Inside DefCon19

Quite proud of this video.

I’m 98% sure this was the only footage in the *world* of inside this year’s DefCon – the world’s largest hacker conference.

Which happened all together far too fast for my liking. I realize it’s trite to say it, but…. did that just actually happen? That’s how I’m feeling.

Here’s the full video of the snippet you see at the end. This was looped on a giant screen in the rotunda.

Congratulations Stella Party Ticket Winners

If you won, you’ll have received an email from me with instructions.

Your tickets will be waiting at the door, and you’ll also be receiving in the mail a Dave Murrary t-shirt like the one above, designed exclusively for this party.

Didn’t win?  You can still RSVP via their Facebook page.

Party details – I can only give a few, and probably would regardless, because where’s the dramatics in giving it all away?

Highlights include:

  • music by DJ Tom Wrecks
  • thrown in conjunction with 1LoveTO
  • there’ll be tasting beverages, snacks, and surprise giveaways

Can’t wait to see you Saturday, been looking forward to this!

529 King Street West, 8pm

Make sure to come say hi and introduce yourself, I don’t recognize many of your names on my winners list, and isn’t that the point of the internet... that it leads to real life? YA it is!

 

 

Thanks to all those who entered. I’m sorry if your name didn’t pop up in my randomizer, but I’ve got another contest up my sleeve for later this month, stand by.

Party Time is August 13 #downtown

You me and 600 people!

Right downtown in a giant tent, and Stella is known to only throw classy affairs.

How to Get In

There’s 2 ways.

1 – Win ticketes here on my blog.  I have 10 pairs give away, and the winner will also receive a beautful Stella Tshirt designed by Dave Murray * in the mail, w00t!

2 – RSVP to the guest list at Facebook.  Note: a ticket gets you into the party, this way gets you onto the guest list, no guarantee of admission

(obviously you must be of legal drinking age)

How Do You Win?

It’s so simple.

Send me an email to Keri AT KeriBlog DOT com, subject line: Stella party YES.

I’ll draw the winners one week from today, the 9th of August, and let you know by email you won.

Here are the party details to cut & paste into your calendar.

DATE: Saturday, August 13, 2011
TIME: 8pm-midnight
LOCATION: 525 King Street West (West side of Starbucks, South side of King street)

The party will be for 600 people, entrance is subject to capacity

Can’t wait to see you there, it’s gonna be great!

 

 

 

 

 

(for more on how this came to be, click here and here)

* if you haven’t seen Dave Murray’s word maps of Toronto, you must

Remember the Olympics? Van2010

Last week, South Korea was awarded the Games in 2018. Good luck to them.

Let’s take a look back at ours last year. Many of these photos you’ve not seen, I’ll throw in a couple episodes, too.

The photo text is true; there’s almost no point to posting that photo. H U G E.

‘Irish House’ was out my window, where I lived.

Right in the middle of everything. Irish House was THE place, not being dramatic. They were collecting noise violation fines before the Games even started.

We’d hear ‘I Would Walk 500 Miles’, and ‘Small Town Girl’, three times a night minimum. Fortunately, by day 10 neither Mary or I could hear it anymore… that thing that humans have kicked in and tuned it out.  Like the people who live beside train tracks.

Mary and me.

We’re at a club, my editor gave me tickets and said, take the night off.

Thanks to Mary is why my Olympics was as great as it was. I went out there, without a place to stay (no really – there was talk at my newspaper of some empty moved-out apartment, I had a towel with me, just figured I’d wing it all).

Mary offered her couch, I crashed onto it three days into the Games, then never left.

I thanked her by leaving a bunch of swag hidden around her house, including a cowbell in her freezer. Which she recently moved to her freezer … 5 provinces away, see it here.

I had this great morning routine going by the end… wake up, walk down to my coffee spot, pick up a paper along the way, read my article and eat a gingersnap cookie, back home and get online, and start working.

I was there representing Canoe.ca and, in addition to producing videos, I wrote for Vancouver 24 Hours.  Read them all here.  Third largest newspaper in BC!

“Social Keri”; I had not input there.

That backpack, my mobile studio – 22 pounds.

I was the only person at the paper, left to her own devices, not tasked with a story. Instead, I was expected to chase down and produce my own. Proud of that.

I met Carol Huynh on the Alberta Train. She’s our first ever Gold Medalist for Women’s Wrestling (2008).  Click here for her podium moment when our anthem plays, very cute.

I don’t remember this photo being taken… at this point, I’ve been awake for 36 hours, filmed and produced two videos, and was en route to film a third.

This is Exploring Whistler Village, shot that day, I really like this episode.

I squished so much into three weeks, I didn’t stop.

There’s so many stories and behind-the-scenes stuff I could tell you, cue up another video series.

I’ll leave you with this: the spirit I went into this all with.

This was taken right downtown, after the men won a hockey game.

And here’s me, taken minutes after the above (my camera is on a garbage can).

It’s from this episode, What Happened After Our Hockey Win

GO CANADA GO!