joshua wilsher

Stupid!

I've found a new park. Cedar Point. This is the Top Thrill Dragster. Have you ever seen anything more ridiculous? I gotta go.

Check out their web at www.cedarpoint.com

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 1:49 PM 0 comments

We're Going to be Friends

Just for Smiles!

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 12:56 PM 4 comments

Aussies, O'Neal & The Beast

This message comes from the second-seeded checkers player at Butler University, as determined the other night at Spring Sports Spectacular.

I met my first Aussies the other day since being here. How weird it was to hear an Australian accent. Nice tho! It was some people from Macquarie Uni who were organising for a group of students who are coming over for a summer programme.

I had my second bout of hanging with famous people at Broad Ripple last week (you may remember my encounter with Darren, sorry, Jared, from Subway). I was lining up to get into '7' and I saw a pimped-up Rolls Royce pull up. It was Jermaine O'Neal of the Indiana Pacers. It was not of total suprise as he owns the club. So when we got in he was hanging out with his crew on the upstairs balcony. They mic'd him up and he did his big thing and said in clebration of the last night of the regular season and with the Pacers going into the playoffs, 'the bar is open'. So it was free Jager and Bulls for a while! Nice. I got the high five from him later on when our paths crossed in one of the club's passages. Massive guy - 6'11" power forward!

I rode the worlds longest and fastest wooden roller coaster on the weekend in Ohio. 'The Beast' has held the title for over 25 years.

This time next week, the Spring semester will be over. In less than 3 weeks I will be in my new accomoodation. University Terrace. Cant beat $30 a week rent. Its subsidised for the summer. By that time I will be busy working at the baseball and hoipefully doing some other cool stuff!

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 8:15 PM 2 comments

For crying out loud...

I found a hairdresser in Broad Ripple. I have not had a good history with haircuts while o.s. Especially in America where they tend to come military style. But this time I did a little research and was told by several people that this Broad Ripple clipper joint was good. So I rode my bike there with hope.

About 2 minutes into the haircut I realised something was weird and then it came to my attention that while in the seat, I was facing away from the wall and thus the mirror, which was directly behind me. I aksed why all the mirrors were behind us and my dresser told me that the electric clippers dont reach that far. She added that male customers tend to like to watch the tv or talk to the waiting customers. She also joked that she can keep the styling a suprise from the customer and then present a the finished product, by swivelling the chair to face the mirror.

Well I got the big spin around to find a nice, symmetrical ball on my head. Looks like a light globe.

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 12:27 AM 3 comments

More Indians

Below is a very quick flick on my summer job with the Indy Indians.

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 9:14 PM 1 comments

Studio 50

Cutler, TV, Andy, or whoever else cares. Here is the final product. It's a bit compressed for my blog, but you get the drift. Anyways, it will air on BTV News soon. Cheers!

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 6:47 PM 1 comments

Indy Indians

The opening game of the baseball season was played last night downtown at Victory Field. However, it only made it to the end of the fifth innings. Can you believe it? The sirens started up again and the crowd had to be evacuated. Most of the electricity was turned off because so much was being provided by lightning that continuously lit up the sky. The rain was so severe that when I arrived home we had a few smashed windows. So working with the media department of the Indy Indians will be one of my summer jobs. I was put on 'Fan Cam' last night which is cool because I don't have to stay in the one spot. I get to walk out on the field, arouse the fans and follow our lovely host around as she reports on different goings-ons around the field. We also have a game tonight, Sunday and Monday. There's about 3 weeks of school left.

HAPPY EASTER!

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 10:44 AM 2 comments

Race Matters

Some may see it as white bashing, others, a Commi-convention. Dr Michael Dyson, the Tupac-rapping preacher, and his senior, Harvard and Princeton alumni and best selling author, Dr Cornel West, spoke at the final installment of the Distinguished Lecture Series tonight. Never have I heard speakers such as these. The rhythmic and expressive vocab used in their unapologetic speeches was crazy. Sitting in the second row I looked up and thought, if we were in the thick of the civil rights movement, I'd be listening to that of King and Malcolm X. Their rants were of a viscious legacy of white supremacy that supposedly contributes to the arrested development of American democracy. I could defintely see their point - and hearing the calls of 'speak Doctor, speak' and 'yes sir, tell the word' from the almost exclusively African-American crowd of a thousand or so, I figured they did too. Call me brother Josh!

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 11:58 AM 1 comments

Channel 8

Doing a days shadowing at Channel 8 was interesting. This morning, like every other day, the reporters and photographers (camera people) met in the boardroom and a list was made of all the news worthy events taking place in the area. Most consisted of overnight shootings or stuff related to the forecast of servere weather later in the eveing (which never came). Each reporter picks what they want to work on, grabs a photographer, and heads out into the field. I went with a Kevin and Leslie for the 1 hour drive to Purdue Universitry to report on new research by a professor about bullying of gifted children (funny, I don't remember that happening to me). So we got the interview and then went to a nearby middle school where we interviewed the principal and got some shots of kids. We then headed back to Indy where Leslie wrote her script and recorded the voice over. Then Kev and I edited the package with the shots we had got, as well as some file footage of Columbine (the shootings were, apparently, what spawned the research). The 2 minute piece ended up on the eving news at 5.32pm.

The station primarily produces news and weather with a number of these shows throughout the day. The rest of the time they are getting their stallite feed from CBS. Each market in the country is ranked from 1 upwards, depending on how many homes the channel beams to. New York City is at the No.1 spot, LA no.2 and some little county out in Colorado the smallest, being at the 200th plus spot. Our market, which serves central, eastern and western Indiana is at the number 25 spot. So it's a relatively large market.

Totally unrelated photo of me feeding Jaws in LA

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 11:24 AM 0 comments

Letterman Territory

Internships and job shadowing are programmes for American students to gain experience in their field of study. I am making an attempt to do a days 'shadowing' at each of the local stations. I will start this week by working at the local CBS affiliated station, 'Channel 8'. I'll have to ask them what ever happened to Music Express!

These annoying rules with Visas may have my Spy job ending before it starts. Which ticks me off more than one can imagine. But I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure that doesn't happen - I don't like my chances. Bastards! It sucks cos there have been other oppurtunities for employment, like I could have filmed some car racing the other day for some good pay, but, no, an F-1 visa doesn't allow for it. I now see what the 'F'stands for.

Despite these problems, I think I may have the oppurtunity to be taping the baseball at Victory Park in downtown over the summer. Though I won't count my chances on anything too soon.

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 10:21 AM 4 comments

The Doppler

I was recognising Shabbat the other night with my attendance at a friend's Jewish thingy, as I sometimes do. Just after the service and before digging in to my Matzah Balls, we hear these very, very loud sirens ringing. So everyone was looking out the windows as the winds picked up. Not having heard these sirens before, I was informed that they were tornado warnings. (You hear these sirens all over the city). This is when I proclaimed, without thinking, "Man, I thought the Nazis were coming". Then I relaised where I was. I quitely ate my Matzah Balls. Despite what the news will tell you, nothing much came of these warnings.

Butler University and the city of Indianapolis have been hosting the NCAA Final Four this weekend. This is the end of the road for the the four teams with the best winning record in the National Collegiate Basketball Association; three games with last nights final producing the national champions.

As you can see below, the city put on a lot of celebrations including a free concert of local boy, John Cougar Mellancamp. He actually lives in the county below us. It was good to hear the classics. Just as the concert was ending the sirens signalled again. I made it home to the basement, but you will notice from the picture above that others didn't fare quite so well.

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 9:54 AM 1 comments