Darryl Lai

Recently I put together a two and half minute piece about Oregon State’s campus recycling effort during football games. I never knew before but the amount of trash and recycling that goes on during a normal home game is pretty amazing. We’re talking tons of trash and a lot of it can be recycled, which is exactly what Campus Recycling does.

In the video, footage was shot by Evan Gutt and myself. I edited the piece and created the graphics for the text points. Here are some things about this project worth noting:

• Getting up early to watch the Philomath High School football team clean up the stadium the next day is pretty neat, despite the sounds of it. There’s just so much trash leftover and the emptiness of the stadium really is different from when thousands of loud, often drunk, fans fill the stands.
• If you watch close enough in the video, you will see Tony the Tiger, if you blink you’ll miss him!
• If you’re wondering, those cans (mostly beer) do get recycled for deposit money. This time around OSU SIFE volunteered and helped get it donated to the Linn-Benton Food Share for a total of $331.

And without further adieu, the video:

Greetings!

Today’s update is a new story and video piece I worked on for Oregon State (truthfully its been up for a while now). You can read the story and watch the video over at the Powered by Orange website and see it displayed as one of the main running stories on the OSU main page (for the time being).

Here are some my impressions that I had of the whole deal:

1. The twins are really nice guys, really confident about their work and their futures. If we had more people like them in the job market, we wouldn’t have a huge unemployment problem ever!
2. To get a good idea of how talented these guys are, check out their winning entry to Oregon State’s Campus Moviefest 2010 here. Did I mention they won?
3. One of the cool stories they had about working at TBS was that the day that Conan O’ Brien visited TBS for his move to cable TV, Jeremy Peschka was one of the first to greet him! He found him hiding behind the door he was guarding, the life of an intern!
4. Interviewing these two twins once again put into perspective as to how amazing people can be, despite the odds. Can you imagine the tough competition these two faced from great schools with great film programs? Little ‘ol Oregon State is doing well!

Overall I really enjoyed talking with these guys, good luck to them in their endeavors!

Through some talented folks and students (especially Neha Neelwarne) at Oregon State University, a cool flashmob happened at the Beaver Community Fair a couple months ago. I was privileged enough to be taking photos at the event, so check out the photos!

The video for the event can be seen here too, but I can’t take the credit for that!

New video! School is in full swing and project from work are flowing slowly enough. this video is about the 5k Run, Walk ‘n Roll with Oregon State President Ed Ray. It was a lot of fun to watch the competitive runners, they’re fast!! I think that President Ray had it right when he says that the people who came out for the first time are the real heroes of the day, not to discount anyone running the 5k in 18 minutes (never in my life, haha).

Watch out for yet another video and accompanying story too! Thanks for stopping by!

This project’s been lying on the shelf for a while. I don’t know how old my grandma turned, heck she doesn’t even know herself! Every year our family and relatives get together to celebrate, it goes a little something like this: