June 27, 2008

Film Fest Friday - How to Ride a Horse

Today's short is an instructional video on riding horses. I hope you all will receive some sort of educational benefit from this.



Maybe that wasn't quite what you expected, but it was still a lot of fun, wasn't it?
Okay, I have to go. I'm a little under the weather right now.
T.H. Excellence

June 20, 2008

Film Fest Friday - Mainframe: The Art of the Sale

Today's feature is Mainframe: The Art of the Sale, depicting a salesman with a million dollar product and the wrong target market.



Okay, I'm off. I'll see y'all later.
T.H. Excellence

June 18, 2008

The Life of a Cast Member

Today marks one week since I started my official duties as a post-training cast member, and I must say this has been quite an exciting week! Almost every day I'm in the park, helping Splash Mountain to run smoothly. So far, it's been quite fun! I've really enjoyed interacting with guests and taking on the various roles required to operate the mountain.

Not that work has been all fun and games. The job certainly has its ups and downs, and sometimes it's easy to get really frustrated when confusion erupts or guests get upset over something. But making one guest happy completely compensates for dealing with twenty annoyed guests, and I must say I really take pride in the job. The best part of my day is closing up the attraction at midnight once Disneyland has closed. Afterwards, I walk to my car, enjoying the cool silence and the glowing lights of the empty park.

Okay, I need to go sleep. I've got an eight hour shift tomorrow, and it starts at 10:00 a.m.
T.H. Excellence

June 13, 2008

Film Fest Friday - Bone Trouble

Today's entry for Film Fest Friday is a recent Pluto cartoon I found and enjoyed. Here it is!



Quite interesting, eh?

On a side note before I wrap this up, I have successfully completed my training for Splash Mountain at Disneyland. Thus far, I have had a really great experience and I'm really enjoying my work. Hopefully that trend will continue.
T.H. Excellence

June 07, 2008

Film Fest Friday - Out of Scale

Sorry for the lack of a short film yesterday. I spent most of my time working at Disneyland, being trained in the various aspects of operating Splash Mountain. It's been incredibly intensive, but pretty fun as well, and I've had a great time going through the different cast member position.

Anyway, enough of that. Today's film is an old Donald Duck cartoon from 1951. This was one of my favorites when I was a kid, mostly due to the gargantuan model railroad in Donald's backyard.

Okay, I gotta go. I have to be in the park at 6:00 tomorrow.
'Bye for now,
T.H. Excellence