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Pecha Kucha Night: Boston

posted by Philip Stockton
Philip Stockton
Philip Stockton

Creative Director : New York

topics: Design, Flash, Creativity, Video, and Animation and 3D

on April 17, 2009 at 03:21 PM
Pecha Kucha Night:
Presentation Format: 20 Images, 20 seconds each, exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds.
Mike and I spoke at Pecha Kucha Night in Boston on wednesday. Pecha Kucha Night is a gathering of designers, architects, photographers, and other creative types. The event is worldwide and usually features 8-14 presenters.
Mike took the stage after the 20 minute beer break. The din died and the room became church-like. Mike gave an awesome talk. He focused on the history of The Barbarian Group, our creative approach, the creative lead process, and gave some solid insights into the wide variety of work we featured. He crammed hours worth of Barbarian knowledge into a 3 minute blitz, all the while cool as a cucumber.
Heres a photo of mike talking (confident), and me listening:

credit: Jason Stevens from common-content.com
For more info on Pecha Kucha go here
For more coverage of the boston event go here

1 comment

[oops, I just realized that the following comment may be more appropriate for you Phil, than for Mike, since you're the one who pecha kucha'd about the CNN shirt project.]

ha, I participated in Pecha Kucha in SF for years.....and then I moved to divine Providence in January. no Pecha Kucha. so I started it here. sure it's a commute from Boston, but feel free to come on down sometime, perhaps this Wednesday to celebrate Earth Day with us:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=57593957444&ref=ts

and a question I've asked about CNN shirts: why can't we choose or at least vote for the headlines we want? I'm still slightly shy about this, but I'd Love a shirt that says "Bartering sex for stuff or services":

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/personal/08/25/sex.for.stuff/

at least, someday...

ps. pecha kucha means the sound of conversation in Japanese, a synonym for chit-chat. (Japanese speaking sounds like "pecha kucha" while English sounds like "chit-chat.") hence my use of it as a verb above.