Cool Britannia

One of the things I promised to do at CONvergence was to put together a list of the various DVDs that we recommended at the panel. It took a while to get around to it, but here we go...

1. Spaced
   
2. Jekyll
   
3. Second Coming
   
4. Bob & Rose
   
5. Coupling
   
6. Ultraviolet
   
7. League of Gentlemen
   

There are some shows that aren't available yet in Region 1 -- some may never be, but others may. We talked about Terry Nation's Survivors, which is getting remade by the BBC. And then there is also Life on Mars, which is getting remade for the American audience by ABC -- and probably delaying the region 1 release of the UK version. Primeval is starting soon on BBC America.

I probably forgot some that we mentioned as well.

CONvergence Video!

We've had the opening ceremonies video posted on You Tube. I'm in both parts -- though I'm pretty well covered in the first part!



Though I can be seen in the second part:




It's not a secret that we'd like to convince Jonathan Coulton to come some year. And certainly, if this video is any indication, Mercedes Lackey would agree:

CONvergence on You Tube

A bunch of videos shot at CONvergence have now been uploaded to YouTube, and you can find links to them on con-news.com

Starting the CONvergence wrap up

A nice City Pages wrap up of CONvergence.

And lots of comments from Mark Evanier on his blog as well. From here, here, and here.

I'm sure there will be more in upcoming days. I also promised that I'd write up some recommendations of videos from our Cool Britannia panel over the weekend, and I'll get to that soon.

CONvergence!

It's only a couple of days away -- and we've got the biggest CONvergence yet. There is so much planning that goes on -- by so many different people -- that it's great to see. And like always, there will be more things going on than any of can take part in or participate in. And this year was so big that three days would not have been enough.. so we get a fourth. And it's an additional full day - an "additional Saturday" is the way it has been described to people as we prepare for it.

It's going to be mad, crazy, fun stuff.

Keeping Track of CONvergence 2008

With the convention around the corner, there will be
posting pictures to websites like Flickr, and using services like
twitter or livejournal to record what you're doing. To help everyone
find these messages, I'm encouraging people to use the tag CVG2008 to mark
entries related to the convention on whatever services you are using.