Author: ludwigvan968

joey has been involved with Boost Logic for nearly five years.  One of the very cool things about Boost Logic is they have always been welcoming to joey and his students to visit and learn about the automotive industry.  In the last three years Zohair Jaffery, owner of Boost Logic, made a critical decision to transition from not only being a leader in the Toyota Supra platform but to begin developing cutting edge Nissan GTR packages.

This year Boost Logic’s transition has been one of huge success and as such, documentation of this transformation needed to occur.

Having produced videos for Boost Logic in the past, joey approached Zohair with the idea of bringing in The Collective to develop a new style of video where a slide arm and proper lightening would be used to showcase the car’s build.

Fran Trechta, a member of The Collective offered to drive up to Austin and teach anyone interested how to light a car as well as how to use a motorized slide arm.

The results were amazing. As you can see in the video, The Collective’s working knowledge of production skills grew.  In addition Boost Logic garnered a video that showed off the Nissan GTR BL1500 package in a very appealing format.

In addition to the GTRBL1500 package video, the collective was also able to collaborate on the Al-Anabi & Boost Logic GTR1500+ dragster project.  Over 6 months Joel, Johnny and joey documented the build and drag strip runs.  It was amazing to see an international collaboration taking place, with people flying in literally from all over the world with one goal:  to make one of the fastest GTR’s on the earth.  They succeeded and the video and photos we captured help exude that to the world.

Through open minded for profit companies such as Boost Logic, rapid hands-on learning has been able to occur for both students and community members of the collective.  Thank you!

Sometime during the summer joey received a random phone call from a New York women about collaborating on an east Austin art project.  After some initial back and forth on the details it was decided we would project and DJ outside the venue and bring some “culture” to a “high culture” event.

What happened was amazing.  The collective came together and put a set list of music and videos that exuded our own cultural experiences over the past few years.  Joel and Andrew collaborated on a masked video project.  Christian made a Rob the Original video (he also DJ’ed) , Johnny made a collective abstract piece and joey made video called “pieces of my mind” which reflects on his cultural experiences since moving back to San Antonio.

Overall the experience was great, the artist works inside were very diverse and offered many unique pieces of art.

So thank you to the East Austin Gallery tour for allowing us to collaborate and show our work.  It was a blast and we were happy to be a sponsor.

The following are videos that were played over the 2 screen video projection system at the event:

joey lopez’s “Pieces of my Mind”

“I created this video as a look into how I create and what I have been experiencing since I moved back to San Antonio after living in Austin for 10 years.”

Joel and Andrew’s Convergent Media retrospective

In late July we were asked by Marcos Hernandez to collaborate with his PR company and the San Antonio Food Bank.  The project would be for the “SA Goes Orange” September campaign by the San Antonio Food Bank.  We collaborated with them on some initial productions and helped them produce, shoot and edit some PSA’s they had developed.  In addition we developed some projection mapping installations, literally going rouge to some sites and running some tests 😀

It was a fun month.  And one that quickly educated the collective in terms of how we develop content for non-profits.

The end result were projection installations that got better and better over the course of month.  Sadly our last location was canceled, however we took our ideas we had for that day and implemented them at TEDx San Antonio.

We would like to thank the Food Bank for collaborating with us and giving us the opportunity to do some convergent media work for a non-profit that is out making a big difference in the 210.

Here are some clips and photos from the various projection days: