Overwhelmed by the amazing response to WE05. I don’t know where to start. Despite being a fortnight late in publishing this I seem to be still reeling from the effect of a total WE05 utopia! It was definitely an amazing conference. Let me take that back it was not only a conference that stood out as being unique but this was backed up with amazing friendly people from many walks of life and many continents around the globe. Rare! A collaboration of this nature can only come to pass where people think beyond their own thirst for knowledge, and not just the organisers and speakers but also the delegates… I, for one, saw the conference from a very different standpoint as compared to last years.
Let me tell you a little story here. Day 2. Arvo! It was close to 2pm or thereabouts…. I was between shooting the two concurrent streams that were running in different rooms. I was close to the exit door of Guthrie and having a tea. The security guard from UTS came by and said hello very softly for he didn’t want to distract the bystanders. Yes there were a few people standing at the back of the theatre all along Day 2. Guthrie was packed and if memory serves me right there were thirty odd people still wanting to be in WE05! So there I was standing at the threshold and the security guard and I exchanged our ‘gdays’ and then he pointed towards the big screen and looked at me, shifted his view towards the screen and then back to me … and said…
Isn’t this so futuristic? I haven’t seen that many conferences of this type here!
Wow!! I do not know how web savvy he’d have been or if he knew the difference between RSS 0.91 and RSS 2.0 but for sure he could tell it was way futuristic. Yes in fact that’s precisely how it was. And if it was so uplifting for the security guard how much more for someone who is web savvy and knows their way around and understands the web!
I pinched the photo from Bens, hey Ben its alright isn’t it 
28th arvo
I started doing my test shooting on the 28th when I came in the day before WE05 to calibrate my camera. I had just about finished attending a seminar on Adobe Creative Suite 2 at Darling Harbour Convention Centre the same day. Straight from the Adobe roadshow onto a short chat with Russ and then Maxine and then John introduced me to Jeffrey Veen, we shared a quick joke (gosh he is tall!!) he asked about my iPodnano which was still clinging to my left bicep tucked under my pink Tee (highlight of the day). Jeff agreed to smile, I was happy to shoot. I was in!
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That story about the security guard is great. I don’t think there’s anywhere in Australia that has had the amount of talented and passionate webbys in the one place and time that we had at WE05.
Thanks for the friendly chats Amit and we’ll have to catch up soon!
Rock on WE06!
So very true Tim. Well said!. And you’re welcome Tim, yes lets catch up soon.
Tim: given to hyperbole as I am, I would extend that and say “I don’t think there’s anywhere in the world…………well, at least the Southern Hemishpere.”
Amit: yes, the photo works, but in the interests of maintaining your staus as “fashion-god”, if I were you I would have p-shopped out the cuff………..so very 2003
LOL@ Maxine hahah I just snapped you while you were writing your comment… Oh I like the cuff, bit more for the readers to take home … not just me
what say? Fashion god.. hmmm I think I can handle that I *do* wear pink!! Pity my website isn’t but you never know. Don’t you be throwing year tags at me. CSS2 wasn’t even kosher in 2003! I was still happy with tables and chairs 
That security guard was a sweetie, I had a couple of chats with him too.
I have always wanted John (shy retiring wallflower that he is) to do one of his ‘future of the web’ presentations dressed as in a silver spacesuit, possibly with jetpack on his back. Shame we didn’t get it together for WE05 - imagine the security guard’s eyes popping out of his head!
Your Comment was so hot It crashed my glasses! What can I say… can’t even read now. Oh thats such a kinky fetish! Imagine those highlights in a silver spacesuit. Hmmmmmm! Lets organise a barbie soon. Dress code: Silver spacesuits. Cats allowed!