David Chiu

It’s 2.40am. Tonight I answered some emails regarding some freelance web development work I’m in the middle of, then I did some initial MYSQL/PHP coding for this sweepstakes promotion website I need to have finished before the end of this week. I’m now in the middle of setting up subversion across our dev, staging and production machines, importing all the code and establishing a production workflow using subversion to deploy files across the machines. Tomorrow I have a commercial print shoot for McDonalds in the morning. I’m not sure what the usage of the photos will be for (billboard, product packaging, in-store ads, etc, etc) so I could be possibly be appearing in future McDonald ads, or on McDonald product packaging, whatever. I’m just grateful for the job and the chance to make new contacts. You know what they say in Hollywood - it’s who you know. After my commercial print shoot I have an audition for another commercial print gig. This would be for some dog medicine product. It’s all good. Auditions - print, commercial and theatrical have been non-existent this year, especially since my commercial agency dropped me last year. But that’s why I’ve been creating my own projects such as IT Gangsta. IT Gangsta is still evolving and I will be producing one, if not two new episodes this week. It’s just hard when you have to write the script, plan the shots, setup the camera, lights, shoot it, strike the set, digitize it, edit it, score it, then upload it and publicize it. But that’s what it takes to be on the cutting edge.