Portland’s Pecha Kucha “Shift”
Aug 13th, 2008 by Brad
Portland Pecha Kucha "Shift" 4
This Tuesday night, I attended Portland’s 4th installment of Pecha Kucha (some say it happens in 120 cities world wide). Pecha Kucha is a night filled with concise presentations each limited to 20 slides in only 6 min 40 seconds. Yep no time to sleep as each images is only on screen for 20 seconds and automatically progressed without the speaker’s control.
How to pronounce? Guess you have to be an insider to know. Here goes: “peh-chu ku-cha” for the more western way and pea-chaatch-ka (for a more of a japanese way, where it was started)
Portland Pecha Kucha "Shift" session 4
The 6:40 presentation format is often applied to a variety of creative subjects. Some are meant to be inspirational, while others promote ideas, sell your design-ware, or simply take a wacky view.
The first on I saw was Andrew Brahe’s presentation on Maya Lin’s Confluence project. Which is building sevens sites along the Columbia River basin in Washington/Oregon.
Pecha Kucha Portland - the crowd at Shift
Diane Jacob’s did a presentation on her art installation at Disjecta and the required minimum-sentencing laws.
Bill Dieter’s showed his company’s design work. Terrazign is working on NASA’s vertical treadmill. It provided some good good eye candy.
I had to leave during Severin “Hulk” Villiger’s presention on his love of scooters.
I only saw four of the presentations, so I don’t really have a true feel on Portland’s take on this power-point in sonnet structure meets speed-dating format.
For more details see:
http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/portland-oregon
http://www.projectcityscope.org/
I’ll be at the next one to have some laughs and hopefully get inspired and drink a few more beers.
…hopefully I’ll post some images from last week’s 1st Thursday before the week is out. Now back to fiberglassing a sink… ah the fumes… .. . . .. . . . . . .. . ….. . . .