Two weeks ago, we presented Magnify at Digital Hollywood. We met a bunch of great new people - and had one major surpise.

As i walked off the stage I was met by a familier voice who said- "I just want to introduce myself." When you spend your life in film you often recognise people who don't know you (they were in a film and you spent hours in a dark edit room staring at their face). But rarely do people know you who you've never met.

Yet instantanly i felt like knew this person.

"You changed my life" he said. Ok, clearly there's more to this story.

His name is Michael Kennedy. And he's known as "Big Mike". He's a mascot. A pro. And an announcer. Seems like from the time he told his story on MTV Unfiltered, things have gone pretty well for him. Take a look at him back in 1996 (i think). Then this thursday tune in to the MTV Music Awards. Listen to the announcer - see if it sounds familier. I'm sure you'll hear the voice - as i did in San Jose.

Big Mike is a great guy - and i'm delighted to be reconnected with him. It seems MTV UNfiltered may have had a wider impact than i realized. It certainly changed my mind about user-generated video forever.

Here's a clip from his story. I have the full version but i'll need to find it (and post it) in a few days. Enjoy!

Mascot

Posted to DocuBlogTV on August 27, 2006

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