Current Diggs the Election
Ok, more than a month later, I’m finally posting about Election Night at Current. A fantastic night all ’round. Here it is, sort of, in photos, with huge portions missing since I was so busy.
I started by voting at 8am in the Dogpatch. There was a line and it took about 25 minutes (see iPhone photo below)–and Dogpatch is underpopulated! I was positively glowing at my neighbors with excitement.
And then a crazy production day began for “Current Diggs the Election: Your Election Night Party with Digg, Twitter and Diplo.” I don’t have any behind the scenes photos or screen shots, but here’s sort of what it looked like on-air–definitely not your father’s CNN:
Diplo played for a little over two hours from our studio in LA, and all the Flash animations (dancing map, tweets, etc.) were programmed to bounce to his beats. We also occasionally streamed video of Diplo over the social media mashup (as well as 12Seconds.tv webcams and Video the Vote reports) and he took the opportunity to write notes that he would hold up to the camera. Here he is preparing a little message for the audience:
Diplo with our LA music team (and, apparently, a ghost who took over spinning after his set):
Digg threw a party at a club to showcase our joint effort–after all, this was election night coverage designed to be watched with friends, and loud!
We finished our live broadcast at around 9:30pm PST, and the 50+ Current team got to the Digg party a little after 10pm. After quite a few drinks, I look about as ecstatic as I did at Burning Man:
Not bad considering we put together a 5+ hour live broadcast in only 11 days and entirely out of Flash, social media and Blue Bottle coffee. It was a glorious night, fueled by a most amazing Obama victory.
