Benford
Standley's & West Multimedia Digital History
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thePDFF was webcast 4 hours a day, from 2008 to 2011, with some great stars and filmmakers, on left host Dan "Sasu Weh" Jones interviews actor Max Gail |
18 Years of Webcasting History
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Benford E. Standley (bio) has produced webcast since 1995...following are some shots from past webcast and other events. In particular the
pictures are from the 5 hour webcast of the FIRST AMERICAN IN THE ARTS AWARDS CEREMONY with broadcast partner Yahoo.com.
These Webcast were produced in 2000 and 2001...right before Hollywood said the Internet bubble had busted ...meanwhile back at the ranch...
Benford and partners were throwing wood on the World Wide Web fire, and the StudioClub.com was for 4 years the only digital camera on the
red carpets of Hollywood...
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Dan "Sasu Weh" Jones hosting live streaming worldwide webcast of the Paso Digital Film Festival in 2010... Interviewing county star Kacey Musgraves
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PasoDigitalFilmFestival.com
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Webcast host Dan "Sasu Weh" Jones interviews Denise Evans, Scott Sabicer engineering the webcast from our festival studio. |
Joseph sends feed to Yahoo.com our Broadcast partner on the webast |
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 1995 Standley produces one of the first audio/video webcast in history...
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Computers in the Webcast Production room
Standley was headed down the Super Informational Highway in the early days... however, had a hard time in Los Angeles getting anyone to understand what he was talking about...in 1998, after he launched it was four years before he saw any other digital cameras on the red carpets of Hollywood...he was posting to the website digital pictures taken with his Sony Digital Mavica first made in 1997... |
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& Ronnie Mack, the one and only... |
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Benford produced two 5 hours webcast of the FIRST AMERICAN IN THE ARTS AWARDS live with broadcast partners YAHOO...Webcast in 2000 was live from the Beverly Hills Hotel, and 2001 was from the Century Plaza Hotel...
When I asked the team in Dallas with Mark Cuban's team, who were running the streaming technology for Yahoo.. "Had anyone streamed longer than 5 hours live?" Yahoo! said, "Yeper, Willie Nelson Webcast of his 4th July Pick Nick
went
for
eight or nine hours." So we'll run second the main stage to the backstage production
studio were we were doing
interviews... Below check out some of the pics from the two years of webcasting with Yahoo and the |
Webcast in 2000...
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Benford Standley began to study multimedia in 1993, while negotiating a one million dollar CD-Rom deal with IBM, after learning about CD-Roms from his friend Dan "Sasu Weh" Jones, who was doing a CD-Rom project with Kevin Costner. He learned more about the Internet and it's future power from Computer Bob and Willie Nelson back in 1994, when he and Bob were coproducing the shortwave radio broadcast of Farm Aid for Willie. Setting on Willie's bus with Neil Young, Kris Kristofferson, host of the broadcast Wavy Gravy and Benford's long time friend Thom Steinbeck (son of the writer John Steinbeck) he was for sure High on the revelation he was having hearing Willie and others talking about the "Internet"... |
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and as a Native American performer...the next year she was our Hostess for the Webcast from Beverly Hills. |
backstage in webcast studio |
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During this 1999 Webcast we had a computer in the production studio set up where people could email and chat with the artist at the Show |
Jade
Herrera comes to the
Dan "Sasu Weh" Jones backstage |
Like many of the stars with us back stage experienced her first live online email chat |
Pre Myspace, Facebook Era... online chats via email |
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