DSLR Cinema

For the past couple of days I have been absorbed in the creativeLIVE weekend workshop by Vincent Laforet on DSLR cinema. I am learning tons and having a lot of fun.

By the way, I am no longer in Halifax but back in BC on Hornby Island enjoying some down time and spending time with my family. This is where I will be for the summer and hopefully I will have some projects to post soon because I am excited to get going on some silversmithing, make some short films, and do more photography.

creativeLIVE

I recently discovered this online creative classroom. I wanted to wait to post about it until I had actually experienced one of the classes.

The way it works is that different artists will teach a course or workshop and you are able to watch the classes live, for free. If you miss the class, you can download it after but in that case you have to pay for it.

The class that I took had around 1500 students. There are frequent Q&A sessions throughout the class where the teacher answers questions from the live audience, the class chat, and Twitter.

There are not a lot of courses at the moment but this is something that is just getting going and I am sure the selection will expand.

If you enroll in a class you are sent a reminder email an hour before the class begins. I have enrolled in Fundamentals of Digital Photography, The Creative Eye with Art Wolfe, and Watercolour 101. I am particularly looking forward to the weekend workshop on DSLR Cinema which was how I found out about it in the first place.

I think this is an amazing opportunity and it is wonderful that they can provide these classes for free.

http://creativelive.com/

Creativity

Elizabeth Gilbert on Nurturing Creativity
This is an inspiring and funny talk by the author of Eat, Pray, Love.