Could Film Be Michigan's Gold Rush? A Q&A with Harvey Ovshinsky

By: Jon Zemke, 5/12/2010 "It's in our DNA to do amazing things," says Harvey Ovshinsky. Metromode's Jon Zemke sits down with the veteran video producer and screenwriter to talk about Michigan's Film Incentives and their potential impact on the state's investment opportunities, job growth, and brain drain.

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Double Lives: Josh Weston

By: Tanya Muzumdar, 11/11/2009 See that speck on the Lake Michigan horizon? Rolling across choppy waves, skateboard on one foot, surfboard on the other, Josh Weston does double time as a web designer for Ann Arbor's MS&L and as the founder of Einfach Skate. Concentrate chats with the man who's struck a balance between pavement and PC.

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MASTERMIND: Jake Suski

By: Constance Crump, 10/28/2009 Though it's always a challenge to get a political operative 'off message', Concentrate sits down with the 26-year-old communications director for Rick Snyder's gubernatorial campaign. A California transplant (he served as deputy CD for Arnold Schwarzenegger), Jake Suski offers his thoughts on living and working in Ann Arbor's downtown.

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MASTERMIND: Al McWilliams

By: Daniel Johnson, 4/22/2009 Forget Nike, Al McWilliams is really the 'Just Do It' guy. From pro cyclist to all media mini emporer, the founder of Quack! Media has gotten his fingers into every nook and cranny of media content. Music, magazines, movies and marketing are his company's domains and he has no shortage of ideas and opinions about how to make them grow.

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Ann Arbor's Tweet

By: Terry Parris Jr., 3/18/2009 Are you a follower or do you have a following? Who's tweeting who? Social Media is this year's buzz word and Twitter is its newest doo-dad. Our story would end here (if we stuck to the 140 character limit) but Twitter has only just begun in the Ann Arbor area.

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Design Evolution

By: Jeff Meyers, 1/10/2007 The basic tenet of Darwinian evolution is "adapt or die." With today's expanding global market and its ever-shifting demands, the mantra for business survival could easily be "innovate or vanish."

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