On Monday August 10th, I hosted a launch party for my new TV show, Popular Science's Future Of on the Science Channel (part of Discovery). I wanted to throw a massive public affair but was limited in space and time. We held the party at the lovely apartment of a generous friend. Words were said. Drinks were had. Television was watched.
Also in attendance were two flip cameras operated by my friend Rina Vazirani and Internet pioneer and video maven Bill Cammack. We have Bill to thank for integrating the footage and editing together this piece. I didn't have time to do the titling, but below the video, I'll give props to all who attended (or at least most). It was a great party for a cool new show, and I am humbled to have had so many luminaries, twitterati, facebookerati and just plain old good people honor me with their presence
You too can throw a Future Of watch party in your city. Just do it!
Guests In Attendance:
- Andrew Scafetta, Communications man at Discovery
- Anil Dash, one of the first employees at Six Apart. Also just a bad ass mamma jamma
- Bill Cammack, Internet pioneer, video master
- Nick Bilton, NY Times geek, maker, rooftop drinker, author-in-progress
- Caroline McCarthy, CNET journalist
- Debbie Myers, GM of the Science Channel
- Christo Doyle, Executive Producer of the show. Works for Debbie
- Darbi Worley, actress, smarty pants
- Deanna Zandt, rockin activist, social media pioneer and soon-to-be-published author
- Delia Stanley, writer for Current and artist
- Elon James, the blackest man on twitter
- Jacob Ward, Popular Science Magazine
- Jim Colgan, WNYC producer
- Jenny 8 Lee, NY Times reporter and author of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
- Gustavo Rivera, a very important man and Pioneer
- Jeffrey Weston, Head Developer at The Onion
- Katherine Chase, superfriend and columbia grad student in psychology
- Liz Gallagher & Meredith Saunders, my managers at DGS Talent
- Lizz Winstead, Daily Show creator and leader of Wake Up World
- Lynne d Johnson, Fast Company
- Maegan Carberry, blogger, politico, smart ass person
- Mark Jannot, editor of Popular Science
- Matt Kirsch, web producer at The Onion
- Melissa Lee, the NYC Mayor's Office, also a Pioneer
- Liza Sabater, superblogger Daily Gotham, Culture Kitchen and more
- Philip Ugelow, Humanity In Action and Pioneer
- Poonam Sharma, real estate wheeler and dealer, oh and author
- Quinn Heraty, my badass lawyer
- Rachel Fershleiser, HousingWorks Books
- Rina Vazirani, human rights lawyer and Pioneer
- Sara Benincasa, agorafabulous comedian and radio host
- Steve Lambert, as in THE Steve Lambert. super duper artist/activist and Pioneer
- Sean L. McCarthy, aka The Comic's Comic
- Simon Andreae, CEO of Incubator, the production company that actually made the show. Simon is the loud, inappropriate Brit.
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Tuesday, August 25, 2009 at 18:41
