Some Notes: Ok, so I went a little nuts with the Digital Camera. During the 8 days we were at SIGGRAPH 98 I shot 323 pictures. Some were bad, some were good, still others were great but poorly shot. Many were intended to be purely documentation and no attempt was made to utilize either my years in art school or my continued association with serious photographers.
There are 2 different image file sizes here and there. Some images are 640x480 and around 45 k while most were shot at 1280x1024 compressed and are between 180 and 280 k. I went with the higher rez in case we wanted to print some later. The gamma on images out of the camera is quite low. If you are using a computer like a PC, or to a lesser extent, a Mac, the images will be dark. Sometimes extremely dark. Fear not, the image data is there and my crack squad of photoshopateers are working on it.
Below are the best pictures. I made a special effort to show all EVLers past and present I saw as well as all the things the lab was involved with. There are hundreds more pictures and links to the directories are with each set. Check them out and mail me if you have a question or a comment.
I also made an effort to get everyone's names right, including Robert Grzeszczuk. Please let me know if I've misspelled anything, especially people's names.
Questions and Comments can be sent to Johnny Lawson johnny@evl.uic.edu.
Set One: Pre show
One A moment of relaxation before the show. Saturday night. 64 k
Two Ready to Roll! Last minute preparation for the Roving Idesk. 209 k
Three EVL is on the move! Our first move. Not exactly Al Unser Jr.'s Indy 500 Pit Crew, but pretty slick! 199 k
Four Napping in the ubiquitous bean bag chairs. 264 k
Five The IDesk III in full regalia at SigKids. 181 k
Six Mike Bogucki making last minute adjustments his stereo sync generator.
One Fans at the Idesk II 263 k
Two THE SAKI Barrel! 189 k
Three Partying with Yoshiro Kawaguchi. 261 k
Four Johnny and David Em. 212 k
One Dave setting up IDeskIII at Registration. 64 k
Two Patron in the "Thing Growing" harness. 66 k
Three A picnic at the Course reception. 69 k
Four Carolina! 43 k
Five Dana and Jim Blinn 46 k
Six A picture of Josephine I really like, closed eyes and all. Few can with stand the awesome power of the digital camera flash! 43 k
Seven A moment of crisis!
One The SIGGRAPH Trading card pack, which I bought, incidentally. I was pretty thrilled to see all 3 of EVL's fearless leaders in there, Tom and Maxine in portraits and Dan's artwork. 61 k
Two Tom D. and Jim Blinn's portraits together in the SIGGRAPH hall of achievement awardees. 49 k
Three Maxine and her mentors portraits. 47 k
Four A picture of a picture of VROOM In the History of SIGGRAPH area.62 k
Five Enough with the teapots already! 37 k
Six 1st SVR. 41
Seven Larry Cuba and Star Wars. 47 k
One Matt and Jim "Smokin' Drinkin' and Consultin'" at the Pyramid booth. 186 k
Two Rakesh and Dan at the Squishy Effects booth at Microsoft.189 k
Three More moving. 67 k
Four Gator! Round 1. 46 k
One Jeremy Hollister and wife Haruka (sp?) 62 k
Two EVL party 1: Milana Huang, Karl Timm, and Randy Hudson 70 k
Three EVL party 2: Alan Millman, Sumit "Bob" Das, Misha Lunchbox. 68 k
Four EVL party 3: Johnny Lawson and Dave Pape 73 k
Five EVL party 4: Joe Alexander, Dan, Trina Roy. 66 k
Six EVL party 5: Matt Szymanski, Mike Papka, Joe Insley.
Seven EVL party 6: Misha and friend.
Eight EVL party 7: Lot's of 'em, left to right: Paul Rossman, Andy Johnson, Paul Neumann, ?, Marcus Gruentz, Sumit "Bob" Das, Maria Roussou (standing), Karl Timm, John Hart, Tom Custer , Abhinav Kapoor, Margaret Dolinsky's arm, Mike Bogucki, surly waiter, Darren's wife Rosette.
Nine EVL party 8: Next table: (Center) Misha, (left to right) Greg Dawe, Trina Roy, Matt Szymanski, Jon Goldman, Tom Coffin's hat, Guest, Irv Moy, Becky Reuther, Dan, Milana Huang, Jim Costigan, Joe Alexander.
Ten EVL party 9: Debra Lowman (facing away), Joe Insley, Maria Roussou, Robert Grzeszczuk, Josephine Anstey, Mike Papka (foreground), Randy Hudson, The top of Dave's head.
Eleven EVL party 10: John Hart leading a rehearsal for the acceptance of Maxine's award. "Ok, so when the waiter says 'I'd like to present this award to Maxine Brown' everybody jump up, start yelling and rush the waiter." John convinced the waiter (who turned out to be quite surly) to play Jim George's part and we rushed him whoopin' and hollerin' on queue in preparation for the next morning's event. Come 8:15am we were in fact, quite a lot more somber. 70 k
Twelve EVL party 11: Jim. 164 k
Thirteen EVL party 12: 41 Past and Present EVLers! Ok, I'll give it a go:
(standing) Mohammed "D Period" Ali, Robert Grzeszczuk, John Hart, Randy Hudson, Marcus Gruentz, Marty Ryan, Dave Pape, Andy Johnson, Maria Roussou, Irv Moy, Abhinav Kapoor, Jim Costigan, Dan Sandin, Paul Rossman, Darren Thompson, Trina Roy, Matt Szymanski, Debra Lowman, Alan Millman, Joe Insley, Mike Papka, Tom Coffin, Gary Lindahl, Sumit Das.
(seated) Paul Neumann, Becky Reuther, Mohammed Ali Kahn, Joe Alexander, Mike Bogucki, Josephine Anstey, Milana Huang, Johnny Lawson, Greg Dawe, Margaret Dolinsky, John Goldman.
(reclined) Misha Lunchbox.
There may be a better shot coming soon! 149 k
One Jim George preparing to honor Maxine at the SIGGRAPH awards ceremony with the 1998 Outstanding Service Award (the first). 174 k
Two (21) EVL students of past and present neatly file on stage like good little school marms to accept Maxine's award on her behalf. Jim George remarks "I've never seen so many students up so early!" 179 k
Three Josephine Anstey accepting the award with Olympic aplomb. 177 k
Four Michael F. Cohan and daughter accepting the 1998 Computer Graphics Achievement Award. 264 k
Five Jim Blinn giving the Keynote Address weighing the 1974 Conference Proceedings and the 1998 in front of a histogram of badge ribbons length over the years. 1992 - Maximum ribbon length.154 k
Six Paul Neumann in his "SIGGRAPH 94 VROOM" costume for the awards ceremony.138 k
Seven The Award! Held by Trina Roy and Josephine Anstey. 163 k
Six I wasn't too pleased with the pictures I got during the actual show, so I filed the six people who didn't leave right away on stage for a better, fake shot then squished them together.
One Orlando wildlife. 274 k
Two Marty Ryan and Copper Giloth at the EVL digital campfire. 186 k
Three Larry Cuba, Dan Sandin, Copper Giloth at the digital campfire. 196 k
Four Clark Dodsworth Jr., Greg Dawe, Digital Campfire organizer, and Larry Leske. 209 k
Set Nine: Various Shots around the conference. 25 anniversary reception.
One Dave, Tom Coffin and I were rather pleased with ourselves when we made this.
Set Ten: Papers and Panels Reception.
One Baby Gator - Safely behind glass at the Papers and Panels reception.
Set Eleven: Around the Conference and Papers and Panels Reception
One Our neighbor's product - the worlds smallest 640x480 display. That shiny thing is a dime. 307 k
Two Dan arrives at the Papers and Panels reception drink tickets in hand. 174 k
Three Randy Hudson, Josephine Anstey and Sumit Das. 191 k
Four Rakesh Raju. 155 k
Five Josephine: Spokesmodel for the American Dental Association.
Six Mike Bogucki and Teeth.
Seven Dave Pape on VR bike with Josephine.
One Time to go! Packing up the Idesk III.
Two "By tomorrow morn' there'll be nothing left but boxcar tracks and popcorn sacks."
Three More Packing pictures.
Four The Guerrillas!
One Carlos Orrego and Alan Millman
Two Another shot from the SIGGRAPH history spot. The debut of the CAVE in '92.
Three A better shot of Star Wars/Larry Cuba. 185 k
Four Carlos and Marcus getting friendly. 183 k
Five A stolen moment of relaxation. 192 k
Six This isn't a particularly interesting picture, but I put it here to remind ourselves to PUT OUR URL ON EVERYTHING next year. Also, presenters should make business cards or at least hand-outs like Andy did. 205 k
Seven "Should I eat you?" 179 k
Eight This picture is my favorite of all the images I took at Siggraph, Just a bit cooler than the ones with me and Yoshiro Kawaguchi and David Em. 267 k
Nine "Caution: Gators. Do Not Feed" I suppose that includes limbs. 203
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