Russell Davies

interesting new york

I really like how the various Interestings take on different characters because of the people involved and the places where they are. Interesting South, (there've been two now) is an evening thing, because people have better stuff to do in Sydney during the day. Interesting Amsterdam involved lots of sitting on beanbags. (There are videos here.) And now David has announced Interesting New York featuring an incredibly professional-looking website which feels very NY. Anyway, David's looking for speakers etc, you should check it out. 

urban earth

picture by roo

Daniel Raven Ellison was a big hit at Interesting2008, talking about, well, the picture is a clue. He told us of his Urban Earth project, and his planned walks around Salisbury, London, Mumbai and Mexico City. The Urban Earth blog is now up, with some fantastic timelapse/stopmotion walking video. Excellent stuff.

interesting things

Interesting things continue to bubble out splendidly onto the internet. These sketches from Wil seem to capture the spirit of the day brilliantly, and look; extra value for sponsors:

And Gavin's created the Rememble timeline of your writings, thoughts and scribbles, you can see that here.

And, there's now Interesting video at The Guardian. To be honest, I'm not really sure how much they're going to put up, but right now we have James, Gemma, Roo and Jim.

brave noob world

Roo was doing his own videoing at Interesting and has enstucken this brilliant stuff from James Wallis on viddler. Better quality video will follow in due course / at some point / eventually. But this is perfectly watchable, so thanks to Roo and James.

interesting leaking

picture by Jenni

In the traditional manner Interesting2008 is starting to leak out all over the internet. I love this bit. The Imagination folks shot everything and made a 'best of' edit which The Guardian are supposed to be putting up, er, sometime. I've not seen it, and I'm not sure when it's going up, but as soon as I know I'll tell you. And, since they shot the whole day, I'm hoping that they'll also make films of each individual speaker. And I'll put them up here. But, if they've not got the resources to do that I'll get the footage off them and do it myself. (Unless someone fancies helping out?). What I'm saying is; the full video stuff won't be quick. Sorry about that.

However, there's lots to content yourselves with in the meantime.

Roo's put his presentation on slideshare, with audio, and created a slideshare group for us. He's also written a fantastic summarising post.

Steve's written a post about his presentation, and also put it on slideshare.

Michael's written his presentation up on his blog already, and I'm sure I've seen bits of it on vimeo or some such, though I can't find it right now.

James promises here that he'll soon be writing up his work on the geophysics of World Of Warcraft, but in the meantime writes some thoughtful and kind words on the playfulness of Interesting.

Tom's stuck the recorder incident on Vimeo. What a work of genius. Though I suspect you had to be there to get the full value.

Simon's put the audio of their performance with Ken on his blog.

James has put In Vino, Civitas on his blog.

Gavin's put a link to more thoughts on Acoustic Cosmology on his blog. And there's some of his music here, which is rather lovely.

I'm sure more people will write about more of their stuff in due course, and I'll try let you know when they do. But you can also browse through, or contribute to, the pictures in the flickr pool.

interesting timelapse

jim on youtube

I didn't want to link to this before Interesting, I thought it would spoil the nice surprise. But, now, here it is:

interesting running order

picture from Ben

I feel like I'm tempting fate sticking this up now but I guess it might be useful for people if they knew who was speaking when. I should emphasise however that this is just a rough list, subject to, and likely to change. I made the mistake of asking all the speakers when they'd like to go on and they almost all said 'early, but not first'. That of course is not possible so if anyone's really upset with their slot please let me know and we'll negotiate.

It is also entirely possible that I've forgotten someone. If you think you're speaking and you're not on this list please let me know.

8am - Setting up

9am - Wandering in

10am - intro, Roo Reynolds, Gemma Teed, Jenny Owen, Steve Hardy,  Daniel Raven-Ellison

11am - break

11.30am - Michael Johnson, Phil Gyford, James Wallis, Matt Dent, Matt Webb, Andrew Webb, Andrew Walkingshaw, Andrew Dick, Collyn Ahart Chipperfield, Matt Irvine Brown

1ish - lunch

2pm - surprise, Simon James & Ken Hollings, Anna Pickard, Younghee Jung, James Bridle, Kim Plowright, James Houston

3pm - break

3.30pm - Jim Le Fevre, Gavin Starks, Joel Gethin Lewis, George Oates, Lea Becker,  Leisa Riechelt, Max Gadney

4.30ish - end, pub etc.

(Can I also say how stupidly pleased I am to have scheduled a sequence that goes 'Matt Dent, Matt Webb, Andrew Webb, Andrew Walkingshaw'? It's the answer to the question how do you get from Matt Dent to Andrew Walkingshaw using Interesting speakers changing only one name at a time.)

last minute flurry of ticket exchange

It seems to be about now that people are starting to realise they can't come to Interesting after all, because of something or other. Which is fair enough. If you're one of those people I'm sure there'd be someone who'd be glad to take your ticket off your hands. You can offer it at the wiki here (the password / invite key is 'interesting').

Interesting2008.com cloud courtesy of the wonderful wordle.

interesting tea favour

Is there anyone with an office in centralish London who'd be prepared to take delivery of some big bags of tea and biscuits during the day on Thursday or Friday and could then bring them along to the Conway Hall on Saturday? Anyone up for that? We'd be very grateful. If so, please email me russell at russelldavies.com (Does that antispam trick with the 'at' even work? Surely spammers are cleverer than that aren't they? Oh well.)

UPDATE: We're covered, thanks very much to Nonsense.