During our sophomore year, the entire Industrial Design class was allowed to go on hiatus and explore other areas of interest. Doug Stout was teaching our class at the time, and I really think he was annoyed by some of us, and saw this as an opportunity to get rid of us for a few weeks. Well, under the wing of BYU-dropout-turned-Hollywood-special-effects-guru, Randy (Crit) Killen, we started hanging out down at BYU studios...with permission of the Grand Pu-bah of BYU Studios, Mr. Dick Jameson.
Now, don't get me wrong: Dick was awesome. He allowed us pretty much unfettered access to any project on the lot, and we were able to help work on a couple sets, including one to be used by the Church for one of their videos. And many interesting design projects found their way down to the massive scrim backdrop for photo shoots (the coolest was Scott Allen's giant paper mache planet).
What's the point of this story? Not much. It's just that one time, Randy and I were down meeting with Dick in his office on the lot, and Dick was walking us through slides of different sets and effects. Dick was sitting with his back to us, and I was doing everything in my power to not bust out laughing as Randy would say things like "Wow, that one is interesting.....(long pause)...Dick." And then he'd turn to me and kind of chuckle. Over and over again, always with the long pause.
Ok, it was stupid. But it made me giggle remembering it.
my annoying boss's name is Dick. Just think of how much fun that is.
Posted by: katie | February 18, 2006 at 10:51 AM