my notes from Interesting New York (a work in progress)
I spent most of my Saturday hanging out at F.I.T. taking in the talks for Interesting New York. I was really on the fence about going until the last minute – did I really want to give up my whole Saturday after a busy week of work? Well I’m happy that I did b/c the twenty nine + presenters all gave me something to think about. Some were better than others but there weren’t any duds. Each talk was around 15 minutes which felt like not enough time for the really interesting talks, and just enough time for those that were just ok.
To get this post to where I want it’s probably going to take a week or so to post all the links and info. But I figured that this post could be a work in progress – so you might want to bookmark this page to check back every so often.
Mark Baltazar
Interesting Note: Randomness happens. Question I would have asked – why did you want to jump on a train.
Additional Site: broadstreet
Aaron Dignan
Interesting Note: Turn life into a game.
Additional Site: undercurrent
Alexandru Rosu
Interesting Note: I will leave in five minutes doesn’t exactly mean what it says.
More Stuff: He was the only person that did not show his face, it was streamed in…
Additional Site: Brici Entertainment
Allan Benamer and Jeff Tuller
Interesting Note: Nerds obsess over everything
Dr. Irving Slesar
Interesting Note: Dreams are the perfect casting agent
Amber Finlay
Interesting Note: What you hear first sticks
Dipti Bramhandkar
Interesting Note: Hahaha hihihi hohoho
Joel Johnson
Interesting Note: Mormons very interested in seeing their background
Hillel Cooperman
Interesting Note: Difference through design
Colin Nagy
Interesting Note: (me) I really want to learn more about Techno …
Charles Rosen
Interesting Note: Check out the book The End of America by Naomi Wolf
Bernard Leibov
Interesting Note: A lot of people in the audience have been to Joshua Tree
Bryan Fuhr
Interesting Note: Create a reason to fill in the blanks
Dallas Penn
Interesting Note: Little Debbie has had quite a career
Rating: One of my fav. talks – the approach while funny had a great ending impact
Additional Site: Bodega Bodega Everywhere, Yet Nary A Quarter Water To Drink…
Scott Ballum
Interesting Note: A lot of companies are trying to figure out how to deal with him
Additional Site: The consume®econnection Project
David Art Wales
Interesting Note: Secrets are more about the people that aren’t inside
Doug Jaeger
Interesting Note: Could see the shape of the earth through stop motion photography
Morgan Friedman
Interesting Note: Say yes
Additional Site: Overheard in New York | The Voice of the City
James Cooper
Interesting Note: (Me) I want to trade my coffee table for a ping pong table
Additional Site: Celebrity PingPong
Faris Yakob
Interesting Note: Inclusive and not precious
Gaurav Mishra
Interesting Note: When you give everything away the last thing is privacy
Azita Houshiar
Interesting Note: If I were to read this book again I probably wouldn’t
Jennifer Wright
Interesting Note: Nobody knows how old he is
Michael Karnjanaprakorn
Interesting Note: Creative destruction
Slides of the Michael’s Talk: New Orleans: Social Innovation Hub
Noah Brier
Interesting Note: Screw around the internet and make stuff
Slides of Noah’s Talk: Making Stuff on the Internet: Passing Data and Databases
Grant McCracken
Interesting Note: Ideas are not precisely defined
Nick Parish
Interesting Note: The myth comes from Russia
Michael, it was great spending some time at Interesting. Wish I could have stayed the entire day. Thanks for documenting….
I want to know all about all of this. I'll be back.
Michael, glad you decided to come and that you enjoyed it.
Interesting Note: Alexandru wasn't able to make it to New York from Romania so he taped the audio portion of his presentation. He wasn't hiding on anything.