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I can be a bit of a pes­simist about Ari­zona. Maybe it’s the heat, maybe it’s the fact it’s so spread out, or maybe I’m just get­ting old, but I don’t have much hope for this place as a cre­ative hotspot.

There aren’t any ran­dom places to hang out and meet peo­ple, noth­ing within walk­ing dis­tance that every­one goes to nor any cool place that’s open all the time to get feed­back on cre­ative projects.

Now, thanks to social media and espe­cially Twit­ter, all that has changed. Pod­Cam­pAZ marks the begin­ning of some­thing real, some­thing sub­stan­tial; it marks the begin­ning of AZ res­i­dents DOING instead of PLANNING.

We all have great ideas, or at least we think we do. What we don’t have is action. To make things hap­pen, we need sup­port. I’m accus­tomed to need­ing face to face con­tact to make that hap­pen, but that’s not nec­es­sary all the time.

Thanks to all the Pod­Cam­pAZ pre­sen­ters (well, most of you. some of you missed the mark, but I sure as hell applaud you for try­ing) for giv­ing this cyn­i­cal fel­low hope that there’s more to this place than I thought.

#pod­cam­paz

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