What are you doing tonight?
Want to watch some kick ass presentations about weird and interesting things?
Do you enjoy beer?
Do you think free is a (very) good price?
Than Ignite Portland is the event for you, and tonight is the night to get your rear to the Bagdad Theater. The doors open at 5:30, but get there early — last time we hit capacity and had to turn away a few hundred people, and this time around the early bird tickets were all nabbed within 24 hours.
I’m part of the volunteer team, so I’ll helping out with whatever needs help.
If you see me, feel free to say hello!
Looks like the fine folks behind Ignite Portland are looking for speakers for Ignite Portland 3. This is a great opportunity for anyone who wants to share an interesting idea with a theater packed full of enthusiastic Portlanders. I had a great time presenting at Ignite Portland 2, and can’t recommend it enough.
So, go sign up now!
As promised, the set of photos from Ignite Portland 2 — plus a couple extras. Share and enjoy!
Wow, this Ignite Portland was fantastic — 750 enthusiastic people, a sold out crowd at the Bagdad Theater. I had a great time, and thanks to the organizers for putting together a great show.
There are a few things I’ll be doing to follow up on my presentation:
- I’ll be putting my presentation into a video podcast, with a little more information about what it’s all about and how it’s done.
- A bunch of people asked about doing a photo trip to some of these sites — I’m up for it, although some of the trains and sites were cleaned up or scrapped after I took my original photos.
- For people who are interested in the subject matter, I highly encourage you to dig around on Flickr and Google, and simply drive around the industrial sections of the city. That’s where I get 99% of my leads, and half the fun is discovering things for yourself …
Anyhow. I’ll be posting more photos, videos, and other such things as I have the opportunity. I’ll be out of town for the next week or so, but I’ll see what I can pull together from the hotel!
And, to everyone I met tonight — please send me an e-mail! I’m excited to follow up on some of our discussions.
Update: I’ve posted my photos to Flickr … plus some extras!
I’m doing a presentation at the Bagdad Theater on the evening of Tuesday, February 5th. The event, Ignite Portland, is a series of short presentations — just five minutes each — about weird, interesting, and unusual ideas.
The official site can be found here here, and the Oregonian had a write up here.
Pretty cool!
My presentation is about “Beauty in Abandonment” — it’s about photographing abandoned places and things in the Portland area. I’ll also be wandering around, helping people register, find seats, and answering questions about the whole shebang.
Anyhow. Seats are going fast, and it looks like it’ll be a standing room only event (unless, of course, the Super Tuesday primaries thin out the crowd). If you’re coming, or thinking about coming, please RSVP so that we can better anticipate everything that needs to be done to accommodate everyone comfortably:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/390164/
Cheers!
