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 think you should invite Karl Grobl he is a humanitarian photojournalist focus on all types of NGOs around the world, he has a compelling portfolio and he also does some workshops in several parts of the world. please check him out. http://karlgrobl.com/blog/
Thanks
Celso
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Hey Guys,
I know this is an old post, but I am watching it for the first time and I wanted to speak on it.
I am going through the issues stated in this now. I have found myself lost with what I do and trying to pursue a career in photography. I have shed many tears, ripped out many hairs, and spent countless hours in my own head gripped by fear of making new work…focusing on what I want to be, what I want to do, where I fit in with work…looking for answers from the wrong people, following to many people and not blazing my own path and being afraid to make new work…and as of now, I have reached the point where I either stop worrying, start shooting or take a long break…
Photography is all I know…I spent 3 years in school studying art theory, fine art photography and photography…what am I doing with it right now? Not what I want. What am I doing to fix it? Worrying and freaking out over things I can’t control, which isn’t helping. I feel like I am letting my photography buddies down, my teachers down, friends and family who see the talent I have going to waste with the anxieties and procastinations that are holding me back. I’ve become lazy, which is why I am struggling.
This video and this blog (a long with a few others) have brought my to tears, and put a large lump in my throat with the realization that this career is not perfect, and making art is never easy…you guys have been a huge help in getting my to relax and get back on the right path…I love your insight chase, and it’s changing the way I think and making me more confident about what I need to do and where to start making this REALLY happen.
Thank you for this, Thank you for everything you do…but if you excuse me, I need to get my ass in gear and start making work, because I am tired of just listening right now (which I will always continue to do), and not doing anything.
Look forward to more wonderful live sessions like this and have a great month of October.
~Travis Alex.
thanks for the honest and moving comment Travis. it ain’t always easy man, i know. keep on trucking….