Thommie | Expand Interactive

Surgical instrument laundry

Had a good field trip today to see what happens to all those clamps and scissors and retractors after the life is saved in the operating room. Turns out they make a very well documented trip through some major sterilization machines and are reassembled into kits ready to be sent on another life saving [...]

A good place to work

So, I’ve been sick for the last couple of days so I haven’t been in the office… And you know what? I miss it..
I think that says a lot for the company of our company. Everyone should work in a place with people they want to be around anyway, doing something they would do [...]

Companies cannot live by work alone…

So I brought my mountain bike in to work finally. Everyone else here at Expand seems to have figured this out and maybe I’m finally getting it, too- you can’t stare at a monitor all day long, no matter how much you like what you’re making.
Eric, Jon, and Juniper run. Will and Steve [...]

Nature Hike

Eric and I spent the morning making joggers and walkers on the walking trails at a nearby state park nervous while we did some test shots for an upcoming Cleveland Clinic shoot . It’s funny how different people react to a camera. Some run right over and want to know what you’re doing and if they’re [...]

Field Editing

Outside under a tree on a pile of rocks? Why not edit what you just shot… Anyplace is an editing suite now. Digital=good.

Batteries on the Death Star

I’m on a shoot for Detroit Energy, replacing batteries that run a substation in emergencies. 95 pound batteries, in a building outfitted to look like the Death Star. Cool.

Jedi Sales

I spent the day shooting John Hirth, of Selling Dynamics, for part of a sales channel training package we’ll be offering on the L-train soon. I was impressed, not only because he could rattle off 10 minutes of dialogue without a teleprompter, but also because the content was quite cool. The psychology of [...]

Marketing Video for L3 PitchSight

Baseball will never be the same again. L3 Communications, the same company who creates heads up display technology for fighter jets, has brought their high end innovations to help Major League and collegiate teams better measure, evaluate and track their pitching staff.

Hear from the people at Expand

Here are some candid interviews with some of the partners at Expand. Hear about who we are, why we started this company and what makes us tick.