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What is a TriCaster and why should you care?

Philip — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:18:00 +0000

Do you know what a TriCaster is? Do you want to see what types of people are using TriCaster?

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TriCaster live at 2009 MTV Video Music Awards

Philip — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:22:07 +0000

Been a crazy week.. First to Chicago for the Todd Rundgren show and then after an early flight today, I’m in New York for the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards where TriCaster is powering live web coverage for the the press around the globe. Won’t have much time for pics this year but took a few this afternoon.

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Spencer Pratt & Heidi Montag live from Atlantis

Philip — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 12:38:18 +0000

Heidi Montag is performing at the 2009 Miss Universe Pageant and on Saturday, Aug 22 did their first live webcast on their uStream.tv channel, Speidiweb using NewTek TriCaster.

I arrived at the Speidi Suite at 2:30pm. Setup the TriCaster and cameras and by 3pm we were streaming live to the web.

Before the webcast, Spencer needed a haircut. We decided to stream the haircut live to the web for thousands of fans to enjoy.

Jorge, Anna, Spencer, Philip and Spencer before the webcast.

Spencer and Heidi chat with fans during a live Speidiweb webcast.

A sunburned Philip Nelson, runs TriCaster for the SpeidiWeb webcast. Yes that is the Speidi love nest over my shoulder!

Throughout the webcast, Spencer and Heidi kept asking me to take a picture with them. Afterward, I finally gave in and said yes.

Enjoy the show.. The actual show starts at around 28min. The first section is an audioless look at Spedi’s lunch and haircut.

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MTV VMA’s Day 4 – Watch Red Carpet LIVE with TriCaster

Philip — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:20:44 +0000

Check out the live TriCaster stream of the VMA’s Red Carpet!
To watch click HERE

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MTV VMA’s – Day 3

Philip — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:28:22 +0000

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

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MTV VMA’s – Day 2.5 – My run in with Paris Hilton

Philip — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:26:33 +0000

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..

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MTV VMA’s – Day 2

Philip — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:01:44 +0000

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!

Yes.. I got my moment of Red Carpet Fame..

It’s funny, it seems like every year at the VMA’s, a group of girls thinks I’m somebody famous and asks me for my picture.. Since it’s a nice ego boost, I obliged and even had them take a shot with my camera.. LOL!

I had to got out of the production room for a second and got a great shot of the band on stage. (Will add band name once I find it out)

The show was a HUGE success! We all had a blast and the TriCaster performed flawlessly..

One the way out, we did a few more red carpet photos that I wanted to share..

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

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MTV – Video Music Awards – Day 1

Philip — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:59:24 +0000

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!

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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.

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