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Love @ Budapest Critical Mass

Love @ Budapest Critical Mass

Tomorrow I’m off to Budapest, Hungary, for VlogEurope 2008. A yearly, intimate conference…oh heck, I’ll just call it a get-together of passionate videobloggers (anno 2004) from all over the world, who, at one point or another, connected with each other online and created their own media spheres, where anybody is welcome.

VlogEurope is just one of many excuses to flee these spheres and exchange them for the real deal: hooking up, geeking out, exchanging ideas, having fun, expressing ourselves, get creative, mixing it up on the fly.

Milan (2006) and Amsterdam (2005) were a hoot, educational and inspiring. I missed out on Heidelberg last year, and, as so much has happened and changed over the last 2 years, VlogEurope 2008 will be extra special for me.

As a faithful reader/viewer, you already know the next thing I’m going to say…of course I’ll be letting you in on this fest, acting the cycling host. Because Budapest also has a thriving cycling community, with a growing number of people demanding more bike-friendliness.

I intend to capture that. My way of mixing purpose with even more fun.

This just came in: Raymond giving us a preview of the Loft Hostel we’ll all be staying at!

“A first video of LoftHostel which is the venue for VlogEurope 2008 - along with the rest of this marvellous city, of course. The dog is the Hostel mascot.”

A few of the many, many snippets from past years:

Heidelberg 2007
A compilation video, by GabeB & Gabemac.

Quest For Heidelberg, Raymond, Daniel, GabeB & Jurgen doing a few video assignments.

Milan 2006
The video I shot on my mobile of my trip there.

Bicyclemark (Amsterdam), Michael Schaap (Amsterdam) and Richard Bluestein (Chicago) discussing the consquences of being room mates with Raymond (Copenhagen), while waiting for the next session.

The XOLO.TV episode I shot on our day in Bellagio, on the Lake Como waterfront.

Amsterdam 2005
Jan is listening to Amsterdam. She recommends acoustic Amsterdam

‘First post on last day’ by Michael Schaap (and ‘old media’ friend of ours), doing his first vlog after attending VlogEurope 2005. You’ll LOVE this one for all the obvious reasons!

  • You're very welcome, Michael, and how could I not have posted this? :-p

    It was jolly good seeing you in the Flashmeeting.

    'Feel the vlov' went down well with the group!
  • Damn good posting dear Marc! Love you for this. See ya tomorrow online - 18:00 CEST

    i feel the vlov!

    x

    michael
  • Absolutely, Raymond, unpretentious. Open, inviting. People make up 99% of the process.

    At the core it will be the same, but with so many developments behind us in the last year, 2 years, 4 years(!), it's fun to be able to filter out what's most important to us and run with it, right?
  • What I find good about VlogEurope is that despite the low-key and un-AMAZING appearance of it all, people see the value of the other people there, and that helps the event take place the next year.

    I feel that the dynamics of this weekend will work dramatically different from earlier years. And yet the same, somehow. The meeting of people. The meeting of people with certain sensibilities.
  • Absolutely...just the tip of the mother vlogging iceberg, Adam ;-p.

    Thanks, and I will try to live up to expectations. Here's to Paris 09!
  • man, what a GREAT collection of videos. Some wonderful personalities there. Damn, I wish I were going to Budapest, but Paris09 FOR SURE!!!

    Looking forward to your coverage this weekend. Have fun my friend.
  • Of course! Flash meeting, cya there!
  • There is a whole conversation to be had about this. Discussion for Saturday!
  • Thanks, David. Funny thing, American vloggers have participated and/or are or try/want to. Oh, even our Japanese (from Xacti, in Heidelberg) friends.

    Vlogging will never die, I tell ya! :-p
  • Wow! Wonderful to watch all these videos. I think it's great that the Europeans can put this on every year.

    Great stuff :)
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