Power Creative is fully embedded in the blogosphere with several folks at the agency, posting their musings and insights for your weekly enjoyment. Peruse the blogs below and come back often!

3D Max Media Sync With After Effects

by Chris Harkins

Software evolves. Useless, outdated features fade away and newer features make the application stronger, even if it takes some time to work out the kinks. Applications are more powerful than the year before because our industry is in perpetual change to keep up with higher client expectations - the applications we use have to keep up. Read more

Check out these 11 new features in Facebook’s new timeline for company pages

Red Bull Facebook Page

1. All company pages will be converted over to the new timeline format on March 30, 2012


Unfortunately, you don’t have any choice in the matter. Facebook will automatically be moving all pages over to the timeline format. You should go ahead and be prepared with a cover photo at the very least so your page doesn’t look inactive or out of date.

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Tattooed In My Memory

One week ago today numerous  EF-4 tornados rolled thru North Pekin, Marysville and Henryville in southern Indiana and West Liberty in eastern Kentucky packing reportedly 175 mph winds causing death and total devastation. Early Saturday morning I traveled just 19 miles north of Louisville to Henryville, Indiana, and the scenes that I witnessed there were mind-numbing. A school bus that truly minutes before the twister hit had been loaded with young school children was thrown inside a local diner. Read more

Will you leave Foursquare for Google Latitude Leaderboard?

Google’s first attempt with social media was Google+, landing over 10 million users less than a month and over 90 million users as of now. According to Slate, Google+ couldn’t compete with the 500+ million users on Facebook.

 Google is now taking its next steps in social media with Leaderboard. Leaderboard is a new feature allowing users to earn points for checking in to locations via Google Latitude.

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New YouTube Channel Design – What Marketers Should Know

YouTube has rolled out a new channel design. Currently, you can switch to and from the new design. However, on March 7, 2012 the migration to the new design will be mandatory and automatically switched over for all existing channels.

What Changes

With the old design, many brand channels use header banner images that contain specific web and social links. The new design changes the approach to layout by the following: 

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Partly Cloudy With A Chance Of ....

Snowfall in the Louisville area has been very light this winter. In fact including the .3 inch that fell overnight, we now have received only 2.1 inches for the 2011-2012 winter season, which is far below the yearly 14.7 inch average for the area. Nonetheless, the dusting provided some very beautiful images as captured here by Power Creative Senior Photographer Bill Miller. Read more

The Year In Review 2011 - Photos by Ted Wirth

 

Please enjoy some of our favorite photographs by Staff Photographer Ted Wirth that he shot during 2011.

 

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Ripple Effect. Client - Power Stock

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Kentucky Derby Week, Churchill Downs Chaps. Client - Churchill Downs

Drive. Client - Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville

Campus Gate. Client -University of Louisville 2011 Annual Report

Hands of Time. Client - Kent School of Social Work, University of Louisville

Water Drop. Client - Power Stock

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The Year In Review 2011 - Photos by Bill Miller

 

Please enjoy some of our favorite photographs by Senior Photographer Bill Miller that he shot during 2011.

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A very unusual "birdseye" view of Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium during the University of Louisville vs Marshall University football game. Image editing and retouching by Sr. Imaging Technician Brad Bird. Client - University of Louisville

 

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Kentucky Derby Week, Churchill Downs Twin Spires. Client - Churchill Downs

Baseball Closeup. Client - Power Stock

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2011 – In Review : Photos by Craig Schneider

 

Please enjoy some of our favorite photographs by Senior Photographer Craig Schneider that he shot during 2011.
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From Years Gone By – Citystates Group, Owensboro, KY
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Countertop Breakfast – GE Appliances
Sharing a Laugh – GE Appliances
Dave Lennox – Lennox 
Office Chic – Lexmark
Egg Basket -  Power Stock
The New Look of Clean – GE Appliances
 

Autumn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Power Staff Photographer, Ted Wirth's Fall images provide a nice illustration for one of my favorite poems, "Autumn" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

 

 

With what a glory comes and goes the year!

The buds of spring, those beautiful harbingers

Of sunny skies and cloudless times, enjoy

Life's newness, and earth's garniture spread out.

And when the silver habit of the clouds

Comes down upon the autumn sun, and with

A sober gladness the old year takes up

His bright inheritance of golden fruits,

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