Minutes for January 2nd Mindbridge Meeting
Since our December meeting is so close to the traditional dinner hour; Tracie has graciously offered to get pizza from Little Caesar’s. This is not free pizza, so people who want some will need to bring $5 per person. Additionally, Tracie will need to know how many people will be wanting pizza and what kind of pizza they’d like; so please send her an email by 5pm on Friday, November 30!
As you all know, we are NOT having a business meeting this month for Mindbridge. Rather, at the last meeting, it was decided that our May activity would be to take in a showing of The Avengers. The thinking is that a Saturday afternoon showing of Avengers would be great for a couple of reasons–the price will be cheaper if we go before 4pm, and it will give folks more flexibility in their schedules.
The other thing that was suggested at the membership meeting is that we see The Avengers in Cedar Rapids, because we would probably be doing a board game night in Iowa City during the month of June.
We will most likely be attempting to see The Avengers at the Carmike Cinema – Wynnsong 12 on Edgewood across from Westdale Mall on May 5th. As the movie’s release gets closer, we will post an announcement both here and to our Google Group as the exact showing we plan on attending; though we’re currently thinking a showing around 1:00ish would be best.
We suggest arriving half an hour before showtime if you have aspirations of sitting as a group. Then we’ll herd everybody into the theater as soon as the theater opens seating for the movie.
Hope to see you there!
UPDATED, 03 May 2012: We will be attending the 12:30pm showing on Saturday!
Daniel Dociu was born in Cluj, the capital of Transylvania, Romania. He studied art and architecture graduated in 1982 with a Masters Degree in Industrial Design from the Academy of Fine Arts in his home town. He worked as a product designer for several years before taking a teaching position for the same school. He moved to the US in 1990 after having worked for two years as a graphic designer in Athens, Greece. Between ’91-’93 he designed toys. Next he got involved with interactive entertainment and has been working as an Art Director in the video games industry ever since. Among the companies he worked for are Squaresoft, Zipper Interactive, Electronic Arts and Microsoft. For the past seven years he has been the Studio Art Director for Arenanet, where his primary responsibility is leading the art department in the development of the Guild Wars series. Since ’07 he has also taken on the role of Chief Art Director for NCsoft West. His work can be found at tinfoilgames. com