I have a love/hate relationship with Los Angeles. The city is a drug. You take a hit, and there’s a rush, and a feeling of pure joy and belonging and a raw, bright energy pulsing through your body. And just as quickly as you went up, you come down. Crashing down. It hurts physically, it hurts emotionally, it fucks with your head. You’re nauseous now. You need another hit. And you’re willing to do whatever it takes to get one. Los Angeles is sick. It’s a culture of competitiveness and selfishness and cut-throatery that Wall Street can’t even touch. Everyone is so much more beautiful than everyone else, and beauty is a currency with strength I’ve never seen in any other city. When I’m in Los Angeles, I can’t believe I really have to leave, and I can’t wait until I can finally leave. We have a really unhealthy relationship. Los Angeles is the douchebag I can’t stop sleeping with.
That said, I had a blast at the conference. Having Chelsia there made it a million times more fun, and it was even better because my friend Ranae met up with us the first night and partied with us. We met so many cool and interesting people, a lot of whom actually live in Seattle. I can’t wait to get to know them better since they’re so close! I gained a whole new perspective on the way people use Twitter and social media, and I have all sorts of new ideas for how to leverage the technology. I’m very, very, very glad I went. Oh and I also did a little interview with the PR firm sponsoring the event, and they used a snippet of it here. I’m at around the 1:50 mark. Ohhhhhhh and I won one of those new Kodak HD cameras. Won it! For free! And now I’m obsessed with it. I took sooooo many videos, since I won it on the very first day. The one above is my second-favorite. My favorite is not appropriate for publishing on the Internet. ;)
So, without further ado, the photos:
