TCC Insights

It's All Art, Baby

By Sue White, Production Design Supervisor

As much as Lady Gaga never thought she'd be asking Cher to hold her meat purse at the MTV Video Music Awards, I never thought I'd find myself at a Lady Gaga concert. Yet, here I was, thanks to a gift from my brother, taking in a Gaga concert last Friday at HSBC arena, ready to "just have a fun time." Now, I certainly am not president of the Gaga fan club, but I can appreciate her creativity, and passion and energy – clearly, she has an abundance of that. But the concert evolved into much more than just a "fun time." I was able to experience some effective guerilla marketing first-hand.

Operation Photo Rescue

By Sue White, Senior Production Designer

I came across an article some months ago in Photoshop User magazine about Operation Photo Rescue (OPR), a volunteer network of professionals that work to repair photographs damaged by unforeseen circumstances - like fires and natural disasters - at no cost to their owners.

I thought, hey, maybe I can volunteer my skills to this worthy cause, because losing a photograph that you cherish - of which you have no copy - is not a great feeling. Long before the days of digital photography, once you lost a photograph, it was gone forever. What if that photo of my brother Todd in his plaid pants and cowboy hat sitting on my grandfather’s lap had been lost? That’s a piece of your family history (and possible blackmail material) that you want to hold onto.