Monthly Archives: March 2007

Portable Film Festival - an interview

While I was at SXSW I had the opportunity to have a chat with Andrew Apostola, the Creative Director of the successful Australian ‘virtual film festival’ Portable.
Each year they curate a festival that happens purely in the virtual realm. ‘Visitors’ access screenings, premiers and other events via whatever electronic device they have to hand - [...]

By stef | Posted March 29, 2007 in Blog, SXSW, Video | Comments (2)

Use your webcam to make video micro-content

On the last day of SXSW2007, Texas I was hanging out with the guys from Viddler and we decided to do an SXSW video wrap up.
A lot of new laptops seem to have webcams built in, including all new MacBooks. Viddler offers a great feature - you can use your webcam to record video directly [...]

By stef | Posted March 28, 2007 in Blog, SXSW, Video | Comments (1)

Impressions of Hong Kong

I’m back in the UK after an intense few weeks, first in Texas, then Hong Kong.
Over the next few days I’ll be posting some of the things I’ve learnt along the way and haven’t had time to blog yet.

Just reading through the stack of business cards I’ve picked up looks like it could take [...]

By stef | Posted March 26, 2007 in Blog, Photo | Comments (5)

Hong Kong - Receiving our Digital Pioneers awards

I’ve been made to feel really welcome here in Hong Kong. Today, at DELF we were given our Digital Pioneer awards. Luckily it didn’t involve having to prepare a speech!

By stef | Posted March 22, 2007 in Blog, Hong Kong | Comments (2)

Kong Kong - Behind the Scenes at Happy Valley

To top off a great day, last night we had a behind-the-scenes tour of Happy Valley, Hong Kong’s horse racing stadium. We were guided through the control rooms, the TV monitoring and broadcasting room and saw first hand how £50 Million goes through the stadium each night.
I put a punt on one of the horses [...]

By stef | Posted March 22, 2007 in Blog, Hong Kong | Comments (1)