One of the many qualities of a leader is not to pick favorites, but let me leave that kinda’ chit chat for another time. So, do you pick favorites? Oh, no? Your pants are on fire! When I first met Christine Biondo, she came across as a “bossy” person but that is because she knows what she wants, she doesn’t want to waste time and I did not ...

Today we celebrated National Pie Day. About two weeks ago Caroline Masse asked if we could celebrate by asking our staff to bake/make two pies each. One pie would be for our celebration and the other would be for our friends at the Women’sResidential   & Counseling Center located a couple blocks from our building. A few times a year we have ...

Humans are social animals. In order to be healthy and to get anything done, we have evolved to form and function within groups, to specialize and cooperate. We use a very complex set of communication systems- mostly tacit- to make this work. These systems are repeated and refined over and over again through an evolutionary process and the result is ...

IDEAS hosted Orlando's first Corona SDK meetup last night, presented by Carlos Icaza. Corona SDK is a development platform which can create apps and games for iPad/iPhone along with Android, Kindle, Nook and soon, MacOS. The biggest draw of Corona is perhaps the simplicty of use. One of their best examples of this can be seen in their "Physics in ...

The creative process has this image of being an act of artistic inspiration that quickly teleports itself to a marvelous finish with smashing result. I hear a lot of interviews and read a lot online that supports this myth. I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, just that I’ve never seen it. What I have seen time and time again is the deep value o ...

On Tuesday December 20, 2011 IDEAS is hosting the Orlando Corona SDK meet up from 5p-7p. The meet up is being put on by Carlos Icaza form Silicon Valley, CA based Ansca Mobile. Ansca Mobile's Corona SDK is a software language/application which allows developers to write a single program, and then export to Android, iPad, iPhone, Nook, Kindle and ...

When you toil in the fields of story—honest work by the way—you sometimes get a chance to help grow something vital and important. IDEAS is a team of passionate creators so when we got a chance to help the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts create the next chapter in their story, it was an all hands on deck moment. This is personal fo ...

What we are thankful for 2011: httpv://youtu.be/mA5CQAPUPWo ...

When thinking of the integral role of storytelling in every phase of fundraising, there are myriad ways to examine how fundraising is impacted by this simple, yet profound tool for communicating. To me they are like fractals that when combined create a whole—and all are necessary. Through my years of work, I have identified a number of axioms tha ...

Since graduating college and entering into the world of post production, it seems like everyone asks the question: Which editing program do you prefer, Avid or Final Cut? In one corner you have Avid, the old reliable used by seasoned professionals around the globe. In the other corner is Final Cut, the new kid on the block with a lot of promise. Wi ...

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, and I are being joined by colleagues from Integrated Insight, ORCA Consulting, Exline Design and Architecture, MY Design, Cordova ...

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 ...