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Get Rich Slow: May 17th, 2012

Growing Rich Slowly: Planning for Your Financial Future with Jeanne Brutman and Michael Demkiw

 

Photographers don’t retire.  We love what we do so there is no need to think about retiring. Right? Well, tomorrow does eventually come so why not be prepared?

Ask yourself, what if what you thought you knew about money turned out not to be true? When would you want to know?

Date: Thursday, May 17, 2012

Time:  6:30pm-9:00pm

Doors open at 6:00pm

Where: Rod Goodman Studio: MAP

379 Park Ave. South at E.26/E27, 3rd floor, New York NY 10016

Cost: Free to all ASMP members, $10 non members.

Register HERE

 

Jeanne Brutman:

Jeanne Brutman is a Business owner advocate. She helps answer the 3 basic financial questions of every entrepreneur:

1. Every Financial Decision you make interacts with all your past, present and future decisions. who is managing that and your team for you?

2. Who is confirming and aligning your financial products and plan with your goals and values?

3. How can you tell if what you are doing financially is working for you, will continue to work for you and you will be pleased with the results when you need it?

She holds 4 designations, several licenses, given 70 classes / lectures to Colleges, professionals and wealthy individuals and appeared or quoted in print dozens of times on the topics of (but not limited to) Retirement Planning, Estate Planning, Financial Planning, Diversification and bakes remarkable cookies.

Michael Demkiw:

For the past 19 yrs., Michael Demkiw has been advising clients while working for companies such as JP Morgan Chase & Deutsche Bank. Now, as the owner of MJD Insurance Advisers, he takes those years of experience providing solutions for “private” clients and puts those strategies to work for you.

With a special emphasis on financial efficiency, Michael will tell you how he recaptures money you are already spending and how to bring it back the table to work for you. Concerned about having access to your money in case of an emergency? Have you taken losses in your mutual funds and IRA’s and have become afraid of risk?  Are you concerned that your retirement savings won’t last long enough after the government takes taxes out? Michael will share with you the pros and cons of one strategy that is getting more and more attention in the marketplace as a possible way to supplement your retirement and protect your family at the same time.

Speaker info:

Jeanne Brutman: askjeannebrutman.com

Michael Demkiw: mjdinsurance.com

 

 

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Get Out of Your Cave #5 Wednesday, May 9th

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iMovie for Photographers

ASMP New York and the Apple Store present:  iMovie for Photographers. At this workshop, we’ll show you the basics of importing and organizing your clips, choosing a theme, and editing your project. You’ll see how to get a polished look using titles, effects, and transitions. And you’ll learn about adding photos and audio and sharing your movie masterpiece. So jump right in—no filmmaking experience needed.

Where: The Apple Store on 5th Avenue, 767 Fifth Ave MAP

When: Thursday, June 14th, 7:30 PM

Cost: FREE

Register HERE

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VIDEO: PREP SHOOT POST Three Panel Discussions on all things Video.

Please join ASMP New York for VIDEO: PREP — Part One in a series of three panel discussions on all things Video.

Moderator Thomas Werner (Thomas Werner Productions) will be talking to award-winning multimedia producer Bob Sacha, Patrick Casey (We Are Casey), Multimedia Producer Karlyn Michelson, and Director of Photography Ryan White (Fire Wind Pictures) about how to successfully prepare for a professional Video Shoot.

Topics being addressed will include: estimating and budgeting, writing a treatment, assembling your team, working with a producer, gear requirements, etc…

Whether you’re new to video or an established shooter, this is a great opportunity to learn more about the current state-of-the-art from seasoned pros.

FULL DETAILS

When: Tuesday, April 24, 2012  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Doors open at 6:30 PM

Where: SOHO Photo, 15 White Street between W. Broadway and 6th Ave (Tribeca)

New York, NY

REGISTER NOW

Cost:

ASMP Members   FREE

Non Members   $20

Professional Photo Association Members   $10

Students   $5

Moderator and Panelist Bios

Thomas Werner (Moderator) is a graduate of The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with a Bachelors of Art in photography and a film minor, and Long Island University with a Masters of Fine Art in New Media and Performance. He lectures and teaches internationally on topics of Photography, Video, Education, Business, and the Art Market. Werner has had the pleasure of working with the United States Department of State as a cultural representative in Russia and is currently partnering with fourteen cultural organizations to produce the video project Bridge: A Cultural Collaboration in New Media in twenty cities spanning Russia. A fine art and commercial photographer, Werner is the former owner of Thomas Werner Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea art district and was a two term Director on the National Board of the American Society of Media Photographers.

Bob Sacha is an award-winning multimedia producer, documentary director and cameraman and internationally published photographer. He shoots and produces visual stories specifically for the web. Bob’s work mixes video, still images and audio to create tightly focused journalistic narratives with cinematic sensibilities. Recently he worked as a staff producer at the groundbreaking multimedia production studio, MediaStorm.org where his projects were nominated for three National News Emmys and won awards from the Online News Association, Editor & Publisher, the New York Photo Festival, the White House News Photographers Association and The Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards. Times of Crisis, a year in the life of the world’s financial meltdown, won the Documentary Project of the Year in the 67th Picture of the Year International competition among many other awards. His first MediaStorm project, Bearing Witness: Five Years of the Iraq War, also received multiple international honors. Now an independent storyteller, Bob has directed, produced, shot and edited nonfiction video stories for Starbucks, Apple, The Asia Society, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Open Society Foundations, among other international clients. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and the new City University of NY Graduate School of Journalism. He teaches and consults worldwide on documentary storytelling and new media for the internet and continues to shoot and realize nonfiction films, primarily for the web.

Karlyn Michelson is a video journalist, producer, and award-winning documentary editor. Her video journalism for Time Magazine includes segments on the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the 2010 midterm elections, Barack Obama’s biography and presidential campaign, and policy reform in Washington D.C.’s school system. As the Senior Producer for Complex Media, she oversaw all video production, post-production and roll-out. The Global Nomads Group sent Michelson to Haiti two months after the January 12, 2010 earthquake, where she produced stories that focused on youth and education. Most recently, Michelson produced the 30-minute documentary “Youth Court,” which explores an innovative juvenile criminal court in Red Hook, Brooklyn, following the lives of three Brooklyn teenagers. The documentary is currently in post-production.

Patrick Casey is the Owner/Creative Director of WE ARE CASEY, a recognized leader in artist representation for over thirty years. Patrick partners talent and agencies together to create original works that possess artistic integrity in a commercially applicable realm.

Brooklyn-based director and cinematographer, Ryan William White has been shooting a range of projects including independent feature films, a television pilot featuring Director Abel Ferrera and Jerry Della Femina, music videos, and creative web-based videos. Ryan also directs content for Arcade44.TV, Telemundo, Fashion TV and Creative Control. With a feature film in the works for Fall 2012 and a television pilot Crime Lords of Sullivan Street  currently being shopped to networks Ryan is quickly moving up the ladder in his career with help from a strong team of New York filmmakers. Ryan founded the New York Filmmakers group BAHMM which produces short movies and gives newcomers to the industry a chance to learn to ropes and collaborate with working professionals.

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Video Gear Open House: Hello World Communications: May 1st, 2012

Hello World Communications is a rental house that offers the state-of-the-art equipment from video cameras, dslr cameras, lighiting, mics to camera rails for beautiful and smooth camera movements. Join ASMP NY and learn about some of the latest equipment.

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Student Portfolio Review 2012

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