Brand New Location

Hey everyone :)

I just wanted to take an opportunity to welcome you all to the new home of the Adam Fox Voiceover blog.

I was using the same provider that I use for my Web Hosting for a while, but it was a little too difficult to stay on top of blogging and I found myself not really using it as a daily or even regular thing. I decided to move servers and use the Blogspot! I gotta say this is so much easier and will translate into much more regular updates and will allow me to stay more in touch with all of you. :)

To kick things off in this new Spring season, I’d love to share with you a little of what I’ve been doing the last few days.

Spring Cleaning! Oh man.. I got an early jump on it by a day or so, but needless to say, I looked around the studio yesterday and said, Allright, enough is enough.

It’s a great lesson that never leaves me. I get so busy doing the day to day stuff, and for the most part it’s pretty organized, but when I had some rare down time to actually look at what kind of condition things had reached, I was truly shocked.

Now, I’m a pretty clean guy, but I get busy just like everyone else and I say.. I’ll get to dusting that tomorrow. It’s not that my studio was filthy in the way that it was strewn with trash and needed a good cleaning in that respect, but it really had become more of a storehouse of things that I felt were no longer items that I’m using on a regular basis.

I highly recommend you all take some time to do this in your own office and studio spaces.

What did I do? Well..*Deep Breath*

The Console and Work Space

Removed an old laser printer I wasn’t using anymore and was for some reason still hooked up to my main studio machine, I removed all my loop and sound libraries that had been stacked for ease of use, but when I realized I’m not grabbing them as regularly as I used to, because many of these are regular production elements, and are already on my machine, I put them in the secretary and cleaned the top of that shelf.

The Secretary

Well I reorganized all the items in the same fashion, removing those that I no longer use, and started using the Secretary as my media storage, paper storage, sound library storage, software, etc. You get the picture.

The Rolltop Desk

I had started just putting stuff there that I was grabbing quickly and realized that all those things had been moved somewhere else and my desk was now another storage area. This is my workspace for billing and invoicing etc. and it needed to be set free.

The Storage Space

It had also become cluttered with non usable items, DVD player that I no longer use, soundproofing foam, extension cords, etc. All items were removed and placed in their proper areas.

The Piano

Well I use that quite a bit, but the top of the piano had manuals, Hard Drives, etc on it and those were removed and placed in their proper areas.

Additionally, all areas got a thorough cleaning, dusting and wiping down, compressed air on all the controls, rack gear etc.

The Result?

I freed up space, made a WAY better energy in the creative environment, Feng Shuied the whole space and got all that lingering computer killing dust out, and in the creative environment, the better you feel, the more natural, relaxed and high speed you will become.

I urge everyone to take a look at your space and do the same. :)

I hope you’re all having a great Spring thus far!

Thoughts?

Adam