For many things. For the advice, the opportunity, the contacts, the thrill, the enthusiasm, the ideas, the interaction with TV Executives and for giving me a big push. The festival was a great place to make contacts as well as listen to Network Executives talk about the industry and where we (content providers) can [...]

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One of my favorite directors of Documentary Films is Deborah Scranton. That is a biased opinion, I had the pleasure to meet her and speak with her about her documentary, “The War Tapes.” Which is a great look at how our soldiers are living in Iraq.
I love how she tells a story [...]

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I drove back yesterday right after the Xbox 360 giveaway in which I did not win. But kudos to the gentleman who won it, I just hope he uses it wisely and it doesn’t get abused. Thanks to Brian Conley and his fianc? for allowing me to crash at their pad and for [...]

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Looking back at the 2007 HOW conference it really was an eye opening event. First and foremost I was in awe with all the talented graphic designers around me. It was nice to become a part of the herd. That being said, I’m using this format to invite Hillman Curtis to participate [...]

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Presented by: Matteo Bologna & Roberto de Vicq de Cumptich
Matteo is Founder & Creative Directer of Mucca Design Corporation
Roberto is President & Receptionist of Devicq & Co.
I was trying to understand why they named this session “English For Me Is Greek” until they introduced the presenters. Ah, it seemed clear now. It was [...]

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Presented by: Scott Wadler
Senior VP of Design & Creative Services
MTV Networks
This was a useful session Scott did some role playing and then showed some examples of work that related to the role play. I appreciate what the message is and I hope everyone in the session already practices it. I should be called, [...]

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Presented by: Kit Hinrichs
Partner & Creative Director
Pentagram
This session was packed and sold out. Wow sitting in the session of Using Storytelling in design was fantastic i feel like the pathway is becoming clearer now. He used his real world examples but I loved his commentary about each design and what the client wanted [...]

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This morning was rough. I was psyched to attend ‘Creating Short Films for the Web‘ hosted by Hillman Curtis… Unfortunately the session was canceled due to bad weather in NYC, his plain never took off. This session was the icing on the cake why I was attending the conference. So instead…
The Spaces [...]

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Editors around the world rejoice, Octopz is a web application that will allow you to collaborate with your clients anywhere in the world. Granted there are other applications out there but check out Barry Fogarty Co-founder & Chief Evangelist take us through an example of the features for video editors.
Online Videos by Veoh.com
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My lord this is a huge conference. We opened up at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Atlanta which is gorgeous. You walk into the lobby which is huge and look up and this is what you’ll see. At 5:30 PM we head outside where a fleet of buses were waiting for us [...]

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