CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center, where I teach.
Student Team Photos for Fall 2012
Pictures of our three teams and a brief description of their projects.
Spring 2012 ETC Students
This semester we have 17 students at ETC Silicon Valley, working on two teams. "Megalodon" is the largest team we've had yet, with 11 students on it. They are working on a project for Electronic Arts. Without giving away too much, they are developing a multiplayer game using an internally developed game engine at EA [...]
Dino Ignacio
Dino Ignacio of Visceral Games presenting to our ETC students. Dino Ignacio is Lead UI Designer at EA's Visceral Games. He gave a great presentation to our CMU ETC students about his work on Dead Space. The photo was shot with my Canon 430EX flash angled to bounce of the wall to the [...]
Fall 2011 ETC Student Team Photos
Each semester I take team photos of our students at the beginning and end of the term. It's fun to do, the students need the photos for their project websites, and there is always a fun creative challenge to do something that is relevant to their project. Five Sided Square "Five Sided Square" [...]
Vision and BHAGs
In the class I’m teaching at CMU on entrepreneurship we talked about setting a long term vision for your company. I used Jim Collin’s research as a framework for the discussion, in particular setting a Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) and having a vivid description of what life will be like when that goal is [...]
Ovo at Cirque du Soleil
We took a fieldtrip with our students to see Cirque du Soliel's Ovo in San Jose. The show was entertaining, creepy, and wondrous all wrapped up into a big egg. I took this photo while people were entering and finding their seats, and right before one of the ushers told me photography wasn't [...]
ETC Team Photos for Spring ’10
Team photos for our five student teams from the ETC. You can learn more about the projects at our ETC Silicon Valley blog. These are fun to take - there's a wonderful challenge in trying to convey something about the students and their project.
End of Semester Shots
'After' photos for the ETC website. Our students all survived the semester, and they look pretty happy. Shot in a lobby at EA with a big empty wall and white ceiling to bounce the flash off of.
ETC Students, Post Presentations
Shot for our ETC website - five of our CMU-ETC students after giving a presentation about their summer internships. I started shooting before everyone was 'posed', which which got everyone much more comfortable and helped them show some real personality.
The Zeppelin – Again!
Teaching has its definite perks. We took our CMU ETC students on a field trip to learn more about the Bay Area - and how better than from a couple thousand feet overhead. Airship Ventures to the rescue! We took off from Oakland, headed over the Bay Bridge, past SF, around Angel Island and back [...]