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"Calling him a go-getter would be an understatement. This guy works day and night seven days a week -- and loves it."
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Reporter: You've been labeled a futurist; would you consider yourself an optimist?"I don't believe in optimism," [Ray Bradbury] explained. "I believe in optimal behavior. That's a different thing. If you behave every day of your life to the top of your genetics, what can you do? Test it. Find out. You don't know what you can do. You haven't done it yet. So that's optimal behavior. And when you behave that way you have a feeling of optimism. You see, there's a difference. Not to be optimistic, but to behave optimally. At the top of your lungs shout and listen to the echoes."
Thursday, November 15, 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
The International Square Center
1850 K Street, NW Suite 250 - Atrium Terrace
RSVP by November 12 : rsvp[at]capitolpechakucha[dot]org
Network and draw inspiration :
10 presenters x 20 images x 20 seconds
For more information - www.pecha-kucha.org
info[at]capitolpechakucha[dot]org
Pecha Kucha or Pecha Kucha Night is a presentation format in which (mostly creative) work can be easily and informally shown. It was originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. The format has spread virally to many cities across the world.
The name derives from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation ("chit-chat").
Pecha Kucha (pronounced peh-chak-cha) was started in Tokyo, Japan in February 2003 by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham as a designers' show and tell event to attract more people to SuperDeluxe, their multi-media experimental event space they had set up in Roppongi.[1]
The idea behind Pecha Kucha is to keep presentations concise, the interest level up and to have many presenters sharing their ideas within the course of one night. Therefore the 20x20 Pecha Kucha format was created: each presenter is allowed a slideshow of 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each. This results in a total presentation time of 6 minutes 40 seconds on a stage before the next presenter is up. Each event usually has 14 presenters. Presenters (and much of the audience) are usually from the design, architecture, photography, art and creative fields, but recently it has also streched over to the business world.
The demand for a place in the city to informally show and share one's work seems to be global - proven by the fact that the event format has been replicated in over 80 cities streching over every continent[2]. Events are usually limited to one each month per city.
Well-known presenters have included the architects Jun Aoki, Toyo Ito, Rem Koolhaas, designers such as Tom Dixon, Ron Arad, Thomas Heatherwick but also comedians such as Johnny Vegas, actress Joanna Lumley or BBC newscaster Jon Snow.
There are actually no restrictions on the type of content that could be presented. Some organizers have added their own variations to the format. In Groningen, in the Netherlands, two slots are given to a live band, and the final 20 seconds of each presentation consists of an immediate critique of the presentation by the host’s sidekicks. Video art has also been presented at some events.
The 20x20 format of Pecha Kucha is now also being adopted in the business world, with some company internal business presentations being run in a strict 6 minutes 40 seconds, with all discussion and questions held to the end of the presentation. This is primarily a device to help timebox presentations, force presenters to be more focused in their message, allow them to flow uninterrupted, and ultimately to avoid the "death by powerpoint" syndrome, of sitting through long and often tedious powerpoint presentations.
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I don’t know about you, but I’d like to learn a little more about that Drinking Liberally group.
– Ex-White House adviser Karl Rove
Karl Rove and Max Cleland spoke to over 100 online political consultants today in Washington, DC during Yahoo's The Rise of Citizen 2.0 event. Yahoo's Citizen 2.0 crowd was the politico set.. Leslie, Jon Henke Bill Beutler and I, got to the Willard Hotel around 1:30.The only phrase I identified with on the screen was Drinking Liberally.
– Ex-Senator Max Cleland (D-Georgia)
The event started with a Yahoo ad sales guy talking a little too excitedly about internet stats.. then he introduces a very talented ethnographer. this kid was like 30yrs old with a thick english accent. he presented some great video testimonials from people all around the country talking about politics. We heard a range of people discuss how blogs and social media and the internet shaped their opinions.. some great stuff was shown.. It makes me want to do some ethnography studies myself.. (mental note, research ethnography strategy) One of the scenes profiled was filmed in a mid west chapter of the democratic group "drinking liberally". everyone else profiled was like in their house on the sofa with no noise in the background and it was like this really nice polished interview format. When the people from this group were talking about idealistic political strategies they were slightly red nosed, holding a wine glass.. it was rather amusing and the topic of many jokes moving forward.
• Summit Series: “Yahoo Citizen 2.0: Radically Rethinking Democracy in the Digital Age”
– Thursday, November 8, 2007, The Willard Intercontinental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW
– 1:00 Registration opens; 2:00-5:00 Presentation, Cocktail reception follows
• Themes
– Research: Citizen 2.0 – Research looks at citizen participation in democracy, and the internet’s influence on the political process.
– Thought-Leadership, moderated by Neil Budde, Executive Editor News, Sports and Finance, Yahoo!
• Mr. Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff (2001-2007)
• The Honorable Senator from Georgia, Max Cleland (1997-2003)
See you there!!
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