Ignite Seattle Talks on Video
During this week leading up to Ignite Seattle: 12, we’re going to be posting some of the best videos from previous events!
The first one is from Elan Lee. He is one of the founders of 42 Entertainment, and he when he spoke he told the audience what his thought on people’s lives: “If you’re bored – you’re doing it wrong!”
Tom Music tells us about more than just how he survived cancer. He tells us (in less than five minutes) about how he, the rightful captain of his body, crushed the rebellious and subversive elements within his immune system.
Tom Music is a developer, musician, writer, speaker, and cancer survivor. He blogs about diagnosing and treating his lymphoma at Lymphomartini, and posts life-changing nuggets of wisdom on Twitter as @tommusic.
Once upon a time, Roberto Hoyos was selling products for Apple. Today, he’s selling his own product and his own ideas. Here’s how he did it (in 5 minutes).
In 2006, while working at the Apple store, Roberto Hoyos stumbled into his passion — viral marketer/entrepreneur. His business idea started out as a simple web post with pictures of his latest geeky creation — handmade fleece pillows resembling the Mac OS X icons. The post soon went viral and crashed his website in a matter of hours. Roberto spent a year perfecting the product and eventually, after some social media elbow grease, morphed this arts and crafts project into the worldwide brand now known as Throwboy.
Today Roberto, 28, runs Throwboy out of his Seattle apartment with help from a small staff of family and close friends. You can find Roberto on Twitter @robertohoyos, @throwboy and on the Throwboy blog.
The Oatmeal is one of the top webcomics out there. Matthew talks about creating the site, his ideas and how he drove traffic to it. While sharing his favorite comic strips, he offers up some advice on how to create successful viral marketing campaigns.
Matthew Inman can be found on the Internetz at TheOatmeal.com and on Twitter @Oatmeal. Matthew’s Web site offers many useful tech tips like “What your email address says about your computer skills” and “8 Web sites you need to stop building.”
David’s pitch:
I’ve recently discovered sand-casting, which is a very cheap and very awesome way of casting metal parts at home. You can make your own car parts, robot parts, science projects or artistic sculptures – anything!
During the day, you can find David at Phinney Bischoff Design House where he works as a graphic designer. David creates and sells jewelry on the side – including goldsmithing and custom engagement rings, you can find more about his work at at davidcolecreative.com and in his Flickr feed.
You can find David on Twitter @davidscole.
David’s pitch:
My friends and I spent a few months developing a low cost USB peripheral which allows people with cerebral palsy to use computers. Ill detail our solution, explain our design process and demonstrate how low the bar (financial & technical) really is for getting started with hardware hacking.
David Albrecht is an engineer living in Seattle. David’s company, Prefiat, develops cloud-powered hardware.
How robots have revolutionized ball point pen manufacturing. Without robots we’d still be using pencils! Bah! Who wants pencils?
You can find Scotto Moore on his Web site at scotto.org. His most recent show, “When I Come to My Senses, I’m Alive,” just finished a run at the Annex Theater.
Kathy Gill gives us a humorous look at two wheelers as commuting option and illustrates the need of increasing driver awareness of bicycles, scooters and motorcycles.
Kathy teaches undergraduate digital journalism as well as classes in the Master of Communication in Digital Media program at the University of Washington. You can find Kathy on Twitter @kegill or on her blog at WiredPen.com.
Kathy has been a certified motorcycle safety course instructor for 10 years.
Scotto Moore has been Ignite Seattle’s Artist-In-Residence for the past year. His latest talk was during Global Ignite Week on the future of pens (Remember, horde pens! You will need them in the future). Scotto has released a near-future, sci-fi play with Annex Theatre (map). It’s called “When I Come to My Senses, I’m Alive!“.
As Annex describes it:
“When I Come To My Senses, I’m Alive!” is a near-future sci-fi story about a technological provocateur who invents a method for capturing emotions as digital information, as part of a project to “chart the emotional genome.” She develops a cult following of fans who download her very addictive “emoticlips” – each delivered with cryptic, poetic file names like “the surprise of an unfamiliar memory” – and play them back in hobby-built receiver helmets. The experience is not full blown virtual reality; instead, emotional responses & sensations are triggered, and each fan experiences something unique. A seedy television executive tries to coopt her technology to syndicate the emotions of TV stars, hiring an elite P.I. to figure out what her weaknesses are when she refuses to sell out… but in the meantime, publishing digital versions of her emotions to the internet has unexpected consequences amongst the botnets of the world.
It’s playing the next two weekends on Capitol Hill. I’ve already seen it (and loved it) — you should go too!
Here’s the trailer:
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