The flight from San Francisco was wonderful. From the plane I took many digital shots. These are a sample of the highlights. I took a lot more.

Finally, here I am at SIGGRAPH. They are setting up the show floor. The booth heights looks lower but then again so does the ceiling.

In the studio there was a very nice place to relax, I think it is also an installation.

It is a beautiful convention center, both inside and out.

The view from my hotel room. I might have to go to that Imax theatre.

The Crockett Hotel. I hear that you need to bring your own coonskin cap.

No joke, this was at the place I ate lunch, cause they charged money for the bacon bits.

They have a Ripley’s museum. In case my boss is reading this, I was on my way to the children’s museum to go to SIGGKids. Doug says the secret agenda of all SIGGRAPH placement is they have to have a Ripley’s museum in the city.

A wonderful tribal mask – and hook.

The Lord’s Prayer carved on a penny.

The pin and the painting on the head of it. This was very nice.

The floating balls are out of focus but the rest is in focus. I liked the effect.

Across from the Ripley’s museum is the Alamo. I will go back and get more pictures later in the week.

On the way to the Children’s Museum I passed this lovely old theatre – The Majestic (really).

Finally at SIGGKids. This was the only thing I photographed. It is the tangrams puzzle (which I love and have programmed many times). The computer is being fed the position and rotation of each of the blocks via a camera underneath reading dot codes through the translucent glass. It was a very nice idea and a good implementation. This version can give hints as you go.

The river, and the tour boat. I keep thinking about the funny tour boat at Disney land.

As I walked down the street of Laredo….

Funny sign on the window of a law office.

They REALLY don’t want you doing anything here.

Another sign, I found it amusing.

Doug Kelly and Martin Hash discuss the state of the industry as the Flash walks by behind them.

From the rapid prototype machines. I asked how they go this on the plane and of course he said via the checked luggage. He did say that someone almost grabbed this sample case to bring as a carry-on by mistake and was reminded about it at the last minute. Kinda funny, kinda scary,

Such a nice guy, Jonathon Gilbreath, cleans the chairs at the Newtek booth.

Jim Kilmer. Every year he gets more important at SIGGRAPH. Note the metal name badge – a true status symbol.

John K Myers of DragonLord Enterprises. He might be wearing a dragon but he also does kewl things will cell phones.

The SIGGRAPH papers party. Didn’t look like much… and then.

Video arcade, dance clubs, food. It was huge and what a party!

Free ice cream too!

Look at this place, it was very elegant. So many places all attached all with different themes.

Some really nice sliding game like shuffleboard, I don’t know what it is called though.

So they had these mist things spraying down from the roof. And what I wanna know is why they would spray a mist in the most humid city I have every been in?

Brandon J Bruce (see last year’s pages). He is back and better than ever!

Jim and Genevieve, the sweethearts of SIGGRAPH. Don’t the look happy? Well, at least don’t they look frozen?

The video arcade was very popular, I love the effect of the long exposure on the game screen.

The dance floors got packed. This SIGGRAPH crowd really knows how to party.

The crazy Texan knife thrower. I had to duck twice to get this picture.

Ian from ACCAD in Columbus. At the New Media Conference he put my notebook to sleep and I lost all my presentation time. Well it isn’t really his fault but I like to blame him. He is smiling cause he knows I am going to tell that story.