Tag Archives: eg2007

Jim Cox and Michael Fry

They showed some cartoons from RingTales.com, pretty funny. Mike does a cartoon called Over the Hedge. It was the first he had seen that had an email address. He sent him an email and said “Can we make a movie?” The movie came out last year from Dreamworks, 10 years later. There must be an […]

Ken Librecht – The Secret Life of a Snowflake

He does snowflake photograph, a camera attached to a microscope. He lives in Southern California, so he has to travel a bit. Northern Ontoria is his favorite. He lets snow fall on the cardboard, then looks for one that looks nice. He then picks it up with it up a paintbrush, and then put it […]

Donald Jackson

Most museums wouldn’t think of inviting a living calligrapher, they only want the dead ones. He has two more years left on the bible he’s working on. He has spent his whole life doing something that most people don’t think that they want. But people realyl do, when htey find something that they need to […]

Nathan Myhrvold – Why do we think things are cute?

While in the Falkland Islands he saw some birds and started wondering why we think things are cute or not. Human children have many features of cuteness. Head large for body Rounded features Eyes too large for head Long eye lashes Wide set eyes Dilated pupils Small nose Large hadnds with stubby fingers Fuzzy or […]

Gran Tourismo

Miguel Angel Corzo is giving a background on the music here at the conference. All of the music is from students at his conservatory, the Colburn Institute. He thought it’d be a good start to talk about one piece, called Gran Tourismo. In his view these conferences really are about a sense of discovery, a […]

Kevin Kelly and Eduardo Santana

Eduardo Santana on the left is from Guadalajara, he’s a biologist (with a penchant for birds) and he’s currently working on creating a new natural science museum. He’s here to gain perspective to help him shape the museum, which they hope to launch in 2011. Kevin Kelly is a speaker at EG. He has a […]

Conference Tag: eg2007

I’m going to borrow something the tech conferences I usually attend and declare a conference tag: eg2007. What’s that mean? A tag is just a keyword attached to something, like a blog post or picture. If we all use the same tag while talking about the same thing, it makes it easy to aggregate the […]

In the Beginning

We’re a mere hours away from the beginning of Entertainment Gathering 2007, so now is as good a time as any to kick off coverage here with an introduction. The goal of this blog is to document the conference for posterity, providing a glimpse for the people not able to attend and color for those […]