About@robin

Name	Robin
About Me	When asked where I come from, I reply the Northeast United States. If pressed further, I allow Maryland, New York and Vermont. Lived with both parents for the first six years, with mom the next six years and with dad the six years after that. When I was 18 I moved to NYC and went to film school, and then worked in the independent film scene for a few years, but moved over to theater/live music for more regular pay. I did ritzy events, like the Giorgio Armani / Gio perfume release party, and numerous fashion shows in Manhattan, glamourous weddings on Long Island, pipe-n-drape trade shows on the three passenger piers on the West Side Highway, corporate meetings in the ballrooms of midtown hotels, live music in Prospect Park and in a 150 year old brownstone cathedral in Brooklyn Heights. I met the woman of my dreams when I was 30 and 5 years later we made a baby together. One day, after 9/11 I came home and looked at the bars on the windows (standard on ground floor apartments in Brooklyn) and the baby-gates in the doorways, and I thought of how we strapped our child into a stroller or backpack carrier, and there was no vast expanse of grass that didn’t have broken glass embedded just below the surface. I thought: my baby is in a prison! So we relocated to Vermont, where I joined the stagehands union, bought a nice video camera, went on tour as projection tech for a bulgarian opera company, directed a 4-camera live TV remote truck, installed interactive AV gear in various museums, run the smallest public access TV station in the state, and have a multimedia company. Now my days are spent in a blurred frenzy, one day I am the sole operator of a 3-camera live select board meeting, the next I am babysitting a 12K lumen projector for a DVD screening at Dartmouth, the next I am shooting b-roll footage, the next I take the girls to ballet rehearsal (they are in the Nutcracker). Monday Stephanie has her radio show so I am usually home with Errol doing housework, the next day we meet with Jerome to discuss MemoirSite and in the evening I go to the TV station to edit select board meetings and make DVDs, and the last day of my week I might edit some concert or wedding footage. So that’s a little bit about me.
Website	http://webweavermultimedia.com

11 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Mount Washington - Final Summer trip" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

So the Blue Volvo has been acting up. The transmission light has been blinking and the engine has been stuttering. I checked the codes (thanks to Brochu Citgo!) and it says it’s the throttle position sensor. I […]
11 years ago

Robin wrote a post "New Media, same old rules" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

A professor in film school showed the class how camera movement changed when synch-sound was invented, from amazing crane shots, location shooting, gorgeous photography, to locked down static shots with no […]
11 years ago

Robin and mike-a are now friends
11 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Blue Volvo Oil leak continued" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

Stephanie took the key to George this morning. She came to the office a little while ago and reported that George’s people had taken off the timing belt cover and discovered that it’s not the oil seal at all as I […]
11 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Blue Volvo Oil leak" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

I was going to take Audrey to her radio show. We jumped in the Blue Volvo and headed out. Out on the flats I noticed the Oil light was on. Hmm. That’s odd I just put oil in it recently… The Irving (D&L, now […]
11 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Dream about industrial espionage?" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

I just had an interesting dream. I was a corporate spy. It was very movie like.

It started with my finishing up one job and being extricated by my support team. Them moved on to training for the next job. This […]
11 years ago

Robin wrote a post "The Al-and-Mare-A-Thon!" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

Two weeks ago Stephanie and I decided to do something to help raise some money for our dear friends Alan and Mary Gagnon. We wanted to use our talents in the best way possible and so Stephanie suggested a […]
11 years ago

Robin wrote a post "American Idiot TV remote scope" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

I am sitting backstage at the Flynn during the first night of Green Day’s Broadway tour of ‘American Idiot’. They have 30 TVs hanging on the set wall and four projectors on the set wall, too.

The TVs are […]
11 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Pallin' around with terrorists" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

So I got a last-minute request to go to Dartmouth for a projection call. I arrived to find I was showing a slide for a live-streamed debate between Dinesh D’Souza and Bill Ayers. “The Ultimate Fight Between Left […]
11 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Memphis the Musical at the Flynn Theater" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

I worked on the Yellow Card tour of the broadway musical ‘Memphis‘.

Load in started at 8AM, by 1PM most of it was set and the load in crew was released. Backline loaded in after lunch and the show was ready by […]
11 years ago

Robin wrote a post "In which I stop a fight at the basketball game" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

I was at a girl’s basketball game, recording it for the TV station. It feeds live onto the cable system and the internet. There was a parent from the visiting team to my right, at the far end of the reporter’s […]
12 years ago

Robin wrote a post "A Little Snow" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

Dartmouth bought hotel rooms for it’s crew last night. I shared a double with Duk.

This was my car this morning:

Madalaine showed up when breakfast was about to end. I told her that, but she said […]
12 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Wasted Snow Tire!" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

Ugh!

Headed home from Dartmouth, late at night, in the snow. I have been taking the Peacham shortcut, from Barnet to West Danville/Joe’s Pond. This bypasses the St. J/Danville elbow, and it’s a very pretty […]
12 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Windy Day in Hardwick!" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

Sure is windy!
12 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Thanksgiving 2013" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

We weren’t sure about going to Dad’s house today. The big snow storm came through yesterday and it was raining and then snowing, ugh. We still don’t have snow tires on the front of the Volvo… But the radar […]
12 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Mount Washington - Day 3" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

Yay! Today is Mount Washington Day 3! And my mom is here, Gramma Kay. She arrived Thursday night, and I spent Friday getting the new car ready for the trip. We got up at 5 AM, as usual, and hit the road but 6:02. […]
12 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Red Volvo Rises From The Dead!" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

I wouldn’t have thought it possible, but the Red Volvo lives. Stephanie has been wanting it gone, since it’s parked alongside the house gathering rust. I didn’t want to cart it off to Gates without looking into […]
12 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Working on the movies" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

So a fellow Hardwickian also works in NYC on films as a union script supervisor. She raised some bucks to shoot a short film, which could be a pilot for a TV show. I had spoken to her a few weeks ago and asked to […]
12 years ago

Robin wrote a post "Long Live the Blue Volvo!" on the site Robin's MemoirSite

So I got on Craigslist and looked for $500 Volvos. There was nothing that cheap, but another red one in Essex. There was a white V70 for $800, but it needed their struts replaced, which would be something like […]
12 years ago

Robin wrote a post "The Red Volvo is dead." on the site Robin's MemoirSite

So I finally got around to replacing the control arms on the Volvo. I started on the driver’s side and the frame bolts loosened easily, but the ball joint clamp bolt refused to budge. I tried using PB Blaster and […]
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