I Won a Major Award! [Archive]

AgtFox

09-26-2010, 11:27 AM

Christmas Story reference there, but seriously I've won a major award.

For those that follow my Twitter over a month ago I announced that my co-workers (at my full-time job, not here at CoG) and I were nominated for a Regional Emmy.

Well, last night we won. I'm honestly shocked we won since we were up against a major production opponent (local PBS station), but we did. My role in the nomination was that I do a lot of camera work for the group (when they need me, I work in a different department but work heavily with this department) and I think the nomination piece they sent in I helmed one of the cameras in.

Anyway, they're given the same statues that the big boys get at the national Emmys that are on TV. So, I can now add something to my accomplishments I never thought in a million years...I won an Emmy.

I'll try to get a picture of the statue tomorrow. There is one on Facebook that you can see if you're a friend of mine, but it is rather blurry.

BigJonno

09-26-2010, 11:39 AM

Congratulations! You will now and forever be affectionately known as "The Emmy Award-Winning AgtFox."

Generation ABXY

09-26-2010, 11:43 AM

Congrats to you, indeed, Loren! Make sure you add the achievement to your book cover. ;)

Superman's Dead

09-26-2010, 11:43 AM

Hooray! Congrats, Fox!

Urizen

09-26-2010, 12:06 PM

That's pretty sweet.

I'd avoid the neighborhoods where the PBS thugs run shit for the next few weeks...

AgtFox

09-26-2010, 12:07 PM

That's pretty sweet.

I'd avoid the neighborhoods where the PBS thugs run shit for the next few weeks...
Nah, actually the on-air personality for the PBS show was happy we won. They win plenty of other Emmys (the PBS station...including national ones, they helped fund some of Ken Burns' documentaries for instance). I think they usually have no competition in the section.

civil

09-26-2010, 12:23 PM

Congratulations Loren, that is fucking awesome.

Next time we meet up in Mpls, you'll have to bring it along. Jacob can use it to pick up some dudes. ;)

Kelegacy

09-26-2010, 12:39 PM

Wow, that's awesome, Fox. Congratulations! That must look nice on a resume!

Now ask for a raise! You're an Emmy winning employee!

Seriously, massive props.

OldeWolf

09-26-2010, 12:42 PM

Now you have something of a real babe-magnet ("Oh look at the SIZE of that thing!..Ooo" "Yes yes...*strokes* It is big isn't it?")

Ink Asylum

09-26-2010, 12:46 PM

Wow! Congrats!

AgtFox

09-26-2010, 12:49 PM

Congratulations Loren, that is fucking awesome.

Next time we meet up in Mpls, you'll have to bring it along. Jacob can use it to pick up some dudes. ;)
As much as I'd like to bring the statue, I doubt they'll let me use it for a day. Not sure what is going to happen with the two they got. Find out tomorrow probably.

PathMaster

09-26-2010, 12:57 PM

Congratulations. I do hope you get a chance to at least hold it for a bit.

I have seen & touched two of those statues. They are quite impressive. They do make for quite the conversation piece when you happen upon them in someone's home.

Spectre-7

09-26-2010, 12:58 PM

Hell yeah! Congrats, Fox!

JRR006

09-26-2010, 01:02 PM

Congratulations!

AgtFox

09-26-2010, 01:13 PM

Crittias

09-26-2010, 01:45 PM

Oh, I'm sure I'll be touching one (or both) tomorrow.That's what she said.

Oh, wait.

Anyway, congrats!

Scaryfaced

09-26-2010, 01:53 PM

Thats a pretty amazing accomplishment! Congrats, I'm sure you deserved it :D

TrackZero

09-26-2010, 02:47 PM

Big congrats Fox! That'll look great on the mantle.

rein

09-26-2010, 03:00 PM

congratulations!

Wasson_

09-26-2010, 03:01 PM

http://www.props.eric-hart.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/xmas-leg-lamp.jpg
screw that emmy, you know what you really want...

PathMaster

09-26-2010, 03:04 PM

Shame they don't give you a replica or even one of them.

AgtFox

09-26-2010, 03:28 PM

Shame they don't give you a replica or even one of them.
I believe you can purchase one, although I don't know how much they are. We were all assuming they'd get only one, but it looks like they got at least two.

AgtFox

09-26-2010, 03:35 PM

Looks like $250 to get a duplicate statuette since I was named in the final entry sent in. That's kind of pricey and I can't buy one at this time...would be cool to have one though.

National Kato

09-26-2010, 03:40 PM

Congratulations, Loren! That's a really nice accomplishment. You're right to be proud of it.

Handmade.Mercury

09-26-2010, 03:53 PM

Who's in for scraping some money together to get this guy a proper statue?

AgtFox

09-26-2010, 04:28 PM

Who's in for scraping some money together to get this guy a proper statue?
Nono...you guys don't have to do that.

Crittias

09-26-2010, 04:41 PM

Who's in for scraping some money together to get this guy a proper statue?

Nono...you guys don't have to do that.I'd be willing to contribute a few bucks.

Darkmatter

09-26-2010, 04:42 PM

Grats!!!

You gotta get one for your home.. c'mon!!

CappinCanuck

09-26-2010, 04:51 PM

Grats!!!

You gotta get one for your home.. c'mon!!

Everything I would say. You definitely have to get one at some point soon, it's too awesome to not have one. Congratulations.

Pigeon

09-26-2010, 05:10 PM

Your user title really should be changed to "Emmy Award Winning"

Stmfuller

09-26-2010, 05:30 PM

oh.
I was hoping it was an AVN award.
well congrats anyway.

civil

09-26-2010, 05:33 PM

Who's in for scraping some money together to get this guy a proper statue?
I could pitch in a few bucks, I think.

Loren, for all you've done for this community we could pitch in to buy you an Emmy. It's not as if you're planning a vacation to Florida.

PathMaster

09-26-2010, 06:30 PM

I was thinking that you should not miss out on having one as well. Count me in to chip in!

Superman's Dead

09-26-2010, 06:34 PM

Guys, if we let AgtFox have an Emmy we're going to have to buy EVERYONE who wins an Emmy one.

I'm in, sons.

Purple Santa

09-26-2010, 07:32 PM

I'd be willing to contribute a few bucks.

I'm in with this plan.

Congrats on your win! Now if I send an email do I get a pic of you and your Emmy signed? I mean you are a celebrity now:D

Hawkzombie

09-26-2010, 07:41 PM

I'm down with it.

Then it can be 'Emmy Award-Winning AgtFox, Brought to you by...' and then all our names :p

09-26-2010, 09:34 PM

You have to have the statuette so that you can insouciantly deprecate it. People will come into your living room and realize the doorstop is actually a golden figure of a woman holding an atom. "Oh, that?" you'll respond to their inquiry. "That's nothing, just my Emmy award. It keeps the door open, lets some fresh air in. Would you like a cocktail?"

Then, naturally, you bang.

Ravenlock

09-27-2010, 07:51 AM

I too would happily contribute some funds to the "buy Loren his Emmy statue" fund.

Well done, sir. :D

AgtFox

09-27-2010, 08:17 AM

They're looking into options here about work possibly getting us stuff (may be just a plaque, possibly statues). I guess one of the two statues they received at the awards show was not well put together, so they're looking into replacing that one.

My one co-worker knows someone in the Academy and may be able to work something out about the statues. I'll let you guys know more when I know and I appreciate all the offers for donations, I'm just always hesitant to ask for such things.

I also find it funny that some of you don't know I'm married (anniversary this week, same day as Nintendo announces info on 3DS), maybe you should read the Acknowledgments in my book. ;)

muddi900

09-27-2010, 10:05 AM

Guys, if we let AgtFox have an Emmy we're going to have to buy EVERYONE who wins an Emmy one.

I'm in, sons.

Maybe it would be for a guest spot on Big Bang Theory. :p

Superman's Dead

09-27-2010, 10:06 AM

Maybe it would be for a guest spot on Big Bang Theory. :p

I would be the handsome newcomer who drops a People's Elbow on the person who tells us when to be silent so they can pipe in the laughs.

AgtFox

09-27-2010, 10:28 AM

Yeah, Jim Parsons (Sheldon) and I can shove our Emmys in Wil Wheaton's face when he shows up as a guest star again (he has to, it's too great of a storyline).

Bandango

09-27-2010, 10:37 AM

Congrats! Where exactly do you work? Sounds pretty awesome.

Narradisall

09-27-2010, 10:45 AM

AgtFox, I'm happy for you, and im'gunna let you finish, but MagGnome's sex tape, was the best TV OF ALL TIME!

Congrats

AgtFox

10-13-2010, 10:48 AM

Thanks for the offers of donations, but luckily I won't need them. My in-laws were nice enough, once hearing the news, to give me the money to buy a statue. The paperwork was sent yesterday and I don't know how long it will take for the statue to come, but it will supposedly be engraved with my name, what I did and the category I won it in.

I'll try to post pics once it comes. My father-in-law said I should hang it around my neck at family functions, but that base is pretty heavy!

AgtFox

10-13-2010, 10:50 AM

AgtFox, I'm happy for you, and im'gunna let you finish, but MagGnome's sex tape, was the best TV OF ALL TIME!
Ironic thing is that there seriously is a MagGnome "sex" tape (w/a girl), but I won't post the link here. We got to view it at one of the MN get togethers.

Handmade.Mercury

10-13-2010, 10:54 AM

Nice!

When I went to NYC, it was getting close to awards season, so I got to hold an Oscar. If an Emmy is at all similar, which I reckon they are, then yeah, those things ARE dense!

It's just too bad they're not made out of solid gold.

10-13-2010, 07:42 PM

It's just too bad they're not made out of solid gold.
No way. Gold's a pretty soft metal. And you're not truly "Hollywood" until you've beaten a hooker or a hobo to death with your award statuette. Seriously, it's the law (http://qcode.us/codes/westhollywood/).

Dorkandproudofit

10-14-2010, 06:11 AM

Congrats, AgtFox. Don't shoot your eye out.

AgtFox

10-14-2010, 09:03 AM

Congrats, AgtFox. Don't shoot your eye out.
I'd be literally screwed if that happened since I was born with no left eye (wear a prosthesis).

Bone

10-14-2010, 09:28 AM

Dang! A one-eyed, Emmy-award winning cameraman with a taste for video games. This fall on Fox.

Congrats man, that is really cool.

Narradisall

10-14-2010, 09:28 AM

What!?! No patch?

Fail!

AgtFox

10-14-2010, 09:32 AM

What!?! No patch?

Fail!
No, no patch. Nick Fury wasn't very cool back when I was born and Solid Snake wasn't even in Kojima's mind yet.

My handicap (don't worry, I don't have handicap plates or anything) is one of the big things I try to convey in my book. My experiences are probably different than a fully sighted person. People have never understood how I could bowl, play baseball/football (recreationally) and the like for instance.

Matthias

10-14-2010, 04:06 PM

AgtFox

10-14-2010, 07:08 PM

You know, I had always wondered what caused the lack of depth perception you've referenced a couple times; I just never had the opportunity to ask. I've a few friends who have lost their eyes through retinal separation, but I've never heard of someone being born that way. What happened, if you don't me asking?

Also, congrats for the award, man! That's pretty stinkin' awesome!
Outside of my inability to see 3D, I'm not sure I've ever talked about depth perception problems. Having been born without an eye I've grown up naturally adapting to depth. I'm not as screwed as someone who loses sight later in life with depth perception.

Basically I was born without a left eye (no eye in socket) and no iris nerves on that side. If the second book were to ever see print there is a large section talking about what I think happened to the eye when I had later medical problems around 1992. That section is already written (it's the last thing I wrote before I took a break to see how sales of the first book went before plowing more into the second).

I've had no problem outside of when I was much younger and used to run into trees as I was adapting to it. I barely remember those days and I'm not sure how old I was, but I remember one pretty vividly while playing with a friend.

Doogie2K

10-16-2010, 10:24 AM

I'd be literally screwed if that happened since I was born with no left eye (wear a prosthesis).

Dude.

Does it shoot lasers or something? Please tell me it shoots lasers. That'd be so fucking rad.

In all seriousness, it's amazing how adaptable the human body and mind are. I'm learning more later this semester about neural plasticity, and hope to learn a lot more as part of my future plans in prosthetics. (I have a couple of books by V.S. Ramachadran on the subject that I need to get to at some point.) It's a really exciting topic, because it shows just how much greater the limits of the human body are than what we'd thought in times past, and being able to take advantage of that would enable a whole host of neat things. I mean, hell, you'd think being missing half your eyes from birth would be a massive problem, but apparently not. Wow.

Inspector Fowler

10-16-2010, 04:33 PM

AgtFox - first, congratulations.

Second, please don't think I'm making fun of you. But I have (in all seriousness) already discussed this with my friends and wife.

If I had to wear a prosthesis and it was at all medically possible I would want a glowing terminator eye. I would bullshit every single person I contacted and try to convince them that I had night vision.

I'm not a particularly handsome guy and I guess I wouldn't really mind looking like a killer cyborg. I'd want to be able to turn it off, of course, for tactical reasons.

Spectre-7

10-16-2010, 05:20 PM

I'd want to be able to turn it off, of course, for tactical reasons.

What could possibly be more tactically useful than convincing everyone you're an unstoppable killer cyborg from the future? ;)

Inspector Fowler

10-16-2010, 06:27 PM

I'd want to be able to turn it off, of course, for tactical reasons.

What could possibly be more tactically useful than convincing everyone you're an unstoppable killer cyborg from the future? ;)

Hiding in the bushes behind a criminal before leaping out, turning it on, and intoning, "Drop the weapon. You have 10 seconds to comply." :)

Generation ABXY

10-16-2010, 07:53 PM

On the plus side, you could also run around nude, telling people to give you their clothes.

Chimpbot

10-16-2010, 09:08 PM

I'd be literally screwed if that happened since I was born with no left eye (wear a prosthesis).

Wait.

They let the guy with only one eye do the camera work for something? And it still won? That's more amazing than the award! :p

Seriously, though. Congrats. Not everyone gets to win something major like that, regional or otherwise. It's really too bad you have to pay for your own statue; it's be nice if the Academy would foot the bill for the entire cast/crew...but that would probably get a little pricey.

You know, I feel a little dirty cracking a joke about a handicap...but I'll comfort myself with the fact that you grew up with it and, as such, were able to adjust for the lack of depth perception as you learned your motor skills. Your ability to bowl or play other accuracy-based sports isn't quite as surprising(but still no less impressive) to me.

Damnit, I'll just stop while I'm ahead.

MagGnome

10-22-2010, 02:44 PM

Ironic thing is that there seriously is a MagGnome "sex" tape (w/a girl), but I won't post the link here. We got to view it at one of the MN get togethers.

I'm so glad that video never went viral. :o

Congratulations on your award! That's fantastic!