, pre-concert brain decades ago.
So, I’ll let the aqueous humor [hee, hee] help me deal with the fears I have leading up to today’s action plan. After my appointment, I’m planning on laying low, administering my steroid eyedrops and hoping for the best. Maybe I’ll even listen to Five Years from my favorite Glam Rocker as I psych up to do this all over again with my left eye. We’ve got five years, stuck on my eyes…
My Right Eye Before: My Right Eye After: Upload to follow
Oh, and BTW that ‘little prick’ you’ll feel-as the Dr. explained-felt more like an industrial, automatic nail gun piercing thru my iris.
