Date for the Apple Store talk
It'll start at 6pm and could go as late as 9pm, but I should be there a little early to meet and greet some, and down a few shots before the coffee. Now, the idea of all these people driving hours to hear me talk for just a few is a little wiggy, which means the talk itself is going to have to match the absurdity somehow, otherwise it would be a little shameful to have The Cow on the couch projected onto the giant screen.
More details will be forthcoming, as much of it is in flux, but here are some things you may be interested in...
- It's not going to be just me, rather I'm working on having a few Doctor Who types sitting up front with coffee in their hand, working from discussion points.
I'm still putting in who will be in the slots, but know for certain Rentz will be there. I'd like it to be an eclectic group of people you may not have necessarily heard of, but will be glad you have. Working on an ex-Apple guy, and one Mac developer may be flying in as a wildcard. Unfortunately the idea of no pants didn't go over well, and they all just laughed at the idea of KISS makeup. Nobody appreciates KISS anymore.
- The discussion points are going to range from design and usability to DRM and Trusted Computing to how far personal computing has come and how far it needs to go. It'll be all over the place, and while I'll come with my own set of cards for the topics, we'll be stopping and letting the audience ask their own and help direct the conversation, too.
- The site -- and readers from all over who can't make it -- will be represented and included as best I can. My stack of cards will be augmented with your questions, which I'll ask for closer to the date.
- There will hopefully be some form of video you'll be able to download sometime later. I have a camera, but it doesn't exactly have a boom mic and doesn't take externals, so I'm still trying to work that out.
- I fear for what will happen afterwards. The roundtable may well go to 8:30-9pm, but I'm pretty sure there'll be a bunch of people descending upon some unsuspecting establishment afterwards.
We may well have to setup a network of living rooms for people to crash till morning so no one is doing anything stupid. Judging by all these people that simply must buy me a drink, I'll probably need one, as well as a chaperone that makes sure I get to the hospital if it comes to that.
This is either going to be absurdly cool or a complete disaster, but hopefully you'll have a better explanation than "This drunkenbatman guy is giving a talk" as to why you're humping your way there.
Posted by drunkenbatmanAugust 24, 2005, at 12:16 PM
Comments (22)
Posted by: Daniel Morrison at August 24, 2005 12:57 PM
Yeah, no offense but I don't think I'd across state lines just for you. Maybe if I knew you personally.
On the other hand, train tickets are cheap, and something else to do while I'm bumming around the city with local friends is always cool. I'll be there.
Posted by: drunkenbatman at August 24, 2005 12:58 PM
Why not broadcast it live via QuickTime Broadcaster, or somesuch? Worked fine for us at Barcamp.
It's at an Apple Store, which is cool but allowances have to be made. One T1 serves the whole store, as I found out when I looked at someone maybe being iChat'ed in onto the screen.
Posted by: steve at August 24, 2005 01:01 PM
Since Gene Simmons is doing "Rock School", maybe you could do "Drunk School"... where you take some nerdy teetotalers and convert them into raging alcoholics!
Posted by: Adrian at August 24, 2005 01:52 PM
What is the seating limit at the Apple Store? Will it be first come, first serve?
Posted by: Ben Liong at August 24, 2005 07:12 PM
If webcasting isn't possible, how about recording it as a videoblog or even a podcast? I'd like to be there but I'm on the other side of the planet. no dice
Would you do it if I said please? pretty please?
Posted by: jojo at August 24, 2005 08:39 PM
I vote for podcast! Or come to Colorado…
Posted by: Ivan Pan at August 24, 2005 09:30 PM
I vote for videoblog. I want to hear the speech as much as I want to see the audience. Maybe podcast with flickr album. It's fun to see who shows up.
Posted by: Cap'n Hector at August 24, 2005 11:24 PM
Please, please, please record this…I have about a .04% chance of having the time to drive 4,000 miles round-trip to see this speech.
DB, I'd be your devoted[1] love-slave[2] for life[3] if you'll get this on the 'net.
[1] I'll talk to you
[2] I'll get you a drink
[3] If you're in town, not to be more than three drinks in a calendar month except at my own choice.
;-)
Posted by: Art at August 24, 2005 11:24 PM
Documenation -- easy, just have all capable flash mob with their own video cameras. Folks then slap it into .torrents, and away we go. DBM, you can then pull the other recordings in high quality, re-tinker / re-tool as wanted to find suitable shots / sound recordings, to make what you wan tto capture this brilliant / dumb idea for posteriety.
Posted by: cabbey at August 24, 2005 11:30 PM
Somehow I suspect we'll end up with a varient of a covercast for this as a dozen or so folks will all showup with their own cam of some sort (heck, there's at least two demo/play units in every apple store I've ever been in!) and tape their own perspective of the talk. The truely fun part would then be if everyone that tapped it posted their version to the net and various other folks could edit them together... remix covercasts.
Posted by: whurleygrrl at August 24, 2005 11:59 PM
I think you should go on tour and hit Apple Stores in other states. Like Texas. :)
Posted by: Twist at August 24, 2005 11:59 PM
I would also like to see this available as a podcast or a series of them. Maybe one podcast per major topic in order to lessen the server load.
Posted by: Ben Reubenstein at August 25, 2005 01:08 AM
see you there.
Posted by: Other_Matt at August 25, 2005 01:21 AM
Hey! Hey! Hey! Surely someone can show up with their PowerBook/iBook and iPod, and record the whole show with iMovie, then copy it to thier .Mac account for the whole world to download?
Or perhaps not. ;-)
I do have a host setup with some spare disk space and bandwith if hosting is required.
Posted by: Other_Matt at August 25, 2005 01:22 AM
Err, iSight, not iPod. My day for finger to brain communication failure I think.
Posted by: Hao at August 25, 2005 02:10 AM
If we get multiple perspective video recordings, we can do a lot cooler things than remix covercasts... my final computer graphics project involves object recognition, and there are some papers that claim to be able to do simplistic 3-d modeling from multiple 2-d perspective shots (think eye-vision, but more complex than just interpolating between the images), with which you can then do augmented reality. (Imagine inserting a full 3d rendering of the cow in the scene that appears at the right angle from any of the viewpoints. I think lighting would probably have to be adjusted manually, though)
Posted by: Lola at August 25, 2005 07:44 AM
"Judging by all these people that simply must buy me a drink, I'll probably need one, as well as a chaperone that makes sure I get to the hospital...."
In English, we use "that" as a relative pronoun with inanimate objects, and "who" as a relative pronoun with animate objects, as in: "the package that arrived yesterday" and "the man who came to dinner."
In your sentence, when you write "people that simply must buy me a drink" and "a chaperone that makes sure..." it clunks terribly, just as it would if you'd you written "the computer who crashes all the time" or "the book who fell to the floor."
Posted by: losof at August 25, 2005 08:15 AM
this isn't as technically 'beautiful' as one would expect of drunkenblog, but why not just tape it and put it on archive.org? see http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-contribute.php?stage=upload_info for details.
Posted by: Wes Meltzer at August 25, 2005 09:18 AM
It seems to me that I (and several other ATPM staff members) will be there. At least, we're all very enthusiastic. So, this is great! Thanks. And congratulations.
Posted by: Evan Schoenberg at August 25, 2005 09:34 AM
Make sure you bring the video camera to the bar, too :P
Wish I could make it, but middle of the week and a 15 hour drive... bah.
Posted by: Squozen at August 25, 2005 11:23 PM
I definitely want to see this, but I can't quite justify a couple of thousand dollars to fly to the US to see you, much as I'd enjoy it. :)
*Please* get this on tape.
Why not broadcast it live via QuickTime Broadcaster, or somesuch? Worked fine for us at Barcamp.