Just wanted to share a little behind the scenes video from the Streamys, courtesy of The Bui Brothers. That’s me with the clipboard!

Other than the Streamys last weekend, pretty much all my spare time in the last few weeks has been going into Live! From the Future. Making lots of progress! Can’t wait to unveil our new website & youtube channel which are coming soon. I’ll keep you posted, and I’ll be sure to share some behind the scenes videos of that too! Until then, check TheSteam.TV Blog & Live! From the Future Message Board for show info.

I’ve been hearing about The Streamy Awards for the past couple of months. For those not immersed in web culture, The Streamys, hosted by Tilzy.TV, Tubefilter, and NewTeeVee, are basically meant to be for web shows, what the Emmys are to TV, the Grammys are to music, the Oscars are to movies…I think you get it, but I like analogies.

In the last few weeks I’d become more familiar with a few nominees and their shows after contacting them about coming on Live! From the Future. Two weeks ago we had Taryn Oneill from After Judgment, last week we had Rachel Risen of The Hayley Project, and tomorrow we’ve got Jeff Macpherson, Dr. Tiki himself, of TikiBarTV!

As I kept checking in with the Streamy’s website, reading blog posts about the upcoming event, and explaining what it all was to my parents a few times, I thought it would be great to go and cover the event, especially with one of TheStream.TV’s show, Monkey News Source nominated for an award. That idea sort of fell through, but on Saturday I got a call that The Bui Brothers could use an extra person to help out with the official photography. I threw on a dress and drove out to the Wadsworth Theater!

I have to say it was a fabulous celebration of web television, and it was great to be a part of it! While I wasn’t able to catch much of the show, I did get to meet all the winners and presenters when Lan took their pictures, post-win excitement! Doogie Howser aka Neil Patrick Harris signed my clip board. tee hee hee

As a new media noob, I felt a little bit as if I was crashing a party I didn’t belong at, or jumping on the bandwagon for a team that just made it to the world series after years of losing seasons. My metaphors probably suck, but I guess my point is, that while it was great to be a part of, it made me wish I was really in the world.

I do have one foot in, and I don’t want this to seem like a downer post. I guess what it really did was enlighten me to the growing and quickly changing world of new media. The great thing about it is that its still open to all. Still trying to see where I would fit into the fray, but thinking about it too much tends to give me a headache.

Got lots of new shows to start watching and now I’m inspired! Must make time to video blog. Must be creative. Do it. That is my inner-monologue chanting.

Some enjoyable and thought provoking reads/watches: Mary Rambin’s event coverage, Tilzy TV’s recap, Kent Nichols’ thoughts and ensuing debate. And check out all the awesome photos by the Bui Brothers!