VIEW 2009 has arrived at it's Tenth show. Having resurrected itself, renamed from the Virtuality conference, the VIEW line up has kicked up a few notches, brought in some big names and also allowed some notable locals their space as well. This is a daily coverage of my stay here in Turin.

Having just arrived from my home port of Melbourne Australia, I freshened up and took a look around the amazing place.
The beautiful Turin turned it on for me today. It's Tuesday, a day before the conference. Some industrial problems scattered a few plans temporarily and gave me an unplanned road trip after Lufthansa had to fly me to Milan and drive me back up to Turin in a bus. Could have been worse but I'm very glad it wasn't.

When I (finally) arrived, the cool late Fall sun was shining on the Italian Alps as a perfect backdrop to this medieval city. There are magnificent walks that sound surreal. I'll have to get to them after the conference as they sound beyond belief.  I met up with some wonderful like-mindeds, ending up going out to dinner with them.

Turin has turned on their Christmas lights through the streets early, on account of the VIEW and associated festivals in the town. She is an unashamedly arts-inspired city with a very proud history and each of us came away from a lengthy walk through the streets with a deeper love of all things Italian. S3D, SIGGRAPH, Rob Whitehill's Stereo Story-telling, Organic ArchViz and PIXAR's RenderMan Workshop are up front and center on the starting day.

The VIEW Conference starts tomorrow. Come on over if you are close by.