Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Board meeting: weird photo rejects


Mathur seems determined to go with the "Camelot" project (above).


I'M ONE OF THESE GUYS who buys a $1,200 camera and then never reads the instructions. So stuff goes wrong. Like, what's with the teeth on that one "Young American" in the back? Those are some choppers, man. ☝


☝ These guys are with ADM Works, a company with 28 employees that does advanced digital manufacturing. I sure liked the slide show of the big plastic monsters (green water-based goop is used) and mammoth propeller blades that they make. Way cool.

They said that they have a hard time hiring people with the right training, and so this project would take care of that for 'em. They'd start with maybe 20 students, using maybe 5 acres of ATEP. Students would get "hands on" experience, and ADM would get employees that know how to use CAD systems and such.

Maybe ADM Works will get a few scraps outa ATEP after Camelot rips into the place, taking what it wants. That looks like the scenario, at this point. KING GOO is definitely tilting that way.


☝ This is a creepy shot of some of those chirpy "Young Americans." Especially one, on the right.
☞ Here's Milt, the guy who founded the "Young Americans." Back in '62. A stiff wind would blow him clean away.

This guy to the left was with the "Young Americans" also. I don't know if you can tell, but he was plenty weird.

At one point he said something daffy. I wrote it down: "American[ism?] among people through youth and music." It's like a motto or something. That's at least pretty close to what he said.

I think that he was also the one who explained the genesis of the "Young Americans." He took us back to 1962, "just the beginning of the scourge of drugs." All these druggies and hippies you kept hearing about weren't anything like the good clean kids warbling in Milt's school choir! Something had to be done to correct so false an impression! Milt wanted to show America what American kids "are really like." Singing and dancing. Chirping.

So he got his troup together and, soon enough, they got a gig on the "Bing Crosby TV Show." Then it was "off to the races." They've been zipping around the globe for over forty years. Andreea told me that, at one point, these "Young Americans" were actually famous back in Romania!

Well, Mr. Young American was there to tell us: "we need a home."

One of these YA guys showed part of a movie that was very Kathie Lee Gifford. You know, some kid would start dancing, and then some mom would be overwhelmed by the goodness of it. She'd start crying.

Pretty schmaltzy, if you ask me.


Here's Cal yackin' it up with Andreea, the "VC with the extra E." She seems to be the brains of this outfit. Sure ain't Raghu.

But Raghu was looking awfully confident last night. That can't be good.

We are SO screwed.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Young Americans Website
http://www.youngamericans.org/about.htm

Yawn or Yikes--I am not sure what my response should be after looking at their website.

Anonymous said...

Can you chirp and dance, Chunk?

Anonymous said...

Camelot--doesn't really make movies, does it? What is its filmography? At least its colors are nice, all pastel-y and pretty.

Anonymous said...

The SOCCCD should be ashamed to potentially have the Young Americans on its property or in anyway associated with its mission. It is embarrassing, it is terrible music and dance that is also very poorly performed. What an insult to the wonderful Fine Arts programs we have at both of our insitutions.

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