OT Chris Vrenna from Nine Inch Nails to join Michigan Faculty
Pretty cool hire by the School of Music Theater and Dance. Love the photo of him at Niagra Falls as a kid wearing his Michigan hat. I think I had the same hat from that era as a kid. Welcome back to Ann Arbor Chris and Go Blue!
https://smtd.umich.edu/chris-vrenna-to-join-the-department-of-performing-arts-technology/
https://x.com/umichsmtd/status/1785368714168180759
First midterm:
- Just how deep do you believe?
- Will you bite the hand that feeds?
- Will you chew until it bleeds?
- Can you get up off your knees?
- Are you brave enough to see?
- Do you wanna change it?
When someone ducks out of the room to use the restroom during the final- "she's gone, she's gone, she's gone away"
He’ll never be able to do a collaborative Zoom meeting, because he’d rather die than give you control.
Or he might bow down before the one he serves.
Student: "Good morning, Professor. How are you?"
NiN: "I hurt myself today. To see if I still feel."
Student: "Um, that's terrible! Isn't that painful?"
NiN: "I focus on the pain. The only thing that's real."
Student: "Well, OK then. I think I am going to drop this class."
NiN: "What have I become? My sweetest friend. Everyone I know goes away, in the end."
Student: "Yeah, I'm dropping, you psycho..."
That sounds like he was in a downward spiral
7. Is your existence flawed?
bleh
Nine Inch Nails. Shouldn't he be joining the engineering department?
You're not too far off, actually- He's joining the PAT program- Performing Arts Technology. Stuff like sound engineering and prodiction - setting up a studio for a recording session, operating a mixing board, editing a recording together and finalizing the mix, video production, lighting, etc- it's all stuff that I'd imagine he's very experienced in.
Hey! I'm smarter than I realized. Maybe even smarter than I am.
Theological Engineering
I hear Sting is joing the entomology dept....
Leader in the clubhouse for thread title I least expected to see, but very cool.
As long as the prospect of working here doesn't cause him to look in the mirror and ask, "What have I become?"
everyone without tenure
goes away
in the end
A Michigan man?
Cool story bro:
A friend of mine who is a former Imagineer is good friends with Trent Reznor. He also happens to design Augmented Reality Games along with another friend. Their game for NIN included putting a thumb drive on a urinal at a NIN concert. When a fan found it and stuck it in their computer it "simulated" a virus and gave the fan a puzzle to solve. The fan put the puzzle online and a bunch of hardcore NIN fans collaborated to solve the puzzle which told them to show up at this underground club in LA. About 100 of them showed up. A NIN cover band came on stage and started playing. After a few songs my buddies burst into the club dresses as SWAT officers and arrested the NIN fans. (They were worried about the NIN fans fighting back but luckily avoided any violence.) They drove the fans to another location where NIN actually performed and the fans got a bunch of free swag for solving the puzzle.
This sounds made up, but I'm hoping I'm wrong.
It is real. They did another one at Comic-Con for The Dark Knight.
Quad brought receipts!!
Has anyone informed Jane Coaston yet?
I don't think MGoJane has time for us anymore.
April 30th, 2024 at 11:47 PM ^
She has time for this.
Not to be a "downer" - or to go off on a tangent - but, it sounds like "He's coming out of his cage and has been doing just fine"...
Wrong band, but this is a perfect time to replace Mr Brightside with a NIN sing along.
Was really confused for a bit by the thought that someone from NiN was an offensive tackle.
If he was from NiN he'd be a really offensive tackle.
(in the nicest possible way)