Just A Few Updates Behind…
…but then if I kept this blog up to date every single day, you’d all think the aliens had kidnapped me. Let’s see…what have I been up to lately.
Well, we did attend the last SIGGRAPH Vancouver lecture night which featured Michael Rubin, author of Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution, and Dr. Alvy Ray Smith, former Director of Computer Graphics Research at Lucasfilm and co-founder of Pixar. It is always fascinating to hear from the people who pioneered much of the technology that many of us take for granted today. I also picked up Michael Rubin’s book and even got it autographed. I had a few moments to chat with him about Digital Storm and the educational centre, and he wished us well on both projects.
The next SIGGRAPH lecture night we’re attending will be an evening with futuristic artist Syd Mead followed by a special screening of BladeRunner: The Final Cut. I am definitely looking forward to hearing about how Mr. Mead finds his inspiration and how he creates his masterpieces.
In Digital Storm news, I was happy to be able to announce earlier this evening that Shaw Cablesystems has very generously agreed to provide full internet service for the LAN. Being a very satisfied Shaw Cable customer, it’s needless to say that I was very happy when I was contacted this morning with confirmation of their sponsorship.
There will be more news this week in regards to Digital Storm 2008, but you all will just have to wait until I have all of the information I need – I wouldn’t want to miss anything important.
We also stopped by the Park Royal Mall last Saturday to check out Nintendo’s Smash Brothers Brawl, then we went to visit a couple of geek friends at their place of work. One geek friend was in, the other was at the Earth Day fair at Jericho Beach, so we stayed for a few minutes to visit with Dave before heading off to visit with Ifny. I’d say more, but it could be tied to one of the Digital Storm announcements we’ll be making very soon, and I don’t want to free the geek just yet. *snicker*
Plans for 2009 are also underway, and I’ve had a couple of meetings in regards to that top-secret project. Watch for future announcements this coming Fall.
Alrighty – I think that’s about it for now; be sure to check back – I’m sure I’ll update this blog sooner than later. 
Aliens! They must have kidnapped you, or me…seeing as you have updated your blog a lot more than I have been. Going to have to loosen the chains once in a while I think. :p Things seem to be going really well for DSL and keep getting better. Hopefully the educational centre goes just as well as this years LAN party is. Don’t you think it’s a bit early for 2009 plans, 2008 isn’t even half over yet
You are such a slacker. For your KN Admin description I was going to put Lead Slacker – but you’ve been doing too much work on the KN properties for that. Sad to say there are others who are more deserving of that title. The past week for Digital Storm has been quite productive, I have more announcements to make but I can’t until I receive the proper formats for said announcements from the sponsors. I’ve also been in contact with an agency which could hopefully be very big for Digital Storm – I’m not very good at patiently waiting for things to go through channels, though – so that’s something I have to work on. As for 2009, nope, it’s not too early – you have to take into account that many corporations work out their budgets before the start of the year, so in order to be included in those budgets, you need to let them know about what’s coming in the future. To that end, I have a meeting next week with the Tourism people so that we can explore ways to work together on promoting 2009. Should be interesting, to say the least.