Sunday, January 02, 2005
ASIFA Volunteer of the Month
I spent New Year`s day creating a Database for the ASIFA-Hollywood`s Animation Rescue Team.
One thing I have found when it comes for asking for volunteers, it`s the busy people that always have enough time. It is the people who always volunteer who always volunteer.
There is a core of dedicated ASIFA members that always make the time. Pay attention animation studio hiring agents, these are the people you want working for you.
I have decided that it is just about time for a new feature. Something I will do from time to time when I run out of things to say about myself. Here is my first profile on one of our volunteer heroes.
Jon Reeves answered the phone late that Saturday night with the words "Hi Larry, I have already got you e-mail on the Mural, I will be there in the morning." I thanked him and signed off quickly. I had other people to call.
If you have been to any of the ASIFA-Hollywood screening then you have seen Jon. Most times he wares an IMDB ball cap and has his laptop case strapped over his shoulder. Sometimes you will see him timing cartoons as they play.
Jon is a film buff (read obsessive) and the LA rep for Internet Movie DataBase. The first time I meet him I was giving a Silent Animation screening at San Diego Comic Con.
One of the audience asked me the date on a Paul Terry cartoon and I was not quit sure so I took a stab at it and said that I thought it was 1915 or 1916. Jon`s voice came from behind his laptop telling everyone that it was, in fact, 1916.
"Okay, just who are you and what do you have on that laptop?" I said hoping that I didn`t get any more date questions.
"Internet Movie Data Base" he answered and we have been friends since.
Jon is a database professional with a passion for animation and film. He comes to most of the ASIFA events, most of the screenings at AFI, most of the Volunteer meetings, he works the ASIFA booth at Comic Con, and for the last couple of years he has been very involved in building floats for the Rose Parade.
I salute you Jon, and thank you for your years of service to ASIFA and animation. I look forward to working with you for some time to come.
Jon Reeves is our ASIFA Volunteer of the month. Sorry that I don't have a bumper sticker for your parents to put on the back of their car.
One thing I have found when it comes for asking for volunteers, it`s the busy people that always have enough time. It is the people who always volunteer who always volunteer.
There is a core of dedicated ASIFA members that always make the time. Pay attention animation studio hiring agents, these are the people you want working for you.
I have decided that it is just about time for a new feature. Something I will do from time to time when I run out of things to say about myself. Here is my first profile on one of our volunteer heroes.
Jon Reeves answered the phone late that Saturday night with the words "Hi Larry, I have already got you e-mail on the Mural, I will be there in the morning." I thanked him and signed off quickly. I had other people to call.
If you have been to any of the ASIFA-Hollywood screening then you have seen Jon. Most times he wares an IMDB ball cap and has his laptop case strapped over his shoulder. Sometimes you will see him timing cartoons as they play.
Jon is a film buff (read obsessive) and the LA rep for Internet Movie DataBase. The first time I meet him I was giving a Silent Animation screening at San Diego Comic Con.
One of the audience asked me the date on a Paul Terry cartoon and I was not quit sure so I took a stab at it and said that I thought it was 1915 or 1916. Jon`s voice came from behind his laptop telling everyone that it was, in fact, 1916.
"Okay, just who are you and what do you have on that laptop?" I said hoping that I didn`t get any more date questions.
"Internet Movie Data Base" he answered and we have been friends since.
Jon is a database professional with a passion for animation and film. He comes to most of the ASIFA events, most of the screenings at AFI, most of the Volunteer meetings, he works the ASIFA booth at Comic Con, and for the last couple of years he has been very involved in building floats for the Rose Parade.
I salute you Jon, and thank you for your years of service to ASIFA and animation. I look forward to working with you for some time to come.
Jon Reeves is our ASIFA Volunteer of the month. Sorry that I don't have a bumper sticker for your parents to put on the back of their car.
