The best of Jim '06

[Shawn Nelson]

I picked my favorite Jim posts from the old board on dvxuser and brought them over here. Feel free to add any I missed.
-Shawn
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People that don't make you a little nervous will never surprise you with a revolution...
-Jim

Welcome to the party. Make sure you put your helmet on before you begin. There are lots of flying objects on the path.
-Jim

The future of film exists WITHOUT film.
-Jim

Business is really not rocket science. 1st- make something that people really want. 2nd- do it with a few smart guys, not an army. 3rd- make sure you sell it for more than you can make it for. 4th- keep your marketing expenses low. 5th- sell enough to more than cover your NRE. 6th- Have fun. It's contageous. Life is good. Enjoy every moment. Business 101.
-Jim

Other than the bugs crawling all over my skin at night... I'm OK.
-Jim

I've heard that this project is impossible... hehe
-Jim

Life is short... don't get caught doing something that someone else was meant to do...
-Jim

 

[Chris Gearhart]

Ha! Great quotes! I especially like the last one--it is so nice to learn that one early in life.

 

[Ace]

Wow! Never really considered that before, but it will come to pass.

If RED was a publicly listed company, we'd all be in jail for insider trading

Now.. About that float..

 

[Matthew Greene]

Jim you wanna take RED public? HeHeHe, not that you need to but how about letting us reservation holders get the first shot at getting some shares if you ever considered it ;oP

 

[Blaine Golden]

Nice work, Shawn. Enjoyed seeing Jim's quotes again.

 

[Steve Gibby]

The excerpt below is from my 4/3/06 interview with Jim Jannard that was published on the opening day of NAB. It is a direct view into Jim’s feelings about why he wanted to make RED One, and how excited he was to do so! We had already talked over the proposed technology for RED One and I then asked him why he was making the camera. (Interview is Copyright 2006 Steve Gibby)


Gibby – “So, we’ve covered the camera system up one side and down the other. I take you as a goal-oriented guy. You seem to like new challenges and projects. You seem like a guy that is really motivated by that. Why are you doing the RED Digital Cinema camera system?”

Jannard – “I’ve been a shooter for 30 years and a collector for twenty. I’ve bought just about every camera that’s been released. I was really frustrated that in the move from film to digital for motion pictures, or for video, no one was building the camera that I wanted to buy. I can’t say that about the still photograph industry. I’ve got cameras that I’m very content with, but in the video motion picture side, I couldn’t come up with something I really wanted to buy and own, and it just seemed like a big hole in the market. I’ve been passionate about cameras and shooting for so long, and we have the capability here to pull a project like this off, that I decided that I’d just make my passion my business.”

Gibby – “You’re enjoying this project, aren’t you!”

Jannard – “Very exciting! Very fun! The most fun I can remember having in a long time! It’s really terrific – and I’m really building the camera for me. I have an old philosophy: If we don’t sell one, and its something I’d be thrilled to own, then we’ll go ahead and do the project, and that’s how I’m treating this…”

Gibby – “You may be building a camera for you, but you’re sharing that camera, that R & D, and that capability with the rest of us in the motion media production industry, and that’s something that will be really well received.”

Jannard – “We’ll find out, if there’s any orders or not! Like I say, if there were no orders and no one else was interested in this camera, we would go ahead and finish it, because its something that I personally want to build.”

Gibby – “Its an idea that’s time has come.”

Jannard – “Yep – for me.”

 

[Jason Francois]

Life is short... don't get caught doing something that someone else was meant to do...
-Jim

I've got a little book that I write ideas in for my son that he can read when he gets older. This one is going in there for sure.

Thanks for the list. Great stuff.

 

[Chris Gearhart]

Here's one from 2007:

Don't lose sleep over it. That's our job.