Sundance 2005

Just back from Park City, UT
Sundance is a serious spectacle: 45,000 people descend on a ski-town to watch movies, swap scripts, and watch the beautiful people. You can feel the locals cringe as the LA set buys Ugg boots and fur coats to be worn twice, then live in a Santa Monica closet for the rest of the year.
WORKING
I was there covering Intel's launch of a WIMAX antenna that broadcasts movies wirelessly. Between the debut of a movie called RIZE and a VW Toureg tricked out as a wireless theatre, the Intel guys did a really good job showing that this tech could make a run at supplementing wired broadband options in the future. Click here to see an example of the live shots.
PLAYING
The celeb watching was pretty amazing, I walked past Glenn Close within 5 minutes of arriving on Main Street, I saw Mario Von Peebles and mentioned as we passed in the street how much I liked his movie Badassss! I only got to see one movie Rory O'Shea Was Here, it was good, but not the action/thriller type of flick: more like a feel good, think a little, wierd dialog, cry a little movie.
The best part about the trip was the skiing- nobody was on the mountain. We skied The Canyons and Deer Valley. I snuck in a couple of X-country outings too, but I'd go back to Utah for the skiing anytime.