Philip Nelson

Check out the live TriCaster stream of the VMA’s Red Carpet!
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Today wasn’t much a picture day. I headed down to Orange county for additiona meetings and demos then headed back up to Hollywood.

Since the MTV crew is staying at the Legendary Roosevelt Hotel across the street from Grauman’s Chinese Theater, I took a down night to catch a move at this historical site.

I have my ticket for a showing of "Death Race" at Grauman's

Had a few minutes before the show started so I took the opportunity to check out some of the Movie Star footprints in front of Grauman’s..

I was excited to see R2-D2, C3PO and Darth Vader immortalized in cement

Wanted to see how I sized up with the Duke! WOW! He had pretty small feet.

Had to take this one for my buddy from the Arena Football League, Micah Tannenbaum aka Mitch T-Bong

Heading back to the hotel after the party, I was hungry.. I decided to stop in at the hotel restauraunt, “25 Degrees”… I was a little suprised to see hordes of people standing outside the hotel with cameras… As I’m getting ready to walk in, out burst Paris Hilton with her friends in tow..

Paris Hilton leaves the Roosevelt Hotel restaurant, 25 Degrees

She walked right by me to get in her car and was hammered by photographers.. It was funny, Here is the 2nd picture that I tried to take..

Imagine if you will that this is a picture of Paris Hilton getting into here SUV..

Had to be an hour south of LA for a demo by 8am! Joy.. At least I had a sweet Mustang convertible to make the drive a little more bearable..

I arrived back in LA early afternoon and it was off to the club, Level 3 to set up for the MTV Tr3s party.

I hate to say it but I have no idea what the names of the bands were but I did recognize some of the music they played.

Legendary TriCaster Guru, Bob Anderson is ready for the show

An interesting piece of trivia, the area we were in is owned by actor, Ken Davitian who starred in Borat and Get Smart.. He was hanging out during our setup..

The line ran almost all the way around the 2nd level!

I call this photo "The Girls of Jacobs" both have served as assistants to Jeff Jacobs.. Mindy Moran, Philip Nelson & Hannah Depew

 

Today was our first day of VMA fun on Los Angeles..

On Wedensday, I arrived in LA to setup for our TriCaster VMA Action..

First order of business was to get a rental car.. I must be living right because hertz upgraded me to a Mustang Convertible for FREE!

Check it out!

I headed down to the Paramount Studio to help get set up for the VMA streaming.. We actually setup a TriCaster on the roof of the Paramount Theater to stream the building of the red carpet.

Jim Will gets a camera ready for the red carpet webcast

On the way back to the MTV production office, we walked by the Transformers set and I couldn’t resist taking a picture with BUMBLEBEE!!

The official Bumblebee from Transformers!

After leaving the Paramount lot, I headed down to my first Hollywood “fashion” party.. One of my clients Mark Scarpa is using a TriCaster Broadcast to stream live shows from a trendy new fashion spot “Live! on Sunset”. WOW! Did I feel underdressed in Vans, Jeans and a TriCaster shirt. Cool place!

Yes! That is a Rolls Royce in the parking lot!

Have been up since 5am CST (3am PST), I was so tired that I sold out my MTV friends that were waiting on me for dinner.. Off to bed and ready for Day 2.

Was watching Leno tonight and Eva Longoria Parker made an appearance to promote an upcoming awards show.

Being a Spurs fan, I know who she is but I’ve never seen her do an interview before. I must admit, she seems like a VERY COOL person! Even shock comedian Russell Brand didn’t get to her with his off color jokes. I love the way she ended the interview.. She reaches into her shirt and pulls out some M&M’s to give to Jay and Russell.. 

Great interview! Way to go Tony. She seems totally cool!

As my blog readers know, I’m heading to LA this week as a Technical Consulatant for the MTV VMA’s.. Our hotel is right around the corner from Eva’s restaurant Beso.  Because of her coolness, I’m going to take as my people as I can round up for dinner there.. That is IF we can get in!
Link to Beso info HERE

Ok.. For those that know me, you won’t be suprised to hear that I’ve found a new hobby.. Paintball.  It started with my son requesting a Paintball birthday party.  During my research for his party, I started looking to the costs of buying a paintball gun. WOW! You can really spend some cash on paintball. One of my long time NewTek clients runs an awesome paintball website called War Pig. He gave me some advice on which paintball gun.. Opps.. that should be paintball marker to keep from scaring people away from the sport.. Being the cheapskate that I am, I turned to eBay for a more affordable alternative.

Got a GREAT deal on a Tippman Custom 98 with mask and paintball hopper for just $40 including shipping.

When the gun arrived, a bunch of NewTekkers took turns shooting paintballs at Tim’s outdoor pizza oven.. Sorry Tim.. Wow! What a blast..

Here is a shot of Irene King taking out her aggression on a stack of pallates behind NewTek

On Saturday, I took the paintball gun to the ranch. My son Noel had a great time shooting a little target practice with our new gun. Notice that I added a $4 roll of camo tape to the gun to make it look super sweet..

Noel takes aim at some aggressive boards.. :)

What a cool night! First webcast was live from the field and was hosted by Bob Papa and Giants legendary linebacker Cark Banks.

After about 10 minutes of traning, Giants staffers ran their first live webcast with TriCasterCark Banks and Bob Papas give fans a preview of the Giants v. Patriots game

Carl Banks and Bob Papas give fans a preview of the big game.

Philip Nelson rolls the TriCaster to it's next location.. The locker room.I got a break and enjoyed the game before heading down the locker room for our final webcast of the day, the coaches Post-Game press conference.TriCaster is setup and ready for the post game press conference.

We’ll.. I’m here at the Meadowlands getting ready for out big webcast tonight!

Philip Nelson on the field at Giants Stadium

We are doing two webcasts for tonights SuperBowl rematch with the Patriots.

1^st Webcast – Live Pre-Game from the field. TriCaster will be streaming a low res stream using a cellular modem

When: 5:30PM Eastern

2^nd Webcast – Live Post-Game from the locker room. TriCaster will be streaming using a standard Ethernet Internet connection.

When: After the game.. Around 10pm.. Time depends on when the game ends.

There will be a link on the Giants homepage.

www.giants.com

We’ve been doing various tests throughout the day and things have been going very well. Wish me luck!

Philip

This morning, on America’s Newsroom, FOX News gave viewers a behind the scenes look at their setup.. During this story, they mentioned TriCaster by name and also gave it some camera time! I’ll try to find a clip that I can link to!

Thanks FOX News and Megyn Kelly for the cool story!