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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Zack’s work shop was fantastic! I thought the format worked very well. I expected the video to hang, be jumpy, or to have other problems. No significant problems at all. However, I live in Beirut, Lebanon, a 10 hour time difference from the U.S. west coast. Given the time difference, I had to give up watching the workshop after a while. So, I bought the video! Great work. Keep it up. Interesting idea.
Second comment here but this one is about the interview you did with Zack. I didn’t realise it was 2 hours long before I started it. Awesome. Thanks for that.
It was a fantastic workshop-I had the feeling I was taking part physically. Also great that you could have questions answered in real time when they cropped up.
I live in Munich, Germany.
The timing was a little difficult as it went on quite late, but was well worth it.
Will certainly sign up again for a creative live experience-love the idea of being able to communicate with others all over the world.
your the mentors I’m looking for.
1) What makes the CreativeLive experience different? Jarvis, “You Are The Man!” I asked in a email to express my opinion on the CreativeLive experience. and answer three questions. It is not just a positive experience but I also feel strongly convinced that when you and your staff care enough to share and help other photographers. It is not a PR ploy like some others in the industry.
I have watch two workshops via CreativeLive. The first was with Scott Bourne teaching Apeture 3 and now with Zack Arias teaching studio lighting. Both men have done an amazing job! They were informative, entertaining and genuinely nice people willing to answer question(s) making sure every aspect and question was answered, if possible. They also gave gifts that person really benefit from. They took time out of their busy schedule to share their wealth of knowledge and information in a way that others could easily comprehend and retain. I myself am a visual learner and that it what make CreativeLive’s part in it all the one’s to credit with the highest honor. There were problems with Scott’s feeds but other than that. coordinating not just an interview or Q/A which never really covers what is desired from aspiring photographers like myself; it is the 3 days workshop with real-world hands on approach that made all the difference in the world! I really hope to see more workshops in the future and like the unwavering faith and belief like a young child believing in Santa Claus or the tooth fairy. I hope, pray and believe I could aspire to one day be an attendee in a future on-location class audience.
Please do not stop what you are doing. You are doing us all a huge service. I myself had paid thousand to a private school who scammed many for years out of their hard earned money and eventually were forced to close but the money was never refunded making my college degree I recieved fraudulent along with the lack of knowledge shared with us.
I am a disabled, single mom attending another college determined to make my aspirations a reality; you have help make those aspiration that more attainable for me to achieve by having the free workshop.
Thank you, Jarvis and to the rest of the CreativeLive crew, their family and friends who patiently and nicely lent us all of you in order to make these workshops possible. If I have not already said and if I have, I will say it again (what’s a little more rambling of praises), “Keep up the good work!”
2) Where in the world am I? I am in Southern New Hampshire (working on my Zack inspired studio setup).
3) Does the live world-wide experience really work? Absolutely! I love the format, the clarity, the consideration for the audience’s point-of-view and ability to hear clearly constantly being checked, showing each and every step’s why and how-to never assuming we know any of it which would result in leaving crucial information out.
Best to you all!
Anita J