MICHAEL SIBBIO is a charter member of META. He is the owner of Visions & Voices* an organization that raises social awareness through art, music, apparel and film, based In San Clemente, California. We met and spoke with Michael at the Arts Olympus event on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California last month where he attended the META Reception,Film Festival and Gala Saturday night dinner / Golden Orb awards.

Visions and Voices is a division of World Products Group Intl., Inc., which has developed a new method of communicating messages designed to deliver more impact and impressions that may be utilized to reflect the global communities current issues. Under the direction of Michael, who invented earlier "feel through" package technology and a previous International Licensee of Wilson Sporting Goods Co, Marvel Entertainment, and a myriad of other global labels, the new trademarked media and apparel brand Visions and Voices will include music, art, and film that will be available in stores and on the web. VAA or virtual active apparel will substantially change the way messages are put onto garments, focused, distributed and promoted throughout the world It is also a fabulous mechanism for third party revenue generation. Michael told us that Visions and voices will be co-promoting a live music event on Sept. 5th in Dana Point, Ca., in conjunction with 88.5FM radio and a series of New Age artists utilizing the new methodology.

Michael expressed his feelings about META after attending the META Reception, and Gala at Arts Olympus, "I want to say thank you again for all of your continued support and information regarding what you are interested in pursuing and developing here in our area....The wonderful people that I met were inspirational and uplifting as well as creative and supportive of my new project and label, Visions and Voices. I have gained not only new friends and great connections, but have initiated proposals and concept development initiatives with quite a reach, including dialog with a number of fantastic people from around the globe. This would not have been possible without the support and inside connections and introduction from our group, META, during that Gala event to get to know some of the people on a more intimate level, which made the event a super success for my company."

Best wishes for much success in business and life to Michael! He may be reached at: msibbio@cox.net Email
or 949.300.2781.

Ed Dudkowski is an experienced pioneer of commercial, public television and video production systems, with over 38 years in several disciplines including video system design, development and engineering, non-fiction p

rogramming research and development, broadcast journalism, concept, producing, writing, directing, camera, editing, production management and packaging for market.

Historically, he is credited with creating the first commercial "mini-cam" broadcast quality video production system in the United States, which included development of early inter format video editing systems and techniques.

He was one of the early Co-Founders of ATMA--which was a Founding member of META.
 

Ed's specialty is in the area of information (non-fiction) video production systems development, services and how-to training and development. His background includes extensive personal computer industry interface from the early days of the Apple II and PC to the present non-linear, digital post-production video workstations and internet "webcasting".

Ed developed early home video "how-to" programming which won numerous national awards. When IBM introduced the first personal computer, the IBM PC, Ed was sole-sourced to create two major video training program series for IBM to teach educators how to use the PC in education.

Ed and a partner operated a Northern California broadcast quality video production and post-production facility for 16 years which had one of the first interformat microprocessor based video edit suites in the US until it closed in 1992. Dudkowski has been a free-lance producer, director, writer videographer/editor since then. In the mid 90s, he developed and directed a new how-to program pilot and 26-week program series which was enthusiastically accepted by more than 225 PBS affiliated stations nationwide called Sewing Today for the Vogue-Butterick Company.

His list of clients includes IBM Corporation, Apple Computers, Intel Corporation, 3M Company, Lifetime Cable, Safeway Stores Corporation, Valu-Rite Pharmacies, ScienceBased Health, Chronicle Videocassettes, Sunset Books, Harper and Row, Lockheed Missiles and Space, and McDougal-Littel Publishing (college textbooks). He has earned numerous national industry awards and credits for program design and production; and development of state-of-the-art video equipment and production methods and techniques, several of which have become industry standards.

As director of television programs, commercials and public service announcements he has directed celebrities as diverse as Jack Lemmon, Eddie Albert, Tommy Smothers, Leslie Neilson, Julia Child, Arnold Palmer, Peter Norton, Bill Blass, Paul Anka, Nancy Fleming, Jim Lange, Merle Ellis and others.

As an outdoor recreation videographer, he has delivered tourism promotion videos for the Siskiyou (Mt. Shasta) Economic Development Council, The City of Redding (CA), Lasson County (CA), Dance Country (McCloud, CA), Trees of Mystery (Klamath, CA), Lake Shasta Houseboats, the Yreka-Western Railroad and the McCloud Railway Company. He has shot and directed in Barcelona, Florence, Paris and Zurich among other places. His skills include extensive experience with food and retail product table-top advertising agency broadcast shooting and directing.

He has been a television news assignment editor, writer and producer at KRON-TV (NBC), KPIX-TV (CBS) and KTVU-TV (Fox). In college he worked extensively in the public TV arena with KVCR-TV24 in San Bernardino, CA. Ed is a long-time resident of Northern California and an avid and enthusiastic fly fisherman, skier, cook and traveler. He has a son and daughter. He has been an active Eagle Scout parent for 9 years and was Troop Parent Committee Chairman. He is now a member of the Marin (County, CA) Telecommunications Agency Steering Committee for Public Access and the Media Coordinator of the Spiritual Enrichment Center of Marin.

His latest invention is PIXBOX, the only "plug and play" live televsion editor.  All the essential functions of a broadcast television four to eight camera control room in a small, suit-case size package. About 25 pounds, this new, revolutionary TV production tool features a 17" high-resolution color LCD to show up to eight source inputs as well as Preview and Program monitors on one screen at the same time. The Preview and Program monitors can instantly zoom to full screen, without affecting the output signal, for critical live editing directorial judgments.  For additiona linformation about Ed and his work, or PIX BOX, contact


Ed Dudkowski, President
Creation Technologies, LLC
3020 Bridgeway #279
Sausalito, CA 94965

Tel: 1 415 786 6454
Fax: 1 415 331 2223
www.pixbox.tv