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'''May 1st, 2013''' | |||
performance at Berkeley Museum!!!! | |||
How can we showcase the creativity of sudo room members? | |||
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There's a public school modern dance session with a smart, perceptive teacher. She comes in Sundays and I sat in on a dance class with her. Damn! that chick is so cool. She destroys every negative stereotype about dancers. She was into exploring bones and bone structure in her dance lesson, and was all about body awareness. All the guys in her class were so open-minded and neat. An all male dance troupe of guys that dances totally better than all the women! men putting their bodies on display! the gender bending implications and innovation are endless! A dancer focused on anatomy! ah yeah! | There's a public school modern dance session with a smart, perceptive teacher. She comes in Sundays and I sat in on a dance class with her. Damn! that chick is so cool. She destroys every negative stereotype about dancers. She was into exploring bones and bone structure in her dance lesson, and was all about body awareness. All the guys in her class were so open-minded and neat. An all male dance troupe of guys that dances totally better than all the women! men putting their bodies on display! the gender bending implications and innovation are endless! A dancer focused on anatomy! ah yeah! | ||
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''You can do this stuff, there are no rules, and I'm sure some people will try to be wise guys. But like the idea of letting random people sleep at Noisebridge, break these anti patterns and massive boringness will occur. Your eyes will glaze over. People will fall asleep and become disengaged. It will stop being sudo room and become like so many other soulless, empty "tech" events that we encounter in Silicon Valley.'' | ''You can do this stuff, there are no rules, and I'm sure some people will try to be wise guys. But like the idea of letting random people sleep at Noisebridge, break these anti patterns and massive boringness will occur. Your eyes will glaze over. People will fall asleep and become disengaged. It will stop being sudo room and become like so many other soulless, empty "tech" events that we encounter in Silicon Valley.'' | ||
Pulling in too many readymade projects with readymade ideas made by other people in a way that inhibits the creativity of the group. | Pulling in too many readymade projects with readymade ideas made by other people not part of sudo room in a way that inhibits the creativity of the group. | ||
Involving a professional dance troupe ( too often they're just interested in promoting themselves instead of creatively interacting with the artists) | Involving a professional dance troupe ( too often they're just interested in promoting themselves instead of creatively interacting with the artists) | ||
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turning this into a free PR event for a Palo Alto start-up... I've seen this happen a lot. They show up, try to co-opt the excitement, promote their "fitness" start-up, then vanish later on like a bad one-night stand. Will they still be there tomorrow when we need our wires fixed? | turning this into a free PR event for a Palo Alto start-up... I've seen this happen a lot. They show up, try to co-opt the excitement, promote their "fitness" start-up, then vanish later on like a bad one-night stand. Will they still be there tomorrow when we need our wires fixed? | ||
Showcasing platforms from major corporations and pitting them against each other (''oh Android is so much more open source than apple even though android isn't open source deep down inside!'') There's a time and place | Showcasing platforms from major corporations and pitting them against each other (''oh Android is so much more open source than apple even though android isn't open source deep down inside!'') There's a time and place for that and that is corporate trade shows like CES | ||
for that and that is corporate trade shows like CES | |||