Word to your mother

What an awesome party - Vanilla Ice was great, everyone thought he was brilliant. He even brought Ron Jeremy along with him... yeah, _the_ Ron Jeremy. My sides were hurting it was so funny.

I think pretty much everyone got into the party (except for people without ID - which is the club's policy, not ours) and had a good time. We had podium dancers, awesome DJ's, trapeze performers, all kinds of stuff going on. Hanging out with customers and friends with no agenda other than to have a good time. Driving to the club we saw our show reel being projected onto the sides of the building, which was pretty exciting. I spent a fair amount of time in the super VIP area (sneaking people in mostly), which seemed a privilege until I saw the bar bill. Ouch!

Anyway - another day on the show floor beckons. I pretty much lost my voice shouting at the party, so today is going to be interesting.

Best. Party. Ever. Jen and Christine deserve a huge round of applause for all their work on getting that party together.

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Softimage Research Summit at Siggraph 2007

Time for my first post. After all the pain and hassle of getting the NDA's signed the penultimate Softimage uber-geek-out event is over. In a word - WOW!

Great day - about 80 industry leaders joined us for 5 hours of a future-vision immersion session.

Along with an amazing view of how the industry's hardware will evolve in the years to come our guests were treated to multiple demonstrations of how Softimage will harness all this power and deliver it to our customers to make the digital art of the future.

For those of you who have heard the name Moondust but weren't at the event, get ready for a re-definition. Our brilliant team of developers showed how this amazing piece of core technology will not only will provide a platform that Softimage can develop on – but also provide an amazing interface for any creative use with a vision to build their own custom tools. May sound a little vague, but if you were there - you know what I mean.

Also pretty amazing from a raw power perspective to see an 8 core machine use all available compute cycles and flatten all the meters - demos of the task manager are usually so un-cool....but not today.

For those who attend the user group you will see some of the Research Summit technology - but packaged into more tighter demos with the added bonus of Mark Schoennagel's witty repartee.

All in all - we had a great afternoon, our sponsors AMD, NVIDIA and HP all spelled out how the hardware would change and mental images and Softimage explained how they would "rock-the-box"

Bring on the show floor!