PSTOIC

Photos from the PSTOIC Christmas Party and Tour of the new STOIC studios are here. Click here to view them.

Pictures from the Party and the new Studio:

PSTOIC Christmas party is 12 January 2002, at The Rembrandt Hotel in South Kensington at 8pm. It is preceeded by a tour of the new STOIC studios at 5pm in the Union building. Everyone welcome.

Spotted this yesterday in the Evening Standard – looks like Ledda’s going to be the next Martha Lane Fox!
Check out this report on her companies invention, the ‘Pogo’, which will be hitting Carphone Warehouses in January. Looks like you’re on to a winner Ledda – so if you are thinking about what to get me for my Christmas stocking…. Rex

Comments:

• I think it might be a spoof. Russ’ head is too big. Of course it might just be that his head is too big!
• It’s not My company , I just work here.
  Fun though it is, I’m not gonna be getting rich anytime soon 🙁

  ps: Surprised you only just spotted it actually, it’s been all over the place .. BBC, The Guardian, etc.
  Check out T3 magazine, I’ve been told it’s in the Dec issue. Haven’t had a chance to look, so dunno if it includes the mandatory sexy chic ! 😉

• Oh my goshhhhh ! I only just thought to click on the link …. how could you !!!!!???????
  and Bryan of all people !!! 😉

  Don’t even want to ask where you got My picture from !

  Funny though, I’ll give you that.

• ps: Is that what Russ looks like now ???

  I don’t recognise that face.

  Scary.

stoic now has a shiny new website to replace the old out of date one. Pop along to www.su.ic.ac.uk/stoic to see it and vote in our online polls. Thanks to Dave Stinson for his work on this and to all the people who have written articles for it, it should be updated fairly regularly so add it to your favourites to keep up to date.

Paul Wortley
Station Manager

Comments

• Check out
  http://www.su.ic.ac.uk/clubsocs/finance/1999-2000/510.shtml, and see how much STOIC is spending these days.
  Nice to see the Union being so open about its finances…
• PSTOIC.COM has a mention on the links page. Make sure you visit. Mind you, the site is a blatent rip off…. Rex

I’ve taken a trip down to the STOIC studio last week-end in order to have some VHS video transfered from tape to tape. The Tech Manager, Andy, was very helpful. Nice guy. Actually, all of the bodgers that were there were helpful indeed. STOIC certainly has changed in a variety of ways, while also keeping the same flavour for a lot of things….

1. the new studio is now in the basement of Beit Quad.
We would all have killed in order to have such a state of the art studio. Padded walls, all brand new. It’s amazing, it’s so vast.
2. studio defects: the floor is not level, so cameras on dollies tend to travel by themselves.
3. studio defects: the lighting rigs/scaf have up to, I would say, something like 30 plug points, BUT it is so loosely hung from the ceiling that I bet you can probably hang not more than 5 or 6 projectors at any one time. I expect the whole thing to come down crashing soon. Impressive, but spoilt by the builder’s inability at understanding TV needs.
4. Digital Video Editiing suite. It runs on a state of the art Pentium, but, surprise surprise, it is unstable so it crashes regularly.
5. DV mixer: both of them don’t work cuz… cuz they’re just buggered. Image bleached from one of the input channels.
6. Sound Desk – Miracle, that works, but, as usual, not enough mikes, so it’s all running on gun mikes that are gaffered to the boom that is gaffered to the scaf. Go bodging !!
7. Spare sound desks – what we thought of as “brand new sound desk” in our days, is now a humming piece of rotting rubbish.
8. U-MATIC – still used. Heads totally shagged.
9. old kit/ memorabilia: CEL equipment which I never saw before has been kept for memorabilia… Old Analogue Vision Mixer has been thrown out long ago. 2 Frame Stores are uptairs in the old studio, waiting to be chucked out cuz nobody in STOIC today ever managed to get them working. A lot of kit was deemed to be ready for the tip. doesn’t surprise me… Anyway, I gather that we will all soon have the possibility of visiting the place once the builders put final touches to a few things, and once they manage to put all of the equipment in proper use. Overall, I was happy to see Gaffer tape as being the most important thing in the studio. I am told that they have a 24h supply of it from the Royal College of Art – and they have already resorted to going there on many emergencies. O.