Models and music

Day 39/365

Models sometimes don’t show up.

It’s upsetting enough with new models, not to mention a complete waste of time, but I was surprised to be left hanging by a model I’d worked with once before, after having made the trip to downtown Salt Lake just to find myself texting and leaving messages with no response whatsoever.

Here’s a few pictures that resulted from a little scouting around once I realized I’d been stood up.

The Hoberman Arch by the Rice Eccles football stadium:

Have you noticed how exciting traffic can be? Look! That red car just took the lead at 500 miles an hour!! Granted, the driver lost control, crashed into a retaining barrier and then exploded, but still! Exciting stuff

Day 40/365

Do you see that green glow?… Those tiny, beautiful little green lights on the front panel?… Ahhh… I love them when they come on and I miss them when they’re gone… It’s a beautiful sight.

And now for an explanation as to why I’m apparently attracted to green lights.

In the past week, I have fought… and fought… and fought… and then fought some more, with the installation of a music program called ProTools.

Digidesign, the manufacturer of both the software (ProTools) and the hardware to run it (in my case, the MBox 2 – pictured here), insists that ProTools simply will not work on the 64-bit version of Windows Vista, which I have.

To which I naturally say, “Watch me!”

Hey, it’s worked before, it’ll work again.

And obviously it did work (the green lights are on!), but not without a long and gruesome fight. It took me days of endlessly installing, uninstalling and doing something a little different with every try before it finally came back to life and stayed there.

Now it’s alive again. Glowing beautifully by my side.

Ahhh… Life is good.