Posting on this blog

As you might see, I have been posting less than I used to, at least here. I've been quite busy building the studio and preparing The Gnomes of New Hope. There are a few subjects which are more relevant to thus blog, which I am beginning to focus on more. So you might see more posts here than you have lately, but as you can see from the previous post, there are events which affect the frequency of posting here. As it stands now, I use my smartphone to post and placing images via that method has not been terribly successful. I have been building a server for the production office and given the appropriate security, I may begin addressing the web from my studio. I have avoided that, because I did not want the distraction if having the internet in my workspace. I guess I'll explain that in another post.

AG

The Theatrical Development Centre

I just crafted a detailed post on this subject, only to have it disappear on me. I'm angry and frustrated by that, so maybe I'll come back to it, but I doubt it.

I feel like I've just just been intellectually raped, because I won't be able to generate those thoughts again easily. It's too bad because it was an excellent essay on producing theatre, really excellent... and valuble!

Let me just add this; if you are writing something in the digital environment, don't let yourself get carried away with your thoughts and forget to save frequently. Otherwise you too may end up angry and frustrated! I think I will change my method of composing for that very reason.

I really wish I could recover what I wrote. Oh well, I'll address this subject again after I do so independently of this blog.

AG

Posting activities

I have not been posting here on a regular basis. This is because I maintain a number of sites, including an Image of the Mind page on Facebook. All these sites require attention to keep them reasonably current. Another factor is that for some time now, all my postings have taken place from my smartphone rather than a workstation. I'm developing an in-house network and the complexities of doing that are, shall I say - more than I expected, but necessary.

In terms of IMS, the primary focus is refining the studio space. I have a massive amount of work in front of me, because in addition to making the space workable for the production goals, I am also engaged in restoring the building, which is a 20k sq ft industrial building. The building was a rental property, which was abused by one tenant after another, to the point where primary systems need to be replaced and structural maintenance needs to be implemented. Half of the building is used for RCKletzing, Inc., a CNC machine shop (215-357-1788), and the other half is IMS.

So in addition to production and publishing activities, I am engaged in setting up shop and restoring, refining and maintaining the property. It's a huge amount of workload. Fortunately, this project; The Gnomes of New Hope is written. The only work remaining for the package of Core Creative Materials to be complete is publishing layout & completion of the artwork for Volumes Two & Three, and scoring the music. The rest is all production work.

As you may have seen elsewhere, there is an extensive array of Ancillary Markets, but the foundational work of developing the prototypes for those markets is a separate issue. Although the overall success of the primary markets is tied to the ancillaries, they are not part of the Core Creative Materials in the context of completion of that package, rather those markets avail themselves of those materials.

That's all for this update. Check The Gnomes of New Hope blogs both here on eBlogger and on Facebook as well as Image of the Mind Studios on Facebook.

   The IMS Producing Partners page has not been updated for awhile, mainly because it is a subscription page set up for production management issues and because, for the time being, that information is best conveyed face to face, with the few partners involved in what we are doing.

AG