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Grant Imahara
16 years ago
So, yesterday's journal was ho-hum in feeling, because I had a rather blah night. Tonight, however, there is no such sentiment! I just got back from one of the best presentations I have ever been to. Why? Two proper nouns, Grant Imahara. For those of you who don't actually know me, which is all except maybe four of you, I am a HUGE geek, as well as excellent with electronics, good with mechanics, and the like. Thus, this evening was particularly exciting, because Grant Imahara happend to be one of the five hosts of the show Mythbusters, and as such, one of my five engineering heroes.
It turns out that he spent his childhood much as I have, loving the geeky side of life, taking things apart, building things, and always needing to know how things work. We have even both, to the chagrin of our parents, taken apart the TV remote. Now, I'm not just making this comparison because I think Grant is completely awesome, I'm making it to prove a point, both to you, and to myself, because I'm on the fence. I love photography, I really do. I also love engineering and the like, but the hands-on aspect of it, not the desk job part. Hearing Grant's history amde me think; With just a little more effort towards my mathematics courses, and choosing to aim a little differently in college, I could get to where he was. I'm not talking on TV, that's cool, but i know it's not going to happen.. I'm talking special effects. That would be the best thing, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Photography is all well and good, and it's a hell of a lot of fun, but I don't think I'm talented enough to make a living off of the kind I like to do. Special effects, on the other hand, could earn me a respectable life, be stunningly fun, and I'd still have time to be artsy-fartsy and take pictures!
I think i've jsut about exhausted rambling about the seminar, even though I haven't said a thing about what actually happened at said seminar, but this journal is more for personal validation tonight than anything else.
It turns out that he spent his childhood much as I have, loving the geeky side of life, taking things apart, building things, and always needing to know how things work. We have even both, to the chagrin of our parents, taken apart the TV remote. Now, I'm not just making this comparison because I think Grant is completely awesome, I'm making it to prove a point, both to you, and to myself, because I'm on the fence. I love photography, I really do. I also love engineering and the like, but the hands-on aspect of it, not the desk job part. Hearing Grant's history amde me think; With just a little more effort towards my mathematics courses, and choosing to aim a little differently in college, I could get to where he was. I'm not talking on TV, that's cool, but i know it's not going to happen.. I'm talking special effects. That would be the best thing, beyond a shadow of a doubt. Photography is all well and good, and it's a hell of a lot of fun, but I don't think I'm talented enough to make a living off of the kind I like to do. Special effects, on the other hand, could earn me a respectable life, be stunningly fun, and I'd still have time to be artsy-fartsy and take pictures!
I think i've jsut about exhausted rambling about the seminar, even though I haven't said a thing about what actually happened at said seminar, but this journal is more for personal validation tonight than anything else.
