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?
Thanks for taking the time! If you’re new here, I invite you to subscribe/follow via links above and to the right. Lots more stuff heading your way soon on all our channels…
i loved the workshop… so much useful info in a relaxed atmosphere… wouldn’t mind if you keep it more pro next time (w/o kids and wifes and that sort of stuff during the workshop….)… the reference was great too (found out about lot of realy good photographers)….
theres no doubt that the format is working. why shouldn’t it? you are able and willing, the audience is there to receive it … it’s all perfect. internet killed television!
i’m from belgrade, serbia
kudos to CJ :bow: may you live long, prosper and be in health!
Hi,
I live in Romania and I followed (most of) Zack Arias’ Studio Photography, Fundamentals of Digital Photography, and The Creative Eye with Art Wolfe. While they were all good, at least for me Zack’s workshop was head and shoulders above the others. To my disappointment, although “Creative Eye” is such a generous theme, that series of workshops was not really what I hoped for.
Although I am on a high speed connection (100 Mb/s) the live feed was most of the time unstable, with frequent freezes, at least 3-4 every hour.
Thank you for offering this format to the world.
Best regards,
Viorel
Hi,
I’ve watched both Vincent & Zack.
I’m from Sydney, Australia.
The live feed is great and adds to the experience allowing one to see more of the real presenter without it being sanitised in post. It felt like I was there.
The repeat our time is appreciated.
A great example of the web making the world a smaller place especially when Australia is so far away and getting the chance of seeing presenters of this calibre is remote.
A brave move by Chase & Co. which is groundbreaking but which will repay them time and time again IMO. They are to be complimented for sticking their neck out.
Keep up the good work and give the concept time to grow.
No negatives at all.
Fantastic.
Cheers & thanks,
Steve.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse?
The big difference is that is brodcasting live and with audience all over the world interacting with teachers!, you can make questions at any time during the class, and the questions from other people can help you too.
2. Where do you live?
Madrid, Spain
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
Is like being there! really works. I´ve enjoyed to much the weekend class with Zack. Keep teaching LIVE!
1. The CreativeLive approach is different because the instructors really want to teach what the audience wants to learn. The instructors are very patient with the material they are teaching. I have watched Mr. Laforet and Mr. Arias on CreativeLive and have learned so much. I especially like the courses because it is hard to travel and attend workshops.
2. Victorville, California
3. I think this format does work. It allows everyone to learn and contribute.
Keep up the great classes.