Gishperience 2016 Team Le Radis!

My Gish Experience.

As per my previous blog post,  I was hesitant to join GISHWHES, even though I really, really wanted to. There were many reasons, but in the end there were more reason to join, than not to.

It was a BLAST. My team mates were awesome and so dedicated - just fantastic.

One of the conditions I set for myself, with the support of my team co-captains, was that I wouldn't overdo it - that I wouldn't over commit. My personal resources (specifically health related) have been strained lately and I didn't want to burn out.

At our 1st team meeting, on Gish Day 1 - and it was a doozey at 4+ hours - I agreed to take on about 4 tasks - that's not a lot, but I was already getting nervous about being able to complete them.

The first was right up my alley - hand made birthday cards for Ryan:

http://abc7.com/society/boy-from-big-bear-with-severe-autism-wishes-for-birthday-cards/1424726/
We had some young helpers at our meeting who where more than happy to make a few to get us started. Another team member volunteer his daughter to also make one, and I made one too. I gathered all the photos of the cards and stamped envelopes and made my 1st submission.

Success.

I was pretty happy with what I had done and felt ready to look at what else I had agreed to.

I had to Mail myself... This was super fun! The postman at work, Louis, was as excited as we were to make this happen. Again, with another team member to take the photo, the task was completed and another submission was on its way.

One of the tasks involved me waiting for a specific tweet from Misha Collins on a specific day... the specific details of task remained unknown until the last minute.  Nothing is ever simple. This task ended up  being a Twitter Poem - started by Misha, retweeted by me, with the next 2 lines of the poem and tagging  someone on our team to continue... total of 14 team tweets. Not so easy to coordinate. I had to walk a few folks through the twitter process, as some don't tweet much. But it got done!!   (Had a picture here - but seems to be gone.) :(

Another takes was a 360 degree  video with an exciting intro but very boring footage - all within 14 seconds. - I filmed the inside of an empty cube van. Nothing too interesting, and significantly more difficult than I had originally thought. But, I got it done.

Along the way, there were side tasks, related to the hunt, but not actual items to get points. Many on our team played along. I wrote a Haiku for Commandment #36 and tweeted it at a specific hour on a specific day.

I had looked over the task list many times by this point and had committed to do another task - Zachary Levis... Paint a portrait of Zachary Levi on a pair of Jeans. I wasn't too stressed about this one and surprised myself with how well it turned out.

  

Original image:

I also took on Living my Dream - well, more like nightmare...

I offered my skills and experience to the team with cropping images or putting together multiple shots for an entry, basic video editing, as well as uploading image and video entries.  Some of my faves:

Spider-Man does chores (Photoshop)

Regional Pictures (Team Photos -Photoshop)

Coupon Fairy (Photoshop)

Hope Bra (Photoshop)

Artichoke Bouquet (Photoshop)

Corn-husk dress (Photoshop)

Plasticine Front Page (Photoshop)

Gishwhes Jingle (video editing)

Bad Lip Reading (Expert camera holding skills)

I ended up being a key participant in a few other entries as well...

Selling Ottawa Air (Props & photography)

CosPlay Misha Collins at one of the Wonders of the World...

we couldn't get to any, so we chose a Giant Spider "Maman".

Hipster Kilroy Meme (meme creation)

Fighting Drones (Expert drone flying skills)

There were so many other fantastic entries by my team mates, I was just blown away.

All things considered - I'm glad I did it, and that I didn't commit to more!

I felt excited and exhausted, I wanted it to be over, and yet, never end.

It was an amazing experience with a fantastic team!

A little bonus footage of Pineapple Jogging!

Can't wait for next year!