Three Bloggers, Three Directors, Three Videos From Brooklyn Blogfest 2009

At last week's Blogfest 2009, three videos, featuring three Brooklyn blogger, were shown during the event. Besides illustrating how individual and personal blogs can be, the three short features had one thing in common: they were directed by three different directors, all of Blue Barn Pictures, a production company in DUMBO.
One of the videos was directed by my own son Max Kelly , an intern at Blue Barn. It was his directoral debut and I was rather touched that he would choose me and Pardon Me For Asking as his subject. (Don't tell him, but it was the best Mother's Day present ever.)
The second video was directed by Juanjo Martinez and features my friend Carolina's blog Un trocito de El Palo en Brooklyn.
The third featured the incredibly inspirational blog Why Not Me and was directed by Sharon Dowdell.

Thanks Blue Barn Pictures, for allowing me to post them right here and read their blog, The Barn, for more.



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Blogfest 2009 Brings Out The Best In Brooklyn

It had rained terribly hard most of that Thursday on Main Street in Dumbo

No matter. Inside the PowerHouse Arena, some very busy people were at work,

transforming this bookstore into a gathering place for Brooklyn's finest bloggers.

Chairs were set up in neat rows

Video and sound were checked one, two or three more times

Posters were hung on the windows to invite everyone to come inside

and just as the hour of 7 Pm had arrived, 

the sun cleared the sky and the event began.

People filed in, said hello and mingled

Found a spot in front of the stage and waited....

for the event to begin.

And after the speeches, the films and the photos,

the "Blogs Of A Feather"

the mingling and the clapping...

It was time to eat, to drink

and to party

across the street at Galapagos' Art Space

And then, to go home, to sleep and to dream,

like this littlest of people at Blogfest 2009

and to say the next day:

"Isn't Brooklyn the Best?"

I would like to thank Louise Crawford, author of "Only The Blog Knows Brooklyn"and organizer of the event, for bringing this awesome community of bloggers together for an amazing evening.My thanks also goes out to her team of helpers who worked incredibly hard to make this a successful event
When I first started blogging in my little back room office in late 2007, I could never have dreamt of becoming part of such an inspiring community of writers, photographers and activists. It is a pleasure to have gotten to know all of them.


Here is some more coverage of the event on other blogs. (I will be adding to this list in the next few days.)
Blogging the Brooklyn Blogfest: A Great Night Down Under the Bridges (OTBKB)
Brooklyn Blogfest Recap (Found In Brooklyn)

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