Jim Giberti
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A lot of firewood. About 30 acres are pasture, hay fields and facilities and the rest is old forest with lots of streams and waterfalls.
About ten years ago I had a friend who builds ski trails for the industry come in and spend the summer building a trail network. Every time he found a spring in his work he’d stop and build a little trailside pond for the horses and dogs. There are several of them along the trails through the mountainside.
Sometimes I feel guilty that we’re the only people that enjoy it, so we’re actually in the process of turning “The Imagination House” across the road into a private retreat for groups of six. Personal chef, wine cellar, total seclusion…and for entertaining clients.
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Hey Rafael,
I’m impressed enough that i’m going to set up a pair of them for action work and trekking (which we do a lot of for our projects)
I’m still out experimenting with settings but it’s feeling pretty solid at 50MB Natural -4, -4, -1, -5 -
Thanks Craig. We used to have the company in an historic building we renovated in the Valley, but a few years ago I bought the old farm that adjoined ours and turned the original settlers house into our new offices and studios. We built several miles of hiking, riding trails through the 200 acres and that’s where I have my business meetings.
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Hey Mark, the farm and studios are in the Green MTNs in Vermont. They are all ours. In fact the eighth pack member was laid up at home. It’s incredibly peaceful. We’re on about 200 acres near the top of Mt Olympus or ‘Lympus as it’s known here…hence we get a lot of snow this time of year.
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Likewise to all my COW friends. Been on location forever and can’t wait to get back to the comfort of my studio this winter and catch up on all the big brain developments.
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[Tim Wilson] “They used to do all their manufacturing in the US. My father ran their facility outside Dallas.
“That’s one of those wonderful tidbits of synchronicity Tim.
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[Aindreas Gallagher] “The focus on albums, and TLC on the iOS style GUI drawer album drop down with matching colours has me thinking about my music as albums again. Its nice.”
I find this really heartening as a musician and producer.
When it was first released, I read a blog comment in passing that said something like “who’s ever going to wast to sort music by album”, and I thought,”have we really devolved to this point.”
Are all the new texting hamsters so deluded that they think they conjur up better ways to do everything in real time?
Every album project I’ve worked on either as a composer, musician or producer, is a concept, not some teenagers idea of a playlist. Enormous time goes into which songs go into an album and in what order they’re heard. Certainly when they’re produced as more than an assemblage of cuts.
In many ways it’s like reading a book without regard to chapters. It’s absolutely doable and some books lend themselves wonderfully to it (Little Big, Walden…) but many if not most musical artists consider the album as the order of the story.
I’m better now.
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[Bill Davis] “As you well know, Jim the chance of a full blown advertising agency being involved in a story like the one referenced is slim to none. “
I guess I don’t know that or anything about the article.
I was just referencing your comment: “In that real world, you’re extremely lucky if what the art department does in layout directly relates to your copy.” and I only think of art departments in agency context
If you were talking about an art dept in a magazine then I have no point of reference and cede the floor.
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[Steve Connor] “The restoration of “Send to Motion” would be enough for me.
“It’s the definition of “glaring omission.”
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[Bill Davis] “I’m just going to suggest that none of you must have ever worked directly in advertising or been around publishing very much.
In that real world, you’re extremely lucky if what the art department does in layout directly relates to your copy.
“What kind of ad shops have you been involved with Bill?
I’m owner and creative director of one and what you describe is more like anarchy, and a pretty shitty agency.Everything we do, whether it’s design for web or TV or film or print are, of course, all integrated -concepts, copy and production.
A creative job would never leave a designer let alone my shop without seamless integration of concept, copy and visuals.
That’s what any good creative director insures.
I’ve had many writers, designers and editors work under me and whether they were top talent from around the country or interns in school I’ve never worked with one that didn’t understand this basic concept.