Earlier this week we shared a view into the future with one of our clients. We call it the "Guest Experience of the Future".  Just what is it? --- the combination of the power of story, wrapped in leading edge technologies -- all combined to deliver a personalized and immersive guest experience. Our solution spans a value chain. Starting with ...

I hope everyone is lucky enough to have days when every other thought is “dang, I LOVE what I’m doing.” Yesterday was one of those for me (I have to admit, I have more than my fair share). I was lucky enough to spend the whole day focused on a SINGLE project- Spaceport America. Even better, I got to see our multi-company Team IDEAS show its ...

Yesterday we spent all day at a remarkable event. It was the first day of the International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS). There is an exciting and hugely energetic emerging industry being built around private enterprise, no, that’s not quite right...wildly entrepreneurial individuals and companies betting the farm ...

Today Team IDEAS, in the persons of Tom Cordova from CMG and me, attended a major press event at Spaceport America. Sir Richard Branson and his Virgin Galactic team rolled out the WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo craft and flew a great exhibition pattern over the 10,000 ft Spaceport America runway.  The spacecraft is beautiful-even parked! The d ...

On September 11, 2001 a great deal of suffering was continued. While it’s often said that the suffering “happened” or “was caused”, I think those statements are incorrect. The suffering that manifested as the destruction, fear, loss of life, pain and misery of the World Trade Center disaster has deep roots going back through all of human ...

9/6/2011: Team IDEAS is on its way to Las Cruces, New Mexico today to begin a week of work on the concept for the visitor’s experience at Spaceport America. Rick Stone, Duncan Kennedy, Kelly Pounds, Hassan Patterson, Brad Nix and I are being joined by colleagues from Integrated Insight, ORCA Consulting, Exline Design and Architecture, MY Design, ...

Yesterday was my birthday. It wasn’t a milestone- not 30, not 40 and definitely not 50. And it wasn’t on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday so it’s not like I could really enjoy the day with family since I had to work. I got in to work and already had 20+ birthday wishes on Facebook. Then another 20+ during the day and then another 10+ after I got ...

IDEAS has, over 10+ years, made deep connections in our community. I love the fact that as I write this, Shirley Decker is hosting a meeting of the WMFE development committee in our StoryLab where yesterday, our CEO Phil Ruggieri chaired a meeting for Florida Special Olympics and tonight I’ll be in a creative work session with United Cerebral P ...

Today, Ray Bradbury is 91 years old and he remains one of the people who has most profoundly influenced me. When I was a shy and admittedly geeky 4th grader with a bookish penchant, Mrs. Bixler suggested I read Martian Chronicles. Something in me was changed forever and I never recovered. I went on through the library exploring the darkness of Fare ...

A little more than a month ago we announced our new post production audio mix room was up and running. This was huge milestone for us as the room was 2 years in the making. We are happy to have the new room completed and in use for many reasons, one of which is our ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement) work. In the past we have done ADR for many fea ...