{"id":1224,"date":"2007-03-17T23:28:52","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T07:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/17\/srl-lecture\/"},"modified":"2007-03-17T23:35:38","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T07:35:38","slug":"srl-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/17\/srl-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"SRL Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/mark-pauline-survival-research-laboratories-media-arts-lecture\/\">Mark Pauline lecture<\/a> (founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srl.org\/\">SRL<\/a>) at CCA. Suprisingly, I met up with an acquaintance of mine at the lecture. She goes to school there. The world just got smaller :-)<\/p>\n<p>The lecture was very good. Two things I noticed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>He lost part of his right hand in an accident many years ago. He functions well missing 2 fingers and a thumb but I&#8217;m sure he&#8217;d rather have kept them. That&#8217;s a big reminder to me to always be safe in the shop; it just takes 1 accident&#8230; and you don&#8217;t ever get them back.<\/p>\n<p>I asked, &#8220;Do your shows pay for themselves?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh no. I lose hundreds of thousands of dollars on them. In San Jose last summer, we had a paying audience so I just lost $15,000. Normally it&#8217;s much more.&#8221; He talked a little bit about how he uses it as a promotional expense on his taxes. Just after the show, he mused how he&#8217;s probably lost <em>millions<\/em> over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and he told us where the name &#8220;Survival Research Labs&#8221; comes from. It was pretty funny. It&#8217;s a story involving corporate re-appropriation, Soldier of Fortune Magazine, figuring out how to kill the right wing when the time came, sniper scopes and a mail fraud PO Box in Georgia. :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the Mark Pauline lecture (founder of SRL) at CCA. Suprisingly, I met up with an acquaintance of mine at the lecture. She goes to school there. The world just got smaller :-) The lecture was very good. Two things I noticed&#8230;. He lost part of his right hand in an accident many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}