Chapter 19: Universal Studios (Part Three)

I loved doing this job until I got burnt out. Day in and day out I would stand in front of three TV screens that showed videos of people who had just come out of the recording studio’s after making their recordings. Be it video or audio. I would say the following:

"Ladies and Gentlemen up on these screens we have the latest recording artist that just came out of the studio and here they are to perform their latest hit." I would then look up at the screen then look around the room to see if I could recognize them and once I spotted them I would say. "And now ladies and gentlemen lets give them a hand they are right there." I would then point at them and everyone in the room would give them applause. Sometimes I embarrassed them and other times they enjoyed all the attention.

When I took a break, a break for me would be when I followed a group through the recording process to the final product, as I was able to do the engineer work too. I was just better out front with the crowd getting them fired up and I brought in sales that way. I was offered to work for Sound Tracks Recording Studio full time but I could not work part time for Universal Studios Tours on the lower lot in the Merchandise Department. I gave notice and quit Universal Studios Tours working in the Merchandise Department. To this day I do not if that was an error because I ended up being laid off in the fall when the summer season was done. If I would have stayed at Universal Studios Tours I may have been a General Manager by now but I will never know what may have been.

I lived down there from May 1988 to October 1988 then moved back to Redding, California once again and as to be expected.

Imagination

Imagination, also called the faculty of imagining, is the ability of forming mental images, sensations and concepts, in a moment when they are not perceived through sight, hearing or other senses. Imagination helps provide meaning to experience and understanding to knowledge; it is a fundamental facility through which people make sense of the world, and it also plays a key role in the learning process. A basic training for imagination is the listening to storytelling (narrative),in which the exactness of the chosen words is the fundamental factor to 'evoke worlds. Imagination is the faculty through which we encounter everything. The things that we touch, see and hear coalesce into a "picture" via our imagination.

It is accepted as the innate ability and process of inventing partial or complete personal realms within the mind from elements derived from sense perceptions of the shared world. The term is technically used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind, percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception. Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination. Imagined images are seen with the "mind's eye."

Imagination can also be expressed through stories such as fairy tales or fantasies. Most famous inventions or entertainment products were created from the inspiration of someone's imagination.

Imagination From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

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