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I found that the post of "Never Been So Near" below was usurped by YouTube and replaced with a political message about President Obama. I do not approve of this and I avoid any advertising whatsoever on this blog. If you find advertising or political messages here, they were not place there by me. The only purpose of this blog is to promote Image of the Mind Studios and the modus operandi stated above and most significantly at this time "The Gnomes of New Hope" and related business in that regard. AG

S.1a Never Been So Near

Here's a new copy of this animation. I brought it in from the IMS YouTube page, 

as the one previously posted here got erased since it was lower resolution.

Status Report:

    I have a limited amount of time to post and my computer crashed on me when I was writing this update.  Please go over to The Gnomes of New Hope for an Update which was just posted.

  Briefly - I am focusing primarily on the Illustrated e-Storybook, which is taking a lot of time and effort, other than that, the focus of attention is on building the studio facility and animatronic puppetry. We are beginning to return to work on the music and preparing to record another lyrical song "The Stone of Wisdom".  Preproduction packaging materials for the industry are a priority and release of the Illustrated e-Storybook  will likely be delayed until all three volumes are complete. This for marketing purposes. 7/11/16 I've altered the date of this post to bring it to the top. I recently looked at this again and it delighted me. I'd like to get busy working on the real animations. AG

Hello again

Well, I've been off-line for almost two years with only an occasional touching base. The reason does not matter, but the advantage has been that I could focus totally on the work of refining the studio space and producing the prototype materials for "The Gnomes of New Hope". Many things have happened, which I need to report on and I hope to be doing that in the future. Suffice it to say that the books and product lines are on the brink of being released to the public and the Business Plan is almost ready to release to Industry Professionals. Any way you look at it, I intend to remain in the studio working on these materials, designing the shows, building sets and such. I expect partners or participants to come to me. I will make what effort I can but, I have too much to do to go out on the road. If you care to participate in any degree, you will have to make yourself known to me by contacting me via mail or visiting the shop. So basically all activities are focused on Bucks County PA and all construction will be taking place in Southampton. Anyone with another workable plan for distributing this on an international scale will need to make a proposal, as the work required of me at this point has me completely occupied with an unbelievably huge number of production matters. That's all for now. AG

4/3/16 Update

Well, I have not been very attentive to this blog for awhile. My focus of attention has been the work of setting up the studio, sound stage, art and sales departments. Work is continuing, albeit slowly, on the puppetry for The Gnomes of New Hope. Other projects are also underway, but generally the work of refining the studio operations has been a priority. As you may see from looking at The Gnomes of New Hope blog, IMS Publishing and time studies for the assembly line have also been a priority. The Business Plan for the overall operation is pretty far along and some of those aspects have been mentioned here. I am taking the position that all activities will be taking place out of the Southampton facility, so anyone interested in sales or production, as mentioned herein will need to be visiting the studio to advance that cause. I do not expect to be hitting the road with this anytime soon and the focus of making any presentations will be strictly limited to Bucks county Pennsylvania, Bryn Athyn, PA and Mercer County, NJ. Philadelphia and Allentown will follow after a successful presentation as mentioned. In the meanwhile I will be focusing on cinema and television working with puppetry and stop action animation out of our studio. Classic animation may also be taking place. Continued development of numerous product lines is ongoing and those items will be licensed, again out of our Southampton Studio known as Studio 1325. Any interest in those items will need to be initiated by the interested party at our location. I will not be soliciting these materials any where other than here on the internet because my time and energy is in such complete demand for the items that are underway, that I simply cannot leave the studio for anything other than activities which are taking place here and in the general vicinity. This may change with sufficient funding to allow more freedom in that regard, which of course, I am opened to. I am sorry that I cannot post more often, or provide more detailed reports but, I am quite busy with the matters at hand, which demand my attention, including rebuilding equipment and setting up both a metal and wood-working fabricating operation. I invite your inquiry and recommend hard copy mailed to Image of the Mind Studios 1325 Industrial Boulevard, Southampton Pa 18966. At this time I am avoiding email for various reasons. If you have my phone number, give me a call. AG