Author: ludwigvan968

One of the first conferences that came onto our radar was the 2014 SXSW EDU Conference.  The deadline was late July 2013, in the midst of our group coming together.

We quickly decided to pitch our philosophy as a talk and put together a team of panelist we felt was well-rounded and representative of the group.

Our application was completed and submitted on time. After submission, the application goes live on the conference website where the public votes via a panel picker.

We had a whole social media team put together for this effort to to help get word out and hopefully earn votes.  As there was no official ticker, we tracked our votes by social media “influence” and we seemed to be in the top 10-20 percent.

Unfortunately we recently found out we were not picked as a panel this year (2014).  So why are we posting this?  Because failure is worth reporting.  With failure comes learing.  Something we at the Convergent Media Collective feel is a critical part of being a cutting edge innovative group.

So keep an eye out, we may be at SXSW EDU 2015 or another conference near you!

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