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…
Chace, I attended Zack’s session all weekend and the format was percect. Plenty of coverage with the different camera angles and it felt like you were almost there. It was interactive because you could ask a question and get it answered right there and then when the material was still fresh. It allows people with busy schedules or those that can’t travel to get the information in a different format. Thought it was awesome!
I live in Massachusetts and the timing was fine for me.
I think you cover everything by offering the free workshop and the full download after for those that couldn’t attend live. The outcome of this weekend way surpassed what I expected.
Chase! You’re amazing! Keep these coming!
A big two thumbs up for your vision and effort to create CreativeLive! it is not often a professional like yourself and those who have appeared on the program would come out and openly share techniques and tips as well as provide a method of instruction for the whole world.
1. While the class is more fluid than most and sometimes it can be a bit confusing at times, hearing questions similar to the ones we have and having the instructors answer them in a clear, concise manner certainly does aid the learning process
2. I currently stay in Buffalo, NY but will move back home to sunny (humid) Singapore in a year’s time. while it is convenient for me (3 hour time difference) to watch the workshop, my friend’s in Singapore (15 hour time difference) had more difficulty to catch it, thankfully your rebroadcast timing was just the right time for them.
3. I would say it is like a virtual classroom with an infinite number of participants with various perspectives and coming together to learn like this is great, especially with a very hands-on instructor who is patient and willing to answer or clarify a similar question time and again.
I think creativelive.com offers something awesome to the creative community. Not only is it operating outside the box of traditional education, but it is really adding to the community that already exists. The great thing is that we have taken the forum to the video classroom and created feedback. BTW…the business model is a great idea too. Everyone has bills to pay. Keep it up!
Zack’s workshop rocked. The site is easy to use and the video feed is high quality. DO NOT STOP!!!
I love the classes and the content but I must mention that they guy that runs it wastes way too much time at the beginning of each show because he obviously likes the sound of his own voice and a small ego trip he from putting this all on. Someone really needs to be honest with him and get him to do all those checks and pre-show crap off the air. It’s far too geeky and where not tuning into the shows to listen to him do all that. It’s 10 minutes wasted and he’s the only person enjoying it.