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Spotlight: Kurtis combines his love of soccer and ink
UX designer Kurtis Powers moonlights as an executive soccer fan. As head of Arsenal America’s NYC branch, he organizes events for 400 active supporters around the city.
This past weekend Kurtis organized a day of “Gooner” ink at Three Kings Tattoo that left over 140 people with AFC tattoos. At least 10 people received their first tattoo that day. Now that’s dedication!
See Complex Magazine’s coverage of the event:
http://www.complex.com/art-design/2011/10/alex-mcwatt-inks-125-years-of-tradition-at-arsenal-tattoo-event
Control Group Presents, “Instant Architecture,” featuring AutoCAD for Mac
Image Credit: Storefront.
On December 16th from 7:00 – 10:00 pm, Control Group and the Storefront for Art and Architecture will present Instant Architecture.
The event-performance will take place at Storefront’s location and it will consist of a series of real-time drawing performances projected on the facades of the buildings surrounding Storefront. The performers will be selected individuals from explosive New York offices and Schools of Architecture who will react, create and respond to particular challenges. The event will feature three high-performance projectors and three Apple computers operating the last version of AutoCad for Mac, all surrounded by a festive atmosphere of music and drinks.
The event is free to attend. Please see www.storefrontnews.org for more information.
Save the Date for Control Group’s Holiday Party!
The end of the year is typically a time for reflection and holiday parties — join us for both!
This year, Control Group is taking over an entire floor of the Woolworth Building. This way, we can show off our expanded digs and toast the future with our new CTO, creative director and website. We’ll have 20,000 square feet to celebrate, including the space where Ugly Betty’s office was filmed.
This is one event that won’t get lumped in with all the other holiday parties when you’re reflecting on the 2010 season. As if Betty wasn’t enough, we’ll also have live music from Chico Mann and DJ Matt Mikas, along with custom-made treats from Lollipops By Mihow and other holiday goodies to bring in good cheer.
So, friends, partners and clients, join us for cool cocktails, tasty bites, fresh art and inspiring technology. Just RSVP to rsvp@controlgroup.com.
DebianNYC “What’s in a Package?” Workshop on the 27th
Our friends at Debian-NYC will be running a workshop at Control Group on October 27th at 6:30 pm about what’s in a Debian package. Debian’s packaging system is a huge part of why it’s such a great operating system (the packaging system is also why Ubuntu is so great). This workshop will give you a tour of how it works:
This workshop will provide advanced theory useful for people modifying or creating packages. For people modifying packages, you’ll learn many typical motifs and about various build systems. For creating packages, you’ll be much better prepared to read and understand guides a deep level. However, this is still not a step-by-step guide in “how to build packages”, but will get you very close to there.
The Debian-NYC series of workshops as a whole is designed to introduce Debian, Debian tools and techniques, and the Debian community as well as provide skills to attendees. This workshop is targeted towards technically-skilled people who would like knowledge of the Debian packaging system and how to contribute back to the Debian community. Most of the material of these workshops will be applicable to other Debian-derived distributions, such as Ubuntu.
If you’re interested, please RSVP. These workshops have always been really fun and informative. I hope to see you there!
Final Cut Server Event Wrap-Up
I wanted to thank everyone for coming out to our Final Cut Server event on Wednesday. We had a big turn out, good food and drink, and a great dialog about integration and workflow possibilities with Final Cut Server. Special thanks to Apple’s Drew Tucker, who gave a great presentation and handed out a few copies of his new book!
As mentioned during the event, we’re going to be continuing these meetups every 3 months or so, along with our partner, StudioSysAdmins. This social network for techs in the entertainment industry is an amazing resource for information, news, and a high-level of technical dialog via its email list, website, and forum.
If any of our customers or partners are interested in presenting at a future event about recent projects that the community would be interested in, please let us know. Thanks all, and stay tuned for more info on future events!
Some pics of the event below:
Welcome to Final Cut Server 1.5. What Now?
Two years ago, Control Group’s Charlie Miller wrote a definitive piece on Final Cut Server for O’Reilly Digital Media.
Since then, Apple has released Final Cut Server 1.5, but Charlie still has plenty of insight on digital asset management solutions. So does Drew Tucker of Apple, the author of the latest book in the Apple Pro Training Series on this very topic.
- How has the landscape changed in the 24 months since version 1.1?
- How can Final Cut Server be integrated with third party and home-grown systems to accomplish transcoding, approval, and distribution workflows?
- Is Final Cut Server the right solution for your asset management needs?
Both Drew and Charlie will weigh in on these questions — and much more in the digital asset management arena — at the Advanced Asset Management Integration with Final Cut Server event on September 22 at 6:30 at Control Group’s headquarters (233 Broadway, 21st Floor).
We’ll also have plenty of food and drink on hand!
Reserve your spot by emailing RSVP@controlgroup.com.
We look forward to seeing you!
We're Celebrating Fall with Final Cut Server and Seasonal Brews!
To celebrate autumn, we’ve put together a great event with some help from Apple. We’re partnering with StudioSysAdmins, the fantastic social networking community for engineers and techs from the entertainment industry, to bring Drew Tucker down to CG to talk about Final Cut Server. Drew is the author of the just-released Apple book on Final Cut Server. Come down and join us – please email to RSVP or for more info. Check it out:
Advanced Asset Management Integration with Final Cut Server
Wednesday, September 22, 2010, 6:30–8:00pm
Control Group, 233 Broadway, 21st Floor (corner of Park Place)
Join Control Group and StudioSysAdmins as we present Drew Tucker, author of the latest title in the Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Server 1.5.
We will be discussing the catalyst events and changes to production workflow that can create a need for asset management, archiving, and centralized transcoding. We’ll also talk about Final Cut Server integrations like publishing video to online distribution platforms, passing assets to third party transcoding engines, and dealing with advanced review and approval workflow.
The event will take place in Control Group’s newly expanded offices in the historic Woolworth Building. Drew will remain on hand afterward to answer all of your Final Cut Server questions, and we’ll have plenty of local, seasonal beers to celebrate the autumn solstice!!!
For more information or to RSVP, please email rsvp@controlgroup.com.
Control Group: Technology for Big Ideas.
Control Group is a technology services firm that provides insightful business analysis and integrated technology solutions including infrastructure, architecture, software, engineering and support for some of the most innovative companies in media and entertainment, like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, IMG/Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week, World Wrestling Entertainment, Walker Digital Gaming and Studio Daniel Libeskind. Our whole-business perspective results in solutions that not only make our clients more efficient, but also creates true competitive advantage, while increasing bottom line and improving shareholder value.
About StudioSysAdmins
StudioSysAdmins is a social networking community dedicated to improving infrastructure, workflows and support across the Entertainment Industry. It’s an expanding community with one common site that joins Systems Administrators, Technical Directors, Pipeline Developers, Consultants, Hardware/Software Support Engineers and Hardware/Software Vendors and Resellers (VARs) that currently work in and/or support production studios in the areas of animation, visualization, visual-fx, film, and games.
Our goal is to enable the sharing of all non-proprietary information among all of our Members and to maintain open discussions between Studios, Vendors and VARs to determine standards in order to help improve support for the installation, implementation, monitoring and maintenance of hardware, software and operating systems.