Your Pecha Kucha feedback, please.
I’d like to get your opinion on something. You see, I’ve signed up to be a presenter at the next Pecha Kucha Night in Kansas City. For those of you who aren’t familiar with what Pecha Kucha is, it’s a form of pseudo-performance art that centers around PowerPoint. Yes, PowerPoint.
As a presenter, I get to use 20 slides that will auto-advance every 20 seconds. That’s six minutes of presenting on any topic I want. ANY TOPIC.
I did some brainstorming today and came up with 10 ideas. I’d like to bounce them off you and get your take. Maybe everyone sees one idea that’s perfect for me to focus on. Maybe a new idea is born through feedback. In any event, I appreciate your thoughts.
Oh, and you should definitely come to see the final presentation at Pecha Kucha Night KC. It’s at Crosstown Station on February 26th at 8:20 (20:20… get it?). And now with the ideas (in no particular order):
- My social graph is getting weird.
- What do you do when the critical mass of Facebook begins to yield strange fruit? For instance, people you were never really friends with from high school and college suddenly come knocking on your virtual door. And they come revealing bits and pieces of your past that you maybe don’t want co-mingled with your current life. More importantly, do you accept your ex-wife’s friend request?
- Why am I doing this?
- I spend my days creating presentations for a living. Why am I in a bar doing it for fun? What do I stand to gain?
- How To Fake Your Way Into Advertising
- I got into advertising in a very unconventional (or maybe not) way… I bullshitted my way in. I’ll show how you too can have a career in advertising by making up a bunch of work.
- The Art and Science of the Heat Tent
- When I was a small boy, one of my favorite winter activities was to curl up in front of a heater vent and just relax and snooze. Over the years I created an artform of inflating blankets with the hot air, creating cozy tents of heat to while away the hours. I’ll show you the best ways to make your own heat tent.
- How to make pruno.
- Pruno is prison wine. Straight up. I’ll show you how to smuggle cafeteria ingredients in your underwear back to your cell and make this shitty brew guaranteed to fuck you up.
- What is a creative generalist?
- Have you ever wondered? Even if you didn’t, I’ll tell you.
- Augmented Reality
- I’ll admit, this one’s kind of a cop out. I already have the slides made.
- Story of the ceramic cat.
- Star of the Bad Gift Emporium, I’ll detail the origins of the ceramic cat and what it means to mankind.
- The underground Chinese City in Oklahoma City.
- In the 1940′s there was a secret underground city in the heart of downtown OKC where Chinese immigrants lived. Bet you didn’t know that…
- If I lived in the 60′s…
- I was stretching for a 10th idea and didn’t want to quit until I had 10. Move on. Nothing to see here.
See anything that catches your fancy? Let me know please.