Just a reminder for our Chicago readers that TALK20 is tonight at 6pm at Crown Hall. Come out and see Archinect's own Chief Editor John Jourden present, among many others. This event is ADD friendly. Previously
Thanks to Jean Jourden for being the most interesting in what was an otherwise fairly lame set of speakers.
I found the art institute spekers couragous in their closing line..."do we dare say beauty?" finally a technorati who would like to humanize the machine, not use it fill a house with balloons. The place for techno babble is philosophy, not architecture.
Between the standard architecture of portability presentation which is a horse thats been beaten to death and back, and has yet to actualy show us any buildings, and the martin felson self loving retrospective, my most memorable impresion was that of the dirty spline ceiling of Crown Hall and the reverberating din of glass beer bottles hitting the terazzo floor.
But I rest assured knowing that our fine architectural institutions are safely in control of disconnected and disallusioned academics who seem to be developing a demensia to the real world. Maybe one day they'll actually get to live in 2nd life, and leave the physical world for the rest of us.
I'd like to add that bytes and electrons streaming back and forth between my desktop and the archinect servers are every bit a part of the physical world we inhabit and follow the same laws of physics and order as everyone of us. It was refreshing to see Jean's showcase of the site, it's journalistic format, and it's impact on the disemination of ideas as indicated in the Gross point charrette, without elevating the electron over the human but rather pointing out how its serving us.
ok, just saw on the site that its in multiple cities... but seems to be exact same concept and rules as Pecha Kucha. are there any differences? I'm asking because a friend and I are talking about starting Pecha Kucha in the Detroit area, but maybe Talk20 is a better alternative?
according to the one of the peoples from TALK20, they tried to contact the people from Pecha Kucha to start something in Philadelphia but never were contacted until they already had a few of their own events so they stuck with their own version...
Talk 20 is a direct copy of Pecha Kucha.
I organise Pecha Kucha in New York and had no trouble getting in touch with Mark Dytham, who started it in Tokyo. I am sure the PK family would want to have Detroit be part of the global network. Send me an email, and i get you hooked up with Mark
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Thanks to Jean Jourden for being the most interesting in what was an otherwise fairly lame set of speakers.
I found the art institute spekers couragous in their closing line..."do we dare say beauty?" finally a technorati who would like to humanize the machine, not use it fill a house with balloons. The place for techno babble is philosophy, not architecture.
Between the standard architecture of portability presentation which is a horse thats been beaten to death and back, and has yet to actualy show us any buildings, and the martin felson self loving retrospective, my most memorable impresion was that of the dirty spline ceiling of Crown Hall and the reverberating din of glass beer bottles hitting the terazzo floor.
But I rest assured knowing that our fine architectural institutions are safely in control of disconnected and disallusioned academics who seem to be developing a demensia to the real world. Maybe one day they'll actually get to live in 2nd life, and leave the physical world for the rest of us.
I'd like to add that bytes and electrons streaming back and forth between my desktop and the archinect servers are every bit a part of the physical world we inhabit and follow the same laws of physics and order as everyone of us. It was refreshing to see Jean's showcase of the site, it's journalistic format, and it's impact on the disemination of ideas as indicated in the Gross point charrette, without elevating the electron over the human but rather pointing out how its serving us.
is this a chicago variation of Pecha Kucha?
ok, just saw on the site that its in multiple cities... but seems to be exact same concept and rules as Pecha Kucha. are there any differences? I'm asking because a friend and I are talking about starting Pecha Kucha in the Detroit area, but maybe Talk20 is a better alternative?
according to the one of the peoples from TALK20, they tried to contact the people from Pecha Kucha to start something in Philadelphia but never were contacted until they already had a few of their own events so they stuck with their own version...
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Talk 20 is a direct copy of Pecha Kucha.
I organise Pecha Kucha in New York and had no trouble getting in touch with Mark Dytham, who started it in Tokyo. I am sure the PK family would want to have Detroit be part of the global network. Send me an email, and i get you hooked up with Mark
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