- IMG 3052
A herd of graphics geeks. This picture was taken on Monday, before the exhibition opened, when there were only academic papers and courses going on. So the more "colorful" part of the crowd was not out in force yet. - IMG 3053
Behold! Companies, schwag seekers, job hunters, head hunters, and bored grad students gather at the exhibition, an orgy of big, colorful animated things; mostly cars and planes and breasts (know your audience). - IMG 3054
Nvidia was hawking there quadro cards. - IMG 3055
But they were upstaged by ATI, who has just integrated their fancy new Radeons into the pro-graphics card line "FireGL" - IMG 3056
The motion capture slave. There were several companies showing off their systems for capturing computer animation data from live-action. Each one of these booths had very tired looking dancers demonstrating the systems' efficacy. - IMG 3058
Jet Ski surfboard? This 300cc gasoline motor has been squashed into a board for riding. Why at SIGGRAPH? Your guess is as good as mine. - IMG 3059
So many Macs... say what you will about market share, graphics folk are stuck like glue to Apple. - IMG 3060
Mmm... G5. This is as close as I'll get to one for a long while. - IMG 3061
Jeff next to more tasty Macness - Hannah
Hannah, another bound for the Bay Area, sitting on my bed. Note the familiar sarong on the wall. That thing has 1001 uses. - Candace creates
My roommate Candace, making a late-night poster on geometry in our living room. - lunch line
The first thing that greets us when we exit our dorm at 6:30 every morning: a line of boxed lunches. I can never look a turkey sandwich in the face again. - diana jen and red lunch bags
Diana and Jen, two more for the Bay, modeling our ubiquitous red TFA lunch bags. - bus 7am
On the bus, 7 am, bound for Markham Middle School. - hallway
The "hallway" at Markham. The campus is all open to the air. Teachers straggle in. - posters paragraph
Back wall of our classroom, featuring some posters I made on parts of a paragraph. - posters front of room
The front corner of class, with more posters. - Camille prepares
Camille, one of our collaborative, gets ready before her full day of teaching. - Willie
And now, our students. This is Willie. - Lorena
Lorena - Arielle
Arielle - Anthony
Anthony - nutrition break
Enter the students. This is actually from the midmorning break, ironically called "nutrition." But the only thing I've ever seen the kids eat is hot and spicy cheetos. - nutrition break 2
nutrition break 2 - ms momeny s lit group
ms. momeny's lit group - Arlister
Arlister - Yazmin and Michael
Yazmin and Michael - Arielle and Esmeralda
Arielle and Esmeralda - Michael 2
Michael - Ms Carter in action
Ms. Carter in action