I have had a couple of days to decompress and reflect on the week, so I’m just about ready to draw some conclusions and speak a bit about it. Right about the time I get to that point, Michael Sean Wright rang me up, and wanted to know if I’d be interested in doing a live chat with him and Brian Roy talking about our experiences from the week.
Just as there are with any group of people when you stick them in close quarters, ‘round the clock, for about a week, there are some great stories, experiences and drama to discuss. Trust me, you aren’t going to want to miss this.
Just book mark this page, and make sure you’re here around 11:45 PM this Friday night. We’ll be chatting amongst ourselves and taking your questions. You can either ask via the feedback mechanism, or you can simply tweet with the hashtag “#sxsw-wrap”.
| The Ustream Studio Experience | (03/20/2009) |
11:44 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Hey folks. Just setting up. You can hang around a bit, and we'll be getting it kicked off momentarily. |
| 11:44 | [Be Right Back Countdown] | 5 minutes |
11:51 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Are we all here? |
11:51 | nicefishfilms: Thank you Mark for wanting to do this. As you put it- this should be interesting. |
11:51 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Most definitely. |
11:51 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: So where do you want to start this evening? There's so much that went on this week. |
11:52 | [Comment From Gus] QUIET ON THE SET |
11:52 | nicefishfilms: Shall we do a full disclosure? I paid you to be there, hope that doesn't influence your objectivity. |
11:53 | nicefishfilms: Hello Gus- you are an amazing Man- a true Human. Would not have been possible without you and everyone that lifted it out of my mind and into reality. |
11:54 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Hah, no... the money won't influence my objectivity. I've already cashed the check. :-) In seriousness, though, in addition to you, I was also paid by OneSpot, and both of my sponsors are folks I people / organizations I belive in, which is how we came together in the first place. |
11:55 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Other than the sponsors, like Gus, all that we attempted would've been impossible without the help from the volunteers and the camera crew. Everyone played an integral role, and I feel like I've got a whole new circle of friends out of the deal, which is one of the great benefits of the week for me. |
11:55 | nicefishfilms: Getting to know you and see you in action was a sprk for me Mark. Really enjoyed our time together. We will be seeing all of your 'filed reports' soon, I hope. |
11:57 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Indeed, I'll be posting them over the course of the next couple of weeks. What I'm really looking forward to is the recordings of the live footage. |
11:57 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Not just the panels (which were a blast), but the performances. Peter and Jake Dilley's band were just awesome. |
11:57 | nicefishfilms: We had a great mix of truly dedicated volunteers indeed. Gus for example never operated a Tricaster before this event. He and Peggy were amazing to me. I'm wearing the necklace Peggy put together for me. |
11:58 | [Comment From Gus] Howdy. I had a blast. But, to hell with objectivity! I can get that from the NYT (well, sometimes) |
11:58 | [Comment From Peggy] Really pleased to see you guys wanting to do a post-mortem while everything is fresh |
11:58 | [Comment From Gus] I would find it helpful if, next time, you could all arrange to speak at exactly the same volume. Thanks, great. |
11:59 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: @Gus I'll work on that. Perhaps they'll have a sub-vocal implant by next year's conference. |
12:00 | nicefishfilms: The music (with the exception of the Bluegrass group and Peter) were all brought together by Matt, Dylan and Brian at http://www.covalentrecords.com/ what an amazing group of artists. I now have a lot of new music running through my veins. |
12:02 | nicefishfilms: The Bluegrass guys were busking on 6th. St. and I invited them to play on Jeff 'The Dude' Experience program on Monday night. They really enjoyed it. |
12:03 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: What about that trio of gals that sang Monday evening when all the Rackspace fellows were in the studio? |
12:04 | nicefishfilms: The acceppella group was a find from Jeff. I know I'm using amazing a lot but... amazing! I'm trying to gather all the links and proper titles so we can give everyone complete credit. Will have to do a post edit on this. |
12:05 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: You're absolutely right. It wouldn't be fair to the rest of the world if we didn't. We had hundreds of thousands of viewers throughout the event, but there are so many more who need to see this. |
12:05 | [Comment From Peggy] What goals did each of you have in mind before last Friday, and which of them did you feel you accomplished? |
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12:07 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: What I walked into SxSW with and what I walked out with are two different things. I had a feeling I'd come out with a few more contacts and some good content for my website. I had the former in spades, the latter to a pretty respectable extent, but so much more. I came out of it with friends, connections, and a wealth of experiences. It's difficult to grasp what that means when I phrase it that way, but there's just an indescribable wealth of experiences that I'm still not able to put into words just yet. |
12:10 | nicefishfilms: Perhaps a little context here would be good. I'll state my 'purpose' of the thing we called "The Ustream Studio- Live from The Belmont." I was riffing off of an idea Robert Scoble had put forth regarding creating a TED Conference everyday in my life. I was operating under the belief that Marc Canter is right to say - "The future is Open and Live." I reached out to some friends to see if they wanted to help. First was Dylan Om who I met through Dr. Tony Shore of http://obviouspop.com then next was Bryan Kim of Ustream to see if they wanted to participate and support this idea. Dylan brought the venue The Belmont and the team @ Covalent Records booked the artists. The Belmont was so great to us - what a wonderful vibe at that place. Kate and her team really opened up their place for us to create 'a space where big ideas can grow.' |
12:10 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: In other words, I came out ahead of what I had expected out of the week. |
12:11 | nicefishfilms: that should be Bryan Kim from Ustream (type alert for the post edit) |
12:12 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Would you choose the Belmont again to do this sort of thing? I loved our location and I felt it was adequate, but I wonder what it would've been like if we could've had a bit more of a public audience (and, at times, a set door we could have locked). |
12:14 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: (New Readers: questions from the audience are welcome) |
12:16 | Peggy: I think the Belmont was great, but we could have used the space better |
12:17 | Gus: I could have used a mousepad |
12:17 | nicefishfilms: I would choose The Belmont again but would do a lot different. First I would make sure that all the monitors/ tvs were set to take the picture and sound from the studio. We had really tried to make this happen. With the monitors, the live audience in the venue could know what's going on in the studio. I had a vision for the studio to be a controlled space that was semi-closed so that our room could work and function. I don't know how many 'tv' tapings you've been to but the audience usually respects the work being done on stage. There were a lot of 'talkers' in the room that were there to support not disrupt the action. It was unfortunate that some did not understand the concept of a 'working set.' Very frustrating to me to have that type of disregard/ disrespect going on in the background. I undersatnd that from our guests, but not the team that is there to help. I'm refering to the staff of Ustream here not our team. Ustream never really got what was going on in the room. |
12:18 | Peggy: Unfortunate that it was March madness, as the Belmont wanted the games on the monitors in the rest of the bar. Hard to get them involved when they can't watch. |
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12:18 | Gus: I'm amazed we got to use a TV at all during the NCAA tourney |
12:19 | Peggy: I also watched the PopCandy segment on Wed or Thursday.... seems the Ustream guys were able to broadcast from an Iphone, and wandered all over the venue talking to people; Where was THAT on Fri -Tue??? |
12:19 | Gus: I would have like a live monitor of the stream and chatroom at all times. |
12:20 | nicefishfilms: I would say that I think we were a pretty good draw for the house. I would have understood a few tv's tuned to March Madness. It wasn't for a lack of trying and openess from the venue- we just couldn't get the monitors to light up. |
12:20 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: I haven't been to that any real TV tapings, but I've been to loads of streamed events - the attitude of those in the back isn't at all out of line for those types of things. Typically, at Mashable live streamed events, the tapings / streamings had to plan for the presence of a dull roar from the crowd. Clearly, we were trying to do something much different from what usually goes on with that sort of thing, but for some reason that wasn't made clear. |
12:20 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Wasn't made clear, or wasn't understood for whatever reason, I should say. |
12:21 | nicefishfilms: the signs taped ALL around the entry ways should have been a tip off Mark. Just no respect from the people we were working with. |
12:22 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: I agree, even from some of the people I was happy to get a chance to meet that week. God love him, but "The Dude" really enjoyed pushing peoples buttons the last couple days (or as he likes to say, trying to "freak people out."). |
12:23 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: One of the things I saw which bothered me the most were the interactions between him and Lucas Hendrickson, who for 99% of the week was one of the anchors holding everything together. |
12:24 | Gus: Hey Rizzn I saw a few minutes of your webcamcorder interviews, and you seriously need to get an external mic. Great concept but hard to hear...the venues are all noisy. |
12:25 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: @Gus Yeah, it's the first time I've used that set-up in such an environment. I definitely agree. Lessons learned, eh? |
12:25 | Gus: The Dude was ummm...the Dude, but for the most part our guests were fabulous. |
12:26 | nicefishfilms: Well Jeff 'The Dude" Dowd is a handful. It took several years for Ethan and Joel Coen to un-compact their conversations with him the result of which is The Big Lebowski. He was very difficult to work with because he is used to things his way. His heart and mind is gigantic but he's a strong force indeed. I had asked him NOT to come to the Studio on Tues. because I know when he's around it becomes The Dudes show. I would say though- he brought a lot of heat to the set - some of it actually worked. I was sad to see how he treated Lucas though. My rule number 1 is that we treat each other with respect. In my mind he was OVER THE LINE. |
12:26 | Gus: That's word they use in Hollywood, right? "Fabulous"? I'm trying to get the lingo. |
12:27 | Peggy: I think Dude would have worked better with mobile I-phone broadcasts, wandering about with the outside crowd. I think keeping him caged in a small space invited tension. |
12:28 | Gus: Next year, can we get Jeff Bridges instead? |
12:28 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Peggy that would have been a great idea. Maybe next time around, we'll send a guy to shadow The Dude just to capture the magic that seems to happen around him when he's out amongst the public. |
12:28 | nicefishfilms: He did manage to line-up some really powerful voices from the film world. Unfortantly, his behavior will overshadow his 'work' for most of us that were there. I do like him and you can't argue that he's a BIG force in the film world. He's passionate for sure! |
12:29 | nicefishfilms: Peggy - I was thinking of more of a NY late-night semi frantic talkshow with live music for Jeff. That's what I tried to pull off, some of it worked. Will do it different next time. |
12:30 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Michael, you are right, though, a lot of the folks he brought back would have made for awesome discussion. His timing was just a little lacking. Aside from The Dude, though, there was another source of tension that you may have anticipated, Michael, but I know most of us didn't (including myself)... the demanding schedule of doing non-stop live streaming like that. I know we all probably have some thoughts on that. |
12:31 | Gus: I felt like Dan Rather on 9/11 |
12:31 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: @Gus It did have a lot of aspects of crisis coverage I've been party to in the past. |
12:32 | Peggy: I think regular, planned breaks would have helped us on set AND given the venue more time to sell from the bar. Which would have been a win all around |
12:32 | Gus: well thats SXSW for ya |
12:32 | Peggy: NOT sxsw...... |
12:33 | Gus: Well at least we have plenty of stock footage now :) |
12:34 | Peggy: But Micheal, you talked about how this thing came together, but not your goals. What did you want to accomplish, and did you? |
12:35 | nicefishfilms: It kept growing larger - the schedule that is. We kept adding more guests, I guess I thought that only a few would say 'Yes' and join us. I don't think anyone we reached out to said no. The intent and the execution was disconnected. For the most part, we all reacted well to the developments 'on the set.' sxsw is just not a great place for group discussions and I knew that going in. I tried to create a more intimate space for the conversations and music to ‘happen.’ I’m not a fan of the panels at most conferences anyway. They seem very staged to me and pre-planned. My hope is that people would go deep – and they did. |
12:36 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: To that end, Michael, as someone who sat in on the panels and keynotes at the convention center, ours were a ton better than the ones down the road. |
12:37 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: And that's not just because I was on half of them. :-p |
12:37 | Gus: Yeah, st00pid D1GG L0ZerZ, lulz! |
12:39 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: For instance, the "Making Whuffie" panel and the "Minority Report" panels I attended covered a lot of the stuff that we covered in the first two days of panels at the Belmont, and I think that we dug a lot deeper than they did at the Convention Center. The official panels were good starting points, but I actually learned stuff from our guests and felt engaged - the panels at the convention center seemed to rest a lot of their presentation on YouTube videos that they downloaded and played for the audience. As a result, I felt a little ripped off for my time. |
12:39 | nicefishfilms: @ Peggy yes my goal of 'creating a space for BIG ideas to grow' was completely accomplished beyond my imagination. My take-away’s are - we DID it, WE pulled off something that had never been done, WE created a historical document of these powerful voices coming together to find a way to help each other. My goal was to have hours and hours of high-quality footage for me to cut together a Documentary that was filmed ‘live.’ The fact that all of our footage will be made available (for free) in the highest quality to everyone so that they may DO something was my first goal – WE DID IT. |
12:39 | [Comment From Louis Gray] But Mark, since it's not black and white, what did you enjoy down the road, and how could they adapt to be more like what you enjoy? |
12:40 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: @Louis - did that answer your question, or did you want me to dig a little deeper? |
12:41 | nicefishfilms: Hello Louis - to meet you in person was a 'spark' for me. I wrote a lot of the pre-planning in my mind with your 'voice' swirling around my brain. How can we make this more Human? Thank you for being there. |
12:41 | Gus: Hmmm now that you mention it Rizzn, I was pretty well trapped in the Belmont and didn't really see what others had setup, so I am curious. |
12:43 | Peggy: I truly enjoyed some of those panel discussions. Again, I wonder if the viewing audience was able to take in that much content, back-to-back-to-back. I felt we hit overload by cramming so much in.... as an opportunity to film "for posterity," then we did great. if we were optimizing the live experience, we needed to give even the viewers time for restroom breaks!! |
12:44 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Louis: to expound further, I did enjoy the group interaction. The hallway track is what I liked the most, to be quite honest. There were a couple of panels that I enjoyed a lot, like the View Askew panel on webisodes, but meeting folks that are generally too busy to hang with the likes of me and casually finding people like you, Louis, and Chris Brogan, Tamar Weinberg, Phil Glockner and Kristen Nicole in the same room - well it's just a unique experience. |
12:45 | Gus: The Belmont was 90% of the time like a slightly out-of-control party. |
12:46 | Peggy: A 5-day-long, slightly out-of-control party.......... Had an amazing time, but there was too much happening to appreciate it and maximize it. Sometimes less IS more |
12:46 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: I definitely concur on the breaks being a necessary part of it all. I'd venture to say that coming into it with a bit of pre-recorded material to allow for breaks would be a blessing. |
12:46 | Gus: Less is the new more |
12:46 | [Comment From Louis Gray] If you had to do it over again, how do you think you would draw even more viewers and interacton? |
12:47 | nicefishfilms: We describe Peter Himmelman's Furious World as 'An hour of Rock and Roll and passionately ordered chaos.' Please note that Peter Himmelman was my invited guest and should remain blameless for any of the 'other' chaos. |
12:47 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Absolutely, Michael. Peter was a pleasure to be around, 100% of the time. |
12:48 | [Comment From Krynsky] Hello folks... |
12:49 | Gus: I'm not sure how we can get the panelists involved with the chats without getting them to bury their heads in a PC screen. I actually don't like the open laptops there, because it makes it appears as though the panelists are disinterested or oblivious when they're staring at the screen. |
12:49 | Peggy: I also felt that the part that should have made this unique was that part that we barely touched -- INTERACTIVE. It was like broadcasting live while people talked to each other about it. I can count a tiny handful of times that anything from the chatroom was brought into the discussion |
12:49 | nicefishfilms: @ Louis - I had never seen anything close to what was in my mind before this exsperience so it was really hard to pull all the parts together. With the first one under my belt - first I would have the chat room available for all to see. Second, I would have a better monitoring system in the studio so the invited guests could ask questions. As far as viewers, are numbers were pretty astounding to me. Mark do you have any totals for the week? |
12:50 | Gus: A good moderator can distill the chats and provide feedback to the panel |
12:50 | nicefishfilms: good point Gus. Would prob. say that a mod. would be the one to monitor that. Lucas did a great job of that for one of the panels. |
12:50 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: @Michael - all my counts are a bit guesstimation. For all the days I was on the air, the hour-by hour count ranged from 10k to 30k per hour. |
12:50 | [Comment From Krynsky] I think a much better real-time backchannel is necessary. I heard the meebo chat wasn't good and I wasted time going to the wrong panels. Did anyone find a good back channel? |
12:50 | Peggy: I think Lucas WANTED that role, and was frustrated that he didn't have the bandwidth to do it |
12:51 | nicefishfilms: (typo alert for post edit - that should be 'experience' ) |
12:51 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: @peggy - right about the time Lucas got his role defined how he liked it, it was more or less towards the end of the Interactive segment. |
12:51 | nicefishfilms: Rizzn - please total the number of unique's for the entire broadcast. Hit me with that number. |
12:52 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: @Michael - give me about three minutes (talk amongst yourselves!) and I'll have it for you. |
12:52 | Gus: I'm slightly freaked out by these numbers. I was expecting dozens of viewers, not thousands. I guess teh internets is bigger than I thought. |
12:54 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Well, based off my off the back of the envelope math, just shy of one million viewers. |
12:54 | nicefishfilms: I don't know if I want it to be too interactive. My goal was to put the BIG thinkers together and 'spark' them with the live music right in front of them. That was my focal point - when scientists are in concert with live music in changes their thinking. I wanted the 'conversation between the panelists and the art of music. |
12:54 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: And it literally is back fo the envelope math - all my numbers are written on the back of an envelope. |
12:54 | Gus: Oscar, Mike, Golf |
12:56 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: So now is my turn to be impressed. Keep in mind those numbers don't include anything past the Peter Himmelman's Furious World debut - I wasn't there to record those numbers. |
12:56 | Peggy: OK.... now that I'm recovering from that # .... do we think this event will be repeated? |
12:58 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Honestly, I think it's safe to say that the numbers will only go up from there should we attempt this next year. UStream is trying, but they haven't quite hit "mainstream status" yet. |
12:58 | nicefishfilms: Peggy - the 'repeat' is all of the re-broadcasts by all of the people on the panels who are waiting to get their hands on the footage. The 'documentary' I'm working on should have a large audience (I hope) this is too important not to share. By giving of all the film- we are inviting everyone to re-mix this and DO something. Open FTW! |
12:58 | nicefishfilms: One thing I know right now - it won't be with Ustream. |
12:59 | Gus: Maybe Google will buy them..."GooStream" |
12:59 | nicefishfilms: I will not abide pop-up ads and the viewing experience is just not there yet with them. |
12:59 | Gus: The Dude does not abide |
1:00 | Gus: Web ads are ubiquitous, but I do find the advertising overlays annoying. |
1:00 | nicefishfilms: My hope is that our next 'event' will be simul-streamed with everyone that has the rails. I see Ustream as a railroad, I'm looking for a rocket ship. |
1:00 | Peggy: I think there are a lot of good learnings that could be used for another event next year. But, quite honestly, that's the sort of thing that should have the planning started around now.... (did i mention the PLANNING word....???) |
1:01 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: I'm more of a fan of in-stream ads. Perhaps we can use those breaks for those, and UStream (or whomever the provider is) can remove the ads and sell against it with straight sponsorships. That would provide for a more relevant experience for the viewers. |
1:01 | Gus: /me second |
1:01 | nicefishfilms: Peggy sxsw is not my goal. My goal= many events that we can put musicians together with BIG ideas and watch the 'spark' happen. |
1:01 | Gus: Both of you |
1:02 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: @Peggy most definitely. But Michael, can we expect to have the random drop-in factor of big brains like that in an event not the magnitude of SxSW? |
1:02 | Gus: True Mr. Fish, but SXSW is, for us, most convenient. Geographically, at least. |
1:02 | [Comment From Richard] perhaps if your relay the stream through multiple sources each source can have it's own indvidual ads which means more ad space |
1:03 | nicefishfilms: I want to go to places like The World Forum, TED, etc. and yes, they happen but now we add the art of music. There are three Universal languages - math, music and film. I'm trying to merge them all together in real-time. |
1:04 | [Comment From Richard] not having attended this conference personally I have to wonder what each and every individual would say this was about in their own words. |
1:05 | nicefishfilms: @ Peggy the planning and the team grows larger now that the first one is 'in the can.' |
1:06 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: SxSW, for me and in retrospect, was a place to concentrate more deep thinking and conversation in one stretch of time than I figured possible. |
1:07 | nicefishfilms: @ Gus sxsw is a fantastic experience and I hope to come back. A highlight was to see 6th. St. on Weds and the power of the music lifted me and excited my mind. I was a completly spent after Tues. but music brought me back to life. sxsw is truly amazing! |
1:09 | nicefishfilms: @ Richard - of course everyone should document their experience. When I hear people say blogging is dying I just laugh-- blogging has never been more exciting than right now. My hope is that wwe will see a blend of rich media to add to the power of the written word to relay your experience to your reader. |
1:09 | nicefishfilms: @ Rizzn is there anything else you would like to ask? |
1:10 | Peggy: I think my experience was more focused on watching the people from the different "worlds" interacting. Seeing how excited people become about things that are new to them. I've had a lot of thoughts the last couple days, including that I might actually have something worth bloging about!! :-) |
1:11 | nicefishfilms: I just want it on record that everyone on our side gave it their all. Next time we will have the first 'experience' under our belt and will be able to anticipate some of the chaos better. |
1:11 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: I only have a couple other thoughts, I guess, in summary... One is, that despite the bit of drama that happened for everyone on the final day, it in no way really overshadowed the whole of the experience for me (and that's saying something when you inadvertently hang up on Leo Laporte in the middle of a live show)... |
1:12 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: ... another train of thought - before we start planning the next event (and I want to start doing that as soon as possible), I want to make sure we're on the proper track to desseminate our recordings of this event. I've never before wanted to share a set of experiences like this one before. |
1:13 | Peggy: Hanging up on Leo was priceless.... here's a woman who has won sundance twice, and is a genius in her own world, and she was clueless that the computer on the table had anything to do with the skype talk they were having. Just priceless. |
1:13 | nicefishfilms: Let's recap - We pulled off something that had never been done. IT worked, we made true connections, around 1 Million people experienced the 'happening' we will grow from here. I truly loved it. Now the important thing is that RackSpace and Google help us put the files up and get them out to EVERYONE. |
1:13 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: ... and finally, we do need to think about when we're doing this again. Whatever the cost, we do need to make sure we can replicate / improve upon this experience. |
1:14 | [Comment From Richard] I can't wait to be involved next year. |
1:14 | [Comment From Richard] see people's personal opions are essential in understanding an event for a blogger and writers point of view |
1:15 | Peggy: michael... can you be more specific about the plan for getting the files posted? |
1:15 | nicefishfilms: @ Rizzn this first one hurt me financially but we do have offers of support from a few great companies. If you know of anyone that can help me underwrite have them contact me - nicefishfilms at gmail dot com. |
1:16 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: @Michael - I'm already at work to secure sponsorship for next year. :-) |
1:16 | nicefishfilms: @ Rizzn let's talk about the files. Right now they are with a friend. That friend gets them to you and to RackSpace and Google and the Torrents - then what? |
1:17 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Well, right now they're in raw format. We'll make those available, but we're also going to need to downsample those so that folks without tricasters will also be able to work with them. Essentially, though, once they're available on Rackspace's CDN as torrents, anyone in the world has access to them. |
1:17 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Rackspace has already told me that they're more than willing to make that happen, with or without Google's help. |
1:17 | nicefishfilms: @ Rizzn - next year is too late for me -- right now what was said on the panels and the music must be set free. Time is the only immoveable object before me. Next year, we'll have a few more under our belts. I believe I have a sponsor for the next one. |
1:18 | nicefishfilms: May the light shine brightly on Rackspace for their help! |
1:19 | Gus: You would think that 1M pairs of eyes would get a sponsor's attention. |
1:19 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: True - but before this event there was no guarantee of that. We now have a track record, so to speak, that we can show future sponsors. |
1:20 | Gus: I'm glad I didn't know that figure at the time. That's big, even for the internet. |
1:21 | [Comment From Richard] The good news is Mark next year plans on bringing in help to make sure every moment is recorded and blogged about beyond resonable doubt |
1:21 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Yes - Richard is a friend of mine - one I hope to have involved with the process next year. |
1:22 | Gus: Book your hotel rooms now |
1:22 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: @Gus particularly one with very little to no budget in pre-marketing. Part of the buzz, of course, was due to it being an SXSW related event, but many folks spend millions in PR and marketing and achieve a fraction of the results. |
1:22 | Peggy: What's going to happen to the film taken by the documentary couple on Tuesday night? Will that be posted, or be used just for nicefishfilms? |
1:23 | nicefishfilms: I want to thank eveyone at The Belmont for giving free of their place so that we could create OUR space. Now let's set this free and keep the conversation happening. @ Rizzn imagine a dozen documentaries from our captured footage from THIS year. |
1:24 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Michael - indeed. i can't wait to see what comes out of it. And yes, someone tell me about the couple doing the documentary - I didn't have a chance to meet them. |
1:24 | nicefishfilms: @ Peggy the other cams that were there are sharing their footage and will be made available on the open torrents so that the footage can be used by all. |
1:24 | [Comment From Richard] is also looking for a job if anyone pays well :p |
1:26 | Peggy: and someone needs to poke Lyn Graft to get his photos up |
1:26 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Indeed. I wasn't in a single one of Scoble's photos, so there's a definite need for more uploads. :-p |
1:27 | Peggy: I posted some, but no one noticed (not exactly high-art photography.... but at least I posted them) |
1:27 | nicefishfilms: Also want to thank Matt, Dylan, Brian and the entire team at Covalent Records. Peggy and Gus - what can I say? You two were such bright lights to me. I'm honored to know you guys - Wombats HO!! It's safe to say that over 1 Million people now know the power of bringing IDEAS together with MUSIC - you and Lucas and the rest of the 'team' made IT happen. |
1:28 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Thanks for the opportunity to participate, Michael. I very much appreciate it. |
1:29 | Peggy: I really enjoyed the experience, and am hoping to keep in touch with many of the people I met |
1:29 | Peggy: Mark -- thanks for being a really interesting panelist, and a sane voice in the room when things got crazy. |
1:29 | nicefishfilms: Poor Lyn- I was a little rough on him. Once I'm in my 'zone' during Furious World anyone who crosses my 'event horizon' distracts my focus. He had been set up inside the event horizon but left his post for a moment, when he tried to come back I couldn't see that it was him and had Mark block anyone from crossing my line. I'm really looking forward to all of the documents (photo's, blogs, films) that will arise from this 'event.' |
1:30 | Peggy: Michael -- thanks for having this vision! (and Lyn had a GREAT time -- no worries there!) |
1:31 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: @peggy Thanks for the kind words. My wife might laugh at me being called a "sane voice," but I appreciate it. :-p |
1:31 | Gus: I have a vision...blurry, though |
1:31 | [Comment From Richard] I hope to meet you all in person next year it's been stiumlating watching your chat. |
1:32 | nicefishfilms: @ Peggy phweeh.. to see you and Gus enjoy Peter's music was a take-away of great importance to me. Your words echo in my mind - "Everyone who 'sees' Peter Himmelman says the same thing -- You have to see Peter Himmelman!" |
1:33 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Alrighty folks - well, unless anyone has any final thoughts, I'm going to call this chat over with - perhaps we'd like to make this a regular thing as we go through the process of dessimating the film and planning our next moves? |
1:34 | nicefishfilms: For everyone who commented but did not see it posted here, thank you for your participation. I am moved by all of this and now trying to wrap my mind around how to improve. |
1:35 | Peggy: before we close i HAVE to say it.... the best way to improv this is going to be better planning and communication. I think Mark's suggestion is really good. |
1:35 | Gus: Maybe we should all get iChat |
1:35 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: (some of us don't use Mac. :-p) |
1:35 | nicefishfilms: @ Rizzn thank you for doing this chat. I would like to see the conversation continue - and everyone knows by now how to connect w/ me i'm just nicefishfilms @ _________ pick your fave socialNET. |
1:36 | Gus: P.S. Michael, my bother, you seriously need to stop by the Apple store. That G4 is holding you back. @Rissn *gasp* |
1:36 | Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins: Indeed. Alrighty then. We all have each other's information, so we can plan another chat of some shape or form - and to the readers that joined us live or after the fact, just keep an eye out at nicefishfilms.com or rizzn.com for more updates on it all! |
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