Welcome to Let's Roll - Project Management Winter 2011

Welcome to Let's Roll, the home of the unique infusion of eastern and western cuisine...on four wheels no less!. We're not just another food truck.. we are THE EVENT!

Every dish is made to order using only the freshest ingredients a chassy can carry.

Click on the Menu above to see what sell: Come taste the difference at Let's Roll!

The student an BUS251 Project Management Winter 2011 did a combination culinary, hospitality design project with elaborate graphic design elements! And the food by Peter Kim was TERRIFIC! He has excellent credentials - he was a chef at both the Bellagio and the Mirage for five years. Joe Browning did the graphic design and Magdalena Corbet did the clothing and business plan.

As usual, the time constraint were VERY tight, but the results were very impressive.

Here is the brief animation that Peter Kim (an animator AND a chef ) did to promote the Let's Roll Brand. Enjoy:

Here is their website: Let's Roll Website

Story Boards = Excellent Planning

This team did quite a great job.


Here are the story boards for the Three Wolves Super Bowl commercial. You will find the commercial in the previous post. Note how well the students planned the shoot before they even reserved the camera!

Here is a bit more of Hsiao-Hsien Ryan Ching's work on another project. This is the Math Cruncher!

Banned Super Bowl Commercials

The Project Management class this quarter did one of my favorite projects!

We built Super Bowl style commercials and posted them to youtube to try and take advantage of all the hype surrounding the big game. I think they did a great job. Keep in mind that the time constraints were really tight - only two weeks to create, shoot and edit a one minute commercial - and them post it and get hits. In the past we got as much as 800,000 hits, but I think my original idea of banned Superbowl commercials has been over-saturated and maybe even stolen by actual advertisers (hey GoDaddy).

But enjoy, anyway......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTrLtxbcjs



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deKldnc9nRk



Impressive work, even if they did not get the hits!

Vegas Celebrity Chef Project

The students in my Project Marketing class did an impressive job on developing a new brand for a local Vegas chef, Chef David Suppe, to position him as a Vegas Celebrity Chef!

The Team
•Alejandro Munguia - Team lead, Media Arts and Animation
•David Strong - Game Art Design
•Joseph Norte - Media Arts and Animation
•Joshua Vance - Game Art Design
•Michael Sam - Interactive Media Design
•Raymond Hearty - Game Art Design

Here are two of the animations they made for the class. The first is the proposal animatic and the second is the finished animation. The concept is great... you can see the planning. The finished animation is linked to a live action video - not my choice, I think the animation stands on its own. Enjoy!

Animatic Concept from teamthr3 on Vimeo.

Proposed Animation from teamthr3 on Vimeo.

Go to http://teamthr3.com/ to see more.

The Culinary Department and Project Management

This is the project that the students did in the Winter in Project Managment Class. I think they did a great job. They worked with the Cullinary Department to build a combination Cookbook and cooking DVD. The project was very elaborate and looked great, too. It included a website, videos and mock ups of the finished projects. The web content was created by Tamaki. Here is a snapshot of her talent:
Here is the cover of the book and here is Kent, the lead graphic designer.

Click here to see the other team members. They all worked very hard, and did a wonderful job. The Culinary Department - via Chef Pinkny - was very impressed!

http://crazycooksinc.tamakimedia.com/

Super Bowl Commercials

I challenged my Project Management class to create a super bowl style commercial and post it to youtube.com and get 5.000 hits. They did this under tight constraints. They formed groups of four people of mixed degrees including film-making, animation and game design. They had just two weeks to create, film and edit the one minute (plus five seconds of credits) and then post it to youtube at one minute after midnight Friday before super bowl. Then they had seven days (incuding Super Bowl Sunday) to get the hits. They did a project on guerrilla marketing to develop ideas to spread the word.

One project was weak and had hits that proved it. Another was a good effort, and they learned a lot, but the hits were a miss. One group did a fine job on the commercial and had over 6,000 hits in less then seven days. It had grown since: 7,625 views as of today. I think if they put the effort in, they might be able to cross 10,000. Alas, the project is over. We have moved on to a way more challenging set of projects for the second half of the quarter. Enjoy!



If you want to check out the other projects, go to youtube and search on ailv and stress. The class chose the search terms!

PJ Perez @ the Vegas Valley Book Festival

Pj Perez is a writer, editor and musician, best known for his reports and commentary on Las Vegas culture in such publications as Rolling Stone, 944 and ART + Living. Perez was the founding managing editor of Vegas-based Racket magazine and is currently Las Vegas Fine Arts Examiner for Examiner.com. He also plays drums in alt-rock band As Yet Unbroken and is the creator of the weekly webcomic, The Utopian.

We met at the Vegas Valley Book Festival. We have been in touch:

Follow-up from LV Valley Comic Book Fest
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Pinto, Frank A. wrote:
My project management students are doing a project I'd love for you to get involved with: they are developing a comic book project. May I share your contact info with them?

Pj Perez [pjperezvegas@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 11:16 AM
To: Pinto, Frank A.
Sure thing. Preferably this e-mail and not my phone. Not that I would answer it anyway. :)

Check out his webpages:

http://www.bleedingneon.com/popgoestheicon/

Extra Small NY Apartment - about 600 sq ft

The owners wanted to be closer to the Airport. They needed a doorman to take deliveries, and they wanted to be closer to their office. They wanted to have a glass box up in the sky, something very manageable and easy, like a glorified hotel room. The result doesn't feel cluttered. Furniture had to be precisely measured. The miniature side-tables were custom ordered to fit in the crevices on either side of the bed. They also purposefully chose some oversized pieces—the armoire, the horse sculpture and a large floor lamp—to add drama to the space. When you have all small-scale furniture, it starts to look like a dorm room, said the owner.

"I was surprised how small it was," says furniture designer Marsia Holzer, whom the owners tapped to custom-make lighting and other pieces, including the horse sculpture and side-tables. "I think it's interesting that they didn't have to get an enormous place to show how great they are."

Eat Vegans - a Cookbook

I don't think that this group's presentation went especially well, but I cannot fault the quality and talent of the artist that came up with the concept and did the principle artwork. Here is a sample of Grant's skills. He was pretty funny in class during his presentation, too. Check out his site for more details:

http://eatveganz.blogspot.com/

Emerald Tower Studios

A project management group is developing a new take on the Wizard of OZ. They have been a bit sluggish, but I was very impressed with this creative blast.

They built a short teaser trailer for our upcoming project Reign of the Witch: A Tale of the Once Great City of Oz. If you want to know more, please visit them at http://emeraldtowerstudios.blogspot.com

Twenty Bucks - small change

I don't think this group did near a fine a job as the previous post, but I like their art work and their sense of humor... Pretty good, don't you think?

Twenty Bucks

The students in Project Management did a fund raising project. I thought this group had quite a bit of success for pulling it together in only four weeks. 

The Outcome of their Event

see blog at http://sblv.blogspot.com/ for details

"With the help of the Freakin' Frog, we pulled off our anti-Valentine's Day bash raising $183 for the Nevada Center for Missing Loved Ones! It was a blast with the jazz band playing in the back and everyone enjoying something off the "freakin' charity pricing" menu. (You've got to try the fries there-- totally awesome!)

We had set out on the tables small heart-shaped bowls filled with black oreo and chocolate chip cookies with flyers to inform the customers of our cause, and themed stuffed animal favors with punky skulls and black and white-striped bows.

We had intended to hold the bash at both the Freakin' Frog and the Double Down Saloon, but we experienced some miscommunication... and though Rob's signs were the best (with Cupid face painted and an arrow in his back!), our planned drink specials fell through. Nevertheless, we managed to remain organized along the way and learned a lot from the experience. We're confident that anything we hold in the future will have an even greater outcome, and we look forward to it!"

PS: They presented the money to the non profit director in class after their presentation. He was impressed!

Four great projects in Fall 2008

In project management, we did four projects with between four and five people in each group. I asked the class as part of the final exam to choose who did the best job as related to the course objectives. Usually it is pretty clear who is best and who comes in last. This quarter, it was pretty tight. All the projects were great – certainly a first – and three had very good presentations. One was a great project where the presentation fell short of showing all the work that had been done.

Here is how the classes rated the projects:

Seven for http://hammerstruckco.blogspot.com/

Four for http://anunknownproduction.hunterunknown.com/

And two each for http://celebratingactionsports.blogspot.com/ and http://lakatcafe.blogspot.com/

Check out the projects and judge for yourself!