Where am I?

So we are on a job right now. I took this yesterday. Any ideas where I may be?

I just like them!

Creative funny and true to life... Well if you believe everything that the spin meisters want to tell you!

Event last night

We helped produce an event for the Cascade Festival of Music. It went very well. I guess I can't stop fighting this strange feeling of the amount of hours it takes to do an event right and yet it goes by so quick. I used some new software from Serious Magic called Ovation that does amazing things, but it still takes some time to get it to look right. When I put together a show I prefer to layer graphics with transparencies. Now I am not a Photoshop wizard, but at least feather and make the edges softer. This takes time and a lot of it. Do people notice? I hope so. I think I do it because I can and feel it is right.

This time is the difficult thing because when you say I will put together your PowerPoint people think okay well it should take you about an hour so I will pay you accordingly. Now I am not saying this is the case with the production we did last night, but it goes to show the perception that people have.

This thought goes towards how each of us as contractors should value each others time. We should be thinking about not trying to underestimate, but overestimate on our projects. We should do this not in the interest of gouging the client, but to allow the time to do the job right. If we take less time then we bill the client for less.

Let all of us take the time to do things right.

Course charting 101

The first thing you must do is establish it!

Hmmm.... That seems to be a bit hard. We dabble as a company in so many things!

Current projects include:
1) Church History Project DVD
2) Events for
Cascade Festival Of Music
Red Cross
PIA Weekend Conference
3) Promotional DVDs

And this is just a partial list. I think the thing I enjoy most about owning your own business is you get to pick the work, but it can be exhausting with all of the difference in it all. So how to chart the course?

In order to focus you need to have a goal. Mine is to support my family, but more importantly provide the best production that I can provide for the clients we serve and when it comes to the events we produce how can we make them different and unique. Now the goal can become a bit askew from time to time, but it is important to allow minor course corrections occasionally. Time for one....

Man I am vague. Anyone want to read between the lines?

The seeds of an idea

Sometimes the randomness of the world will collide and germinate an idea. These ideas grow until you have to listen to them and act. I know a bit cryptic, but more to come soon...

So we went to NAB last week and saw HD for everyone as Sony coined it. Interesting use when not everyone can enjoy watching it due to things like in this market only having one true over the HD outlet. The further fighting over HD DVD vs Blue Ray DVD is beginning to put a damper on what consumers want which is true HD that they can watch. Only when the final battle over the next DVD format has been one will we have the answer. Meantime I think I should go shoot some HD to see how it works out.

Apple's announcement of the 17" Mac Book Pro is another advancement in the future of media. I found it rewarding to have Apple demonstrating how easy it is to use Garage Band to create Podcasts. I wonder why Adobe doesn't get that?

So the future is HD and in so many other things. With the course uncharted it is time to chart a course.