kind of laptop, compress it down to Quick- Time movies and then look for some place in a remote part of the world for an inter- net connection to upload it to my website so my family and friends could see what I was up to. Sounded pretty straight forward to me. I guess it never dawned on me that I had never shot any video or edited any movies in my life but why should that stop me. Through exhaustive research I de-
cided on the Canon Elura 2MC Mini DV digital video camera that fits in the palm of your hand and the Sony Vaio SR27K laptop
computer. It’s only 3 pounds, about 8” x 10” x ½”, and has a 30 Gig hard drive with a fire wire connection and a built in modem and network card. February 1st, 2002 I emerged from studio 5 at Manta Sound, looked over the staircase railing to the lobby and an- nounced to my long time co-workers that I had finished my session. With that said Manta Sound after 30 years was now of- ficially closed. Later I would be in tears say- ing good-bye to all my friends I had spent my entire adult life with and at the end of the night I walked out the front door. The
start of something new? I didn’t know, I was terrified. My friend Paul drove me to the airport at 8 pm on March 5th
. With tears in my
eyes I hugged him goodbye and boarded the plane for London England where I had a place to stay at my friend Mark’s. The plane taxied out to the runaway and I thought to myself, “What am I doing? What am I doing?”. I felt almost detached from myself like I was watching someone else leaving their life and friends for half a year. I’ll never forget how confused and afraid I felt.
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