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ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2020. Paolo Giorgio Ferri, Hunter of Looted Antiquities, Dies at 72 - A prosecutor in Italy, he dismantled multinational trafficking rings. NYT (20/06/2020), ARCAblog (11/06/2020) & Finestre sull'Arte (21/06/2020).
1). ROME - Paolo Giorgio Ferri, Hunter of Looted Antiquities, Dies at 72. A prosecutor in Italy, he dismantled multinational trafficking rings, recovering tens of thousands of Greco-Roman artifacts worth hundreds
of millions of dollars. THE NEW YORK TIMES (20/06/2020).
When the Italian prosecutor Paolo Giorgio Ferri visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004, he posed for a picture beside an ancient terracotta mixing bowl so rare and celebrated that it had held pride of place in the Met’s Greek and Roman galleries for 32 years. Four years later, as a result of Mr. Ferri’s dogged work as an investigator and antiquities hunter with Rome’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage, that object, known as the Euphronios krater, was back on Italian soil, as were scores of other looted treasures that had been acquired by American museums and collectors since the 1960s. Mr. Ferri, who had recently retired after 45 years as a judicial magistrate, public prosecutor and legal consultant, died on June 14 at a hospital in Rome. He was 72. His family said the cause was a heart attack.
Colleagues say his legacy includes dismantling multinational looting and trafficking rings; recovering tens of thousands of Greco-Roman artifacts from secret storehouses; and compelling what is sometimes called “the great giveback,” a period that began in 2006 and continues to this day, during which American museums have returned at least 120 ill-gotten antiquities valued at more than $1 billion to the Greek and Italian authorities.
“No one before him had used the courts to attack the art predators and big museums and corrupt dealers,” said Fabio Isman, his friend and biographer. “He was very stubborn, and what he did was very daring.”
In an email interview with The New York Times last year, Mr. Ferri said he did not know what to expect in 1994 when he began investigating the theft of a statue from a villa in Rome and its sudden appearance at a Sotheby’s auction in London. After much digging, he said, he discovered that a dozen prominent American museums housed Roman and Etruscan items that Italian officials never knew existed. His list eventually grew to 47 museums worldwide.
“It took several years to have a complete panorama of what happened to the Italian cultural patrimony,” Mr. Ferri said. “When I was fully aware of the damages caused by the criminals, I was really furious.”
As the public prosecutor in Rome, overseeing criminal cases for the Italian Ministry of Culture, he embarked on what turned out to be a 17-year period of subpoenas, raids, arrests and trials. After a “steep learning curve,” he said, he also started working with the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan to press his investigation into American museums and art brokers.
His big breakthrough came in September 1995, when he arranged for the Italian and Swiss police to raid a building run by a renowned Italian art dealer, Giacomo Medici. The building sat inside the Geneva Free Port, a sprawling commercial district where international goods can be stored, purchased and sold with virtually no oversight, and often free of taxes and duties.
Their haul was astonishing. Investigators found thousand of pieces of Greek, Roman and Etruscan art; binders filled with sales records and letters between Mr. Medici and dealers and curators in London and New York; and hundreds of annotated Polaroid photographs of objects that had clearly been pillaged.
The photos showed pitchers and vases, stone busts and burial relics, bronze statues of animals and gods, and other black-market objects. The items were still encrusted with soil from when they had been dug up, and the notations on the pictures indicated their origins. There were even follow-up images of the items after they had been cleaned and restored and made ready for the art market.
“When I first saw it,” Mr. Ferri recalled, “I compared the Medici warehouse to Ali Baba’s cave.” Indeed, among the Medici Polaroids were images of the Met’s 2,500-year-old krater, which is decorated with scenes from “The Iliad” by a master Greek artist named Euphronios.
The discovery of the so-called Medici archive precipitated a string of raids, trials and legal claims that exposed two more major antiquities traffickers: Gianfranco Becchina, an Italian art broker, and Robin Symes, a London fine arts dealer. Both were found to have immense troves of looted Greco-Roman items — Mr. Becchina in Basel, Switzerland, and Mr. Symes on the remote Greek island of Schinoussa — and both had kept dossiers detailing where the objects originated and to whom they had been sold.
Mr. Ferri convicted Mr. Medici in 2004 in one of many cases he brought against an expanding network of antiquities smugglers. He also made a bold move that rattled the American art world: He indicted two prominent museum figures, the curator Marion True and the collector and dealer Robert E. Hecht Jr., for trafficking in Medici’s looted art.
Paparazzi photos of Ms. True, the longtime antiquities curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, being swarmed outside a Rome courthouse were widely published amid allegations that she had illegally acquired dozens of objects for the Getty. (Ms. True has long denied the charges and said her case was a show trial.)
Mr. Hecht was accused of purchasing the Euphronios krater directly from Mr. Medici knowing it was plunder, and of manufacturing an innocent background story before selling it to the Met for $1 million in 1972.
Although Mr. Ferri’s charges against Mr. Hecht (who died in 2012) and Ms. True were dismissed under statutes of limitations in 2010 and 2012, they had alarmed American museum directors, who had never seen criminal charges brought against those individuals entrusted with obtaining their antiquities.
From 2006 to 2011, the Met returned 20 Roman objects in addition to the krater, the Getty gave back 47, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston repatriated 13. Museums in Dallas, Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio, also gave up Greco-Roman objects, as did merchants like the Royal Athena Gallery in New York and collectors like the philanthropist Shelby White.
Italian officials continue to pursue scores of items they recognize from the looters’ dossiers whenever auction houses and dealers put them on the market.
“Paolo Ferri opened a road, and we hope it will not be abandoned,” Mr. Isman said.
Paolo Giorgio Ferri was born in Rome on Oct. 17, 1947. He earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Sapienza University of Rome and became a judge magistrate in 1977 and a public prosecutor a decade later. By the early 1990s, his interest in classical history had led him to a position with the Cultural Ministry, which was beginning to tackle the scourge of antiquities crime. He remained in that role for the next 20 years.
Mr. Ferri is survived by his wife, Marita, and a daughter, Sofia. Friends said he had recently renovated a seafront apartment in the Sardinian city of Alghero and hoped to spend his time scuba diving and spearfishing.
In his interview with The Times, Mr. Ferri said he was glad that colleagues were continuing the hunt for plundered objects showcasing classical Rome’s glory and sophistication. But he was also wistful.
“The few refunds that have occurred concern perhaps 3 percent of what was taken,” he said. “They have above all just a symbolic value.”
Fabiana Di Fazio contributed reporting from Rome.
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--- Paolo Giorgio Ferri, 72, Who Recovered Tens of Thousands of Looted Antiquities. THE NEW YORK TIMES (22/06/2020):B12.
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/arts/paolo-giorgio-dead.html
2). ROME - Remembering Paolo Giorgio Ferri. ARCAblog (11/06/2020).
It is with profound sadness that ARCA shares the news of today's passing of Paolo Giorgio Ferri, Italy's famed Sostituto Procuratore della Repubblica a Roma due to health complications. He was 72 years old.
Dr. Ferri's first investigative case into Italy's stolen heritage began in 1994 and involved a statue stolen from Rome's Villa Torlonia that was then sold at auction by Sotheby's. But it was the invaluable role he played in doggedly pursuing corrupt antiquities dealers who laundered antiquities into some of the world's most prestigious museums that made his name famous among those who follow art and heritage crimes.
Forty-eight when his investigation began into the activities of Giacomo Medici, Gianfranco Becchina, Robin Symes and others, Paolo was integral in truly exposing the ugly underbelly of the ancient art trade and the insidious phenomenon of laundering cultural goods.
In February 2000 Judge Ferri received a commendation and a formal expression of esteem from General Roberto Conforti (then Commanding Officer of the Carabinieri Department for the Protection of the Italian Cultural Heritage) for the suggestions he made in relation to a project initiative to change the Italian law on cultural goods. In 2011 ARCA honored Dr. Ferri with an art crime protection award for his role in the 2005 case against Emanuel Robert Hecht and Marion True, the former curator of the J Paul Getty Museum. This case, and his work on it, marked a dramatic change, in years to come, in the policy of acquisitions by museums around the world, as well as set the stage for numerous restitutions of stolen artifacts to their countries of origin.
Following his career as a prosecutor, Ferri continued to fight for Italy's heritage and served on a special commission with Italy's Ministry of Culture, created for the restitution of national cultural heritage stolen abroad. There he served as a legal advisor on cultural diplomacy negotiations. Ferri also provided legal opinions regarding criminal matters, served as an advisor to ICCROM, was part of a commission for the criminal reform of the Code of Cultural Heritage, and participated in Vienna in the drafting of Guidelines to the United Nations Convention against transnational organized crime, which was signed in Palermo in 2000.
Dr. Ferri will be remembered by his colleagues and friends as one who never backed off in the fight against illicit trafficking and as someone always willing to share his knowledge and legal expertise freely and openly. Journalist Fabio Isman, who broke the news to some of us, recalled that when Dr. Ferri wrote his first Letters Rogatory, it took three weeks to draft the document. At the height of his investigations Ferri would go on to write three Letters Rogatory a week, asking the world for judicial assistance in the restitution of Italy's stolen works of art.
ARCA wishes to offer its support and condolences to everyone close to this wonderful man, but most importantly to Paolo's family, particularly his wife Mariarita, his daughter Sofia and his grandchildren.
Foto / fonte / source: Paolo Giorgio Ferri - Image Credit: Daniela Rizzo / Maurizio Pelligrini, friends and colleagues. Maurizio Pelligrini relates that this photo was taken 28 September 2004, when Paolo was in New York and still did not know if Italy would be able to convince the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philippe de Montebello to destitute the famous Euphronios crater; & ARCAblog (11/06/2020).
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--- ARCAblog (11/06/2020).
art-crime.blogspot.com/2020/06/remembering-paolo-giorgio-...
3). ROMA - Addio a Paolo Giorgio Ferri, il giudice che combatteva i criminali dell'arte. Finestre sull'Arte (21/06/2020).
www.finestresullarte.info/flash-news/6924n_addio-a-paolo-...
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--- ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2020. The Metropolitan Museum of Art & the Monteleone Chariot "La Biga Rapita" – Historical & Contemporary Documentation Relevant to the Controversy between the Metropolitan Museum and the Comune di Monteleone di Spoleto (2008). [2020]. Foto & stampa.
www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/sets/72157605...
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
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ANTICA GRECIA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA. Parthenon marbles: Greece furious over British loan to Russia, THE GUARDIAN (05-07|12|2014).
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Parthenon marbles: Greece furious over British loan to Russia - Greek prime minister says loan of statue from pillaged frieze puts end to British Museum argument that disputed antiquities are immovable, THE GUARDIAN (05|12|2014).
Greece has reacted with outrage to the British Museum’s surprise move to loan one of the disputed Parthenon marbles to Russia.
Within hours of learning of the unexpected decision to send the monumental statue of the river god Ilissos to the State Hermitage museum in St Petersburg, the Greek prime minister, Antonis Samaris, hit back.
“[It] provokes the Greek people,” he said on Friday, insisting that the loan effectively ended the British Museum’s argument that the Greek antiquities were immovable.
“The last British dogma about immovability has ceased to exist … the Parthenon and its sculptures were the object of pillage. We Greeks are identified with our history and culture which cannot be torn apart, loaned and ceded.”
News of the move elicited shock and fury with Greek officials, and activists abroad, describing the gesture, variously, as sly, arrogant, provocative and rude. Campaigners suggested it would give added impetus to Athens to pursue the legal route in its quest to reclaim the Golden Age treasures from London.
Samaras’ conservative-dominated coalition is currently seeking advice from the human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, and two of Britain’s leading experts in cultural restitution, Geoffrey Robertson and Norman Palmer, in the fight to repatriate antiquities seen as the high point of classical art.
“[The loan is] appalling, no one had any idea whatsoever,” said Elena Korka, a senior culture ministry policymaker involved in restitution efforts since 1986. “For so many years they have argued that the sculptures could not be moved. At the end of the day this will turn against them,” she told the Guardian.
Veiled in secrecy until its announcement late on Thursday, the unprecedented step saw the collection being broken up for the first time since the British Museum took possession of the 5th century BC masterpieces in 1816. Roughly half of the 160-metre-long frieze has been in London since Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, oversaw its removal from the Parthenon as the British ambassador to the Ottoman empire more than 200 years ago.
Neil MacGregor, the British Museum’s director, said the loan would reinforce the argument that the museum was a universal institution with global outreach.
The headless river god, among the most recognisable of the classical carvings, is due to be unveiled at the Hermitage on Friday in celebration of its 250th anniversary.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Friday morning, MacGregor said he hoped the Greek government would be delighted that the sculpture would now be on display to a new audience.
“I hope that they will be very pleased that a huge new public can engage with the great achievements of ancient Greece. People who will never be able to come to Athens or London will now, here in Russia, understand something of those great achievements in Greek civilization.”
But Greek officials said if they were to be delighted it would be “for other reasons”.
With a purpose-built museum constructed at the foot of the Acropolis to exhibit the sculptures, the move not only boosted the argument that the marbles should be “reunited” for ethical, aesthetic and scholarly reasons, but provided the first glimmer of hope that, one day, they would return to the place where they were created.
“It’s a change of attitude,” Korka said. “Now that they have taken this decision, they can pack up the rest and bring them here where the climate suits them and where they belong. And when the [two-month] exhibition at the Hermitage is over they can bring the Ilissos over too.”
She rejected the British Museum’s claim that Greece had consistently refused to enter into talks over loaning the antiquities to Athens. “We have never said ‘never’ to anything. We have said, so many times, we are open to mediation and that means we are open to loans as well.”
Macgregor repeated the museum’s claim on Friday, saying: “The Greek government has always refused to borrow, to date, but the trustees’ position is very clear that they will consider any request from anyone who is prepared to return the object.”
Discussions with the Hermitage are believed to have begun in October before the deal was sealed two weeks ago.
Campaigners for the return of the marbles to Athens said the loan was all the more inflammatory for its timing. In July 2013, Greece called on Unesco, the United Nations’ cultural organisation, to intervene, urging David Cameron’s government to participate in mediation in an attempt to settle the long-dispute. London has yet to respond.
“It is not just rude, provocative and arrogant, it is a highly offensive thing to do when Britain has completely ignored a Greek request to mediate this issue through Unesco,” said David Hill, the Australian president of the International Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures. “For the best part of 18 months Unesco has been waiting for a reply,” he told the Guardian from Sydney. “The only thing this will do is aggravate the situation. It’s extremely inflammatory.”
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-- THE GUARDIAN (05|12|2014).
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/05/parthenon-ma...
ANTICA GRECIA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA. Parthenon marbles: Squalid saga of Parthenon marbles loan to Russia, THE GUARDIAN (05-07|12|2014).
In loaning the Parthenon marbles statue of Ilissos to Russia (Loan shatters Elgin marbles claim, says Athens, 6 December), the British Museum has acted insensitively and foolishly. It is unseemly and squalid, after unanswered Greek requests for the marbles’ return, for the statue’s first move outside Britain to be to a country we ourselves have placed under sanctions after the invasion of Ukraine. At a stroke the museum has legitimised Putin’s Russia at a time when the latter’s unpredictable aggression threatens Ukraine’s existence and Europe’s wider security.
Does the museum think itself exempt from the dynamics of contemporary European politics, and that cultural diplomacy will smooth over the current crisis? Consider this: right now the Netherlands is refusing to return Scythian gold, loaned before the illegal annexation of Crimea, to four museums now under Russian control there. What is to stop Russia holding Ilissos hostage in return? In April the Russian Itar-Tass agency reported that the refusal to return the gold would result in non-cooperation between Russian and EU museums. The British Museum may well have placed one of its most priceless artefacts in serious danger. Putin has shown himself indifferent about far more.
Tony King
Barnt Green, Worcestershire
• If British people want to understand the point of view of the Greeks on the so-called “Elgin marbles”, please consider this hypothetical scenario: in the 15th century, Britain is occupied by the French. British people fall under oppressive French rule. Four centuries later, the Greek Mr Papadopoulos buys permission from French authorities to care for Big Ben. He moves half of it to his estate in Greece. Twenty years later, the British people start a revolution against the French and soon they acquire their independence. At the end of the 20th century, Britain asks for the repatriation of the “Papadopoulos steel”. Greece refuses to talk. The “Greek Museum” causes irreparable damage in the 1930s (see the Guardian, 14 April 2001), organises glamorous parties in the rooms where Big Ben (sorry: Papadopoulos Steel) is displayed in 1999 (see the Guardian, 8 November 1999) and it even gives some objects (say, the number 10 from the clock face) as a loan to a Chinese museum in 2014, while refusing to sit down with Unesco to discuss an offer of mediation on the issue in October 2013.
The director of the Greek Museum says publicly that the British government should be “delighted” with the loan, and that “the greatest things in the world should be shared and enjoyed by as many people in as many countries as possible”. Well done, Mr Director. The British public would certainly appreciate your views.
Andreas Stalidis
Bath
• Greece’s prime minister Antonis Samaras fulminates about Britain’s retention of parts of the Parthenon frieze. Meanwhile, one of the fragments of the frieze that remained in Greece, newly mounted in the Acropolis museum, is eroded by pollution and so horribly neglected by that long independent country that it can hardly be recognised.
Apart from other issues surrounding the marbles, how dare Greece put that sorry fragment on display and try to take the moral high ground about custodianship of the rest of the marbles? What is more, after years of overseas funding assistance, the Acropolis itself, the most famous archeological site in the western world, is still a dusty, un-energetic-looking, and disappointing mess. Where has all the money gone?
Richard Wilson
Oxford
• If someone stole my family heirlooms (don’t worry, I don’t have any) I’d be unimpressed if the thief then loaned them to someone else, on condition that they went back to the thief after two months. I’d be even less impressed if the thief asked me if I’d like to borrow them, so long as I returned them all safely to him.
Alan Burkitt-Gray
London
• I’m wondering if the British Museum has checked on the potential for Greece to initiate legal proceedings in Russia to recover this item of the Elgin marbles. Does anyone out there really believe that Vladimir Putin thinks like a museum curator? The French have already said he can’t have the brand new French-built carrier that has been undergoing sea trials, with Russian sailors on board; they are contractually obliged to hand that over to Russia, but are refusing to do so.
Vaughan Thomas
Norwich
• British Museum lends Elgin marbles to Hermitage; later, Putin forwards it to Athens: two fingers to London. You read it here first.
John Smith
Lindfield, West Sussex
• The British Museum’s attempts to improve the “frosty relations between Russia and the west in the wake of the invasion of eastern Ukraine” would have had more impact if the works of art loaned to the Hermitage museum actually belonged to Britain. Lending the Parthenon marbles, instead of, for example, some Turner landscapes or samples from the royal family’s vast collection, is simply provocative, and will do nothing but cause resentment in Greece, and display our hypocrisy to the world. How quick we are to offer judgments when Jewish-owned artwork is discovered in ex-Nazis’ homes (Modernist art haul, ‘looted by Nazis’, recovered by German police, 4 November).
Jonathan Jones has rightly argued that British museums must “face up to reality” and that “cultural imperialism” belongs in history’s dustbin, but clearly his passionate plea fell on deaf ears (The art world’s shame: why Britain must give its colonial booty back, 4 November). How can anyone justify, in the 21st century, the looting of Greek treasure by a greedy, profiteering British aristocrat, 210 years ago?
The return of the marbles is long overdue, would provide a welcome boost to an impoverished Greek economy, and would display some British acceptance of guilt for its imperial past. Lending some of the pieces to Russia is simply shameful, and questions must be asked about the role played in this by the secretary of state for culture.
Any political party with a sense of decency would include a promise to return the marbles to their rightful home in its election manifesto.
Bernie Evans
Liverpool
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--THE GUARDIAN (05-07|12|2014).
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2020. Paolo Giorgio Ferri, Hunter of Looted Antiquities, Dies at 72 - A prosecutor in Italy, he dismantled multinational trafficking rings. NYT (20/06/2020), ARCAblog (11/06/2020) & Finestre sull'Arte (21/06/2020).
1). ROME - Paolo Giorgio Ferri, Hunter of Looted Antiquities, Dies at 72. A prosecutor in Italy, he dismantled multinational trafficking rings, recovering tens of thousands of Greco-Roman artifacts worth hundreds
of millions of dollars. THE NEW YORK TIMES (20/06/2020).
When the Italian prosecutor Paolo Giorgio Ferri visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2004, he posed for a picture beside an ancient terracotta mixing bowl so rare and celebrated that it had held pride of place in the Met’s Greek and Roman galleries for 32 years. Four years later, as a result of Mr. Ferri’s dogged work as an investigator and antiquities hunter with Rome’s Ministry of Cultural Heritage, that object, known as the Euphronios krater, was back on Italian soil, as were scores of other looted treasures that had been acquired by American museums and collectors since the 1960s. Mr. Ferri, who had recently retired after 45 years as a judicial magistrate, public prosecutor and legal consultant, died on June 14 at a hospital in Rome. He was 72. His family said the cause was a heart attack.
Colleagues say his legacy includes dismantling multinational looting and trafficking rings; recovering tens of thousands of Greco-Roman artifacts from secret storehouses; and compelling what is sometimes called “the great giveback,” a period that began in 2006 and continues to this day, during which American museums have returned at least 120 ill-gotten antiquities valued at more than $1 billion to the Greek and Italian authorities.
“No one before him had used the courts to attack the art predators and big museums and corrupt dealers,” said Fabio Isman, his friend and biographer. “He was very stubborn, and what he did was very daring.”
In an email interview with The New York Times last year, Mr. Ferri said he did not know what to expect in 1994 when he began investigating the theft of a statue from a villa in Rome and its sudden appearance at a Sotheby’s auction in London. After much digging, he said, he discovered that a dozen prominent American museums housed Roman and Etruscan items that Italian officials never knew existed. His list eventually grew to 47 museums worldwide.
“It took several years to have a complete panorama of what happened to the Italian cultural patrimony,” Mr. Ferri said. “When I was fully aware of the damages caused by the criminals, I was really furious.”
As the public prosecutor in Rome, overseeing criminal cases for the Italian Ministry of Culture, he embarked on what turned out to be a 17-year period of subpoenas, raids, arrests and trials. After a “steep learning curve,” he said, he also started working with the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan to press his investigation into American museums and art brokers.
His big breakthrough came in September 1995, when he arranged for the Italian and Swiss police to raid a building run by a renowned Italian art dealer, Giacomo Medici. The building sat inside the Geneva Free Port, a sprawling commercial district where international goods can be stored, purchased and sold with virtually no oversight, and often free of taxes and duties.
Their haul was astonishing. Investigators found thousand of pieces of Greek, Roman and Etruscan art; binders filled with sales records and letters between Mr. Medici and dealers and curators in London and New York; and hundreds of annotated Polaroid photographs of objects that had clearly been pillaged.
The photos showed pitchers and vases, stone busts and burial relics, bronze statues of animals and gods, and other black-market objects. The items were still encrusted with soil from when they had been dug up, and the notations on the pictures indicated their origins. There were even follow-up images of the items after they had been cleaned and restored and made ready for the art market.
“When I first saw it,” Mr. Ferri recalled, “I compared the Medici warehouse to Ali Baba’s cave.” Indeed, among the Medici Polaroids were images of the Met’s 2,500-year-old krater, which is decorated with scenes from “The Iliad” by a master Greek artist named Euphronios.
The discovery of the so-called Medici archive precipitated a string of raids, trials and legal claims that exposed two more major antiquities traffickers: Gianfranco Becchina, an Italian art broker, and Robin Symes, a London fine arts dealer. Both were found to have immense troves of looted Greco-Roman items — Mr. Becchina in Basel, Switzerland, and Mr. Symes on the remote Greek island of Schinoussa — and both had kept dossiers detailing where the objects originated and to whom they had been sold.
Mr. Ferri convicted Mr. Medici in 2004 in one of many cases he brought against an expanding network of antiquities smugglers. He also made a bold move that rattled the American art world: He indicted two prominent museum figures, the curator Marion True and the collector and dealer Robert E. Hecht Jr., for trafficking in Medici’s looted art.
Paparazzi photos of Ms. True, the longtime antiquities curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, being swarmed outside a Rome courthouse were widely published amid allegations that she had illegally acquired dozens of objects for the Getty. (Ms. True has long denied the charges and said her case was a show trial.)
Mr. Hecht was accused of purchasing the Euphronios krater directly from Mr. Medici knowing it was plunder, and of manufacturing an innocent background story before selling it to the Met for $1 million in 1972.
Although Mr. Ferri’s charges against Mr. Hecht (who died in 2012) and Ms. True were dismissed under statutes of limitations in 2010 and 2012, they had alarmed American museum directors, who had never seen criminal charges brought against those individuals entrusted with obtaining their antiquities.
From 2006 to 2011, the Met returned 20 Roman objects in addition to the krater, the Getty gave back 47, and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston repatriated 13. Museums in Dallas, Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio, also gave up Greco-Roman objects, as did merchants like the Royal Athena Gallery in New York and collectors like the philanthropist Shelby White.
Italian officials continue to pursue scores of items they recognize from the looters’ dossiers whenever auction houses and dealers put them on the market.
“Paolo Ferri opened a road, and we hope it will not be abandoned,” Mr. Isman said.
Paolo Giorgio Ferri was born in Rome on Oct. 17, 1947. He earned his undergraduate and law degrees from Sapienza University of Rome and became a judge magistrate in 1977 and a public prosecutor a decade later. By the early 1990s, his interest in classical history had led him to a position with the Cultural Ministry, which was beginning to tackle the scourge of antiquities crime. He remained in that role for the next 20 years.
Mr. Ferri is survived by his wife, Marita, and a daughter, Sofia. Friends said he had recently renovated a seafront apartment in the Sardinian city of Alghero and hoped to spend his time scuba diving and spearfishing.
In his interview with The Times, Mr. Ferri said he was glad that colleagues were continuing the hunt for plundered objects showcasing classical Rome’s glory and sophistication. But he was also wistful.
“The few refunds that have occurred concern perhaps 3 percent of what was taken,” he said. “They have above all just a symbolic value.”
Fabiana Di Fazio contributed reporting from Rome.
Fonte / source:
--- Paolo Giorgio Ferri, 72, Who Recovered Tens of Thousands of Looted Antiquities. THE NEW YORK TIMES (22/06/2020):B12.
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/arts/paolo-giorgio-dead.html
2). ROME - Remembering Paolo Giorgio Ferri. ARCAblog (11/06/2020).
It is with profound sadness that ARCA shares the news of today's passing of Paolo Giorgio Ferri, Italy's famed Sostituto Procuratore della Repubblica a Roma due to health complications. He was 72 years old.
Dr. Ferri's first investigative case into Italy's stolen heritage began in 1994 and involved a statue stolen from Rome's Villa Torlonia that was then sold at auction by Sotheby's. But it was the invaluable role he played in doggedly pursuing corrupt antiquities dealers who laundered antiquities into some of the world's most prestigious museums that made his name famous among those who follow art and heritage crimes.
Forty-eight when his investigation began into the activities of Giacomo Medici, Gianfranco Becchina, Robin Symes and others, Paolo was integral in truly exposing the ugly underbelly of the ancient art trade and the insidious phenomenon of laundering cultural goods.
In February 2000 Judge Ferri received a commendation and a formal expression of esteem from General Roberto Conforti (then Commanding Officer of the Carabinieri Department for the Protection of the Italian Cultural Heritage) for the suggestions he made in relation to a project initiative to change the Italian law on cultural goods. In 2011 ARCA honored Dr. Ferri with an art crime protection award for his role in the 2005 case against Emanuel Robert Hecht and Marion True, the former curator of the J Paul Getty Museum. This case, and his work on it, marked a dramatic change, in years to come, in the policy of acquisitions by museums around the world, as well as set the stage for numerous restitutions of stolen artifacts to their countries of origin.
Following his career as a prosecutor, Ferri continued to fight for Italy's heritage and served on a special commission with Italy's Ministry of Culture, created for the restitution of national cultural heritage stolen abroad. There he served as a legal advisor on cultural diplomacy negotiations. Ferri also provided legal opinions regarding criminal matters, served as an advisor to ICCROM, was part of a commission for the criminal reform of the Code of Cultural Heritage, and participated in Vienna in the drafting of Guidelines to the United Nations Convention against transnational organized crime, which was signed in Palermo in 2000.
Dr. Ferri will be remembered by his colleagues and friends as one who never backed off in the fight against illicit trafficking and as someone always willing to share his knowledge and legal expertise freely and openly. Journalist Fabio Isman, who broke the news to some of us, recalled that when Dr. Ferri wrote his first Letters Rogatory, it took three weeks to draft the document. At the height of his investigations Ferri would go on to write three Letters Rogatory a week, asking the world for judicial assistance in the restitution of Italy's stolen works of art.
ARCA wishes to offer its support and condolences to everyone close to this wonderful man, but most importantly to Paolo's family, particularly his wife Mariarita, his daughter Sofia and his grandchildren.
Foto / fonte / source: Paolo Giorgio Ferri - Image Credit: Daniela Rizzo / Maurizio Pelligrini, friends and colleagues. Maurizio Pelligrini relates that this photo was taken 28 September 2004, when Paolo was in New York and still did not know if Italy would be able to convince the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philippe de Montebello to destitute the famous Euphronios crater; & ARCAblog (11/06/2020).
Fonte / source:
--- ARCAblog (11/06/2020).
art-crime.blogspot.com/2020/06/remembering-paolo-giorgio-...
3). ROMA - Addio a Paolo Giorgio Ferri, il giudice che combatteva i criminali dell'arte. Finestre sull'Arte (21/06/2020).
www.finestresullarte.info/flash-news/6924n_addio-a-paolo-...
S.v.,
--- ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2020. The Metropolitan Museum of Art & the Monteleone Chariot "La Biga Rapita" – Historical & Contemporary Documentation Relevant to the Controversy between the Metropolitan Museum and the Comune di Monteleone di Spoleto (2008). [2020]. Foto & stampa.
www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/sets/72157605...
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
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ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions
ORLANDO, Fla. - LimpingFrog Productions partnered with Operation Giveback to produce a highlight reel for the 5th Annual 5k/10k Run, Walk, Roll held May 16, 2015, at the University of Central Florida.
Created by veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Operation Giveback for Wounded Warriors, Inc. (OGB) is a non-profit organziation committed to raising funds and awareness for America's wounded warriors and the families of fallen heroes.
"This race is one of several charitable events that OGB hosts around the country," said Jose Garcia, founder of Operation Giveback and retired Army command sergeant major. "Together these events not only raise money for wounded warriors and families who lost a loved one while serving their country, [but] they also instill hope by reminding them that their sacrfices will always be remembered by a grateful nation."
LimpingFrog Productions' crack team of videographers and photographers captured the action both on the ground and in the air while highlighting the faith, hope and charity that drew thousands of people to compete and volunteer for this event.
"This was the first time in our company's 10-year history that we incoporated a drone in our projects," said John L. Carkeet IV, executive producer of LimpingFrog Productions. "The stunning 'eye in the sky' perspective uniquely visualizes the outpour of support for the men and women who lost limbs and sometimes their very lives while defending our nation."
Currently serving as a public affairs noncommissioned officer in the Army Reserve, Carkeet could relate closely to these sacrfices when tragedy struck the very foundation of LimpingFrog Productions just one week earlier. While volunteering for a five-month tour with U.S. Army Japan near Tokyo, Carkeet received a call from his wife who informed him that Adam T. Lee, co-founder of LimpingFrog Productions, perished in a tram accident at the Orlando International Airport on May 8.
"I was too shocked to shed tears at first," recalled Carkeet. "It took a few minutes to accept the fact that my close friend and business partner of 17 years was gone forever. I'm not ashamed to admit that, when the truth finally registered, my wales could be heard throughout the barracks."
Carkeet and Lee met in 1998 while they worked as volunteer production assistants for Time Warner Cable in Melbourne, Fla. After producing several short films and dcumentaries during their undergraduate years at the University of Central Florida, the pair started LimpingFrog Productions in 2004. Carkeet and Lee partnered with numerous clients under the LimpingFrog banner to produce various projects digital media from weddings and commercials to sport documentaries and corporate events.
"LimpingFrog Productions was a part-time operation until 2010," said Carkeet. "That was when Adam had single-handedly locked in our first long-term client while I completed basic military training for the U.S. Army Reserve. [Adam] continued to expand the business while I fulfilled various military assignments both at home and abroad."
Lee was preparing to step in as director for the Operation Giveback while Carkeet embarked on his latest military assignment in Japan. Lee died 10 days after the two met to discuss the future of the company.
"We were editing our highlight reel and preparing to unveil our new website," said Carkeet. "We tabled a few topics until Adam returned from his vacation to Columbia. Sadly, those and every other business-related matters settle onto my shaky hands and tear-stricken face."
Hours after the last runner crossed the finish line at UCF, Carkeet and his team broke down their gear and made their way to Rockledge, Fla, to attend a memorial ceremony to celebrate the life of an inspiring individual.
"It was stressful day and a emotionally draining night," admitted Carkeet. "However, the new and familiar faces that supported this endeavor offer hope that LimpingFrog Productions will continue Adam's legacy."
Photos by John L. Carkeet IV, LimpingFrog Productions