~ a Christmas party toast by Chris Bainbridge. 2014 has been quite a year. A year that saw the departure of some long-time friends and colleagues, and a year that saw the arrival of some incredibly gifted new team members: the lovely Melissa, a marine biologist, a weather man, and a Venezuelan teen sensation – of course, I’m referring to Lupinacci. In 2014 we sold groceries, illuminated flower pots, birdhouses, human powered bicycle generators, doggy products, tupperware, legal services, groutaide, delicious egg crystals, lots and lots and lots of air conditioners, giant shipping containers, surgical equipment, various and sundry automotive products, electronic screen cleaner, hotel accommodations, therapeutic swimming pools, grill-cleaning robots, sand mining services, construction equipment, ironing boards, shot blasting equipment, and a spray-on adhesive that sticks to everything… including cameras and tripods. We trained marketers, university employees, car wash employees, folks fighting child abuse, quitting smoking, making milk cartons, using health websites, cooking chicken, cleaning motorcycles, spraying on the adhesive that sticks to everything, and identifying personality traits. (Colby is such a 4). We (and by we I mostly mean Mark) traveled to the Dominican Republic, Mexico, NEW Mexico, St. Lucia, Atlanta, Cleveland, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Austin, Alabama, Miami, Connecticut, New Jersey, Chattanooga, Dallas, Savannah, Houston, Kentucky, Cincinnati, Indiana, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Virginia, Chicago, and the sketchiest “animal sanctuary” on the east coast. There was not a week in 2014 when we were not shooting multiple jobs… shooting from boats, moving cars, airplanes, hot air balloons, zips lines – and even in the studio shooting Jay dressed up like a hillbilly playing the banjo. We worked for National Geographic, Omni, Zagat, Cisco, GE, and 94 other companies. We competed for Emmy’s and ....Vodka. And we raised awareness for abuse victims, people battling eating disorders, folks trying to start small businesses, people trying to make Asheville a greener and better place to live, and kids fighting brain tumors. I give you 2014.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 22:03:57 +0000
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