While in Las Vegas the Gearlive crew stayed in the Paris Hotel. It was a very nice hotel (particularly since I wasn’t paying for it) and we had a good time. We did have 6 people in 2 rooms though - next year I hope to have enough notice to try and save up for a room of my own. I have a hard enough time sleeping in hotel rooms - let alone with other people in the room.
Above is a Lensbaby shot taken from the base of the 1/2 scale Eiffel Tower at the Paris. I also took another similar shot of the tower different angle which has a very different feel to it:
“Looking up at paris” by sparktography
“Eiffel up” by sparktography
After 6 days of traveling, interviewing, walking, and talking I’m finally home. Skype is very glad to see me, and I’m very glad to be home. I’m getting ready to pass out cuddled up with Skype and spend a much needed night in my own bed.
CES was a blast. So many sights and sounds. Gearlive recorded well over 100 individual video segments and I’m excited to see the rest of them them get in up the coming days. CES is a very impressive event: everyone spends a fortune showing off their best and brightest of current and future tech.
It’s day three of {(b|v)loging} CES here in Las Vegas and I’m already exhausted. Two days in a row of doing 20+ interviews with companies, shouting over the din of the crowd, and trying desperately to stay on my feet 12 hours a day.
Don’t get me wrong - I’m having a blast. Lots of very cool new technology is everywhere. My picks so far would be two things: the Meridian Digital Cinema iPod dock - it upscales iPod video content to 1080P and does a fantastic job of making it look somewhere in the middle between HD-DVD content and a good upscaled DVD. My other pick would have to be the Samsung television lineup - they are doing some truly amazing things with LCD - great contrast and black levels, and color reproduction.
I’m off to bed - I have a ton of things to do tomorrow and I really need some sleep.
“Triumphant blogger” by sparktography
Saturday, January 6, 2007
Vegas is a truly excessive place. The architecture and and environment here is simply amazing - everything is a giant maze designed to distract and entertain. It’s an engineering marvel designed to give pleasure to humans while extracting their money from their hands - and I love it.
After a very early start to my day this morning I finally ended up in Vegas with the Gearlive crew. We got to see the press only unveiling CES event this evening and do a few interviews. Now that that is out of the way it’s going to be pretty quiet until the show gets into full swing on Monday.
“POTD 1/6/07 - CES on ice” by sparktography
Today sucked. I had to get up early, and fight traffic to get to work. I had way to much to do at work to get ready for being gone for a week. I had to work late and get stuck in horrible traffic on the way home for a nearly two hours commute. I took Skype for a walk to Mud Bay to get him food for while I will be gone in the pouring rain - the one on Pine was out of his food, and I had to walk to the one on broadway. I’m soaked, starving, stressed out, and still need to do laundry and packing so I can get up at 5:00 am to fight my way across two states to cover CES.
What a day.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
I didn’t have the best start to the new year in that I got quite sick last Friday and ended up spending pretty much my whole four days off for the holiday in bed. The good news: I’m on the mend and now am no longer on deaths door, and am merely toting about a giant collection of phlegm lodged right down in my lungs.
Live is a busy blur getting ready for CES and to hand responsibility off for a week at work. I’m 100% psyched about going to Vegas to cover CES and see what the next year in portable electronics will bring. I have a puppy sitter arranged for Skype (thank you Brien!), my bags packed, ticket in hand, and have the portable life primed: Saturday can’t get here fast enough.
Friday, November 24, 2006
Another shot taken on the way home from Walla Walla today. I actually wish I could go back and take it again with the focus point slightly higher on the electrical pole, but I still love this shot. It was taken at the same location as this shot of the Fruit and Antiques store outside of Yakima.
“Power play” by sparktography
