Holy cannoli. Making this wee collaborative piece was a great meditation on the Vloggercon experience. As one who viewed the proceedings from behind a desk-load of decks, and between sessions, driven to recruit unsuspecting vloggers to man cameras, I didn't much get to josh around or listen. Heard Michael Meiser say, "Community," and Schlomo [editor's translation] exhort us, "Fuck fear!" "Fuck fear," is a new meditation, but turned around. It's 'heroism'. Wanna be in more touch with the heroic self. Some Vloggercon Blues, sadness and frustration originated with a feeling of invisibility. Ego. Expectation. Ageing. Dislike of crowds and competition. Guess that's why the best social engagements center around participation: come together to create something that lasts. Creation keeps my mind off socializing. [shudder] Fact is, smalltalk bores me, wastes my time. Don't much abide small questions. And besides, you only really get to understand character through action. I'm only interested in learning about character insofar as intimate contact with human beings is concerned. Otherwise, everybody's a star. On another note, one could make a case that Vloggercon was for me a paid gig, once I slipped that $5000 Faux Press banner around the video mixing table, but that wasn't really the point. The banner ad was made years ago and its existance peaked in 2002 as part of a Williamsburg, Brooklyn, County of Kings, USA art show. Until Vloggercon, that was the only place it'd been seen, though I kept it rolled up in my car for all the years since. Just in case. It was never meant to be a real ad. The web site listed no longer exists, lapsed due to lack of funds - renew or eat - and it seemed the right thing for the faux press' web site not to exist. It exists in Google. Work for it. That Vloggercon banner placement was a best effort at ruthlessness. Conference as canvas. I am a metaphrast (Example, Definition). My life-goal and gift-from-birth is to be water; to find the energy gaps and fill them. In the process of making this episode, it became my honor to familiarize m'self with some new and talented still photographers as well as get to know more completely the work of a few people I already know and respect. It was a thrill and perhaps in the microformat, a way to dispell the Vloggercon Blues (I'm waiting for Vloggercon Blues the Song, yo.) Somebody please explain why videoblogging is so intense. It is the Eros of creating that makes our hearts so hot for so many simultaneously. Eros, and finding a planet-wide community of folks who enjoy expressing themselves as I do, whereas all my life I felt darned near alone in the full expression of my talents and areas of interest. You'll hear the fine musical work of Philip Clark in this short film. Not the first time I've stolen his work for a vid. Suppose it's another music video for his band, Control Change. The first music video is HERE. The rest of the collaborators' Flickr links to vloggercon photos are linked below. Y'all got some marvelous shots. Thanks for sharing. What a pleasure it was working with and getting to know you through your eyes. Madpos's photos Flickr: Search jennifer myronuk's photos Cirne's photos stylegoddess' photos Zulma's photos Yatta's photos Digital Buddha's photos Scobleizer's photos Megonian's photos Verdi's photos Chuckumentary's photos Josh Leo's photos Ekai's photos AllAboutGeorge's photos ChrisHeuer's photos SteveGarfield's photos Missbhaven's photos Soinso's photos Starfire's photos DanMelinger's photos Mindcaster's photos Completelyknown's photos jdlassica's photos Erin Nealey's photos jeremiah_owyang's photos cpainter's photos kitykity's photos Chris Ritke's photos DMC500hats' photos timmips' photos dtlq's photos Brian Oberkirch's photos jozecuervo's photos Ted Rheingold's photos Bill Streeter's photos Carl Weaver's photos effin_peaz's photos Bre Pettis' photos Hamletphase's photos Jachbla's photos Bev Sykes' photosTags: vloggercon, fashion, faux_press, vlogwear, vloggerconfashion, collaboration Less