Whew! What a week it was last week… Last Wednesday, I brought pal and photog instructor guru Zack Arias into my studio for another episiode of chasejarvisLIVE. We chatted photography for 2 hours and took questions from the live Twitter audience via #cjlive. Was a blast. While about 20,000 of you caught the interview LIVE–it seemed like I got at least that many tweets/emails/fbook requests to post it again here on the blog, so… As you wish. Here ’tis.
From there, we shipped Zack and his crew into our creativeLIVE studio where he put on one heckuva studio lighting course all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully you saw the interwebs booming, especially with the @creativeLIVE and #askzack tags. I’m pretty sure Zack swiped some ratings from the World Cup. Or at least we had fun trying. I wanted to give a huge shoutout to Zack and his team for an amazing effort. You guys and gals nailed it. Also a shoutout also to all the manufacturers that kicked in gear for Zack to give away, as well as uber thanks to B&H Photo Video for their support of the creativeLIVE studio and G-Technology for keeping our gobs and gobs of data safe. They support us, please support them. I hope lots of you tuned in. And if you didn’t but wished you had, the course is available for download here.
While I’ve got you, I wanted to ask for your feedback. Not somebody else’s…YOURS. In the comments below, we’re looking to find out a few things with the goal of making creativeLIVE the best it can be. Tell us whatever you want, but please help us by answering some or all of the following particulars about our LIVE, free, worldwide creative education platform:
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
2. Where do you live? We want to understand the breadth of our audience with the comments on this post. Where are you from, and when are you watching the LIVE feed?
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? This is the important part. What does the experience feel like to you? Can you help describe this format to someone who’s never seen it?
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1) It is live and with the chatroom it is just like beeing there – just better, because you can filter the questions.
2) Denmark.
3) I rocks, so awesome.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different? Don’t know. This was my first time. The problem I had was not having a high speed internet connection. My DSL connection is 32K bytes per second. This prevented me from seeing more than moments of video but some audio with a little better success. I did drive to my work and was able to watch about an hour of the second day.
I would like to have had a lower bandwidth option. Maybe 1/4 size.
2. Where in the world do you live? Canada
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
What I saw looked good.
1. I love the fact that this information is available to me despite my extremely limited budget. I watched the entire weekend with Vincent LaForet and I doubt I could EVER get that sort of exposure without CreativeLIVE. I’ll be catching more soon. I’ve never watched anything like this before so I have no comparison. However, discovering the format via CreativeLIVE has been a great experience.
2. I’m in Providence, RI. so GMT -5.
3. I believe it does. I love the feeling of the world wide connection. having someone from Portugal or Norway is awesome and the networking possibilities are epic. The only frustrating part is dealing with some of the comments left online by people who just like to “hear themselves talk”
I love creativelive. It is the best thing I have found on the internet in a long time and I would describe it as giving one the opportunity to take classes from home on my schedule (upon download purchase). It works for me in Walla Walla, WA. Wish I could get to Seattle … Thanks again and the weekend with Zack was incredible. So much to think about!
1. It makes the information more widely available than any other. It does not discriminate between poor starving students and wealthy pros. Equal access to the information.
2. Arlington, VA, USA. I watched it live streaming and took off early from work to do it.
3. It works extremely well. I’ve read much about what Zack was teaching but seeing it performed live made somethings much clearer. It felt like I was taking a class. I was an information sponge soaking up the information. Seeing how a picture was generated and then immediately seeing the results in Lightroom was a great learning experience. It’s like attending school but being able to dress in your bathrobe and nip off the fridge whenever you want.
A suggestion for future classes is to make it clearer exactly when the class will continue after a break. I didn’t want to miss a minute so I even ate lunch and dinner at my computer just so I wouldn’t miss anything.
Zack is a wonderful teacher and that I could attend his class from the comfort of my own home (not to mention for free) is the best example of giving back to the photographic community I’ve ever seen. Kudos to you guys!