For L --
Real; Being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verifiable existence.

But I guess it was more the perception of reality I was talking about the other day. The wholly unobjective FEELING that a situation is or isn't actually occurring. And not so much in the way things sometimes feel unreal when you're very stressed, but a more general feeling. Like when you wake from a dream and it seems almost like the dream was more real than the bit where you got up and brushed your teeth and headed out for work. Don't you ever have moments when you know the aliens will be here any minute to tell you that the test is over now, you passed, and you can come home?

If not...well...nevermind. I'll see about getting my medication adjusted and we'll never speak of this again.

By the way, I've changed my 'comment' settings so that you have to do a little word verification thing to leave a comment. Sorry if this is a pain in the ass, but I keep getting these spam comments that I hate, so this should get rid of them.

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I decided to post some pictures of the convention I went to Utah to work on. Be sure to click to see the larger versions as you really can't see much in these small versions. It was all for a company called Nuskin, but each of their divisions had it's own separate area and look. This one is the Nuskin product area. We printed all the graphics you see here, banners, signs, etc., and my company designed and built all the structures you see as well.








This next one is for the Big Planet division of Nuskin. Again, my company designed and built all the structures. That big 'b' logo was particularly interesting to try to adhere graphics to. It's nearly 6" thick and made out of several layers of gator foam, routed to shape. The fun part is that there's a motor underneath it and it actually rotates.








This one is of the Pharmanex area. We built the bridge and painted it to look like old wood, and some of the crew actually went to the mountains and brought back the log beside the bridge. And that's real dirt too! The forest graphic along the side of the bridge was printed by yours truly. That was one of the really cool parts about getting to go to Utah -- seeing the graphics that I print actually in the environments they're being used to create.






This is typical of a lot of the graphics we printed. It incorporates the show logo as well as it's slogan "Choose to be a Champion", and we really like making dimensional displays. We rarely use flat graphics when we can build something that stands on it's own. Not only does it look cool, but it saves money on buying or building stands.








And here's something else we made. The stage. We designed and built it. We also handle the lighting, so while it's purple and blue in this pic, at other times it was green or orange. We also provide the video or speaker support that goes on the big screens you see, and often we'll have a producer who is actually calling the show and giving cues and such.








Last but not least, here is a view of Salt Lake from the hotel window of a co-worker of mine. This is why I so wanted to get out of the convention center and into the mountains. Beautiful, isn't it?