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Tisse, Katrina Priore, Dana Delapi and Becky Lane talk to Ryan Price during BarCamp Orlando 2008.
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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!
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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.
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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.
Chris Abani, an exiled Nigerian author and human rights activist, will speak Thursday, March 6, at UCF.
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.
Every month, tons of events happen in Orlando. We post lots of them on this site, and sometimes people attend. This month, our group or our members are planning some cool things:
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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).
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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.
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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.
On Friday, February 29th 2008, Orlando's celebrated performance artist, Brian Feldman will leap off of a 12-foot platform every 4 minutes, for a total of 366 leaps, falling a total of 4,392 feet or 0.83 miles in all.
The piece was designed for Leap Year Day because it is an extra day in the year, to make people think: "How are you spending your 1,440 minutes?"
Brian is searching for volunteers; visit www.BrianFeldman.com for information.
Featuring the scenic and lighting design of Curtiss Lee Mitchell and sound design by Jason Kupfer. Also appearing in this video is Terry Olson, Director of Arts & Cultural Affairs for Orange County.
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.
April 2008 BarCampOrlando @ Wall Street Plaza, April 5th & 6th
View Video on Vimeo.
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 wrongâ€Â, 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 timeâ€Â.
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.
Today a friend of mine sent me an email asking him to help him find some resources (like money) for a film project he’s working on. I thought, as I often do, that the best way to chase down opportunities like making money is to get involved with the community. Therefore, I got him in touch with several film types, and pointed him to some film resources with a brief explanation of why he should get involved.
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.
This video belongs to the InsterestingSouth event that was held in Sydney, Australia on November 22nd, 2007. There was a fun talk by Juan Mann, the Free Hugs guy, who was looking for a free place to live at the time, and some other talks by some wonderful creative and informed people.
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.
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
What a great event. Networking wins, and on a holiday.
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.
In Beth’s latest MySpace blog, she leaves a review for the play currently at the Parliament House’s Lightfoot Theater The Little Dog Laughed (directed by David Lee).
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!