It started off simply enough. Leeny sent me a link to a cool (if strange) thing called "Mobile Desktop" where an Improv group in NY took their desktop computers to a Starbucks and used them, essentially, as lap tops.
I started reading a bit more about the group and clicking through trying to find out if there was a local Improv group like this one that I could join for an event. A bunch of clicks later I ended up at Improv Everywhere Global and from there, a Facebook Group which recently had their first "freeze".
I've joined the FB group and am looking forward to the next one. I've always been interested in participating in something like this (I walked into the middle of one at the VPL steps a few years back) and it looks like now I'll get the chance to.
All because of a little link meant as comedy relief.
And for fun, here's a video of the Vancouver Freeze.
Photo of the Vancouver Freeze from Flickr and taken by Mark Klotz.
So I'm sitting here between session, madly trying to catch up on uploading audio and a little birdie comes by and shares some wicked information.
From a few of the sessions, I've noticed that there are some folks at the conference that aren't local to Vancouver but I didn't realize that some people came from so far away.
I'm sitting here trying to figure out who came the farthest but frankly, my geography skills suck so I'll let you figure that one out for yourself. Here's the list:
Abbotsford Bellevue Berkeley Bowen Island Burnaby Caledon Calgary Chilliwack Coquitlam Duncan Edmonton Fairbanks Fort St. John Fredericksburg Gibsons Kalamazoo Kamloops Lions Bay Los Angeles Lynnwood Millburn Monroe Mountain View New Westminster New York North Vancouver Olympia Ottawa Playa Del Rey Port Coquitlam Port Moody Portland Prince George Reston Richmond Richmond Hill Roberts Creek Salt Spring Island San Francisco Sausalito Scottsdale Seattle St Thomas Surrey Toronto Vancouver Victoria White Rock
Here are the regions (12) people are from:
Alaska Alberta Arizona British Columbia California Michigan New Jersey New York Ontario Oregon Virginia Washington
Alright, so this didn't go over as well as planned but I think we'll be good for the second session. I'll still post my notes...once I clean them up. On the other hand, we WILL have audio! Soon at least.
As a test of new technology that I'll be using on a "grander" scale on Sunday during the LIVE OSCAR BLOG (check out all the details) and partly because I want to give something back to the blogging community, I'll be putting myself to the test and blogging all of the sessions I attend at Northern Voice this weekend. Coverage will start with the first session "Bloging 101" at 10:45 tomorrow morning and I intend to cover everything I attend (at the moment it's everything) and the Friday schedule looks like this:
I'm also hopeful that I'll have a chance to record the various sessions on my handy H4 and share those with the masses. I'll be playing that by ear but at the moment, that's the plan.
As for Saturday, I've been trying to devise a schedule but there are a few things that I'm not 100% on yet and which will be fairly spur of the moment but once I have a general idea, the same principles will apply.
It started off simply enough. Leeny sent me a link to a cool (if strange) thing called "Mobile Desktop" where an Improv group in NY took their desktop computers to a Starbucks and used them, essentially, as lap tops.
