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Recently I read Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull the founder/CEO of Pixar. Catmull is from Salt Lake City got all of his degrees including a PhD at the University of Utah. In fact graduates U of U Computer Science program in the 70s are responsible for Atari, Silicon Graphics, Pixar, and Adobe. You add to that BYU’s Novell and WordPerfect shows what a tremendous influence Utah had and is having on technology.                In business you want to create a company that is scalable and repeatable business model. Meaning you want to create a business that can grow and repeatable perform...

It’s been almost 10 years since the RED ONE in 2007 was released and changed filmmaking forever so I think it’s a good time to look at what has happened.            I feel the core difference between the digital era and the film era is that with much less money you can get the same tools that $100 million productions use.  35mm color film costs about $1000 for every 10 minutes once you factor in processing etc. Now you can rent a RED Dragon (the same camera that shotThe Hobbit 1, 2 and 3 and many other films) for $395 a...

I like photography books. I like them a lot. I don’t think this makes me unique in the world of people in photography. In many ways I feel that the photography book is the best from of photography. the purist. When a photograph or a series of photographs is hung on the museum wall it is trying to be what painting is. But it’s not painting. When a photograph runs in a magazine it’s there more or less to illustrate a story or a word blurb. More then that in both of those cases the photographer is playing second fiddle...

I like having a nice computer and a nice monitor. Rather ironically, this is because I don’t like sitting at the computer. The more pixels I can see at once and less time I have to wait for images render means the quicker I can be done. With a large high-resolution monitor and a speedy computer what would take six hours can take only four. That added up over the years is a big time savings. Honestly this love of speed comes from the months I spent in a darkroom. When you are making fiber based black and white prints...

In the art world, I understand business is a bad word. I don’t believe this is without cause. There is more to life than making money. If I wanted to make money, I would have become a dentist. But since I believe there is more to life than money, I’m in the arts.                 At the same time I don’t have a problem with what is normally termed “business skills”; they are nothing more than a way of breaking down and organizing a problem to get something done. In that case that is what art is all about. Even a...