Jeff & Rob Visit Lucasfilm

Last fall Hemos started working for Perforce: one of their clients is Lucasfilm. One thing led to another, and last week I got to visit their Presidio facility in San Francisco. Their security policies prevent me from saying anything about the super sweet things I saw inside the building, but I can post this picture of us next to the Yoda statue outside the front door. Thanks to Matt Janulewicz for getting us in the front door and showing us around, Daryll Jacobson for opening a cool door and Tina Mills for pressing click. I can now say that I've been physically closer to Starwars.com than I have to Slashdot.org since the 1998 when it lived under my desk. Finally, the gauntlet has been thrown: if you work somewhere cool (Pixar? Apple? NASA? The White House? Comerica Park?) drop me an email! I am not above using T-Shirts as bribery to see cool places!

Comments

This is news?

[Daetrin]

What do you think this is? Your personal blog?

(And for those who don't get the joke, yes, i know ;)

Re:This is news?

[flyingsquid]

"Their security policies prevent me from saying anything about the super sweet things I saw inside the building"

And when he says he can't say anything, he doesn't mean he signed some sort of agreement, he means he literally cannot say anything. A guy in a brown robe walked up, slowly waved a hand in front of his face, and said, "you cannot say anything about the things you saw inside of this building."

You should visit the ranch sometime

[elrous0]

You can see the dungeon where Lucas rapes our childhood memories.

Who are those middle aged dudes?

[wiredog]

Whatever happened to the scrappy twenty-somethings I met at the Hilton annex at Comdex?

news

[Anonymous Coward]

Nerd goes to Lucasfilm; can't talk about it. No news at 11.

Hey, I've been there too!

[MrEricSir]

See? http://www.mrericsir.com/blog/local/yoda-statue/

Jeez, why don't my personal blog entries make the front page of Slashdot?

the /. staff

[Vorpix]

I kinda like this sorta post. I used to feel a closer connection with the /. mods back in the day than recently. It didn't always feel like one Apple/Google press release after another like it does nowadays. It seemed like there was more editorial content. (Not that I'm asking for JonKatz to return...)

Nice to see a Hemos shout-out

[khaladan]

Been wondering what happened to him.

The other side of those cool places

[Bruce Perens]

If you were an animator or technical director at Pixar, you could expect to live there during production. The film has to be done on time, you can't miss the Christmas season, etc. I saw many families bring dinner to Pixar almost every evening so that they could eat together, as mommy or daddy wasn't coming home until really late. I was in studio tools, not production, and thus was allowed to have a normal life - and seeing what happened to the production folks, I never wanted to be a technical director.

The pay was OK, but not great, and for technical folks the attribution was something you might have to slo-mo your VCR to see. There were 20 people who wanted a job standing behind every one that actually had a job in film, so there was no incentive for studios to pay better.

At the time (it may be better now) the tools were the result of 30 years of evolution, and you had to know about 30 languages to be a TD.

I've found my involvement in Open Source to be a lot more fulfilling.

Bruce