So, we went up to the Zune building to get a tour around the Bear Creek premises, and we were right in time to party-crash a private concert from Young Love, an artist from New York who’s going to sell his music on the Zune Marketplace. The guy’s really good. I like his music. Cesar Menendez showed us around after the mini-concert and I have to say, the Zune people have a really cool and spacy office. Very funky, just like the product they’re marketing.
Then we went to Building 20, where the Channel 9 + 10 crowd is housed. Larry took us to the new studio they’re setting up and Paul and Nic toyed around with the greenkey a bit. I got lost in the building while searching for the kitchen, and I ended up in some wicked place with pizzas the size of a table. America really sees things ‘big’. We had a great talk and some productive conversations as to where we need to take it with the production of video content and I learned quite a few good tips and tricks to have a good time with the editing to come to a cool result. I can’t wait to start shooting videos of my own.
When we got back to Building 18 to wait for a taxi, we accidentally party-crashed a DPE after-hours meet up. Nic took the party-crashing a little too serious, and decided to help Microsoft re-evaluate the construction plan of the building. No children were hurt during the incident. We drank something and met up with some more Microsoft people while we were waiting for our taxi.
Later that evening we went to the DPE dinner/party at ‘The Garage’, a place with a dozen of pool tables and some bowling lanes. I suck at playing pool, but Arlindo, our Belgian IT Pro Evangelist is really good at it. Too bad he wasn’t on my team. Hans tried to make up for my clumsy game, but I screwed up big enough so have us lose the games we played. Then again, I won at bowling and since one bowling game counts for 10 pool games… :-) - Ah well, I had a great time and a lot of good laughs.
Some pictures:
Wouldn’t this neon light thingy look great in your room?
Young Love in concert:
Me taking a pic of Jesse taking pics of Nic who’s filming:
