matt at interesting
Matt was last on at Interesting2007 (which is why he's a bit longer than the average, Bobbie forgot to stop him) and it was the perfect end to the day. His omnivorous interests meant he touched on all sorts of things that came up throughout in a nice rounding-everything-up and spinning-if-off-in-an-interesting-direction kind of way. And he cited all sorts of books that made people want to go and read them, which is an excellent thing. You feel like you should pay attention to the stuff he cares about, it's going to be interesting. And you've just got to admire this kind of semi-grumpy enthusiasm, it makes things happen.
(picture above, of Matt's final chart, by Roo. And thanks to Curtis for helping fix the audio on this)
can't watch clip...set to private...coming in too fast...must pull up
Posted by: Charlie Gower | September 05, 2007 at 12:22 PM
And he wore an official tshirt and he used the official platinum branding in his presentation.
All important points.
Posted by: Ben | September 05, 2007 at 01:18 PM
Sorry Charlie...fixed now...OK leader, good luck.
Posted by: russell | September 05, 2007 at 03:16 PM
Great presentation and really good references about culture in the city. Thank you guys!
Posted by: Daniel | September 05, 2007 at 05:21 PM
really fantastic presentation, grounded, and poetic at the same time. absolutely love the thought that the digital age and urbanization is bringing out some latent capacities in us at a faster pace than before...the references to jane jacobs, parcour, and his magnet-bearing friend (and i'd suggest oscar pistorius as another example of this transformation)left me both excited and confused. what are we witnessing, a recycled social engineering project by urban planners and designers, or a true passage into another plane of humanity where we are becoming a bit more like what we used to call god? doesn't matter though, it just made my day.
Posted by: lin | September 07, 2007 at 01:11 AM