Access Humboldt is a proud sponsor of these efforts, which are also supported by Ink People Center for the Arts. One very important announcement at the event was about the plans for Access Humboldt and Ink People to develop digital animation facilities in collaboration with youth programs and leading educators including Clyde Johnson (College of the Redwoods) and Julian Lang.

Also, in the afternoon session we had a great conversation with some “Hollywood” folks – from Big Screen Entertainment (part of Paramount Pictures). They were very enthusiastic about the resources at Eureka High School/Eureka Adult School, especially the high-end Mac classroom full of production grade film/media technology that was developed with Digital Pathways – Eureka!

Finally, just let me clarify your quote of me, regarding the need for training and cultivation of young talent in our community. Humboldt does have the people with creative talent, intelligence and dedication to develop world class digital media programs.

But we need to organize and develop more specific skills locally to support the creation, organizing, archiving and distribution of local media content. We need more training to develop our digital media skills!

I have no doubt that young and old, the local voices of Humboldt County will step forward with innovative approaches to the meet the challenges and capture the creative opportunities posed by next generation digital broadband media!