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David reminded me that I have not told everyone about the new members of our team. A little more than a week ago David found a couple newborn kittens living in a drainpipe in back of our place. He has since helped them get food and they have adopted us...
It wasn't easy and it definitely didn't go as planned, but largely due to the efforts of Rob Hill, we saw hard copies of the design specs for the new audio mixing room today. I'm not an architect so I don't know what half of it means but it looks...
Today we held our first production on our new stage. Well, it wasn't a real production but there was talent and a camera. It was a casting session. The stage is far from ready for real production but it was great to have the talent wait in the lounge and...
At long last, we have made the purchases for LCD screens for the edit suites. Despite my business credit card not cooperating for unexplainable reasons other than it being maxed out, we got everything taken care of. We landed on 2x 46" Samsung 120Hz LCD screens, one for the Symphony...
Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer welcomed IDEAS to Downtown Orlando Thursday at an event at the new IDEAS studio on Concord Street. IDEAS recently relocated to Downtown Orlando after 7 ½ years in its previous home on the backlot of Disney’s Hollywood Studios (formerly Disney-MGM Studios) at the Walt Disney World®...
Our next installment in the Behind the Scenes webisodes, "Ready to Move In" has been posted to the new home website: www.ideas1stg.wpengine.com/ideasnewhome and it will be active on iTunes and You Tube tomorrow. The next webisode, "Moving Day" will be up in about 2 weeks, we need to do some...
We just finished the pre-grand opening event with Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer here at our new home. He was here to welcome us to Downtown Orlando. There were a lot of people from the Mayor's office, EDC, Downtown Development and guests. I thought it went really well. The Mayor arrived,...
Tomorrow we have our press event with the Mayor of Orlando. He's coming to our place to welcome us, we're going to thank him and his staff for their support and we're going to make a presentation on behalf of IDEAS to the Mayor's Creative Village vision. We had rain...
I think I've mentioned previously that we're trying to figure out what to do with our way finding. Rather than have standard signage throughout the building we're trying to do something more creative. Have you ever seen a Fat Head? It's a vinyl sticker that can be removed and re...
It's a hot Sunday afternoon and I'm at work. Fortunately for me, I'm not in charge or the real work being done here today. David and Rick worked really hard and completely upgraded the landscaping around the front door. We had overgrown bushes and after tearing them out but after...
Today we had our first birthday party in the new building. Every month we do a cake and celebrate the birthdays of the month. Our April birthdays got screwed with last month being so crazy so we celebrated April & May today.David took Shirley and I to a dive today...
