Thursday, April 17, 2008

Had any trouble getting through on the phone?


This was just un-covered from a pile of snirt (snow + dirt) behind our studio. You could not see the snow plow damage till a couple of days ago. Lots of thses kinds of problems are being found all over Wisconsin - record snows will do that.

Please no "though it was supposed to be global warming" jokes - it's the extremes and variability of the weather that proves the effects of all that CO2....

So when your phone bill, insurance, and taxes go up to pay for just this year's damage - may be waiting till 2030 to have a "significant" reduction in emissions is not a real good idea.......

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

What I do on Tuesday and Thursdays Break

It's called "PickleBall" - sort of a hybrid of Tennis, Badminton, and Ping Pong - named after a dog - having absolutely nothing to do with pickles. Played both in and outdoors it's a ton of fun, even when 70+ year old women mop up the court with you.

Want to know more?

http://www.usapa.org/

Friday, April 11, 2008

Just what is so important about this image ?

You will find this on our wall at ACME Digital Studio as a constant reminder of how things change....

Set your way back machine to 1999...

Shot with my brand new Nikon 950 (yes 2 whole megapixels!) after a whole day of shooting with 4x5" chrome film and Polaroids......

The film, processing, Polaroids and rental of extra lights equaled the cost of the Nikon! Client loved the large transparencies and told me the digital file was going to be "garbage". Still they used it in their next catalog - looked great. Six months later they bought their own digital - shot the products out back and told me how cool they were.... I never should of showed them how.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

New Location - 1731 Thierer Road Madison,WI


Wellcome !
Now that we have all dug out of a record snowfall here in Madison, and you can actually see the front of our studio. I thought I might show you what our new sign will look like !

The oval part will be lit with LED's - part of our effort to "go green" that started 28 years ago.

More to come.....