Speaking Gig in Hollywood

I will be speaking at the OMMA Hollywood Digital Marketing Conference and Expo, March 27th and 28th at the Hilton Universal City. I will be on one panel about use of video in online advertising and where it is headed, and another panel about ad marketplaces and the potential automation of various advertising sales across different media, a la Google.

To most people, this is not as exciting as underwater hotography and divign with sharks for example. But to me this stuff is pretty interesting, as it represents vast cultural changes in how information and entertainment is consumed and marketed.

New Underwater Photo "Toys"

We spent the weekend at Beneath The Sea, the consumer diving show of the tri-state area. Although we had a booth and most of the time we were signing up new members for Divephotoguide.com, we did have some time to walk the aisles and drool ovber the new underwater photography equipment that I've been dying to get my hands on - namely the Nikon D-200 camera with a Nexus housing.

I'll be going on my next photo expedition, to Bali Indonesia, soon, stay tuned for images...

Our World Underwater, Chicago: Wetpixel.com & DivePhotoGuide.com Competition

Our World Underwater has become a very close strategi partner of ours. We had a great show, where I presented the winners of the first annual international photo competition. Show attendees were welcomed by the Photo Competition display. It was the first display that greeted people near the registration and entrance area. Chicago was impressed with the extremely high quality images adorning the display. The slide show during the evening was outstanding, thanks to my good friend Gene Lewis, one of the founders of Digital Pulp.

The guys from The History Channel's "Deep Dea Detectives" stopped by our booth, and I caught this classic moment with Evan, their cameraman (and fellow New Yorker from Brooklyn).

Read the full report from the show here.

Luna's 3rd Birthday in Valley Forge

So today we took Luna on a field trip to Valley Forge, PA (one of her favorite places), to celebrate her 3rd birthday. She gives us so much unconditional love and joy that the least we could do is take her to the country for a nice doggie day. She got to run cirlces around an empty tennis court, romp in a stream, play in a field with another dog, and she even got to eat Boston Market for dinner! What a day.