“I’m so tired”. “After work, I don’t have the energy”. “I don’t know how you do it”. I hear these things almost everyday of my life. The answer to having the energy you need to do more things is something we all know, but a first step most are not willing to make. To summarize it without boring you or making it seem impossible, it ...

Ok, so I've been on this four month journey, although it feels like an eternity, of working out 6 or 7 days a week, eating nothing but egg whites, chicken, fish, lots of vegetables, spinach like its going out of style and worst of all restricting my carb intake. The hardest part is going to friends and family parties, the wrong kinds of food all ar ...

In the last week members of our team have had some interesting times traveling. At first I thought I have to tell people about these stories because nobody is going to believe them. But the more I thought I realized, everyone is going to believe them because they happen all the time so it would be far less surprising and much more therapy for other ...

We always remark that the greatest thing about our work at IDEAS is when we can be a comprehensive solution provider for our clients. That means we get to work in all of our practice areas- Innovation, Learning and our Studio. I’m in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico this week working with Rasaland- an extraordinary company developing two new resort/living ...

On Friday June 25th three IDEAS team members had the opportunity to assist inone of the first relocations of sea turtles from the Gulf Coast Oil Spill to Sea World and Walt Disney World. The process really began on Thursday June 17th when Anderson Cooper on CNN's AC360 followed the rescues of sea turtles covered in oil to the Audubon Nature Inst ...

I was having one of those disjointed and asynchronous “conversations” with my friend Jamie Conglose on Facebook today about integrity- one of the most greatly abused words in the national lexicon of business. Jamie is a world-class teacher of leadership and she opined that “Possessing integrity and emotional intelligence allows organizations ...

The insert stage at our Downtown Orlando Studio is equipped with a cove/cyc for still photo shoots as well as smaller production shoots. The stage is 25’ x 30’ and can be painted white, black or green. The stage has a small dressing room, restroom and has easy ramp access to our parking lot for load in/out. The stage is equipped with an isolat ...

Tuesday night a couple of our edit staff went to the Orlando Post Pros meeting to see a demonstration of the newly released Avid Media Composer 5 software. Generally speaking, they guys were very impressed, here’s a few highlights. AMA Media Management- you can work natively with QuickTime media. You can mix QT media with Avid media and it doe ...

In the continuing saga of The Radical Platypus (www.radicalplatypus.com), Jim Brazell and I along with our pal Jud French from the Digital Media Alliance of Florida gave a talk at the leadership Summit for the Florida Alliance for Arts Education last Friday in Lakeland. These are educators who have embraced the results you get when the arts aren’ ...

Over the years we have tried to do some fun company-wide things to break up the monotony of work, day after day after day. We have tried to come up with some fun things- movie night, mini golf, Wii tournament, etc. In the end though, most of our activities end up being food related- Thanksgiving, dessert afternoon, bar-b-que, pizza parties, breakf ...