Calabama

This morning, I met up with the Merc’s political reporter, Mary Anne Ostrom, to help her with some video to accompany a feature running in tomorrow’s paper. We headed down to The Big Tent, which is basically a two-story, 500-person base for bloggers (some DNC-credentialed, most not) sponsored by Google, complete with free burritos, beer, couches, massages and smoothies.

I was lucky enough to meet Craig Newmark (Founder, craigslist) and Markos Moulitsas (founder, The Daily Kos) among many others, and grab some video to go along with Mary Anne’s story.

Here’s the video:

I’m going to try to meet back up with her later this week to get inside the Pepsi Center and shoot more video. Uploaded some more shots of downtown Denver on Flickr as well.

Tonight was pretty difficult, design-wise. There was a lot of breaking news, including a clash between protesters and police right outside the Post building. I believe one or two Post staffers were pepper sprayed, and I think A/C was shut off to our building for a while to avoid sucking in the fumes.

Here’s a photo from the aftermath (you can see that the police had cornered the group at this point):

More tomorrow. I’m exhausted.

-Ashley