Delays Constantly Find Me

The photos are out of order. Don't hate on me.

Attorney Gloria Allred

Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez

Pepsi Center

Failing to produce regularly on this blog during an event as big as this sourly sits in my stomach. Let me briefly catch up since I’m tired and fighting to keep my eyes open. In my last post I mentioned waiting for Hillary Clinton to make an appearance at the California delegate breakfast. Well, she never showed. Instead, I snapped shots of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, attorney to the stars Gloria Allred and L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

Following the breakfast, I followed Jess to the Colorado Convention Center to shoot video of Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez while she spoke to the Hispanic caucus. To everyone’s surprise Hillary made an appearance.

I shot video of her speech and then attempted stills, but I suck at shooting under pressure especially when people are trying to crawl on top of you to snap the same shot. Some big time photojournalist with a nice and giant camera apparently didn’t see me while I stood on a chair directly in front of him. I almost crashed down on a lot of people when he forced his way in front of me. Of course he said sorry, but I’m learning there’s a different kind of sorry when you’re a journalist. It's the kind where nobody really means it.

One of the most interesting parts of the experience happened when Jess and I walked Sanchez to her next meeting. I ran to keep up. I tried to steady the camera. But with hundreds of people to navigate through the task was quite impossible. I’ll post the video of it soon.

After we ate lunch we hailed a cab and traveled to Congress Park where the Minutemen hosted a rally. Nothing exciting happened and people were scarce, but there was a lot of shit talking on immigrants.

That evening I went with Jess to the convention.

We have two credentials. One gets us onto the perimeter and the other gets us into the center. I walked the perimeter while Jess went inside. There’s really nothing going on outside. CNN took over on a restaurant, but a pass is needed to enter and then there were a few media tents and a hot dog truck, but other than that I sat and waited for my turn to enter.

When I did, Ted Kennedy began speaking. I ran up three flights of stairs only to find out nobody would let me in, well, I could have gone in if I wanted to sit behind a big black screen blocking any real view of the floor. I would have been forced to watch TV so I decided to leave. I was pissed and tired anyway. When you’re a college journalist, nobody really gives a shit.

That night we were up until 5 a.m. trying to upload content to www.dailytitan.com and then we woke the next morning around 9 a.m. to start all over.

I’m not doing much writing out here. I’ve shot pictures and video, but I haven’t truly covered a story. I’m the Internet editor out here just like my job title states back home at CSUF. Fun is still in the equation though.

On Tuesday I dropped Jess and Jeremiah off at different spots so they could cover events and I found a nice coffee house to sit and work on the site. That night I walked around town, while Jess and Jeremiah went to the convention. Unfortunately, while the convention is in full swing, the random chaos is absent from the streets. I couldn’t find anything interesting to photograph.

We ended our night with a few beers and returned to our little second-floor studio apartment. Between the three of us there is only two computers so while they hammered out some writing I fell asleep.














I’m itching to write about tonight's experience, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. But as a preview I’ll say I spent the whole evening by my self in the Pepsi Center watching people like Bill Clinton speak and then at the end I saw Barrack Obama. Hopefully the pictures I took came out considering I sat in the nosebleed seats.