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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I enjoyed this video very much. It was great to hear the backstory and challenges that Zack has faced. I appreciated his open and honest rapport with Chase. I rarely go to blogs to watch videos or the work of other photographers. I plan to return to watch others.
what type of ipad cases are those?
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
For me the approach of creativeLIVE is so much important, these days, information if everything, were not in the old times, although some people still are, where we keep the information to our self’s and if anyone wanted would have to pay. Things live are always different then if edited, there are some special little details that usually in the editing would be removed.
2. Where do you live? I’m in Portugal, I must admit that I’ve lost part of the feed, 🙁 problems with schedules at the time I mentioned that by twitter. The parts that I was able to see where so perfect and useful. I know that I can always buy the recording…but I would liked to watch it real time… for us here it started around 10pm something like that, but it was sort of scheduled to 11pm…so I lost around an hour or so.
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?
Well, the describing part of this format, is quite simple, just tune into the url and start watching, how much more simple could it be? 🙂 Now serious talking… The main problem was actually the schedules, synchronizing the entire world is not easy..several people tried and it was hard 😛 can you still remember the “swatch” world time? 😉 long time ago..
Well, to finish my comment…KEEP up the excellent initiative, if half the great minds in the world, just half, had this sort of initiative we would live in a better world, right? 😉
Regards from across the ocean…aka Portugal…
Rechena
1. offering free high quality information on creative pursuits works well for me.
2. I live in Salem Oregon, USA
3. sometimes it is challenging to find the time to watch the broadcasts because I work during the day and get home around 6 so the rebroadcast sometimes works and sometimes it’s to late to catch. I managed to catch the first day of Zarias on rebroadcast and was able to see about 3-4 hours of each day after that live. I bought the download because zarias is the man. Might watch more if the timing works or it’s someone I really want to see.I would definitely love to see a portrait photographer teaching on portrait work specifically; or perhaps the Strobist himself on DIY.