Tinta Fresca

 Sorry I missed this one.  Big ups to Joel Bush & the Regulars crew.  Drop by Mozart’s on Fridays mornings for great conversations with great folks. 

joelbush:

As part of his building crusade, Dylan Ratigan carried FireflyLED from The Regulars to Jimmy Fallon’s show. Pretty dang cool, eh?

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A Newcomer's Guide to SXSW

wornwhite:

Now that I’ve done SXSW a time or two, it is always interesting that new visitors (or non visitors) think you have to buy a badge or wristband to have a good time that fateful week in March. Definitely not the case. It doesn’t hurt to have one of those, of course, but there are still so…

"30 Most Dynamic Cities in the World" according to The Atlantic

While I agree such listings are a dime a dozen these days, all of my favorites are here: Austin (only US city to make the list), São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, and Guadalajara! 

No better way to spend a Friday morning.

regulars:

Per usual, we enjoyed a good Mozart’s Friday morning. As the crew grew, we moved outside to have more room. Several cool conversations flowed simultaneously.

I caught topics like:

• The Last Days of the San Jose
• the greatness of the Hotel Saint Cecilia
• Gerry Van King, King of 6th Street
• East Austin geography and development
• the current markets for office and industrial space in Austin
• Austin commuter rail
• The Wire
• Manda Bala (trailer above), directed by Jason Kohn
• Mexico, Peru, Chile, Brazil
• Mexico City neighborhoods
• Mexico seemingly falling apart
• traveling Thailand and Southeast Asia
• international business, especially w/r/t different cultures, communication, and norms
• Hernando De Soto’s Mystery of Capital and The Other Path
• The Plaza Accord (1985) and the present, building currency war
• Austin City Limits
• Alex Jones of Infowars (here confronting David Gergen about Bohemian Grove, here in Waking Life)
• the greatness of Austin Cable Access
• The Show With No Name
• the economics and associated temptations of college football
• the UT budget and “putting a price on professors” (here via the WSJ)
• the BCS and anti trust
• McBride’s and Governor Perry
• Concealed carrying
• Bishop John Hines
• Gypsy Picnic
• the history of SXSW (see page 12)

Btw, the link list is the new thank-you note. Thanks, folks. I really dig this thing we’ve got going.

Hasta pronto.

I’ve really been digging the new Roky Erickson record with Okkervil River, which includes a version of this tune.  This clip comes from the documentary “You’re Gonna Miss Me” which tells Roky’s incredible story and of the heroic efforts of his brother, Sumner: http://www.palmpictures.com/film/youre-gonna-miss-me.php.  Highly recommended.

Jorge Drexler loves Austin and Barton Springs

Good piece from DFW on Jorge Drexler, an under-appreciated musical genius and a really nice guy too:

“Along with Brazil’s Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil and Argentina’s Fito Paez, he is arguably the best South American singer-songwriter of his generation.”  True that.

Here’s the lowdown on one of DJ Spooky’s recent projects.  More people need to get hip to DJ Spooky.  His name came up at this week’s gathering of The Regulars at Mozart’s, and most were unfamiliar.  He performed his “Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica” here in Austin last fall at Hogg Auditorium with Austin’s Golden Hornet Project (Disclosure: I work for Texas Performing Arts who presented the show.)

He also has a cool iPhone app if you roll that way.

Check it indeed. 

Tips for putting together a Pecha Kucha/Ignite presentation

Some good suggestions from Felix Jung worth keeping in mind when putting together a presentation, including:

1.  In picking your subject matter, you should feel that you’ve got too much to say.

2.  The slides come after you’ve got an outline down. Know that if you start designing immediately, you risk wasting a great deal of time creating slides that may not end up in your presentation.

3.  The slide should be in addition to, not a summary of, your ideas and concepts.

I’m working on my own first presentation to share with some fellow Regulars.  Looking forward to the exercise.