Here's the crib notes of the first 1.5 days of VIDfest. {Links coming at some point ...}

Wednesday night

Kick off party at the Vancouver art Gallery with the Krazy exhibit. This will take another look to digest the walls of graphic art and manga mania but the free drink ticket and VIP pass helped kick start the conversations on the busy night of Vancouver techie-related events (Launch Party 4 sounds like another noteworthy fest of interconnectivity). Krug and I represented at the party and chilled with presenters Darren Barefoot and Rebecca Bollwitt among other social media super-heros.

Thursday morning

No time to waste, get on over to PopVoxAwards and vote for your faves in a variety of categories.

Got a favourite Web 2.0 application, mobile game, digital short, game, digital effects, music score, something that qualifies as the 'best of BC' new media or some other cool new media? Then nominate it today for the PopVox Awards (fine print: must have been released between September 2006 and August 2007; check out the full rules). Nominations are free and the winners are determined by online voting, i.e. vote for your favs from September 8th-17th after nominations close on September 7th.

The winners will be announced at the opening of the Vancouver International Digital Festival aka Vidfest on September 22nd. The PopVox Awards are organized by New Media BC, the organization behind Vidfest, and the website was a collaboration between Bryght and our friends at Raincity Studios (check out RCS's PopVox announcement) with Bryght providing some custom Drupal coding and some Drupal design as well as hosting on a Bryght Virtual Private Server.

Thanks to Robert for posting the slides (PDF format). It was a blast presenting with you Robert! Let's do it again soon!

From BigSnit Blog:

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Roland Tanglao and I did a session on “EverythingCasting� (with thanks to Eric Rice for the title) at VidFest in Vancouver today.

The session was packed and thanks to everyone who came. You can get a PDF version of our slides here.

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Mark Pesce at VidFest 2006 on mobile.
Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv)