New e-book available now – Tools for Your Creative Side

As Promised, here is the info on my new e-book and where you can find it.

The details:

The advancing technology we have available to us can be an incredible and amazing thing. However, it can also be costly and difficult to utilize in some cases. This e-book is designed as a collection of 65 online and downloaded resources to help assist creative people in doing the things they love with ease and at either no cost or affordable prices.

For those artists, photographers, writers and videographer types, this book is for you. For the people who work with audio and animation, this is for you.

Order on Amazon of my author website.

Lastest Musical Release By Anthony Rankin

Years ago, a talented musician named Anthony Rankin started out doing shows in his native Pittsburgh. After a number of albums, he took off to continue his career in the East Coast music capital of Nashville. This is the video from his latest release “Pony Tail.”

Poetry , Video and Audio! Oh, My!

Quite a lot of art today focuses on more than one type of media. However, it’s not that often that you may find a creative effort that uses more that two at a time. This powerful video just just that.

The poem “The Dash In Between” by Youtube member Borrowed Light And Broken String and adds in intense music as well.

Be warned, it deals with some emotional subject matter but feel free to check it out in the below video.

Painting Eye

An incredibly silly “instructional” video filled with sensory overload like you’ve never seen.

Vintage Photography / Videography Collection Contest (Results)

Congratulations to Julie Ann, the winner of the Vintage Photography / Videography Collection Contest! Just in case you are wondering, the correct answers are below.

TOP SHELF – Wein WP5008 Flash Meter (Germany), Hanimex 49mm Skylight Polarizing Lens Filter (Japan) and Tiffin 49mm Lens Filter (USA)
SECOND SHELF – Kodak Brownie 8 Movie Camera (USA) and External Flash (Manufacturer unknown)
THIRD SHELF – 1920’s era Kodak folding camera (USA) and AFGA Insta Folding Camera

Vintage Photography / Videography Collection Contest

I recently completed my mini display of vintage photography and videography equipment. And having done so, I thought that this might be a good opportunity to have a little fun on this blog. So, I am officially announcing contest.

Here’s how it will work.

To enter, simply add a comment with your best guesses as to what each of the items are on each shelf. The guesses that come the closest will be ruled he winner. It’s as simple as that. In the event of a tie, additional consideration will be given to any person who also clicks “Like” on the post or shares it on social media.

What’s the prize?

Winner gets their choice of:

1 year of a free add on this blog.

A free lifetime membership to Image Aids – a video blog with tutorials on everything media and creativity related.

Any two services from my offerings at Fiverr.com which can be found here.

Winner will be chosen on October 20 and announced on October 21, 2015.

Good luck and have fun!

Image Aids Tutorial Resource to Launch Live Video Chat Classes Soon

A while ago, Three Rivers Creative Arts introduced a new and innovative venture called Image Aids. This site was designed specifically to help photographic and other art enthusiasts to develop their craft through video tutorials on Photoshop, editing techniques, DIY projects, working with online video and audio along with so much more.

We are excited to announce that Image Aids will be expanding its horizons to what we will be calling the Image Aids Academy. The IAA will offer the ability for those interested in the visual and digital arts the ability to engage in personalized and custom-designed one-on-one live video chat classes!

Why pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a seminar, workshop or class at your local college only to be bombarded with a lot of full and technical jargon you really don’t need to be dealing with? Why not get right to the point in simple, plain English instead for a fraction of the cost?

IAA classes will start at just $50.00 for a 30-60 minute custom session focusing on only what you want and need to learn. Upon completion of the class, you will be given a certificate recognizing this.

Rest assured, the original Image Aids site which you can now preview a bit at Join Image Aids, will remain active with an ever increasing number of tutorial videos accessible at a one-time cost of just $10.00.

More details coming soon.