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12:08 PM, Saturday, March 8th,   So that footage... that footage is CRAZY good. Like, I feel pretty confident of my abilities to deal with all the manual shit on that camera while blind (no real monitor) no matter the setting - but the lighting in that tent was CRAZY. The shifting was a LOT and I just have to adapt. Add to that my biggest concern: the compression being so overworked on the LED panels that the player's faces would be come a macroblocking mess much like what happens in a forrest or even a massive stadium...   ...but, nope - it's good. As I said in the last video: so good I think they're gonna find a way to release this on a far bigger scale than a fan club. This is how you announce Dodgers Virtual Presence. I'm still waiting on some direction but I've pretty much got the narrative written and, I'm so excited. Like - different level excited. I know I touched on it in the last entry - but that ball? That ball was the turning point...     It's so crazy - to anyone else, that ball would mean something to them because the best baseball player in the world gave it to them... and for me? It's 1000% because he did it on-camera. And in VR so it will make the viewer feel even more present. I stare at that ball and I cannot stop thinking about this journey, these adventures and the struggle to try and get to the top of this mountain. This mountain I've just made up: the VR180 Mainstream mountain. The Dodgers mixed with the Raiders news has this feeling of inevitability I've really never felt fully because of how clear it was that NFL Media thought I was just a camera guy. No, this run? This is legit. This is building a company and ya know how I really know? My phone calls with Hef...   ...for over a year now I've had these calls as he's trying to help and we're trying to strategize. All of last year that's what we did. However after I reviewed the footage I called him and said "dude, this shit... I really nailed it this time" and he says "I knew you would..." but it was different. It's like we both knew this was finally hitting? And the way we talked was wayyyyyyyyyy different. We were both happy. We were both making jokes, there's this weird knowing "feeling" in the air and honestly? I think only he and I can truly appreciate it. We're the only ones in nearly every meeting. He's certainly the only one other than my wife who knows just, how, hard this shit has been. And Talya has admitted: "I just can't get up for this yet..." BECAUSE IT ALWAYS CRASHES. And I appreciate that. She's also not on the phone with Hef or in these meetings so she can't really know why this is necessarily different.   AND IT MAY NOT BE!!!! But damn, it sure feels different. I may keep that ball with me forever. Everyone wants me to put it behind glass, but I'm not sellin' this fucker. This is my baby. This is my buddha. I'm rubbin' the shit out of it.   Of course before we get too far from the event, last Sunday/Monday was a craaaaaaaaaazy 24 hour period where I had to tow the Delorean a couple hours away to a gig, tow it back in the morning, and then board the plane to Phoenix that afternoon. Suffice it to say it was a whirlwind, but an appreciated one since this company is quite literally still Virtual Poverty Productions. Put together a strange little video that's a mix of the VR180 camera with the Meta Ray-bans.     Love the slices of life videos man. What a weird little piece of art. Alright - next week is gonna be showing the Dodgers what we got and a meeting Tuesday demoing stuff for Grand Slam Track: an international racing organization that may have an interest in VR180. Because as they say: when it rains, it pours. THANK THE FUCK CHRIST.   Adam