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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1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
I think it’s great when thousands of people can participate in a course like this the same time. The greatest thing at all is that you can introduce yourself into the course via internet and all possible communication ways like twitter, chatrooms, etc…
I can only talk about the course with Zack this weekend, but it was really great. There was no strict order or plan, so when there were a few questions, Zack stopped for a while and answered detailed in his own opinion, before he continued.
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?
I’m from Linz, Austria, Middle Europe, small Country and no kangaroos 😉
The lessions started at 7PM here and ended around 3AM or so… I fell asleep twice but it’s so great you show also a replay so that you can watch it again the next day if you‘ve missed something.
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 definitely works! But it depends on the teacher of course and how you involve the audience in the whole game. Zack was a great teacher and I never had the feeling that he was about to loose “the red line”, even when he was explaining something and a question came up, he answered and continued where he interrupted.
I hope to see more of these great classes in future!
1. The best part of it is that the courses and workshops are live. It’s really amazing. Also, I love that the teachers are very passionate people and they know how to inspire in others the same creative force. I’ve been pumped up since the weekend, and not just in my photography but in all the other areas of my life!
2. I’m from Romania, central-to-eastern Europe, so classes usually start at 9pm around here. The workshop was a killer when it came to that because it started at 8pm and ended at 5-6am. I didn’t choose to watch the reruns because I’m horrible at waking up early, as opposed to going to bed late. :)) But hey, it was so worth it! Just don’t have too many awesome workshops in a very short period of time. I’d have to turn into a vampire. :))
3. Yes, it does work! And it’s so many kinds of cool. It did really feel as if I was there, like Bill said in the comment above. There was only the minutest of lags between video and audio but you can hardly notice it if you’re focusing on the class. As to describing it to other people, let me just say that I’ve got a whole group of friends planning to camp over at my place for the next workshop.
What you guys are doing is really inspirational, thoughtful and just beautiful. Thank you so much for this wonderful chance you’re offering us. Hats off to you.
You guys take so much of your time for us, so i guess i can take a bit of mine to answer those question.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse?
– LIVE, even it is not easy to be front of computer all the time. It’s what make the big difference for me, i can feel a connection between me and the teacher, the audience and the community (web/chat/twitter…). We are not just watching a video tutorial or whatever. We are a (small) part of CreativeLive, it’s my feeling.
– RELIVE, as i live in Japan i really appreciate that. When we have an event like Vincent Laforet or Zack Arias Class i usually stay awake over night, but sometimes i fell asleep (i’m not a robot yet) and miss some short parts. I can watch what i missed, that is really a big Bonus !
– FREE, DISCOUNT (until the end of class), what else.. i want to watch because of the class subject and the price (free = nothing to lose), i want to buy because of the awesomeness of the class. i can’t feel any cheating here. The Business Model is pure Genius. I don’t even talk about giving away stuff…
– CONTENT, it is all the time very instructive, it’s made buy “active” professional people, i mean it’s not made by teachers but by professional photographer etc. They know and love what are they talking about. That make all the class i could watch on creativeLIVE very very interesting.
2. Where do you live?
– JAPAN, i live in Osaka, Japan. I’m from Paris, France but it’s been a bit more than 5 years since i live and enjoy being in Japan. Awesome people here. It’s can make sometime hard to watch some class if i have been busy the next day. Can’t be help !
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
– YES, as i said in the first answer.
Also it is easy for me to know when we have a class or event, i’m on twitter (and i RT all the times events on my feed for my friends, sometimes on FB as well) and i follow @creativeLIVE after that it’s hard to miss something as they tweets every 5 minutes before a class start 🙂 but it’s good. I also download the iCal Calendar, it’s come strait to my computer and iPhone, very useful.
And on the creativelive.com i can check on Calendar tab with my time zone as well.
What you can do more after that, i know it’s could be great to get a phone call from Chase to let us know “Class will start in 5 minutes”… but you know..
– ONE MORE THING, it is not a problem for me, but for some it’s could be as a worldwide class, i think. it is about language. Translation or subtitle in download class could be a big value and one more reason to buy it. And on the other way, maybe having more international people/artists/photographers/vision could be very interesting, and could help CreativeLIVE to be spread on to the world event more ! i said that as i know how japanese people avoid watching/reading/listening something in english… just a thought.
Hope this answer could be a little useful for you and creativeLIVE.
And again thank you for let us learn very instructive class for free.
The idea of spreading knowledge in such a professional matter is just awesome.
The only complaint that I have is with the usage of Paypal to pay for the downloads. I live in Costa Rica, and it was pretty hard to get the paypal account working, and in the end I had to gave up. Please offer other options.
Thanks to all the team that brought this workshop to us around the globe.
1) CreativeLive is awesome! Mainly because the events are live and interactive, in a way. Also so far the educators are just amazing and at the top of their games (I mainly Zack and Vincent). Provably the best thing about it is that you give the opportunity to watch it for free – I mean I love what Zack does and everything, but I’m just a student and I can’t afford fly to the US just to visit his workshop. The download prices are very affordable, wich is cool too.
I’m very gratefuller for those workshops, they made me realize that I already have enough gear to do everything I want\need to, I just have to start shooting more.
2) I’m based in Düsseldorf, Germany right now.
3) The re-watches times weren’t very well suited for Europe. Here at GMT+1 they started at 5am, but I know you have to take the folks in Asia in consideration too.
Thank you very very much,
Iwan.
omg, that beer did kill my spelling for sure.
Sorry about that:о)