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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This is a great format for a workshop. Very convenient not to have to travel. Loved the genuine approach and the fact that Zack was not pushing sponsor products on me. The sponsor schmoozing is the biggest reason I don’t attend most workshops. Thanks Zack Arias and Creative Live.
Creative Live approach.?
Great to see real time issues/problems overcome by a pro in a studio environment and also the interaction with others on the web and the participants in the studio. Fresh honest with no bullshit…I love it.
Where do you live/
Nr Perth Western Australia. Originally from UK. Caught some of the live feed but due to work and time differences missed a lot of it live. Was so impressed I pre-bought so as to watch it at my leisure. Have followed Zack for a while (digital trekker interview, blog etc) Love the guy….wears his heart on his sleeve…one in a million.
Does Live format work?
Absolutely!! for a pilot idea this was fantastic!! I think may be helped in future if you could publish on web the times of transmissions in other world time zones especially as you have now demonstrated that this went around the globe!! Thought the techies did a fantastic job must have been a few sleepless nights!! Will definitely participate again, only thing is I think Zack is going to be a really hard act to follow….I learnt so much Mucho thanks to everyone there for putting this together!!!
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different?
There are a lot to say and I will shorten the number of sentences
– Simplicity
– How to deliver information
– Photography and the wonderful live professional
2. Where in the world do you live?
Middle East – Saudi Arabia
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
In fact at first I was not convinced this thing will work for me but after the three days after I changed my mind fully
live broadcast was awesome, clear and free from interruptions
The sound was very cool
My sense was, and I watch with you if I were you
I couldn’t t actually move my eyes off the computer screen…
In the end I would like to thank you and all who contributed to the success of this weekend very special
I have to say, what I love most about your videos is how real they are. No fluff, no marketing-speak or hype… it’s refreshing.
I should have probably watched this during the day instead of starting to watch at 2:30am… but that’s another story.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
I love how easy it is to follow on the Internet, because of the way it’s designed. Different cameras following the action and showing details, being able to see what’s on the computer screen live while it’s happening.
Who’s directing this thing is doing a stellar job.
Usually classes are thought for a live audience and there’s a camera in a corner recording for people online, just like you were sitting there for the whole time and it gets boring really fast. .
I love how I’m able to be part of it while it’s live and get the files for later, to rewatch them over and over while I’m editing pictures and stuff like that.
Also: the teachers so far are really stellar. Those are people I would seriously pay big bucks to be able to see in action and they’re not making a toned-down version of a workshop just because it’s free.
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?
Italy. The live feed went from about 7pm to late in the am. But with the rewatch I was able to catch up next morning when I woke up.
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?
It’s exciting and I really felt I was part of something huge.
Twitter helped a lot and at some point I was chatting about the class with a friend on the other side of the world watching it.
At some point I started taking breaks from my computer when the course took a break and I had already bought it, so I really had no reasons to. I was just hooked.
Now bring David Hobby in and I can die happy