A Strum Down Memory Lane - DMB at Bridgewater College (02/13/1992) by Stephen Smiroldo Back in 1991-1992, I was in a band called “Birds with Wings”. I know silly name. We were given the opportunity to perform at Bridgewater College’s Campus Center as a fun campus concert. It was February 1992 and we had played in a talent show earlier that fall to “great acclaim” (at least within a small Bridgewater population - you could call them our groupies . When asked to play in the Campus Center with a small cover charge we enthusiastically jumped at the opportunity and started coming up with our song list. After practicing a set of songs ranging from REM’s “It’s the End of the World as We Know it” to Gun’s and Roses “Patience” to a cover song our female drummer wrote. One night, while hanging out and talking about the upcoming concert, Glenn “Animal” Fitzgerald (our bass player) said we should name the band “Birds with Wings”. Most of us were vehemently against such a silly name but somehow it rubbed off and we were forever enshrined as “Birds with Wings” and still to this day get ragged about it. At the time, we hoped the silliness of the name would give way to a positive memorable legend. I guess that succeeded to a certain degree. One day, while at the cafeteria eating dinner, posters (as seen below) were plastered up in the hall and all over campus. We quickly rushed to check it out and immediately were disappointed seeing that our band information was in a little “starburst” taking up no more than 15% of the poster. The rest of the poster was occupied by date, place and time information along with prominent exposure for some band named “The Dave Matthews Band”. And to add to the insult, they spelled my name wrong! All of us were like, “Who the heck are the Dave Matthew’s Band?” and… “I thought we were the only act?”. Poster of first recorded Dave Matthews Band Concert Concert day came and our band had to perform a sound check. The Dave Matthews Band brought all their own sound equipment and instruments which, to our frustration, replaced some of our own instruments… namely our keyboard, drums, and acoustic guitar. I was playing the keyboard as well as the acoustic on one or two of the songs and was not pleased because our keyboard had been programmed with specific instrument sounds for each song. Then, after using Dave’s acoustic (which was really very nice of him to let us borrow), I was frustrated because it was an Ovation big body with the strap “hiked up” so it was almost to my neck. These are all cool in retrospect but at the time we were pretty upset. After our sound check, Dave and Band did theirs. At the first measure (of Ants Marching), my jaw dropped. All of us looked at each other with wide eyes communicating without words that “This band ROCKS!”. The rest is “history” and this concert is currently the oldest circulating recording of the Dave Matthews Band performing. © 2011 StudioThought LLC

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StudioThought LLC developed this website for C2 Architecture using design mock-ups by owner and Architect Greg Cupka. Greg is a highly skilled and innovative Architect. The following is taken from their website homepage and gives a great description of C2 Architecture’s professionalism and services offered:

C2 Architecture (C2A) is a progressive design practice with a strong reputation for providing high-quality architectural and interior design services. Our trademark of working closely with each client to define all project goals, objectives and challenges and then, by keeping them all collectively in perspective throughout the design and construction phases enables us to provide our clients a project design of maximum value.

Quality architectural design addresses all basic functional needs while enhancing the immediate and surrounding environments in which people work and play. We are passionately involved in all projects from inception to completion and are committed to delivering highly efficient and functional buildings through innovative and sustainable design solutions.

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Main Heating and Air Conditioning homepage

Main Heating & Air Conditioning needed an attractive and highly professional website to showcase their commitment to customer service in the field of heating and air conditioning service and installment.

Main Heating & Air Conditioning has been family run and operating for over 35-years. Extensive experience allows them to accurately identify the heating and cooling solutions specific to a home or business.

Main Heating & Air Conditioning customer satisfaction is their #1 priority. They truly believe it is a privilege to work for home and business owners. Years of serving the Roanoke area has allowed Main Heating & Air Conditioning to build a reputation known for high quality solutions. Most importantly they know customers deserve a respectful and trustworthy company to turn to.

For a 24-hour turn-around web quote, contact StudioThought today. For quality, experienced heating and wire conditioning, visit Main Heating & Air Conditioning.

About five years old and growing, Katie Bug Quilting offers numerous specialty quilt products. Katie Bug Quilting transforms your favorite tee shirts, award ribbons, ball caps or neckties, photos transferred to fabric, any of those precious memories of special days and times that you want to preserve, to create new, quilted heirlooms that will keep you and your family and loved ones warm in body and spirit for years to come.

StudioThought LLC was hired to enhance SEO as well as bring a more human touch to the company website. The end result produced a “WOW” factor from owner Cathie Ostermann. See below comparison between old design and StudioThought’s creative redesign.

Comparison between current redesign and old Katie Bug website

Not only has the new design enhanced Katie Bug Quilting’s image, brand, and general functionality of the site, StudioThought LLC has also increased site traffic as well as ease in customers finding the business through search engines due to SEO optimization.

Visit their site today at www.katiebugquilting.com.

Hometown Freebies website developed to help businesses promote themselves.

Hometown Freebies is a free business listing website with tools small businesses can use to promote themselves at no cost. After registering on the site, businesses are able to post valuable offers or discounts easily (i.e. “kids eat free”, “buy-one-get-one”, “20% off wedding photography packages”, etc). Businesses are automatically listed in the Hometown Freebies local business directory and receive a free basic webpage highlighting their business. No cost or work is required for these free services! Business have the option to extend their webpage with Facebook integration, custom information and graphics, added search engine optimization, etc. for a minimal fee.

Hometown Freebies.com contains business registration, login, and post management. Valuable offers are automatically organized and displayed based on chosen active date. Businesses control all aspects of their offers. Offers automatically integrate Facebook and Twitter links for easy sharing. Site management tools for administrator also developed for verifying and approving businesses, viewing business and offer data, deleting businesses or offers, filtering information, and managing users raised “flags”. Google ads and a sponsorship page integrated into site with similar look and feel to site design.

The mission of Hometown Freebies is to provide free tools to local and small businesses around the nation for helping promote their products and services. These offers then bring cost savings to consumers in this tough economy. Hometown Freebies is also using a percentage of all revenue generated through Google ads and extended services to give to charitable needs.

Visit Hometown Freebies today at: http://hometown-freebies.com

3D Visualization example of Exposition Light Rail Transit Line (Expo Line) for the city of Los Angeles. Animation includes a camera angle from the perspective of riding the train as well as real-time traffic simulation as the train passes through an intersection, and another perspective view of a train entering and leaving a station. Design and engineering by AECOM.

Expo Light Rail Visualization. Engineering and design by AECOM. Disclaimer: Stephen and Teresa, former employees with AECOM, developed this animation as employees of AECOM. AECOM is not a client of StudioThought LLC.

Animation of Exposition Light Rail Transit Line (Expo Line)

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Living room interior with bookshelf, and miscellaneous furniture

StudioThought, LLC can create visuals of interior spaces as shown here. Near photo-realistic quality with details such as candles, books, curtains, customized furniture, artwork, plants, lamps, and more.

Need to see your interior design project before it’s actually implemented? StudioThought, LLC can take your 2D or 3D CADD drawings, sketches or ideas and render high-quality images of how the scene will actually appear. Renderings have been used for marketing, employee or resident motivation, public announcements, or to help visualize the intent during construction.

Living room interior with HDTV, curtains, and lamps

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Diamonds Are Forever!

“With a thought, God created… immersing our senses in beauty and awe of His power and creativity.”

StudioThought, LLC takes great pride in producing stunning visual art while helping make our clients shine. Using 3D modeling and advanced rendering, StudioThought, LLC can create incredible visuals.

The image to the right is one recent example of virtual photography and product visualization produced by StudioThought, LLC. Everything in the scene is virtual. It does not exist in the real world.

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