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…
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different?
I have only watched a couple classes so far. The main difference that I can see is the teaching style is dialogue based, not monologue based. This is super helpful for me because it makes the class session into a conversation instead of listening and taking notes.
2. Where in the world do you live?
Seattle WA
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
Yes. One thing that you may want to do to help with rebroadcast is to move the buffer to 24 hours that way you dont have to cut things off. I end up tuning in live for some bits and then grabbing the download.
1.- Skilled people talking on your computer for free. Terrific 😀
2.- I’m from spain (terrassa, barcelona)
3.- It depens, If you can combine your time, maybe. This intensive course are cool, but requires time depence (6pm-3am). I guess should have more rewatches on other GMT settings.
The CreativeLive approach is FREE! Wow! We’re getting top-rate instruction for NOTHING! How cool is that?! I’ve been impressed by the quality of the presentations, and the depth of knowledge shared. the instructors are personable, and clearly really care about what they do, and want to share it! The enthusiasm is infectious!
I live in Washington DC.
I learned about CL from my photo group.
CL format. Does it work?
I’ve been very intimidated about using flash. the workshop I just took opened up the horizon for me, and showed me not only how to do it, but made it approachable, and not-so-scary. I’m going to order some basic equipment to get started -through B&H so as to give CL some credit.
Thanks, CL, and your whole terrific team! I owe you!
MBS
Just did a presentation last night to my Mac Users Group and told them all about the great stuff at creativeLIVE. Expect to see many more Greenville, SC people taking your classes.
I have bought most every class I have taken as it’s nice to review it during my leisure time.
The only comment I want to make is that although I sat glued to Zack’s Studio Class, it was really too LONG!!!!!!!
I can’t wait for the Watercolor Class….it sounds fantastic!
1.-Creativelife´s aproach is different because it´s live and free. In essence it feels more real, closer, there´s no safety net, so in a way it´s far more exciting than other proposals.
2.-Spain. Fortunately the weather was bad and I could attend most of it either live or when it was rebroadcast 🙂
3.-Not only it works, I think it´s gone beyond my own expectations, and I guess those of many-many people around the world. It really was an amaizing experience, and look forward to attending projects like this. I would like to thank you for making it possible. Cheers!