Category: Archive
Sometimes, it takes time to nourish a really great idea. This week, we're in Alabama looking at what could be the site of a visionary new immersive center that will help entertain kids while they learn about good nutrition. We can't think of a more important job! Yesterday we walked the site...
A few weeks ago I was invited to sit on the Microbudget Screenwriting Panel for the StarLite Film Festival. The festival was held in historic downtown Winter Garden at the beautiful Garden Theatre. The panel consisted of six screenwriters with varied backgrounds and was moderated by movie critic Roger Moore....
The Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida broke ground on Friday on its Central Boulevard campus for a new Men's Service Center to replace its current Men's Pavilion, a nightly drop-in shelter with a community dinner meal. The new two-story, residential facility will enable the Coalition to truly serve...
This morning we attended the construction fence unveiling celebration at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Orlando. The fence was designed by students from Central Florida. The first part of the ceremony was held across the street from the Performing Arts Center construction site in front...
IDEAS StoryAnalytics Master Rick Stone will be part of a panel for Orlando, Inc. (Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce) from 8:00am - 10:00am on Wednesday February 15, 2012 at the Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Orlando. The panel will include Rick, Roy Reid (Partner, Consensus Communications), and Shari Sandifer (CEO, Avant Healthcare...
In 1999, through a good friend of our company, we were approached by one of the million new .com companies with an idea. They wanted to do some spots and air them on the Super Bowl to get traffic to their website. The name of the company was OurBeginning.com and...
IDEAS Assistant Editor Rebecca Hodges will be speaking on a Microbudget Screenwriting Panel at the StarLite Film Festival on Saturday, February 4, 2012 at 11:00am. This one-of-a-kind micro-budget film festival promotes the screening and development of feature length narrative films that are produced, shot, and completed for a total budget...
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’s Residential & Counseling Center located a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
