NAB2008 pt. 4: I got your keynote right here.

Thanks to Dave Basulto and Mark Christiansen, here’s some NAB bootleg action for ya!

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NAB2008 pt. 3

There are vague threats of my keynote and the subsequent panel having been videotaped, so I'll let you know if that shows up anywhere (EDIT: it did, here). In the meantime you can get some of the same wholesome goodness by watching my presentation from the recent San Francisco FCPUG SuperMeet.

Thanks to Mike Seymour for the photo above, for his relentless 24/7 Twittering during the show, and for the nice shout-out on fxguide's NAB2008 Day Three podcast.

Vegas baby, Vegas

One week from right this minute I'll be rappin' keynote-style at NAB.

A Million Dollar Look on a Thousand Dollar Budget!
Wednesday, April 16, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Las Vegas Convention Center S222/223

Today’s flexible hardware and software are offering opportunities to create high-quality productions for theater and broadcast on very reasonable budgets. If you love to create projects independently, this is the session for you.

Executive Panelists
Dave Basulto, CEO, Clarity Pictures
Alex Lindsay, Founder, Pixel Corps
Taylor Wigton, Director of Photography, 447 Productions

Keynote
Stu Maschwitz, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, The Orphanage
Moderator: Brian Valente, Partner, Redrock Micro

Went to SXSW, met teh interwebs

Silly me, I thought SXSW was a film and music festival. I went there to talk about DV Rebel filmmaking, but I didn't meet more than a handful of traditional filmmakers. I did, however, meet the internet.

I loves me my podcasts, so it was way cool to meet folks like Veronica Belmont and Joanne Colan, Kent Nichols of Ask a Ninja and Erik Beck of Indie Mogul. I gave a shout out to my Montreal homies Rudy Jahchan and Casey McKinnon of Galacticast who have been putting The Guide to great use on their show, on and off camera. And it is always good to chill with Alex Lindsay of This Week in Everything.

I did feel a bit out of place though (Stu to Joanne Colan over ice cream: "So, what do you do?"). But web celebs are mellow and seem to have a bemused respect for traditional media, if only for its reliance on this strange thing called "money." They welcomed me into their weird world with Twitter and free booze (one is often used to locate the other).

Scott Kirsner, the most excellent moderator of the panel, posted notes on his blog. I too got great feeback from attendees and want to thank all who overcame hangovers and daylight savings time to be there. Now it's back to reality for me, and back to my iPhone podcasting tab for all my new friends.