I just looked at my last post and was surprised to find the absurdity of how auto correct changed what I wrote. Egads! I fixed it.
This is my front office, which, some time ago, I started turning into the art department, with a video editing suite. I have been in this office for forty years, albeit, on the road alot doing theatre and film. This is in Building Two. I have expanded into Buildings Three and Four and moved my production office into Building Three. So if you come looking for me, the front office is closed. I am in the back buildings and for now the front Buildings One and Two, which contain the machine shop, are shut down, including my front office.
I have been deeply occupied with the writing/publishing activities of The Gnomes of New Hope, so I have not been very attentive to the other matters pertaining to Studio structure. Yes, I have been reorganizing the shop, in order that I can, not only, be more efficient with the ongoing projects "under roof", but also in order to make it possible to hire people to work there. You see, the work stations must be under control, tools in their place, the building up to code, and other like matters, before I can effectively allow activities to step up to the required production level. I also need to get the account office under control before and of course, sufficient funds, before I can start hiring personnel. Nothing would be worse than starting the engine, heading out on the highway at 120 mph, only to find that the bridge over the river isn't finished, if you get my drift.
Further, for those of you who choose to use the telephone to communicate with me; the line I have posted as the contact for Image of the Mind Studios is my personal cell phone. I answer with hello. Don't let that throw you off. I can't seem it bring myself to respond to answering the phone any other way, I've tried and I always revert to hello. I say this because I get a lot of calls where there is no response on the other end of the line and if I get no immediate response, I hang up. I don't have time for robo calls or idiots. Your best bet is a text, but you need to identify yourself. I don't respond to solicitations or unknown links. Generally, I'm pretty busy and often don't get to the phone before it goes to voicemail. So if you do leave a message, I will get back to you, if you are talking business and not just trying to sell me something. Eventually, I will set up a receptionist, in which event those communications will take a more standard form. For now, all those resources are directed toward building other aspects of studio operations. Keep in mind that my primary modus operandi is design, development and production (mostly prototype materials). Manufacturing, marketing and distribution are developing under specific parameters, which are not yet active.
My history in manufacturing goes back to my grandfather and father running our family machine shop, so I do have a history of working in that arena and an understanding of the depth required for those activities. In fact, the machine shop is still intact, although shut down right now. If it goes this way, I will be looking to build a board of directors to take over operations of the shop. It started out with Swiss Automatic and all the necessary secondary operations, but it's set up now for CNC. Ask me if you are interested. The company was RC Kletzing Inc. If I restructure it, it will become RCK Technologies, specializing in design, development, production of robotics and animatronics... and, of course portions of the business activity that it has always been a part of; a job shop.
We're also engaged in platform medical technology as well. That is a cutting edge new application of known technology, which has already had six million invested in it. It needs to be brought to market. Another project you might inquire about.
So that's all for now. AG
