Okay, here is a better view of the SafeHouse

Diego Emir Garcia

We recently completed a photo shoot with a longtime client, conductor, singer and actor Diego Emir Garcia.

Gallery Wrapping...

Trevor Meeks of MeeksDigital Photography is now offering full gallery wrap canvas photography prints. This is a 3x4 foot print from a recent wedding photo shoot. These large prints must be seen to be believed. Click on the photo to the right to see a larger version. The canvas was created by Roxanne Benton, of Pixel2Canvas.com. The rubber duck, like the one on Trevor's shoulder is shipped with every shipment. Why? Don't question genius.

Big News from Wild Sanctuary!

Big News from Wild Sanctuary! Wild Sanctuary VP, Katherine Krause has just informed us that they've scheduled the second week in June to be on-site in Alaska for The Katmai Soundscape Project, a continuation of The World Soundscape Project begun last June in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This phase, obtaining baseline recordings of 3 sites within Alaska's Katmai National Park, is an exciting continuation of our global project work and will add significant material to the archive from that amazing location. Known as the 'land of 10,000 smokes', the Katmai is a spectacular 40 square mile, 100-700 ft. deep ash flow deposit from Novarupta Volcano. Also known for it's brown bears, robust waterways, rich salmon habitat, remote wilderness, and rugged coastlines, this area is still recovering from 1989's Valdez oil spill, although it was over 250 miles away! If you'd like to help them accomplish the baseline soundscape study of this region please make your contribution today -- just click on the MAKE A DONATION button on the Wild Sanctuary Blog under The Murie Center information. And thank you. We're grateful for your support!

Sonoma Biofuels Steps It Up

Joe Barratta of Sonoma BioFuels recently joined Sonoma Valley High School Earth Club students in a rally warming up for the Step It Up action taking place on Saturday from noon to 2 p.m.
Step It Up is a grassroots, nationwide effort involving hundreds of communities across America to get the attention of the U.S. Congress to “step it up” with effective legislation to cut carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050. “Come join Sonoma Valley High School students and your community on the sidewalk in front of the historic Sonoma Plaza. Bring signs, wear costumes, ride your bikes, walk, but be there and let’s do Sonoma proud on behalf of our planet and the future of our children,” said a statement issued by the organizers of Sonoma’s event.
To get more information, see the Step It Up Web site at stepitup2007.org, then go to “Find Action” for Sonoma’s action information. -- SonomaSun.com

Bernie Krause's Works

Before devoting his life to preservation of the natural world, our client Bernie Krause, had a long creative musical career. He was an early adopter of the synthesizer and an ardent composer of cutting edge music. At right is his album Gandharva, composed and recorded with his late musical partner, Paul Beaver.

According to Wikipedia: Bernie Krause (born December 8, 1938 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American musician, was a member of The Weavers, and was one of the first players of the Moog Synthesizer in the 1960s. He formed Beaver & Krause with fellow synthesist Paul Beaver (who had played the instrument on a Monkees recording, "Star Collector"), to make electronic music featuring the Moog and other instruments.
Late in 1968, Krause demonstrated the Moog for Beatle George Harrison, who was visiting California; a recording of the session became the basis of "No Time Or Space", a track featured on Harrison's Electronic Sound album the next year. Krause also provided soundtrack music for Rosemary's Baby, Love Story, Dr. Doolittle, and Apocalypse Now.
Krause holds a Ph.D. in bioacoustics from Union Institute in Cincinnati, and is also remembered as the "Pied Piper" who lured a stray humpback whale from the Sacramento River Delta back to the Pacific Ocean, through the use of sounds.
Krause's 1970 album In a Wild Sanctuary was the first to employ the sounds of nature on a large scale, as a source of musical tones and rhythms, and to make a statement about the environment. Krause continues to compose and produce electronic and environmentally-themed music, including a popular series of albums for The Nature Company.

A quick look inside the SafeHouse

We are only going to show you a low-res image QTVR for security purposes. This is of the main office at the new facility. Anything more is on a need-to-know basis. If you need to know more you can access it here.

A Rebel Winemaker: Tony Coturri

"When famed wine critic Robert Parker, Jr. issues a declaration like this, wine lovers in search of the unusual rejoice. Located in Sonoma Mountain’s Volcanic Valley of the Moon region - where the vines send deep roots into rocky red clay-based soil - Coturri Winery is renowned for it's organic, unfiltered, unrefined & unsulphured wines; in particular, their distinctive Zinfandels which have been characterized as 'dark and forbidding' and 'hedonistic.'

Typically Coturri incites either passionate loyalty or intense outrage. 'For every reader who writes to thank me for turning them on to these organically made, unfined, unfiltered, unsulfured wines,' notes Parker, Jr., 'there are others who have accused me of consuming excessive amounts of illegal substances before tasting Coturri's wines, or, even worse, just incompetence.” Counter Restaurant - April Newsletter

Congratulations Tony!

-30proof

We were visited by a Multi-Purpose Person

We can't think of a better way to put it, but Cheryl Itamura calls herself a multi-purpose person. She defines it as such :

Cheryl Itamura, n. 1. Stage Manager. 2. Production Manager. 3. Talking Head. 4. Director. 5. Graphic Artist. 6. Coordinator of Reality. 7. Creator of Dreams. 8. Soothsayer. 9. Writer. 10. Actor. 11. Poet. 12. Muse. 13. Umberto Eco Fan. 14. Woody Allen Fan. 15. Ray Sikorski Fan. 16. J.M. Berry Fan. 17. Daedalus Howell Fan. 18. Baker of Tasty Chocolate and Cranberry Bread Pudding. 19. Cyro Baptista Fan. 20. Stomp Fan. 21. Paleo Music Fan. 22. San Francisco Taiko Dojo Fan. 23. Flesh and Blood. 24. Orange Calcite. 25. Chez Panisse Fan. 26. Cafe Beaujolais Fan. 27. Kokkari Fan. 28. Artist. 29. Patron. 30. Lover. 31. Gertrude Stein Fan. 32. Charles Bukowski Fan. 33. Basho Fan. 34. Rumi Fan. 35. Queen of a Small European Nation, the Universe and a piece of dust. 36. Wearer of One-Thousand One-Hundred and One Hats. 37. Balance. 38. Dance. 39. Joy. 40. Zen. 41. Gei. 42. The Puppetmaker's Daughter. 43. Multi-purpose Person. You can read more about her at her website. Or see one of her short film partnerships along with Daedalus Howell.



We hope to add a #44. A valuable partner to 30proof Media.

Matthew Coddington, A new voice talent

We are in the process of creating a new identity for voice over actor, Matthew Coddington. He has been training quite some time with well-known vocal coach Madeline Wild of Radio Magic.
Our job has been to create an identity and make all the necessary pieces for a portfolio. We really welcome the opportunity to work with Matthew. By the way, it is his birthday today. Happy Birthday! To hear some of his work click here.

Go! Go! Go!

30proof Media has had lots of inquiries from people who are setting up websites for the first time or are thinking about finally depending on them as a necessary part of their business. For those people, we have created a free white paper to explain the ins and outs that someone should know when they are starting the process of making a website. You can see the information by clicking here.

If you have any further questions, call one of us directly at 415.738.8766 or email us at hello@30proof.com.

Flying with MeeksDigital Photography

Sam and I spent the day with Trevor Meeks of MeeksDigital Photography in his 1950 Cessna 170 to fly down to Concord, CA. On the way back, we flew over the new office of 30proof Media in Sonoma, CA. To us it is called the SafeHouse. It is called the SafeHouse because we aren't going to tell you where it is (unless you have to come by and drop off a check...) We are going to show you an aerial photo of the facility, we are working from a rehabbed warehouse. Here is Sam's photo of the facility: