About Art|Tech Circle and the Freeze Frame

Go with the floe.

Art|Tech Circle is a gathering space in perpetual motion—a space for artists, technicians, and art enthusiasts to hop aboard for learning, laughter, and inspiration.

Art|Tech endeavors to grow the floe by continually absorbing and broadcasting information about the arts for the benefit of the arts community.

Freeze Frame is where the broadcasting happens. Site content can be broken down into two broad categories:
1) for the left-brained technicians, to encourage them to think creatively
2) for the right-brained creatives, to teach them technical craft

We aim to introduce both “types” to the resources that can serve to enhance their skills to the point that their potential is largely realized. This requires that both sides of the brain get exercise.
It’s about improvement. It’s about harnessing potential.

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Art|Tech Circle’s Freeze Frame is the brain-freeze-child of Jeremy Gates.

According to Jeremy…
A creative from birth, I was the kid who grew up drawing comic strips, caricatures, and portraits on a host of accessible canvases–the pages of notepads, the tops of school desks (saliva serving as my eraser), the palms of my hands (ditto). By the age of six, my parents had already enrolled me in private art lessons.

There I learned about important works in art history and there I received foundational art training in broad brushstrokes. But I didn’t remain there. Our family moved to a land far away—well, a few hours away at least.

That’s where my sitting-at-the-foot-of-the-master-style training ended. In my new land, as I matriculated through junior and then senior high, learning about cumulus clouds and the Gerald Ford era and other things I cared little about, more and more years were set between myself and my training. Thankfully, my creative juices never stopped flowing, and my abounding sense of wonder remained intact. And I began to wonder, “What am I going to do with my life?”

The internet wasn’t around to offer any answers. Trade schools were too much trade. Technical schools were too much tech. And art schools were too “artsy” or too expensive. So I went to a state school—in another state.

After setting foot on campus, I soon learned that professors didn’t have the kind of time for me that I was afforded during the one-on-one artistic apprenticeship of my childhood. Even in entry-level courses, I was expected to have a technical knowledge of equipment and software I’d never used before in my life. A rather unassertive student, I grew weary of competing for the attention of my academic overseers. If I was going to learn, I was going to have to teach myself. I was going to have to be my own professor.

Enter the internet. It held a wealth of information, from road maps to cookie recipes to guitar tablature. It was open 24/7. I spent hour upon hour exploring. In fact, during the period of my post-secondary education, the community of people who contributed to the internet became my primary teachers.

Does this tale strike a familiar chord?

Fast forward to now, when you’re reading this. The internet is growing up. We are several pixels deep in her continually evolving landscape, a landscape so vast that Lewis and Clark would buckle at first glance. She’s full of advice-some good, some not so. You and I both know that the best advice comes from those (in any field) who are doing it, and doing it successfully. They are the experts.

I do not claim to be an expert, but I will ply the internet searching for those who are experts in areas of the arts. And I will ask them the question, “How did you manage that?” And I will pass along their answers, continually, because…

…the floe is always going.
So please check in with the Art|Tech Circle regularly.