EALA In Wide Angle

This is my cubicle, or "hexicle." It's got 6 sides. Nothing gets lost
in corners, and it's pretty huge - about 10' wide at it's diagonals.

Our kitchen. During crunch time, it's usually catered with free food,
but normally it's just a place to prepare your own things, or buy
from Connie, who shows up each day from Rainbow Food Service
w/ a cooler full of premade meals. She loses money during our
crunch times, but then, so do we (those of us on salary).

Even though this is a wide-angle lens, this hallway from the lobby,
past offices, to the kitchen, really is bowed inward on both sides.
There's hardly a straight line in the whole building, which is cool.

A view over the top of my cubicle toward the windows. This photo
hides the enormity of this place, but so do the curvy walls and
partitions. After a full week, I still found a new huge area to get
lost in, just on my floor, and there are 2 others.

This is my cube, which at the time of this photo, still hasn't been
decorated much at all. You can see my visitor's bench on the
left, my fancy Aeron chair and flat-panel monitor, and all the
various shelvings and counter tops. This would actually be really
nice to have in my room at home for all my personal projects.

A little closeup of the monitor, keyboard, speakers, mouse, and
2004 Paper Airplane A Day calendar. There will be 365 small
paper airplanes on my countertop by New Year's '05.

This is an awkward view created from 2 photos taken looking two ways out of one
of the third floor windows. That's Lincoln Blvd below me, and Jefferson making the
intersection at the left. The mountainous area off in the far back left with buildings all
over it is a big part of Playa del Rey. It's kind of a neat old town up on a mesa.

One of the guys at our office has the highest-backed chair I've ever
seen. He rescued it from a dumpster after a film shoot for a game he
worked on, in which the evil guy has a very large chair. I believe it
was part of a live-action shoot for that game, the name of which I forget.

Here are 3 stitched photos of view of the fancy housing the spiders all around our area.
The Playa Vista building below is the offices/clubhouse area that heads up the building
complexes. That's Lincoln Blvd. on the left, stretching off toward the Marina and Culver City.
I walk to work from that direction, and take the little sidewalk path below past the Playa
Vista offices and into the parking garage below every morning.

Andrew, getting spied upon by my spy camera. With all the zoom
and snapshot noises, he never knew I was there. I'm that good.

Here's Marvin, a fellow animator, playing a game he worked (NFL Street)
the day it came out. It looks excellent. He worked on this with EA in Florida,
at the Tiburon studio. There's a making on the game with video of all
kinds of things, and I noticed 2 guys that went to Ringling with me in
there: Gianvito Serra, and Avi Renick. It was like a reunion-on-a-game.

Gets me through the day, even without the caffeine.

So does this.

But not this. I haven't used this thing yet, in the 2 or 3 weeks I've
been there, other than to change the ringtone between its 25
possibilities. Apparently, you can control this through the computer,
but I just don't care.