So, dear Blog, I finally passed my preliminaries. After two harrowing weeks of hard word, refining and improving and polishing my presentation, devising, designing and evolving my documentation and generally mucking around, I passed.
It was a nice presentation, even if I do say so myself.
The whole thing had been prepared in keynote, the authored through idvd – thats what I love apple for, the simplicity of it – on this nice new machine I have standing down here. What would have taken me weeks and months to prepare and render just a few weeks ago took mere hours or minutes to prepare on the new sytem. Very very nice!
The room was prepared like a movie theatre, with my slides presented towards the front, the examiners viewing it from their chairs. It was nice and intimate, with Mazzy Star singing Mary of Silence. Great song.
I started on book, but quickly realized that i didn't need the script. And then I presented the damn thing and we talked a bit about what I wanted to do with my time in Potsdam (Anything to do with books), where I would work (Stylorouge, various Publishers etc.), and what about film? it was, in fact,pretty cool. The message came across loud and clear.
I failed, we all know why, now can we please get on with this?
And I passed!
Celebrations were very grown-up I'm afraid: glass of cham with a friend, then about fifteen hours sleep to catch up with what was lost in the making of all this.
Now, for the readers viewing pleasure, no not the presentation, but the documentation. A few pictures from my homely desk in original, flatlite™ illumination!
And quote to save the day: The presentation of the idea is as important as the idea itself.
(Wow! Wisdom!)
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