Note: This post arrives nearly a dozen years after the events contained due to gaps happening at various times during my blogging life. In an effort to repair my omissions, I turn to my archive of photos and try to add some written relevance to the images. It is late May 2023, as I get to this.

In the past few years, if you were between 12 and 16 years old and learning about video editing and compositing so you could become YouTube famous, you were likely a subscriber of VideoCopilot in addition to Corridor Digital, Freddy Wong, and Film Riot. These guys have been paving the way for young and aspiring filmmakers. Listening to Andrew today, one couldn’t help but sense that he’s become a bit of a celebrity in his own right.

From left to right: Rodney Charters, cinematographer for shows such as 24 and Roswell, plus a bunch of movies; next up is British filmmaker, Philip Bloom, one of the top evangelists for Canon cameras and the person who produced the digital short Skywalker Ranch, for George Lucas to show him where the state of the art was in August 2010. And finally, on the far right is Vincent Laforet, who most recently produced a DSLR film titled Mobius that was shown to Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Robert Rodriguez, and JJ Abrams to showcase the capabilities of Canon’s offerings. The panel talked about the options that are opening up for digital filmmakers.

Best seat in the house for the premiere screening of Tom Lowe’s hour-long film Timescapes, featuring some of the most amazing time-lapse images ever captured. Tom has worked with directors Terrence Malick (Tree of Life, etc.) and Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi: “Life Out of Balance” and others). The movie was worth every bit of hype and anticipation I had to endure in the months leading up to this first showing. This past couple of days have been incredibly inspiring, if only I could return to focusing on video again.