Had a little trouble with the shuttles this morning, which got myself and about 5 other folks this morning a few minutes late this morning. However I did snap a picture of Louis DeMattei, Amy Tan, and a charming lady whose name I missed. (If you can help out leave a comment.) Here’s Michael introducing […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
Adam Savage
December 2, 2007 – 7:41 pm
The Mythbuster guy! He’s doing a Q&A with himself, hopping from chair to chair. He says he’s been thinking a lot about Open Source, he’s been trying to think of what’s next. He sees an amazing thing happening with Make, Craft, Intsructables, Lifehacker, people are trying not only to parse their world, but take it […]
Keith Black
December 2, 2007 – 6:38 pm
Performs 200-300 neurosurgeries a year. He’s a surgeon. He’s dona bout 7,000 operations for brain tumors. He’s also a researcher to try and find better treatments for patients with disorders in the brain. 99% of the procedures that we practice today started in his lifetime. It started with Egyptians, recorded how to relocate a shoulder, […]
Liz Diller
December 2, 2007 – 6:00 pm
Architecture fundamentally challenges the assumptions and conventions of space. She’s gathered a sample of work that demonstrates “productive Nihilism.” High defitinion has become the new othedoxy. They created an exhibition space which was a cloud, like fog. Fog pyramids, about 300 feet wide, sits on 4 delicate columns. The system is reading the real weather. […]
Peter Gelb
December 2, 2007 – 5:57 pm
General manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. They have an annual budget of 250-260mm a year. He worked there as an usher when he was young. He has no formal musical training, but he’s now running the world’s biggest opera house. It’s interesting to be juxtapositioned with Liz because she’s transforming Lincoln Center […]
Michael Lawrence and J.S.B.
December 2, 2007 – 4:34 pm
Michael showed a short and incomplete film about Johann Sebastian Bach. He’s currently taking donations to finish the film. His website is mlfilms.com.
The Entertainment Gathering 