Impromptu Launch Party at Denny’s
Last night I had a deadline to meet.
I was put in charge of coding a website for my class’s senior show. Brandon and I drew out the first sketches and he worked on finalizing the designs. Ben Jack is making a documentary about the process of making our poster. The trailer serves as our homepage and is on his Vimeo page. He also did all the photography for our class. The entire senior class chipped in and was incredibly helpful.
We had this project moving at a brisk pace but as always it came down to the very last second. Four of us—Brandon, Ben Jack, Geoff and I—made our final stand at Denny’s last night equipped with four Apple laptops and a basket of endless fries. We worked feverishly to bring everything together. Brandon delegated tasks and did last-minute design work, I coded at a furious pace, Ben Jack edited and uploaded video, and Geoff … well he was there rooting us on (and offering suggestions along the way). During the last few seconds, while I was still coding, Ben Jack took a couple screen grabs of the countdown to celebrate. As soon as it launched we tweeted in unison (because, oh man, we are dorks) and our waitress, who was amazing by the way, brought us shots of champagne (Sprite).
It was bizarre and glorious, and I couldn’t have asked for a better outcome or a more competent and interesting team to work with. It really was one of those moments that makes you extremely happy with where you are in life.
