I applied/received an ambiguous IFC/Sundance Film Channel internship through a sponsoring foundation, and the winner got a stipend to go do it in New York. Since I was essentially going to live in New York City for free, I uprooted all of my summer plans in Austin, including working, saving money, and graduating, for not graduating and working without pay and ultimately losing money.
As for the internship, I found out I am a marketing intern for IFC, working with grass-roots campaigns. My work detail has included creating pages and pages of Wikipedia content for shows and walking around Brooklyn distributing flyers and trying my damnedest not to fall asleep. I have been promised a day a week with the editing department but we’ll see if that happens. I am in a hoteling space on the AMC floor butting elbows with a very hardworking freelancer. I feel bad for her cramped up in here.
Emmy’s on the American Movie Classics floor at Rainbow Media
Some pictures I took while flyering in Brooklyn for the “mumblecore” web series Like So Many Things. (Park Slope, Williamsburg, Flushing)
On a side note… I was warned, but OH MY GOD. Park Slope is crawling with babies, strollers, and women waiting for their water to break. And there is no significant age range in babies either, it’s like women get pregnant, move to Park Slope when they are 7-8 months in, have a baby then push it around for awhile, then up and leave to the suburbs when they’re tired of having to wait in long lines of strollers to get a latte.
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I tried half-heartedly to get a flexible job, but it looks like a minimum requirement to work in retail or food here is being at least 30 and moderately rude.
So I added one day a week to my “work” schedule with an internship at Mayhew Breen Productions. They used to make awesome commercials, but now they make infomercials, and by infomercials I mean “Buuuut wait! Call within the next 15 minutes and we’ll throw in an extra sharp cutting blade absolutely free!” It’s pretty amazing.
The first day I was there, they were recording the voice overs for a new exercise device. I got to witness an absolute infomercial KING switch from his nasally New York City accent to the commanding, firmly persuasive and upbeat voice of that infomercial guy which is embedded into every American’s psyche. I’d have to say I can scratch that one off my bucket list.
A clip I recorded of him coming from the monitors.
I’ve been taking lots of pictures, don’t know what is or isn’t worth sharing.
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Things to Do: finish Wiki pages uughh
Things to Make: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$