http://sites.google.com/site/lifeinadayfaqs/

How do I submit my video(s)?
Between 24 July and 31 July, just click the “Submit” tab on Life In A Day channel and upload the footage directly from your computer. The “Submit” tab will become visible on 24 July.

Does my video have to be documentary? Can it be fiction?
All we’re asking is for you to document your world over the course of a single day; we expect most videos to comprise documentary footage, but if you think that your world is best captured through fictional storytelling or even animation, it is entirely up to you.

Do I need permission to record other people in my video?
Yes, you do need permission to include other people in your video. If your video makes it through the first stage of our selection process, we will email you release forms which you must send back to us signed by anyone who appears in your video.

Can I use music?
Please avoid the use of music within your submission.

What do I need to know about recording sound?
It’s important to think about the audio on your video, as sound recording often affects the overall quality of a video. Good sound recording will probably increase the chance of your footage being chosen to be in the final film. If possible, it would be great to enhance your recording by using external microphones, in addition to those built in to most cameras.

When is the Sundance Film Festival?
The 2011 Sundance Film Festival will take place from 20 January to 30 January 2011. The premiere date of Life In A Day will be announced closer to the start of the festival.

Edit: Lately I've been thinking Battledecks would be a great addition to the Fringe. The Pecha Kucha mentioned below is pretty similar.
Edit 2: The short slideshows will be held at the Outdoor Stage on Monday, May 24th, around 7PM.
Edit 3: We have a facebook event for Small Talk at Fringe: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=364435458753

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The Fair Trade Project is holding a poker run–bike style! Registration is only $5 and will start at 2:30pm at Austin’s. The 10+ mile ride will start at 4 and take you to local stores that sell fair trade: Chamberlin’s Natural Foods, Enzian Theater, Ten Thousand Villages, Whole Foods and Austin’s. You’ll pick up a playing card at each stop to complete your poker hand.

We’ll have great prizes from each stop for the person with the best hand, plus additional prizes, including great stuff from local bike shops. After we give out the prizes at 6:30, we’ll have a free show featuring local music.

Even if you don’t participate in the ride, we hope you’ll join us for the show. See you there!

Read more from The Fair Trade Project Facebook Page:

The Fair Trade Project seeks to help disadvantaged producers receive a just price for their goods while building relationships and encouraging social and environmental responsibility. When people are paid a fair price for what they produce, they can pull themselves, their families, and their communities out of poverty.

You can make a difference simply by buying fair trade products.

Download a 10 minute podcast about the 2010 Florida DrupalCamp and our Coding for a Cause non-profit benefit

Open Source software tools are a great resource for companies and organizations to cost-effectively connect, communicate, and organize members using the Internet. One of these free tools for website creation and management is Drupal, a content management system that uses a modular approach that allows organizations to easily customise their websites and use blogs, video and user content to build their communities.

Drupal has a very active community that will gather at DrupalCamp Florida on February 20 and 21st, where new and seasoned users learn about and share their knowledge of Drupal. The event is an opportunity to get an overview of Drupal and the developer and user community in Florida. Guest speaker Addison Berry of Lullabot will discuss how everyone can participate in the growing international community. Saturday will be a day-long educational conference with beginner, intermediate and advanced tracks. Addison Berry of Lullabot will Sunday will be a Site Development Sprint to build a Drupal web site for a non-profit organization.

Information and Registration - www.2010.fldrupalcamp.org

Date: Saturday February 20th and Sunday February 21st

Location: Mind Comet, 385 Pearl Lake Causeway
Altamonte Springs, Florida

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Open Source software tools are a great resource for non-profit organizations to cost-effectively connect, communicate and activate donors and members using the Internet. One of these free tools for website creation and management is Drupal, a content management system that uses a modular approach that allows organizations to easily customise their websites and use blogs, video and user content to build their communities.

Drupal has a very active community that will gather at DrupalCamp Florida on February 20 and 21st, where new and seasoned users learn about and share their knowledge of Drupal. The event is an opportunity to get an overview of Drupal and the developer and user community in Florida. Saturday will be a day-long educational conference with beginner, intermediate and advanced tracks. Sunday will be a Site Development Sprint to build a Drupal web site for a non-profit organization.

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Download Eco Footprint Special: 350.org
ecofactory_350.mp3
Length: 3:04

Gabe LeBlanc of EcoFactory left me this message about the event being held on 10/24/09 to raise awareness about the level of Carbon in the air. More info can be found at http://350.org and http://ecofactory.com

Gabe is offering free beer to the first 350 people to arrive at Orlando Brewing at 3:50 PM on October 24th. Gabe is doing awesome stuff in our community, and I recommend everyone go and support him, or find a similar event in your area.

WHAT: The 6th Annual ALL HALLOWS 10-FOR-THE-FRINGE
10 plays-10 minutes each-$10!

WHEN: 2 days only

Friday, October 16th
hosted by Wayburn Sassy
and Didi Panache

Saturday, October 17th
hosted by Wanzie and Pepe’

TIME:
7pm Reception / 8pm Showtime

WHERE:
Lowndes Shakespeare Center (Mandell Theatre/Patron's Room)
812 E. Rollins Street
Orlando, FL 32803

About The Event:
Costume Contest Nightly
Top prize gets a 2010 Fringe Superpass
50/50 Raffles
Silent Auction
Beer and Wine by Donation (with appetizers)

TICKETS: (* we are in a smaller venue than usual, so please book tix in advance) GENERAL ADMISSION.
For advance reservationcall the Fringe office at (407) 648-0077 (MC/Visa). PLEASE DO NOT CALL ORLANDO SHAKES!

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'The Habit' opens on September 26 and 27, 2009 at the
Catherine Hickman Theatre in Gulfport, St. Petersburg at 3 PM. See address below please.

As usual, I'd love to see you in the audience. Tickets are available by calling at 727-656-8053. I will gladly send you tickets (in advance, seniors and students at $13 each) by mail. The price is $15 at the door. Let me know if you want them by mail ASAP. Drop me a line or call.

In a daring look at a religious woman facing the crossroads of her life, The Habit guides its audience from the familiar images of docile convent life to a path sprinkled with hints of a more profane one. Meeting a charming young man—more of the scoundrel type—at the hospital where she works as a nurse, she keeps hearing him telling his enchanting and magical stories. Suddenly, in a do-or-die move, she accepts his offer of eloping with him. However, as the play moves on, the audience is not really quite sure if HE is a figment of her imagination, or if SHE is a figment of his. Through music, dance, mime—following Loria’s idea of what theater should be—The Habit portrays, most importantly, a human being’s moment of truth, as everyone in the audience may have experienced at least once in their own lives.

Here's the link to the description of the show:
http://www.wilsonloria.com/Habit.htm
http://www.wilsonloria.com/habito_port.htm
www.wilsonloria.com

See you at the theater.
Thank YOU!!!
Wilson

Hear a Blogging Fringe interview with Wilson Loria, Jeremy Seghers, and Brandon Haydon

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Download Podcast 26
flcreatives_26_thorspecken.mp3
Length: 28:16

If you've been out at cultural events in Orlando in 2009, there's a good chance you'll see a man looking down at his sketchbook with his watercolors out. He's Thomas Thorspecken, and he's drawing and painting the scene around him. Check his blog in a few days and see the results.

Shameless Links:

• Thomas' Blog, Analog Artist Digital World
• 23rd International Sketch Crawl Orlando
• More to come...
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

• Hand-made food
• It was all grown locally
• Community
• Deliciousness
• Someone made a video about it!

Here is a summary of what we discussed on the call:

BarCamp Meeting - Jan 12th, 9PM

Gregg Pollack
Greg Pederson
George Drage
Eric Marden
Ryan Price
David Rogers
Rachael Page
Joshua Blount

Gregg

• has been talking to Wall St. about Ignite and BarCamp
• One day event instead of 2 days

More venues - CityArts? CoLab?
Evening event - CityArts? other downtown venues that don't open until later, but it would be nice to give the business to Wall St since they were so nice with the space

Monetary

• $2000 food from Wall St - per day
• $2000 t-shirts
• $ 600 promotional materials - signs, posters, flyers
• $ 150 chars - 200 chairs - kirby rental
• $ 25 nametags
• $FREE A/V, projectors, sound, (donations, or available by venue)

Dates

• FOWA - last week of Sunday, Feb 22nd - 24th
• massive coworking at Brik-o-lodge on Monday
• Avoid April 12th - Easter
• -- email the list to ask about dates - Eric Marden
• -- if you want to get more involved, Florida Creatives Monday the 19th
• Eric will also make an official BarCamp wiki page

Coordinators

• sponsors -- David Rogers david@ethos-consulting.com
• food / venue -- Gregg Pollack greggpollack@gmail.com
• shirts / graphics / eventbrite / wiki -- Eric Marden eric@xentek.net
• tangibles / promo / posters / cards / badges / web -- Joshua Blount hello@joshuablount.com
• facilities / Wi-fi / AV / sound -- Thomas Meeks thomas@thomasmeeks.com
• media / press releases / blog badges -- Ryan Price rprice@ryanpricemedia.com
• Wi-Fi - repeaters? Mike Blake, contacts with the city of Orlando?

You can listen to the other half of this call at the Project X half of the conference call

You can edit the Orlando WiFi page or the wiki page for other cities at http://floridacreatives.com/wiki/florida<!--break-->

Download Steering Committee 2a

You get a ticket to all of the following:

Orlando Ballet
Orlando Museum of Art
Orlando Opera
Orlando Philharmonic
Orlando Shakespeare Theatre
Festival of Orchestras
SunTrust Broadway Across Orlando

Really.

Visit RealOrlando.org to download an order form PDF and mail in your order (lame).

Don’t forget to Subscribe to the Daily City Blog (RSS), courtesy our good friend (and sometimes collaborator) Mark Baratelli.

As we rolled into the weekend last night with some light rain and lots of folks crowding the Shakespeare Center, I noticed three college-looking kids soliciting people for photographs. I walked up to tell them about Blogging Fringe, and it turned out they were the Orlando Metromix “SHOCK SQUAD”! Is Metromix the Sentinel one, that’s going to be changing their name? It’s not CityBeat, is it? It’s one of those. I went to see what coverage they had of the festival, and it was exactly one article - recommendations based on watching the preview. Also, no comments allowed. They asked me to link to them, and in hopes that they link back, here we go.

Check out Orlando Metromix’s Fringe Photoset - lots of familiar faces in there.

Last night, I lost my festival program. Normally no big deal, but this was different - I had written all sorts of notes in my program, marked down page numbers of shows, kept my tickets inside, and started to feel like my program was a treasured item - sort of like a stuffed animal or something, now lost. I checked the Brown Venue, the Blue Venue, the Ticket Booth, and the Garbage Can too, but my program was gone. I went to the box office to get some tickets re-printed ( handy reason for using credit card or the internet to buy your tickets), and proceeded to go through the tickets I did have with the volunteer to make sure I wasn’t missing any others.

Apparently, I’ve seen a lot of shows:

1. A Brief History of Petty Crime
2. American Squatter
3. Boom
4. *Flamenco con Fusion 08
5. Galapagos: The Directors Cut
6. *Mark Baratelli
7. Move!
8. MR. FOX
9. *Mr. Marmalade
10. On Second Thought
11. *once upon a time: The End
12. Oral
13. Parlour Games
14. perfectly broken
15. Power To Pleasing: The Sex Lives of Teenage Girls
16. *Red, White, and Ignorant: An American Love Story
17. Shadows In Bloom
18. Skip Peril and the Players of the Lost Trunk
19. *Swell
20. The Boy’s Own Jedi Handbook
21. *The Bric-a-Brac Vagabond Vintage Variety Show
22. The Cody Rivers Show presents: Stick to Glue
23. The Greg Barris Heart of Darkness Rock and Roll Circus
24. *The Screw You Revue: Déjà vu
25. *The Slipknot: A Benefit for the Orlando Fringe
26. Totem Figures
27. TV iMature
28. *Wet
29. When Pigs Fly

* Indicates shows I have not seen, but I have a ticket for.

All of these shows (that I have seen) are awesome. Go see them all. If I could only tell you three, I would include The Cody Rivers Show, On Second Thought and Boom (not in that order). I would say Power to Pleasing, but it’s sold out. I continue to tell folks that if they haven’t seen any dance, they MUST go - we always have great dance at this festival, and I’m seeing all of the 5 dance shows this year. Lastly, (not leastly) if you’ve never seen TJ Dawe, Barry Smith, Jimmy Hogg, Greg Landucci, Gemma Wilcox or any of the other out-of-town monologists (like Paul Hutcheson from On Second Thought, mentioned earlier), they are all worth your time and money. This is also not counting Patron’s Pick day, where I plan to see some shows that have floated to the top, but I managed to miss. It should be a fun experience.

What was also a fun experience was getting a random contact from some folks from Rake Theatre down in Boynton Beach - they’re putting on Fluency this week at the Fringe. Apparently, they are wanting to start an all-Florida arts blog - a very ambitious project. I have about 3 such very ambitious projects in my head, in the works with locals, or I at least own the domain name for them.

The South Florida folks’ project is called, of all things, Florida Arts Blog, which is a Wordpress.com site right now, but for some reason the posts about Fringe have disappeared… ::shrug:: Something and someone to watch in the coming weeks and months. I am trying to sell them on Florida Creatives myself, blogging can come later. They’ve also got a link to Mark’s Orlando Arts Blog up there… I wonder if they’ve been emailing him too…?

Other things happening this weekend would be:

Orlando Silent Rave (see a video)
Saturday, May 24th, 5:24PM @ the Green Lawn of Fabulosity

Kite Flying 2.0 with Radio Rickshaw and Greg Barris
Sunday, May 25th 11AM - 5PM @ the Green Lawn on Drunkenness

Zombie March 3.7 with Rich Weirdos and Friends
Saturday, May 24th @ 3PM Park Ave and 5PM Lake Eola

If you know of more cool stuff, leave a comment and we’ll get it listed.

May 24th on Park Ave at 3, around Lake Eola at 5
www.richweirdos.com/zombie

The main reason I look forward to May every year is the arrival of the Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival (Thursday the 15th through Monday the 26th). Every year, theatre companies, dancers, comedians, clowns, musicians, improv actors, writer/directors, solo acts and large ensembles, exuberant teenagers and road-hardened veterans alike grace Loch Haven Park with their creativity and energy, and Orlando gives every ounce of it (and more) back to them as many of the national and international acts begin their Canadian Fringe circuit, which brings them to a new city every two weeks. Show prices range from free (as in free software) to $10, and all shows require the one-time purchase of a $6 festival button - 100% of your ticket money goes to the artist. This is one of the only unjuried, uncensored events I know of in Orlando outside of a few open-mic nights, and even some of those are passing judgment on the performers (the other best example here is BarCamp).

18 months ago, I started gathering a group of my friends together every third Monday of the month for an event called Florida Creatives Happy Hour (Monday the 19th, 6PM @ Loch Haven Park). Now, those original 8 friends are hardly in the same room, but the group has grown to something resembling a small political party representing the creative professionals and hobbyists here in Central Florida (with a group getting started in Jacksonville as I write this). This month’s Florida Creatives falls during the Fringe Festival, so at 6PM on the 19th we will be descending upon their “Green Lawn of Fabulousness” to have a beer and some soul food and socialize. At 7:45, we will be attending American Squatter, starring Barry Smith, the creator of last year’s sell-out hit Jesus in Montana. Tickets are $10 plus your $6 Fringe button.

Despite the fact that Fringe starts on the same day every year, another festival seems to think they are better than the Fringe, by starting on the exact same day. Yes, the Florida Music Festival runs Thursday the 15th through Sunday the 18th this year, at pretty much every available venue downtown. In past years, you’ve been able to buy a one-time pass that gets you in to all the shows for the whole weekend, as well as nightly passes - buying a ticket to just one show will hardly do such an event justice. The festival also has a short film as well as an art contest, check these out too if you can find the time in between all of the other events happening at the exact same time.

What other events? How about that bizarre craft bazaar held semi-bi-anually at Stardust Video & Coffee, Grandma Party? (Saturday the 17th, 10AM to Sunset) For some reason they opted out of celebrating Earth Day in favor of overlapping with FMF and Fringe this year - the reason why is left as homework for the reader. Actually, if you find out, please try to explain this one to me too. At G-ma Party, you’ll not only find loads of handmade goods, like the cereal-and-eggs inspired work of the Breakfast Bunch, but trendy t-shirts, buckets of buttons, live music by some of Orlando’s best local bands (at least those who are friends with the festival organizers), a bal-looney community pool, and of course rummage piles and raffles.

Not as culturally significant, but still worth a mention, the second ever Florida Drupal User Group meeting will be held at the offices of MindComet in Maitland this Saturday (May 17th, 1PM). Check out the event and any follow-up at groups.drupal.org/florida.

Still more to come in this round-up of events, because I couldn’t write such a blog post without mentioning the Corazon Art and Music Festival being held at the Orlando Brewing Company (Sunday the 18th, starts 1PM, All Day). As I’m writing this I don’t have access to any listings, but I know tickets are $5, and I can give a serious recommendation, as this event is being thrown by Robert and Jonathan from Gamble Records, the folks who brought us the ELLA Music Festival in October. I expect you will see lots of singer-songwriter type acts, and you can trust Robert Johnson’s rolodex to bring you some great music (and art?).

There must be more happening during the next two weeks, but isn’t that enough? Of course, we can’t forget about this Friday (May 16th, 8AM-11AM) and the Likemind Orlando coffee meetup at the Lake Eola Panera Bread. This month there will be free coffee and hopefully a few free copies of a book called Murketing - I don’t have a lot of details about it, but I know the publishers of the book are sponsoring the coffee and snacks all over the US, so they get serious props.

If I’m missing anything here, please leave a shout-out, and I’ll try to include it in the next bulletin. Until next time, have a great May!

Blogging Fringe (or this year, my personal blog and OrlandoScene.TV) will be taking up some time, but I also don’t want to take ALL week off so I can save my pennies. Any thoughts, comments, suggestions?

Tisse, Katrina Priore, Dana Delapi and Becky Lane talk to Ryan Price during BarCamp Orlando 2008.

Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 16

Today at BarCamp I suggested we create a “secret” handshake for Florida Creatives members or people who are involved in the local community.

Here are some suggestions: hugs, peace sign, hang loose, three-fingered wave, etc.

What would you use as the Florida Creatives secret handshake? Record something and post it in the comments!

Sunir Shah and Alex DeCarvalho talk to Ryan Price at BarCampOrlando Dev Day about FreshBooks and ScrapBlog, where each of them are the "Community Guy". We also talk about BarCamp and the aesthetic there vs. a regular conference.

Shameless Links:

• FreshBooks
• ScrapBlog
• BarCampOrlando
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 15

BarCamp Orlando is a weekend for all types of creative folks to come together and share with each other. The event is dubbed an “unconference”, a format which derives power from the people instead of the event organizers or the presenters. Everyone has an equal opportunity to get on stage and speak, teach or lead a discussion, playing off of the idea that at any given conference, the people in the audience have more knowledge collectively than the presenter(s) on stage.

This second installment of BarCamp will be held over 2 days, Saturday and Sunday, April 5th and 6th, in downtown Orlando at the Wall Street complex, from 10AM - 6PM each day. Registration is free, and a registration promises a shirt and lunch on the sponsors of BarCamp, businesses who are passionate about the technology and media communities of Central Florida.

Saturday is the designated “Dev Day”, playing host to everything from web programming to robot building and video game development and everything in between. iPhone hackers, guys with soldering irons, the latest technologies, and plenty that haven’t been realized yet. Every 30 minutes, both venues will have a different talk going on, so if you’re feeling lost in the jargon, apply the “rule of 2 feet” and check out what’s happening in the other room!

Sunday is dubbed “Media Day”, and is the place for storytellers, journalists, writers, designers, filmmakers, musicians, 2D and 3D artists, podcasters, bloggers and social networkers to show off their work, share their tricks or talk about the state of the industry. From 12 to 1 we will be talking about the “Past, Present and Future of Media in Central Florida”, hoping to give our community a sense of our story, and where we’re headed.

Registration is free, and the event runs from 10AM - 6PM both days with a lunch break at 1PM. The event will be housed in Slingapour’s and One-Eyed-Jack’s, with Wall St Cantina acting as our “hallway”. There will be projectors and microphones, chairs and a space to speak. All you have to do is write your name on the whiteboard and you get 20-25 minutes to share your passions with a group of energetic, engaged geeks and creatives. I would not use the words “captive audience” to describe the BarCamp crowd, because they all want to get involved.

Visit www.barcamporlando.org today and register for Dev Day, Media Day or both days. Wall Street Plaza is at 18 Wall Street Plaza, Orlando, FL 32801 - barcamporlando.org/where has a map to the venue and information about parking.

Abani, a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, will speak about “Human Rights in Politics and Art” at 3 p.m. in the Cape Florida Ballroom, room 316, of the Student Union. The event is free and open to the public. Details here.

• Florida Creatives @ Enzian FilmSLAM (2008/03/09)

  Second Sundays, Enzian has an event for local Florida filmmakers to showcase their work. It costs just $5 to get in, and you get to see a half-dozen or so new short films. At the end you get to vote on which one you think should get shown at the Brouhaha Grand Slam in December. Enzian even has food and drinks available because they don’t want to hear grumbling tummies over the films.

  Then we go across the street to Copper Rocket - you meet some filmmakers, some filmmakers meet all of us, we have fun.

  FilmSlam - 3/9 1PM at Enzian
  Happy Hour - 3/9 3PM at Copper Rocket

• Florida Creatives @ OMA First Thursdays (2008/03/06)

  On the first Thursday of the month, the Orlando Museum of Art opens their galleries up late and has a themed exhibit in the front room - the theme this month is “Beat-niks & Bongos: Abstract Art”. I believe admission is $9 for non-members. There are food and drinks available for additional monies. 3/6 6-9PM at Loch Haven Park

  First Thursdays are also when Dandelion CommuniTEA has their art openings, immediately following First Thursday. Dandelion is behind Colonial Photo and Hobby on Mills (they are on Thornton).

• Coworking Tuesdays

  This is a new event that will hopefully coalesce itself into tradition in the coming months. Anyone who works out of their living room is invited to work outside their living room by joining some other folks in the same boat every Tuesday… somewhere. A regular location will emerge, I’m sure. We had settled on B&S Daily Market, but Manny has admitted defeat and closed up shop. Watch this space, the Coworking Wiki and Coworking Mailing List for more details.

• Florida Creatives Happy Hour (2008/03/17)

  Yes, it comes around so quickly, doesn’t it? We get together at the Crooked Bayou every month from 6-9 PM so you always have a place to meet new people and catch up with folks. It’s important to our community to have these Third Places (not home or work/school) to gather and visit. If you’ve never been or you feel like it’s been too ling since you’ve been around, there’s never a better time to make a habit of attending.

  This is the last Florida Creatives before BarCampOrlando goes down on April 5th & 6th, so you’ll want to attend if you’re interested in assisting with planning activities, passing out fliers or doing any other publicity. I also believe that will be the last week to find sponsors.

Jason Hawkins is a winner. We’ve featured his SOLMI videos here before, and now he’s creating lots of video for other folks in town. I dig his motion graphics, camera work, and the way he (or his camera) captures color.

Also, props to Jason Seifer. Kissy face? Nice work, broseph.

On a very serious note, if you’re reading this blog, you should make plans to go to BarCampOrlando and do a presentation - if you’ve got short films, this is a great captive audience to show them in front of - 20 minute time slots. If you do a podcast or vlog, work in television, motion graphics, design, or anything of the sort, the second day in particular will be of interest to you and you should really sign up to present. As I said on my blog about BarCamp:

I’m recruiting presenters and attendees for the New Media Day. Be there, bring your A-game. (your B-game is equally welcome)

At the last event, I think everyone’s understanding that there were going to be some crazy awesome presentations as well as some mediocre ones was not very solid. I spoke to a few people who presented and said “I thought I was going to be all by myself in a room with like 5 guys all scratching their chins, but I was SO wrong”, the other half of them said “I thought about presenting, but I didn’t think I was ‘good enough’, but then I saw it was just a bunch of guys like me, so I’m going to blow them all out of the water this time”.

Really, those are you only two options. You should have either presented at last year’s BarCamp, or decided that you were definitely presenting at the next one. If you weren’t there, then take my word for it and create a presentation. Really.

If you’d like to see your Orlando Video here, email < liberatr AT gmail DOT com >.

Cheers to Dan Benjamin for giving some of the geekier kids in Central Florida an excuse to eat a healthy lunch yesterday at Power House Café in Winter Park.

lunch_fu is often announced via twitter, but also shows up on Facebook and Upcoming as well, so there are lots of ways to get notified. Meagan Fisher normally posts the invites, so watch her posts as well as Dan’s for whispers of upcoming lunches.

There’s even a fun mascot. You gotta love that.

If you notice from Bill Couch’s photo - the turnout was substantial - the folks at Power House were none too pleased with us pushing 6 tables together. This event is organized in an informal ad-hoc fashion - yet still garners a large following - there is room in this community for more events. Florida Creatives wants to help.

Also worth taking a look at is the coworking event happening every Tuesday in Winter Park called Cup-O-Code. Folks show up around 7PM and sit in the meeting room to work, catch up, have some coffee and enjoy the accommodations at Cup O’ Soul in Winter Park. Ample parking and free wireless.

Watch this space and the Florida Creatives Mailing List for an announcement about an event after next month’s Enzian FilmSlam. The Enzian event starts at 1:00PM and is always finished by 3, so we will be migrating from the theatre to a nearby location for some conversation and refreshments.

When I had finished writing the email, I realised the opportunity to add a creative guide to the FLCreatives Wiki. The idea with this is that any of our members can write or re-post a how-to, something they feel might be useful to folks browsing for information, sort of the ultimate FAQ for Florida Creatives. Because it’s listed on the wiki, other folks can edit and re-structure the guides to make them more useful, or add pictures, video, slideshows, web links and more useful or up-to-date information.

The first such guide I wrote was a re-posting of my talking points from BarCamp Orlando and BlogOrlando about Podcasting Theory. I don’t think this has received any edits since October, but the wiki makes it easy to find out - every page keeps a full history of all the edits and who made them.

Here’s today’s new creative guide: Getting into Florida Film

Right now the first part of this guide mentions that there’s a Film Industry Professionals Meetup (7PM) tonight at McRaney’s Tavern on Fairbanks Ave - that’s one of the first edits that should be made, of course, because normally they meet on the Second Thursday of the month, not Wednesdays. I just posted the text as it was in the email.

Please help us have a great resource for folks new to town, students or just curious people by adding your own Creative Guides to the list. We’re the locals, so we have a different way of noticing what’s important, we’ve been in the trenches.

I also edited a few pages - like the Orlando Networking, Orlando Events and Orlando Resources lists. Almost anything that deserves a bullet point on this wiki deserves a full wiki page, so that’s another way to contribute - write up the history of your group or a place you like to visit in town. I promise to give it a feature here on the blog and in the mailing list.

Every third Friday, likeminded kids all over the world get together to have coffee, wear nametags and have good conversations. That means this Friday, and that means that between 8 and 11 AM we’ll be enjoying Manny’s hospitality at the B&S Daily Market. As for myself, I’ll be at Likemind in London, participating in a very similar experience, 5 hours earlier in the day.

On Monday, our Florida Creatives Happy Hour comes around once again. Between 6 and 9 PM the Crooked Bayou will serve us up with fried pickles, tater tots, beers, gumbo, po boys and lots of other cajun-influenced treats.

If you’ve never been, or if you came months ago (or over a year ago), now is a great time to get in the habit of attending regularly.

The video I want to focus on is a talk give by Dan Hill, who is a design, web, media, city, travel, culture, architecture, music, creative type of fellow. He takes several ideas and mashes them up to make you think about a world where you measure your usage of resources, and the possible logical ends of those measurements. You really have to watch the video to get the meaning. Go on, click the link and come back, I’ll wait… It’s a little over 10 minutes, just to warn you.

The Well-Tempered Personal Environment: Chucking social software at your local energy sources, giving you a personal energy profile, which can then be aggregated to your street, your mates, your neighbourhood, your region, your city etc.

They start playing “These boots are made for walking” because he’s passed his 10-minute time limit - each talk at InterestingSouth is between 3 and 10 minutes. The event is only one night, and doesn’t take very long, but I’m sure everyone walks away with a head full of new ideas, inspiration and questions.

I’m interested to see what people can think of once we collect 5 years worth of that data, or 25 years. After a century, the world will be in a completely different place. Who knows what our great grandchildren will have moved on to then?

Dan’s blog post about The Well-Tempered Personal Environment

See the ‘Facebook App’ slide from the talk

Welcome to Johannes, Ian, Tom, Mike and any other new people I may have missed. If you are new, please subscribe to the mailing list so we can update you about next month’s meeting on the 18th.

I hear the CFLBars folks were there - I’m sorry I missed you.

If you read this before Tuesday the 22nd, be sure to go check out an evening with monochrom, 8PM at Redlight Redlight in Winter Park. DJ is dr.xnlb (aka Eric Marden). Johannes will be covering a “potpourri” of his past art projects in Austira and all over the world.

We also had some nice talks about BarCamp coming up in April. Put it on your to-do list: get on the mailing list, help us find sponsors, and/or just put your name on the list, there are lots of ways to help.

P.S. Gavin Baker (pictured) would like to announce Copynight Orlando, happening tomorrow night, 7pm, Tuesday the 22nd at Stardust. “CopyNight is a monthly social gathering of people interested in restoring balance in copyright law. We meet over drinks once a month in many cities to discuss new developments and build social ties between artists, engineers, filmmakers, academics, lawyers, and many others.”

Gavin founded CopyNight in Gainesville, so he’s got some experience. If you want to know about future events, subscribe to the mailing list.

Monday, January 21, 2008
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Crooked Bayou
50 E Central Blvd #D
Orlando, FL

Yes, it’s the first month of the new year, but the holiday hangovers are a long-gone memory. It’s just the right time to head downtown for a drink!

Come meet some new people, catch up with old friends and get a clue about what’s going on in the coming year.

IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO FLORIDA CREATIVES NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME. It’s the start of a new year, and one of your resolutions should be to “Get out more”, “Meet new people in my field”, “Follow up with the people I swapped business cards with a few months ago”. If you feel you’re doing fine in all these areas, INVITE SOME FRIENDS.

Don’t experience Florida Creatives through a second-hand account - like a boyfriend or an intern - the event exists for you to attend, you are meant to participate, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. All of us are doing amazing things, and we all hold great potential, and mixing things up, rearranging the pieces, and otherwise adding catalysts to a beaker full of volatile chemicals can only be seen as a good thing. The problem is, our community contains so many different ingredients, and we have barely begun to scratch the surface. Make 2008 the year you got off your duff and became part of the solution.

The FLCreatives Wiki is starting to take shape, but you can help! Create an account or edit anonymously. Add something about one of your friends, and ask them to add something about you! If you think we’re missing a category or a metro area, go ahead and add a new page.

Florida Creatives is a networking group currently serving Central Florida and looking to expand to schools and other metro areas. Membership is comprised of people who pursue creative activities for work or pleasure. Each month we get together to discuss what we do, share stories, make connections, catch up with friends and have a drink.

Beth praises the Parliament House, saying “No other bar in town has been anywhere near as successful in doing so to showcase theatre.”

She also gives us a great run-down of what to expect from the community in the next month.

Upcoming Things to do, audition for, see, participate in etc…

On a daily basis- please vote for Jamesson so he can be the Universe’s Prettiest&Smartest Model~

Vote for Raven to be on- How To Look good Naked~

Join me at GLO tomorrow nite [Monday the 15th] for the VIP preview (and presentation of my iPHONE) at The Wayburn Sassy’s SCREW YOU REVIEW on I-DRIVE~ let me know if you want to come!!! Show is at 6:30pm.

Sign up to Audition for Tod Kimbro’s new Sci-Fi Musical Rock spectacular produced by me, directed by John Didonna, choreography by BLUE on Jan. 19th -email me at producer@orlandofringe.org to book an appointment.
Show is July 11-22nd at Orlando Shakes!

Go to PLAYFEST begining Feb. 8th at Orlando Shakes!
(I highly recommend OPUS)

Come see Play-In-A-Day produced by me at PLAYFEST on Feb. 11th at 7pm.

Come to my Fringe Yapinars at PLAYFEST- How to Produce a Fringe Show 101 and How To Tour the Fringe Circuit 102 on Sunday the 10th and Sunday the 17th at 2pm.

SAVE THE DATE FOR FAB FRINGE- MONDAY MARCH 3rd at Orlando Shakes!~

Now back to packing and if I am lucky- I will sneak out and see JUNO tonite [Sunday].

Ps- If you want to buy and ad in The Fringe program-now is the time!

Thanks to Gregg and Jason and everyone else who helped put this video and this conference together. If I’ve worked the emails properly, I’ll be organizing and promoting the famed “media day”, and hosting another photowalk through College Park (or wherever BarCamp April happens).

P.S. Mark Krupinski has an opening for .NET Developers - if you or someone you know is looking for work, check it out.

Second I have to mention the BarCamp planning party Saturday, Jan. 12th. Gregg Pollack and his wife are opening up their home to us again to discuss possibilities for a second BarCamp this spring. Check out BarCampOrlando.com for details.

I am very excited about this next event. Johannes Grenzfurthner, better known as a member of the Austiran art collective monochrom are visiting Orlando and they’re hosting an event at Redlight Redlight on Tuesday, Jan. 22nd. According to Ian Monroe (Orlando Weekly), if you’ve never heard of monochrom, “then you haven’t
been paying attention.” He’s quite right. He copied several links to their far-reaching and thought-provoking work in a recent email that was copied to the Florida Creatives mailing list (you are a subscriber, right?) I invite you to check them out and DO NOT MISS this event.

We also have our likemind.orl coffee hour on Friday, Jan. 18th at B & S Daily Market from 8-11AM. Coffee is sponsored, and Manny also has treats, magazines, hot dogs and pressed sandwiches. This event is centered a bit more around coworking instead of socializing, but plenty of that happens as well.

A similar type event happens in Winter Park every Tuesday: Cup-O-Code. This event was started by Mike G of CFPHP (but he’s left us for greener pastures in NYC), and happens every Tuesday from 7-9PM or as long as Steve lets us use their private conference room.

Also very cool and happening this month are two events that relate to the creative process: one in advertising and the other in theatre.

AD2 Orlando (Young Professionals in Advertising) is hosting and event January 9th at the Orlando Sentinel called From Concept to Completion. Featuring local agencies Fry Hammond Bar and Knight, they will “re-live the experience of creating the project from start to finish, including how various elements of the campaign were developed and produced.” The whole thing gets kicked off at 6PM. RSVP required.

The Mad Cow Theatre is hosting an Inspiration Salon with the creative team behind their upcoming production, Life is a Dream, a classic play from Spain. Join Artistic Director Alan Bruun, the cast of Life is a Dream, and special guests Rob and Tara Anderson, who have produced shows like Urinetown, Sweeney Todd, and She Loves Me. Tickets are $5.

If I’m forgetting something huge, please let me know. If you have something you want plugged to the creative community, we’re listening.

P.S. I also just found an event via the AIGA Orlando site (graphic design) called Re:Solutions ‘Day Conference’. It’s $80 if you’re not a member of the group, but it features “Publix’ Tim Cox—mastermind behind the store’s brand redesign and the award-winning designers from Mucca Design/NYC.”

Re:Solutions takes place this Saturday on the Fullsail Campus. Also featured: “Thomas Scott of Eye Noise will go beyond the dropdown font menu, demonstrating techniques to create vintage hand lettering styles using Adobe Illustrator. Cassi Willard of Full Sail will present an Intellectual Property Seminar and rockstar photographer Brook Pifer will also be on hand with a tantalizing display of her most recent work.”

P.P.S. Please check out Mark Baratelli’s awesome Orlando Arts Blog for events like this. Really.

One of the goals of Florida Creatives is to open a similar space in Orlando. We can’t do it without your help.

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January 5th, 2008 saw the first New Media Think and Drink at Redlight Redlight in Winter Park. Host Ryan Price talks to Orlando radio personality and part-time podcasting teacher Steve Smith about the podcasting and New Media program at Orlando Tech at the Orlando Centroplex.

Shameless Links:

• Orlando Tech Podcasting Classes
• Orlando Podcaster Meetup
• Now Live Social Podcasting
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 12

Thanks to Jim Hathaway and Bill Couch for uploading these photos to our Florida Creatives Flickr Pool. I tagged a few of the pics with names in case you forgot, but I think you have to look at them on the actual Flickr page, so please do so.

Thanks to Redlight Redlight for hosting this event - even more thanks to everyone who showed up and especially those who invited a friend, even if you weren’t able to make it down there yourself. Without you folks bringing in the fresh warm bodies, these events couldn’t happen.

Also thanks to Jim for having his camera out at so many of our events. If we ever have a group historian, I’d like to nominate Jim.

P.S. as this is a slideshow of the entire photo pool, the first photos on the list will not always be from the New Media Think and Drink on January 5th, 2008 - but going to the group page and sifting through the archives will help.

January 5th, 2008 saw the first New Media Think and Drink at Redlight Redlight in Winter Park. Host Ryan Price talks to Tampa DJ and podcast host Steve Weaver about his Sonic Gumbo podcast and some podcasts and services Steve likes.

Shameless Links:

• Sonic Gumbo Podcast
• Podsafe Music Resources
• FLCreatives Wiki
• Florida Creatives on iTunes

Download Show 11

Raffa and Rainer is an acoustic duet out of Miami, and they were performers in Orlando’s ELLA Music Fesitval in October 2007. In this video they tell Becky how they got together and a little about their weekly open mic at Churchill’s Pub in Miami. The ELLA (Elevate, Listen, Love, Apprieciate) festival was a celebration of female singer/songwriters and female fronted bands from Florida. Raffa and Rainer are just one of the 10 acts who performed at the ELLA Fest. Subscribe to OrlandoScene.TV to get updated when new videos are posted.

More videos coming out every week on Miro and iTunes. If you’d like to get involved by suggesting an event or venue for us to highlight, get in touch with us at OrlandoScene.TV - thanks for watching.