We are pleased to announce the monthly “5 Minutes of Fame”, scheduled for this Thursday, July 15th, at 8pm at Noisebridge ( 2169 Mission St. @ 18th ). Bring yourself, your friends, your pet alien, and phallic silicone objects to throw at the speakers.
All speakers have been notified, and the current schedule is as follows*:
Before Christ:
The Strange and Wonderful World of Tentacle Porn (Mario)
On Dumbness (Al Sweigart)
How to talk about the weather to pasty white guys at 108Mbit (dr_jesus)
Puppetry for Monkeys (Miah)
Five Minutes of Flail (Sai Emrys)
Anno Domini:
Help Noisebridge get some Balls (Ani Niow)
Food Hacking at Noisebridge – Let’s Bubble! (Frantisek Apfelbeck)
Resistor Codes (DrShiny)
Calculus for Dummies (John Waters)
And now a word from our sponsors (aestetix)
I want to extend thanks to all the speakers, but especially all the people who have been showing up and make this event a success. Without all of you, it would not be able to happen.
Hephaestus
*schedule is subject to change, although the date/time/location will remain the same.
It’s that time again! We are accepting submissions for the next 5 Minutes of Fame event that will take place on July 15th, 2010 at 8pm at Nosebridge (2169 Mission @ 18th).
Because I cannot make this month due to the HOPE Conference in New York City, our good friend Hephaestus is going to be hosting the July month. To remove all doubt, we put him through a rite of passage last month, and he completed it summa cum laude.
So…. to submit, all you have to do is use our contact form with the name or handle you’d like to use, and the talk title. Please use the drop down selection of “submit a talk” so we can sort it properly.
For more information about the event, check out the FAQ.
We are pleased to announce the monthly “Five Minutes of Fame”, scheduled for this Thursday, June 17th, at 8pm at Noisebridge. Bring yourself, your friends, your pet alien, and ping pong balls to throw at the speakers.
All speakers have been notified, and the current schedule is as follows*:
As Above:
“The 7 Habits of Terrible Presenters” (Josh Berkus)
“Fairy Juicer Robot” (davidfinedavidfinedavidfine)
“East African Ge’ez syllabary” (Rachel McConnell)
“Did Eric Clapton Lose His Timing in One or Two Popular Songs?” (Bill Nye)
“Reinventing The Tapestry” (Quirk)
So Below:
“Facial Feminization Surgery: one account” (Mikolaj Habryn)
“Five Minute Press Release” (AJ Cook)
“Evolve or Die” (Christie Dudley)
“Basically an Excuse to Show Pictures of my Robots” (Jonathan Foote)
“Artikulator” (Mike Rotondo and Luke Iannini)
I want to extend thanks to all the speakers, but especially all the people who have been showing up and make this event a success. Without all of you, it would not be able to happen.
aestetix
*schedule is subject to change, although the date/time/location will remain the same.
It’s that time again! We are accepting submissions for the next 5 Minutes of Fame event that will take place on June 17, 2010 at 8pm at Nosebridge (2169 Mission @ 18th).
To submit, all you have to do is use our contact form with the name or handle you’d like to use, and the talk title. Please use the drop down menu of “submit a talk” so we can sort it properly.
For more information about the event, check out our FAQ.
This might be my favorite intro video yet. The energy I feel from it is about at the same level as the September 2009 video we made, the first “serious” one. A lot of stuff just fell into the right place.
The first video, “Lord and Lady Douchebag”, is, besides one of the funniest SNL skits I have ever seen, a great satire on notions of tradition, language, and conceptual inheritance. Because my grandmother recently passed, I’d been thinking a lot about tradition, and what family means, and this video hit home in every way possible. Where do objects and ideas get their names? What do names and words even mean? This gets really Matrix-y when you think about it for a while, which is why I feel it’s really important to poke fun at it. After all, if you get too wrapped up in rules, tradition, and regulation, first you start battles, then you forget what they were about in the first place.
The second video was partly me trolling the whole audience of 5MoF, and partly a satire on war (isn’t that what Star Wars is about?). I felt this would reach a lot of people, because it is, to quote a friend, “a female chewbacca taking cooking lessons”. And with this, I can say that I made Noisebridge watch an entire segment of the Star Wars Holiday Special, a film so forbidden that even George Lucas disavows it.
There is a brief message with a “disclaimer”. It actually opens with the words “FOR MADMEN ONLY”, which I took from the Herman Hesse book Steppenwolf. I won’t give too much away about that, but Steppenwolf is an amazing exploration of the multiple selves within oneself. Then it continues with message warning people about potentially intense graphic images, where I tried to imitate Vonnegut’s writing style as much as possible. And of course, the mention of Kilgore Trout, so that if someone saw the video and wanted to know more, they would be able to ask “Who is Kilgore Trout?”
The final video is one of the first “experiment” pieces we’ve done. This started out with me thinking “Wow, I want to find a short film version of Vonnegut’s ‘Harrison Bergeron’ and show it to the audience, because it’s such a great story. I mean, I was raised on Vonnegut. But after looking through a good half dozen videos, I couldn’t find anything good enough. It would either be true to the story (and thus not make sense to people who hadn’t read it), or depart enough that it lost its meaning. So I had to look to a more general theme, when I found a “video” of Vonnegut narrating one of my favorite pieces, the opening chapter to ‘Breakfast of Champions’. I then decided that we needed to create our own video, and found a video with images from the Manhattan Project and WW2 that fit perfectly with it. It wound up being an amazing juxtaposition of satire of war against the ill effects of war.
Structure without question leads to war without purpose, which leads to needless harm and death. That’s really the whole point of this, which is why the ending of Dr. Strangelove was so perfect. I’m a huge Kubrick fan, and ending with this 5MoF logo sequence sealed the deal. E Pluribus Unum.
