Thanks man, I could not have done it with out you, and as everyone is stating, you add a whole other level to the trailer! Sick job man…better be around in 2010, or else!

@Hshudo

Thanks for speaking man. Im glad you enjoyed the event as well, you were in a unique position seeing the footage from previous events and then speaking this year- so again, awesome stuff.

@Nicky

Dude, your comment deserves a re-read from everyone on this blog. Thanks for posting it, it adds a ton of value on top of the post (you’re basically saying what I wanted to better, and more concisely haha).

@Alex

I agree the, model I have built to distribute value is superb, but I do wonder what will happen as time goes on concerning other companies. Someone recently mentioned to me that I’m stirring the pot so aggressively that I may begin to piss people off trying to sell their own DVD products, which are hundreds of dollars, and of lower quality- both in content and film production.

I guess I can only hope that the community surrounding the convention is enough to (help) buffer any negative whiplash from more profit oriented companies selling product after product.

At the end of the day though it may be a shit storm that I have to rise above (and hopefully, this doesn’t turn into a self fulfilling prophecy haha).

Anyway thanks for the comment and kind words, I appreciate them massively.

@Thom

I use a service that can be found at Vimeo.com. I pay for a premium account which gives me additional features to do the things I listed in the post. It’s an excellent service, works great, and has great tech support if something goes wrong. Highly recommended.

thanks everyone!

-Anthony

Absolutely incredible post. Four thumbs up (I don’t care that it’s impossible).

If there is anything that can be learned from the Open Source community or non-profits, it is that people will support what they believe in to be an honest, valuable endeavor. What you have here is a superb system, where not only do you maintain your honesty and integrity by offering the material for free, but once people realize that this is truly what it looks like, they will flock to the convention regardless of the price (which is really a steal, all things considered).

I have to leave at the moment, but I still have more thoughts on this topic that I may or may not post in the future.

Thanks Dream, for being a true leader and inspiration to everyone who’s sick and tired of lies, corporate greed, and bull. Keep on being honest, and long live T21C.

This is an excellent post and I could not agree more. In today’s World, rapid success is a careful balance of providing high-value content for free (but on your own terms) and leveraging that into services that generate profit.

The key here is that value wins and no one can beat the value of someone intensely passionate for any given project.

The Internet makes knowledge abundant and ubiquitous, so being ‘educated’ is not an advantage any longer.

The ‘Net makes honest and valuable connections happen overnight, so years of experience in a field building contacts loses its once immense value.

Things have quite simply changed.

I left college going into my senior year this past Fall. People were baffled why I would leave when I was so close to finishing, but shedding all that nonsense is so fucking liberating.

The success I’ve had this year comes from hard, passionate work and that just can’t be taught. Imagine a world where instead of education, we just encourage people to pursue streams of interest and support them create within their passions.

Woah.

all i saw was the footage last year, the event killed it.

-Then This years event came and passed, and it stood out in my mind what the overlying goal was in your mind.

When all of the chips fall and the footage is posted, truly BEING THERE, is better than a compressed computer file.

I get it, and it makes sense.

Boom!