I'll be at NAB starting Sunday at 7:30 AM representing our company, Silverado Systems.
SUNDAY
On deck for Sunday is the Apple NAB event at 11 AM. Speculation has it that Apple will be releasing a new version of Final Cut Studio. There are also rumblings about a version called Final Cut Pro Extreme that may include hardware support for 4k and goes head-to-head with the higher end offerings from Avid.
New displays have been talked about, too. Apple's current crop of displays don't have HDCP--which is required for digital display of encrypted content from both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs.
So, if new Blu-Ray burning capabilities come out at NAB for Mac Pro towers, you won't be able to watch commercial Blu-Ray discs unless you have an HDCP-compliant monitor.
Also, there may be announcements regarding Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, but I don't think NAB is the likeliest of venues for this.
One wildcard to watch is how Apple has integrated technology from Proximity (Artbox) and Silicon Color (FinalTouch HD) into Final Cut Studio--or if they did at all. Shake has always been a separate product when it was acquired. Its possible that Artbox and FinalTouch HD will also be distributed as separate products, too.
AJA has an event planned for 2:45 PM later that day. Looking forward to seeing some new gear from them, too.
FYI--Apple and AJA usually exhibit right near one another. However, this year RED Digital Cinema is also right next to them. I am hoping the proximity isn't coincidental, but portends a high degree of cooperation in developing a compelling workflow for RED's new 4K camera.
Going to hit Adobe's NAB reception at 6:00 PM that night before retiring to the hotel room to answer what will probably be a zillion e-mails...
MONDAY
We'll be hitting the show floor on Monday to check out the goods from all the vendors and meeting with clients.
We have RED Digital Cinema reservations #20 and #21, so that will probably be the first booth that we hit to check on the status of delivery. I anticipate it will be fairly soon based on comments made recently by Jim Jannard regarding the first 100 cameras (on deck by June?)
Lunch with a great client from Dallas who is with a new company and talking about a really cool new product doing storage differently than I'd ever heard proposed before. We'll see what happens on that front..
I'll be working at AJA's booth SL6113 from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM talking about Kona, IO, and other products. Our friend Eric Maddox will also be hand at the booth to talk about the workflow he just used on a video recently released to MTV.
Apple has a reseller event Monday night at 6 PM that we need to attend as well.
TUESDAY
We have a client from the mid-west that we are showing around on Tuesday. We'll be traveling to Ross, Miranda, Tektronix, Apple, and Panasonic--among others.
Also on deck for Tuesday are meetings with our strategic business partner Marmins Group LLC who will be on-hand to review the pro video market.
WEDNESDAY
At the AJA booth again--this time from 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM.
Then, meeting with a filmmaker from the Bay Area at the RED booth to go over workflow and a possible project going forward this summer.
Later that night, the FCPUG Network is hosting the Sixth Annual FCPUG SuperMeet. Doors open at 5:00 PM and we'll be there through about 7:45 PM.
I am going to scoot early from the SuperMeet because our good friends and professional associates Matt Geller and Scott Murphy at Meta Media Creative Technologies have graciously extended us an invitation to dinner that night. It will be the highlight of our week.
THURSDAY
Back at Sacramento International Airport by 8 AM that morning...
If you would like to meet with me at the show floor to talk about systems or workflow, I'll have my cell with me at (916) 806-7189. I will also be checking e-mail's nightly at tloomis@silverado.cc
We'll also have all the new products released for sale posted up at our website.
I look forward to seeing everyone there!
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Adobe kuler
Great new color theme application based on Web 2.0 principles. From the kuler site:"With kuler, anyone can construct completely individual color themes that resonate both publicly and personally. The public aspect derives from users' ability to share and download swatches as well as comment on them and rate them. Users can quickly view the most popular, the highest rated, and the most recently created themes in the kuler community."
"Just as intriguing is kuler's personal aspect. Artists have long asserted that color preference and emotional response to color are completely individual and undeniably psychological. American artist Andrew Wyeth confessed that the very thought of the true colors of nature could drive him mad. Monet wrote that his all-day obsession with certain colors gave him intense joy."
"The personal aspect of kuler is the user's ability to choose the base color and the color rules to create themes, such as analogous, monochromatic, or complementary. Adding to this individuality are the objects and people who inspire the color themes: an old friend, a beloved piece of clothing, a memory of a 1960s kitchen. Just as surprising are the original names that users give their themes, such as Evil Monster's Day Out, Cubicle Monotony, Whore of the Baskervilles, Robot Skin, Overwatered Plant, Flying Octopus, Freshalicious, and a 1970s trio of gold browns called simply Dad's Clothes."
Monday, February 12, 2007
Tessie's Surgery...
On a personal note...
A lot of you who know Tess and I personally know she has not felt well over the last year.
Tess had surgery last Thursday to remove an extremely painful cyst that had developed over the last two years. The surgeon did not want to remove the cyst when it was around 2.5 to 3.0 cm in size because there was the chance that the cyst could go away on its own.
However, the cyst doubled in size to nearly 5.5 cm in the last month alone. To put it another way, her cyst was around the size of a golf ball...
The surgeon did not know whether the cyst would be attached to any other tissues when the surgery proceeded. As soon as he was able to view the cyst, he determined it was not cancerous and would be able to be removed without abrasion to other tissues or organs.
The cyst itself had torsioned (wrapped) around itself four times. The surgeon said the likelihood that the cyst would have dissolved by itself was zero, and it only stood to get larger and more painful as time continued.
Tessie had the surgery at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula with Dr. Bruce Lee--her surgeon since 1994 and OB/GYN since before that. He also delivered Calvin in 1999 at the same hospital--so we go way back with Dr. Lee and trust him very much.
Dr. Lee is also a pioneer in the treatment of fibroids and we are fortunate to have him conduct the surgery.
The surgery was laparoscopic in nature--the entire surgery took place via three large needles versus a large open incision. The surgery was conducted at CHOMP because there was the possibility of further complications arising from unknown obstacles not readily seen on her MRI's and ultrasounds. Thankfully, nothing further was noted and Tess was able to come home the same day.
We are in Monterey at the moment and travel home either Monday or Tuesday. Tess will be out of action for at least 1-2 weeks and I'll be picking up a lot of her duties at the house.
She could really use a phone call or two to help keep her spirits up. If you don't have the number, please e-mail me at tloomis@silverado.cc
A lot of you who know Tess and I personally know she has not felt well over the last year.
Tess had surgery last Thursday to remove an extremely painful cyst that had developed over the last two years. The surgeon did not want to remove the cyst when it was around 2.5 to 3.0 cm in size because there was the chance that the cyst could go away on its own.
However, the cyst doubled in size to nearly 5.5 cm in the last month alone. To put it another way, her cyst was around the size of a golf ball...
The surgeon did not know whether the cyst would be attached to any other tissues when the surgery proceeded. As soon as he was able to view the cyst, he determined it was not cancerous and would be able to be removed without abrasion to other tissues or organs.
The cyst itself had torsioned (wrapped) around itself four times. The surgeon said the likelihood that the cyst would have dissolved by itself was zero, and it only stood to get larger and more painful as time continued.
Tessie had the surgery at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula with Dr. Bruce Lee--her surgeon since 1994 and OB/GYN since before that. He also delivered Calvin in 1999 at the same hospital--so we go way back with Dr. Lee and trust him very much.
Dr. Lee is also a pioneer in the treatment of fibroids and we are fortunate to have him conduct the surgery.
The surgery was laparoscopic in nature--the entire surgery took place via three large needles versus a large open incision. The surgery was conducted at CHOMP because there was the possibility of further complications arising from unknown obstacles not readily seen on her MRI's and ultrasounds. Thankfully, nothing further was noted and Tess was able to come home the same day.
We are in Monterey at the moment and travel home either Monday or Tuesday. Tess will be out of action for at least 1-2 weeks and I'll be picking up a lot of her duties at the house.
She could really use a phone call or two to help keep her spirits up. If you don't have the number, please e-mail me at tloomis@silverado.cc
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Should Apple and Starbucks merge?
Should Apple and Starbucks merge?
Maybe not the most related of companies...to be sure. However, think of the following:
Lockheed makes weapons for the Defense Department...but they also process traffic tickets.
QUALCOMM develops the mail client Eudora...but they also install cell phone towers and build chipsets.
Disney makes movies, develops theme parks and hotels...but they also have a huge line of licensed products from shampoo, yogurt, and even Mickey Mouse hamburger patties.
In fact, one of the most diverse product brands out there now is Virgin. They have megastores, airlines, fitness clubs, mobile phone service, comic books, cosmetics, etc...
Besides, haven't you always wanted something more than service at the Genius Bar? Maybe a grande mocha while you wait?
So, I wouldn't be surprised to see announced--in connection with the release of the iPhone--that Apple and Starbucks could extend their strategic alliance which has already proven extraordinarily fruitful (no pun intended...)
Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz spilled the beans (again, no pun intended...) when he discussed plans for in-store downloads to your MP3 player.
So, what could the impetus behind Apple's possible push into a coffee chain?!?
Simple economics, really. Not about mixing laptops and coffee per se--but about nabbing 12,000 retails outlets in one fell swoop--while maintaining two premium brands.
When Apple first started selling the iPod, it started hitting numbers like 125,000 in the first quarter of sales and about 376,000 in its first Apple fiscal year (2002).
By Apple FY 2006, that number had hit 39,409,000 per year.
And in Apple's Q1 of 2007, they sold 21,066,000 in a single quarter. This is based off a total sales presence of 40,000 outlets that sell iPods.
Now, lets factor in the iTunes Music Store...
Introduced in April 2003, the iTunes Music Store sold 50,000,000 songs up to March 2004. Nice start, but the anniversary of the store celebrated another 20,000,000 songs sold.
Per Wiki:
On September 1, 2004 the iTunes Music Store had surpassed 125 million songs sold.
On October 14, 2004 the iTunes Music Store had surpassed 150 million songs sold.
On December 16, 2004 the iTunes Music Store had surpassed 200 million songs sold. Ryan Alekman of Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA, bought the 200 millionth song, which was one of the tracks on U2's digital box set "The Complete U2".
On January 24, 2005 the iTunes Music Store sold a quarter of a billion songs worldwide.
On July 18, 2005 Apple announced that it had sold 500 million songs. Amy Greer of Lafayette, Indiana, USA, bought the 500 millionth song, "Mississippi Girl" by Faith Hill.
On October 31, 2005 Apple announced that iTunes Music Store customers had purchased and downloaded 1 million videos since the launch of video support on October 12, 2005.
On December 6, 2005 Apple announced that iTunes Music Store customers had purchased and downloaded over 3 million videos.
On January 10, 2006 Apple announced that the iTunes Music Store had sold 850 million songs and 8 million videos.
On February 23, 2006 Apple announced that the iTunes Music Store had sold 1 billion songs and 15 million videos. The billionth song was “Speed of Sound” by Coldplay, purchased by Alex Ostrovsky of West Bloomfield, Michigan.
On September 12, 2006 Steve Jobs announced in his "It's Showtime" keynote that Apple had 88% of the legal U.S. music download market, 1.5 billion songs downloaded and 45 million videos sold.
On January 10, 2007 Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than 2 billion songs, 50 million television episodes and over 1.3 million feature-length films.
Ok...now we have the iPhone...
Steve Jobs usually sets a fairly conservative goal to reach for sales. Initial sales goals for iTunes Music Store were about 100,000,000 per year which they essentially reached, and then completely blew past.
Fast forward now to the iPhone goal--10,000,000 per year.
Pretty ambitious goal when you think that achieving 10,000,000 new customers per year requires a significant investment in time (signing up for Cingular, etc...) and money ($499 plus service minimum...)
Further, Apple and Cingular have decided (?!?!?) to restrict Apple Authorized Resellers and iPod sales outlets from offering the iPhone. This pushes even more of the sales responsibility back squarely on Apple's shoulders.
So, how can they co-opt a huge internal sales force and promote the use of the iPhone at the same time?
Easy--merge with Starbucks.
Folks--the only things that sell more independent units to individuals than cell phones are cups of coffee at Starbucks.
To the tune of 1.5 billion cups per year... It took Apple four years to achieve those kinds of numbers with items that only cost $.99 each. Starbucks does this each year with items that are $3-4 a pop.
To achieve sales numbers that Steve Jobs wants, they are going to have to put these things in locations that generate WAY more site traffic than the Apple Stores and Cingular stores.
And Apple has decided not to retain the services of Apple Authorized Resellers for this push, so they are already at a huge disadvantage since their most loyal sales forces outside Apple will have essentially no role in selling the device.
So, Starbucks would retain its brand and logo, but would benefit from way more exposure due to the Apple deal. And what exposure would this be? Buying your iPhone at Starbucks. And then pre-filling it before you even walk out the door.
Essentially, every Starbucks would have an iPhone/iTunes kiosk enabled to rapidly sell iPhones, service plans, and enable downloading via Starbucks massive wireless network.
No support staff needed--everything is done via the kiosk and supported via 1-800-SOS-APPL or Cingular stores.
A merger with Starbucks instantly nets 12,000 additional locations to sell iPhones. Even if Starbucks only sold two iPhone's per store per day, that is nearly 9,000,000 iPhones.
Going even further, if those two iPhone users bought and average of 10 iTunes tracks upon their purchase (the upsell!!!), that would be around 85,000,000 additional music downloads per year.
These kiosks would not only benefit Apple, but all sorts of Starbucks gear could be purchased there as well i.e. gift cards, vouchers for bags of coffee, Hear Music CD's, etc... And of course the kiosks could sell other things like headphones, remotes, cases, etc...
And conversely, I could see baristas and espresso machines going into Apple Stores worldwide.
It could be a huge win for both companies. And you would finally be able to get that grande mocha at the Genius Bar.
You heard it here first.
tl
Maybe not the most related of companies...to be sure. However, think of the following:
Lockheed makes weapons for the Defense Department...but they also process traffic tickets.
QUALCOMM develops the mail client Eudora...but they also install cell phone towers and build chipsets.
Disney makes movies, develops theme parks and hotels...but they also have a huge line of licensed products from shampoo, yogurt, and even Mickey Mouse hamburger patties.
In fact, one of the most diverse product brands out there now is Virgin. They have megastores, airlines, fitness clubs, mobile phone service, comic books, cosmetics, etc...
Besides, haven't you always wanted something more than service at the Genius Bar? Maybe a grande mocha while you wait?
So, I wouldn't be surprised to see announced--in connection with the release of the iPhone--that Apple and Starbucks could extend their strategic alliance which has already proven extraordinarily fruitful (no pun intended...)
Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz spilled the beans (again, no pun intended...) when he discussed plans for in-store downloads to your MP3 player.
So, what could the impetus behind Apple's possible push into a coffee chain?!?
Simple economics, really. Not about mixing laptops and coffee per se--but about nabbing 12,000 retails outlets in one fell swoop--while maintaining two premium brands.
When Apple first started selling the iPod, it started hitting numbers like 125,000 in the first quarter of sales and about 376,000 in its first Apple fiscal year (2002).
By Apple FY 2006, that number had hit 39,409,000 per year.
And in Apple's Q1 of 2007, they sold 21,066,000 in a single quarter. This is based off a total sales presence of 40,000 outlets that sell iPods.
Now, lets factor in the iTunes Music Store...
Introduced in April 2003, the iTunes Music Store sold 50,000,000 songs up to March 2004. Nice start, but the anniversary of the store celebrated another 20,000,000 songs sold.
Per Wiki:
On September 1, 2004 the iTunes Music Store had surpassed 125 million songs sold.
On October 14, 2004 the iTunes Music Store had surpassed 150 million songs sold.
On December 16, 2004 the iTunes Music Store had surpassed 200 million songs sold. Ryan Alekman of Belchertown, Massachusetts, USA, bought the 200 millionth song, which was one of the tracks on U2's digital box set "The Complete U2".
On January 24, 2005 the iTunes Music Store sold a quarter of a billion songs worldwide.
On July 18, 2005 Apple announced that it had sold 500 million songs. Amy Greer of Lafayette, Indiana, USA, bought the 500 millionth song, "Mississippi Girl" by Faith Hill.
On October 31, 2005 Apple announced that iTunes Music Store customers had purchased and downloaded 1 million videos since the launch of video support on October 12, 2005.
On December 6, 2005 Apple announced that iTunes Music Store customers had purchased and downloaded over 3 million videos.
On January 10, 2006 Apple announced that the iTunes Music Store had sold 850 million songs and 8 million videos.
On February 23, 2006 Apple announced that the iTunes Music Store had sold 1 billion songs and 15 million videos. The billionth song was “Speed of Sound” by Coldplay, purchased by Alex Ostrovsky of West Bloomfield, Michigan.
On September 12, 2006 Steve Jobs announced in his "It's Showtime" keynote that Apple had 88% of the legal U.S. music download market, 1.5 billion songs downloaded and 45 million videos sold.
On January 10, 2007 Apple announced that the iTunes Store had sold more than 2 billion songs, 50 million television episodes and over 1.3 million feature-length films.
Ok...now we have the iPhone...
Steve Jobs usually sets a fairly conservative goal to reach for sales. Initial sales goals for iTunes Music Store were about 100,000,000 per year which they essentially reached, and then completely blew past.
Fast forward now to the iPhone goal--10,000,000 per year.
Pretty ambitious goal when you think that achieving 10,000,000 new customers per year requires a significant investment in time (signing up for Cingular, etc...) and money ($499 plus service minimum...)
Further, Apple and Cingular have decided (?!?!?) to restrict Apple Authorized Resellers and iPod sales outlets from offering the iPhone. This pushes even more of the sales responsibility back squarely on Apple's shoulders.
So, how can they co-opt a huge internal sales force and promote the use of the iPhone at the same time?
Easy--merge with Starbucks.
Folks--the only things that sell more independent units to individuals than cell phones are cups of coffee at Starbucks.
To the tune of 1.5 billion cups per year... It took Apple four years to achieve those kinds of numbers with items that only cost $.99 each. Starbucks does this each year with items that are $3-4 a pop.
To achieve sales numbers that Steve Jobs wants, they are going to have to put these things in locations that generate WAY more site traffic than the Apple Stores and Cingular stores.
And Apple has decided not to retain the services of Apple Authorized Resellers for this push, so they are already at a huge disadvantage since their most loyal sales forces outside Apple will have essentially no role in selling the device.
So, Starbucks would retain its brand and logo, but would benefit from way more exposure due to the Apple deal. And what exposure would this be? Buying your iPhone at Starbucks. And then pre-filling it before you even walk out the door.
Essentially, every Starbucks would have an iPhone/iTunes kiosk enabled to rapidly sell iPhones, service plans, and enable downloading via Starbucks massive wireless network.
No support staff needed--everything is done via the kiosk and supported via 1-800-SOS-APPL or Cingular stores.
A merger with Starbucks instantly nets 12,000 additional locations to sell iPhones. Even if Starbucks only sold two iPhone's per store per day, that is nearly 9,000,000 iPhones.
Going even further, if those two iPhone users bought and average of 10 iTunes tracks upon their purchase (the upsell!!!), that would be around 85,000,000 additional music downloads per year.
These kiosks would not only benefit Apple, but all sorts of Starbucks gear could be purchased there as well i.e. gift cards, vouchers for bags of coffee, Hear Music CD's, etc... And of course the kiosks could sell other things like headphones, remotes, cases, etc...
And conversely, I could see baristas and espresso machines going into Apple Stores worldwide.
It could be a huge win for both companies. And you would finally be able to get that grande mocha at the Genius Bar.
You heard it here first.
tl
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Setting up Silverado - version 2.0
Its 12:06 AM in the morning as I write this and my family has long since gone to bed...
[Correction--true to form, Calvin has gotten up at least twice as I wrote this entry...I swear that kid could put us all to shame by staying up every night of the week with a cup of coffee and Conan O'Brien on the 50"...]
However, I remain inspired to continue this blog by my friend Mike Curtis at HD for Indies since his posts are some of the most voluminous in the industry. I figure I have a lot of catching up to do before I can claim any number of posts even remotely close to him. Keep up the good work, Mike.
I remain awake trying to get as much work accomplished as possible on our new website:
Silverado Systems
My man Rob Rauffer at BigRig along with his amazing crew have done a phenomenal job in creating the infrastructure for what will take us into the next five years of growth as a company. We've gone from one to two, and now to five people in the course of just a few years. And temporarily, we were at 8 people last week as we were doing a ton of data entry.
Rob has been absolutely the best partner to work with by taking our site and making it completely e-commerce enabled. We are at a point where we can customize systems to a degree that no one else is offering today.
The site is actually live now, but I've run across a few funny tidbits. Someone called up this morning and asked "Can I really buy the Xserve RAID listed on your site for $999?"
Frantically, I checked the site and realized whoever created the product options mistakenly set that product up to default to $999 from $5999.
So, I have a lot of Q&A to do before our grand opening of our new office on February 1st. And just so we are clear, if you find a Mac Pro on our site for $49--no, you may not buy it at that price.
:-)
Macworld came and went a few weeks back and I realized any posting I may contribute to the Ether about the iPhone, Apple tv, etc...would fall on ears deafened by the overwhelming cacophony of press, posts, blogs, etc...
So, nothing new to post about Macworld announcements that hasn't already been said.
No, we have an entirely new idea to throw out there that no one is talking about. I am actually pretty blown away that I am the only one who has thought about it openly so far...
Regardless, this idea is mine to spill and I am going to write it up big time by the end of the day on Wednesday. Just stay tuned here and you are in for a juicy idea.
We get our last piece of furniture delivered tomorrow. Its a 3/4 partition that separates an open work area from our demo counter. Without it, the area looks pretty open and certainly not focused. With the addition of this panel, our office will really take on a complete look.
Also...another tidbit on the furniture. Most of its from IKEA. I think we saved around $25-$30k by going the IKEA route versus something from Herman Miller, etc... The exception is the color correction suite, where we have a monster Winsted desk which is just amazing. Close to near $130,000 in that room alone with the following:
eCinema DCM23 Color Correction Display
Tangent Devices CP100 Color Correction Panel
Apple Xserve RAID 7.0 Tb
Apple Mac Pro
Panasonic 42" Plasma
Panasonic 17" NTSC Monitor
etc...
Also have a Panasonic 65" 1080p display hooked up to our Intel Mac mini which is running HD content to it either in the form of rotating HD trailers or looping in Keynote kiosk mode. Keynote really makes for an amazing combination when you pair it with a high-end plasma like the Panasonic 65" incher.
I am really enjoying the new office and everyone who comes over calls it a "Toys 'r Us for Pros..."
Signing off here at 1:11 AM and back to work on the site for a few...
tl
[Correction--true to form, Calvin has gotten up at least twice as I wrote this entry...I swear that kid could put us all to shame by staying up every night of the week with a cup of coffee and Conan O'Brien on the 50"...]
However, I remain inspired to continue this blog by my friend Mike Curtis at HD for Indies since his posts are some of the most voluminous in the industry. I figure I have a lot of catching up to do before I can claim any number of posts even remotely close to him. Keep up the good work, Mike.
I remain awake trying to get as much work accomplished as possible on our new website:
Silverado Systems
My man Rob Rauffer at BigRig along with his amazing crew have done a phenomenal job in creating the infrastructure for what will take us into the next five years of growth as a company. We've gone from one to two, and now to five people in the course of just a few years. And temporarily, we were at 8 people last week as we were doing a ton of data entry.
Rob has been absolutely the best partner to work with by taking our site and making it completely e-commerce enabled. We are at a point where we can customize systems to a degree that no one else is offering today.
The site is actually live now, but I've run across a few funny tidbits. Someone called up this morning and asked "Can I really buy the Xserve RAID listed on your site for $999?"
Frantically, I checked the site and realized whoever created the product options mistakenly set that product up to default to $999 from $5999.
So, I have a lot of Q&A to do before our grand opening of our new office on February 1st. And just so we are clear, if you find a Mac Pro on our site for $49--no, you may not buy it at that price.
:-)
Macworld came and went a few weeks back and I realized any posting I may contribute to the Ether about the iPhone, Apple tv, etc...would fall on ears deafened by the overwhelming cacophony of press, posts, blogs, etc...
So, nothing new to post about Macworld announcements that hasn't already been said.
No, we have an entirely new idea to throw out there that no one is talking about. I am actually pretty blown away that I am the only one who has thought about it openly so far...
Regardless, this idea is mine to spill and I am going to write it up big time by the end of the day on Wednesday. Just stay tuned here and you are in for a juicy idea.
We get our last piece of furniture delivered tomorrow. Its a 3/4 partition that separates an open work area from our demo counter. Without it, the area looks pretty open and certainly not focused. With the addition of this panel, our office will really take on a complete look.
Also...another tidbit on the furniture. Most of its from IKEA. I think we saved around $25-$30k by going the IKEA route versus something from Herman Miller, etc... The exception is the color correction suite, where we have a monster Winsted desk which is just amazing. Close to near $130,000 in that room alone with the following:
eCinema DCM23 Color Correction Display
Tangent Devices CP100 Color Correction Panel
Apple Xserve RAID 7.0 Tb
Apple Mac Pro
Panasonic 42" Plasma
Panasonic 17" NTSC Monitor
etc...
Also have a Panasonic 65" 1080p display hooked up to our Intel Mac mini which is running HD content to it either in the form of rotating HD trailers or looping in Keynote kiosk mode. Keynote really makes for an amazing combination when you pair it with a high-end plasma like the Panasonic 65" incher.
I am really enjoying the new office and everyone who comes over calls it a "Toys 'r Us for Pros..."
Signing off here at 1:11 AM and back to work on the site for a few...
tl
Sunday, January 7, 2007
Experiences with Comic Life...
My brother Tim's 30th birthday is January 7th. My sister-in-law Kerri wanted to document family and friend's thoughts and feelings about Tim. Since I had a ton of really cool pictures of family, I decided to put my letter into a Comic Life strip. You can check out the results here:
Click here for Tim's Comic Life strip.
Click here for Comic Life by plasq.
Happy birthday, T-Bone!
TL
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Welcome to Silverado Scoop...the official blog of Silverado Systems, Inc.
First post...welcome to the blog. We'll have a lot more to post in the following days to come.
TL
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