Antonio originally came to us for just sound design but the project quickly grew to us doing the music and sound design for both of these, ... He wanted it to be 'art-meets-the-street' and for it to sound more like a film score than a commercial because these are really not spots but mini-movies. |
He respects both guys. He thinks both are really good guys. He's worked well with both of them. |
I wanted to expand beyond audio and offer clients other kinds of creative, but I knew it was important to partner with someone and not just hire a designer. I wanted a person that would have a stake in the company's success ? someone with an entrepreneurial spirit that could make this into its own thing. John is someone I've known for years and the timing turned out to be perfect because at the same time I was looking to expand he was thinking of opening his own place as well. |
If folks had been doing their jobs, we would have a list of schools by the time of the passage of the budget. |
It isn't anyone's fault it is just bad luck. The crew did a great job this weekend. I would have liked to have been able to run the race but that is the way things go sometimes. |
It was unfortunate, but that is what racing is all about. |
It will make people aware of Redondo Beach. (And) it's going to add to the tourist dollar that's spent in restaurants. ... The pier will get a lot of people. |
It's a stream of money the people I've talked to on Wall Street think we can monetize, |
It's no secret. I got whatever anyone would be entitled to, no special treatment. |
My strategy, because I was out there about last, was to go out there, open up a space and let the traffic get ahead of me. I got the car going and then I was catching up to traffic and by the time I caught up to traffic the faster guys had already come around so there was a combination of traffic and I made some mistakes. It was hard to get some clean laps in. |
The car was working well and looking at the data we were getting faster and faster but it was just a little bit of pilot error going into turn nine. I broke a little late and had too much speed and I slid out and tapped the wall. |
The linchpin is the abatements, |
There's no urgency, there's no passion. It's the old way of doing things. |
This was a challenging project for us but we believed in the creative and wanted to be a part of it, ... It was great experience and we all got into the creative process. In the end it became very collaborative. You don't get a lot of opportunities in this business to do something that's expansive and allows you to flex a lot of creative muscles at once but this was one of those projects. |
We'd have to make a commitment that that money would be used for kids, for the schools -- a long-term commitment -- because we're talking about 20 year bonds, |