1 Year Anniversary

Sunday, March 8th 2009 marked the one year anniversary of Digital Video Arts' new facilities... I guess they're not new anymore. As always, we welcome tours of any size and look forward to showing you around. Just give Clark Fivek a call at 904-281-1001 to schedule a visit.

Open House Celebration

Digital Video Arts hosted it's first official party on Friday, May 2nd to over 150 guests. Throughout the evening. With great food, lots of adult beverages including the new DiVAtini, games in our screening room on the Wii and lots of great conversation the event was a great success.

Enjoy a few images from the evening festivities.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIKE GRAF

Facility photographs.

The entry.

The front facade.

Our 24-seat, High Definition screening room.

One of our art galleries.

The cafe, screening room and bistro kitchen.

One of our edit suites.

One of our audio suites.

One of our graphics suites.

The machine core.

The Cafe

Here's a 4 image stitch of the new cafe. This really shows off the size, color, and feel of the space.

The hall to the left is the edge of the post-production wing showing one of the galleries. The dark room in the middle is the screening room. The hall to the right is toward the sales and production offices.

A New Title and a New Direction

With the completion of our new facility Digital Video Arts' construction blog is being transformed into Digital Video Arts projectPOSTS. We will post media from projects we work on including the final pieces, behind the scenes walk throughs, detailed discussions and deeper insights into the creative magic that happens at DVA.

As always we welcome you comments, ideas and suggestions with regard to how we can provide a better quality, more innovative, creatively progressive and simply incredible experience at Digital Video Arts.

We hope you enjoy the transformation and have as much fun reading our future posts as we have producing them.

The Front Facade

I have started taking shots of the finished facility and this is the first of many to come. It is a composite of three images all stitched together by hand. Over 2 hours of post-production to create this image.

The first shoot in the new studio

Today was the first shoot in our new studio for Jacksonville-based advertising agency On-Ideas. Under the leadership of Vern Weiss and Mike Woeppel, we were shooting the weekly retail inserts for Winn-Dixie, a regional supermarket chain.


Cinematographer Andre Labous sets up a shot.


Andre and Jason fine tune the lighting.


Gloria Norton dresses the shot with some finishing touches.


Heather adds the secret ingredient... love.

First day of business.

Monday was Digital Video Arts' first day of operation.


Business partners Britt McTammany, Clark Fivek, and Tony Haines pose for the camera.


The first edit in the new building was for long time client and friend Linda Shannon Miller for Washington Hospital.

Packed and moving.

Here are shots of the last several days of moving and getting the new facility wired, equipped and ready for business.


Bobbi, Britt & Clark talk moving logistics.


Stuart (Bobbi's son) Britt, Chris, Clark and Bobbi install the temporary DVA sign.


Suddath brings the first of 5 truck loads of furniture and equipment.


Bill and Tony plan the machine core.


The tape library is packed and waits to be moved.


Chris, Matt, Bob and Bill work at a frantic pace to get the machine core up and operational.

Moving In!

Since Thursday we have been moving into our new facility. It has been chaos... while mostly controlled... it has been quite exciting. We have lots of pictures but the 12-16 hours days have made it difficult to find time to post them.

As of this post we are completely moved out of our old facility and into the new digs. Now we are currently in the process of setting up all our suites for sessions on Monday morning. Currently both graphics rooms, one audio suite and one edit suite are up and running and the rest will be online by Sunday night.

It is a very exciting time and the new Digital Video Arts will be a great place to work, play and be creative in. Please stay tuned for pictures and additional updates as we complete our move-in.

NOTE: Our servers are still being configured so if you have issues with not getting responses to email, please be patient... we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Reception desk and theater seating

The new travertine tops on the reception desk.


Seats in the theater started today.


Making precise measurements for the reception desk.


More adjustments on the reception desk base units.

Like a bunch of little boys

Cleaning can be a pain but when it comes to throwing out the trash the guys at DVA know how to have a good time. Matt, Bob, Bill, Chris and Mike have fun destroying all the old computers, fax machines, tapes and old junk around the office.


Bill smashes Chris in the head with an old motherboard!


Chris rips out the guts of an old workstation.


Ooops... someone threw out Bob with the trash but he looks right at home with his favotire old VHS.


Chris is a wild man slinging an old keyboard to it's doom.


Bob too obviously has it in for keyboards.


It seems that no one likes keyboards.


Nice job Matt!


Reminds me of an old skateboard video.


The motley crew of mass destruction.


Mid-air collisions are cool!


Yup... keyboards are bad!


Be careful Bob, you might hurt yourself.