Nightly News

Artist invades newsroom!

KFMB CBS Channel 8 – It was ten oclock this morning, before the rain got going again, when Marc horowitz and his attending documentary crew of four rushed the front desk, asking to see Shawn Styles, a news reporter that interviewed Marc yesterday about his National Dinner Tour. Sources say Marc was there to drop off footage to be included in the four o’clock broadcast concerning his invitation to all of San Diego to visit him at LeStats Coffee Shop on Adams Avenue at 7:30 this evening. An eye witness described the scene as “totally bizarre – one tall guy had an old fedora with “Blog” written on a card and shoved into the band. Shouldn’t that say “Press”? And a cute blonde girl went off wandering around by herself, while a young guy who looked like Capt. Morgan with his curly mustache and goatee leaned against a wall twisting his handlebars. Finally, another guy in a blue quilted jacket followed Marc with a video camera, while Marc held a silver hard drive in his hands, asking for an editing bay.”

What was supposed to be a simple fire wire transfer from his hard drive to the stations editing bays was confounded by the PC versus Mac platform conundrum. Marc, a self described “artist”, naturally chose the more creative Mac, while the cash conscious news room was outfitted with PC’s. A quick trip down the hall brought the travelling band of misfits into the Graphic design department. “The light is much softer in here”, Clark, the camera man following Marc, commented. Marc sat down and began a refresher course on the editing software Final Cut Pro, since the inhouse program was Avid. As Marc figured out how to supply a major news station with a story he produced, Shawn stood over his shoulder, reminding everyone that he had 45 minutes to write the voice over and then get on air.

“We’re glad the stopped by, but we are also glad they left,” a woman at the ffront desk was heard commenting.