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Los Angeles CA: E3 – Electronic Entertainment Expo aka GAMERS! Day 2

: God of War-Ascension Booth Babes

: Lollipop Chainsaw Booth Babe

: Snoop Dogg at E3

: Danica Patric Signs a Hoodie-Car Hoodie

: EA’s Battlefield 3

: Battlefield 3 – Tweetup

: Roll Out for PlayStation

: GameSpot Cool Booth Graphics

: Swag from NoS

: Alien Colonial Marines Booth

Day 2 pics and sadly our last day. #E32012 was fully loaded this year.

Los Angeles: E3 – Electronic Entertainment Expo aka GAMERS!

Just posting a few pictures from E3 day 1. Great show, attendance up, and very positive on the world of gaming.

: Welcome to E3 2012-Never Stop Playing

: Playstation 3 skinned at E3

: South Hall Crowd E3

: Press Room at E3

: xBox 360 booth

: Trey Parker rolls out Xbox360 South Park game

: Halo in the Boys Room

: Boys in the Girls room

: Bacon Hot Dogs – good swag

: WII-U is the hottest device at E3

Preview pics: #NABShow #Coverings2012 & #SCAA2012

Just some random shots from a few shows this week. Full galleries and coverage will be forthcoming but this is just a little preview:

: NAB2012: Crashed Exhibitor at Press walk through

: Netflix crew – the 9.95 streaming package

: Look who I ran into- The Woz

: Louis Anderson at The Pulse interview

: Booth Bunnies for Holyfield

: Hoodman with RIP Trayvon notes

: Coverings2012: Handmade tiles

: FILA Feeds Us.

: SCAA 2012 – Charlie is official

: Specialty Coffee show SCAA 2012

: Remy the Bed Bug sniffing Lab

: Space Shuttle over DC

Technically the last 2 pictures don’t really belong to any show. The 1st one on the bottom left is Remy, who has been trained to find bed bugs. We met him at the Pest Control show in New Orleans. I just like this picture his owner sent us because it shows that even if we have differences, we can still all get along.
The picture on the bottom right is the Space Shuttle Discovery in its last flight on its way to the Smithsonian in Washington DC. By doing this low, 1500 ft, flyover it brought together people from all areas in a city that is constantly ripped apart by partisan politics but on this one day, no matter the party, everyone came out to salute the shuttle. There is another one scheduled to do a fly over in NYC on Monday, April 23rd. It will be the Enterprise not the Discovery but it will dip its wings in the direction of the WTC as a salute to overcoming obstacles and letting our imaginations soar. The Enterprise will be on permanent display at the Intrepid, the Air Space Museum on the Hudson.

San Diego: IPC-Apex

Feb. 28 – Mar. 01, 2012. Billed as “the Premier Electronics Industry Conference and Exhibition, this show focused on printed circuit boards, electronics assembly, and design. The program focused on game changers for the printed circuit board and electronics assembly industries, whether printed electronics, nanotechnology, environmental regulations or new quality and reliability drivers. A panel of industry experts looked into the future and predicted shocks to the industry as well as new opportunities. A celebrity keynote from Captain James T Kirk himself, William Shatner, showed delegates how to “make it so”. Visitors were encouraged to “boldly go…”

San Francisco: MacWorld

Jan. 23-25, 2012. MacWorld and iWorld are held as twin events, and were being held for the first time since the untimely death of Steve Jobs. That did not stop a torrent of new product demonstrations, demos of the hottest iOS Apps, and new software. There was an iPhone Film Festival, Digital Art Gallery, art-tech talks and seminars, live art competitions… plus add-on premium training sessions for MacIT, specializing in such esoteric topics as The Passionate Photographer, Telling Your Story in iLife, Speak to Me O Muse (built around a new Adobe gizmo codenamed MUSE) — “There’s all that code”, they explained, “all that geek speak, all that technical jargon that gets between a designer’s vision and the web’s reality. But Adobe’s new (beta software) MUSE is the first major step by the software powerhouse to overcome that divide”…

Anaheim: NAMM

Jan. 19-20, 2012. NAMM is the International Music Products Association. The NAMM Show claims to be the largest, most important music products show in the world, drawing people from more than 100 countries to check out the latest musical products. The idea for this year’s NAMM Show was “take it to 12″ in the coming year. Partly this was by catching an impressive array of concert appearances by a total of ten bands playing the show. One featured location offered tailored educational sessions to piano dealers from around the world. A Native American Pavilion celebrated Native American instrument craftsmen and other contributors to the community of music making. The Pavilion also featured exhibits, educational materials and resources, performance stages and displays of vintage musical instruments. How!