NoCal Report

We had an awesome trip (again) up to San Francisco and Napa.

Larry & I got the opportunity to do an interview with Bambi Francisco and the folks at Vator.tv (watch for it in the near future on the Vator.tv site), and also to have a great chat with Michael Stajer of WineCommune and JJ Buckley. We love getting to know more people in the wine industry as a whole, especially when it's someone who's worked hard to build his business over the last 8 years as Michael has. (We also love buying wines from them, and you should too!).

On the ride up, I attempted to finish editing, compositing and doing the audio work on our latest promo/pitch for our startup. The pitch is now up at Vator HERE, but I'm also going to embed it in it's own post following this one.

I can't say I ever tried editing on a laptop on a bumpy highway at 90 miles an hour. All I can say is that I can't really recommend it. It's hard. Here's a pic Larry snapped off on the way. I look happy in there, right?


I finished the piece as we pulled into the Vator TV shooting location at The Presidio, with the final render coming out at 2:53pm, our scheduled meeting time was 3:00, so we quickly changed shirts in the parking garage and boogeyed upstairs. (which, all we can say is *wow* - amazing architecture and offices there...)

It was great to meet and talk with Bambi, Roland, Meliza and Carl from the Vator team - thanks for making the interview a great experience!

We also took a few hours on Friday to check in with our friend over at Bacchus Caves, David Provost, who graciously took us to check out his companies latest masterpiece up in the hills of Napa. The work they've just completed at a private family's cave was just astounding and made us all that much more enthusiastic about our partnership with them.