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Brain Noise Studios Presents - 100 Ideas! 1. Draw a picture with your eyes closed. 2. Take a roll of tape and stick the pieces to a canvas until you have finished off the roll. Paint every piece a different color. 3. Paint or draw over old, discarded magazines. 4. Draw a picture with rigid, immovable strokes. 5. Draw a picture with loose, swift strokes. 6. With markers or pencil, draw the most beautiful thing you can think of with only 12 lines. 7. Take an old comic book, one you

I’m a little late in posting this, but a few weeks ago I got together with Ryan Price, esteemed colleague and founder of Florida Creatives. We recorded the following podcast… over a bottle of scotch. We ramble a little, but during the conversation we discussed the beginnings of Florida Creatives, the similar idea I had in 2001, and a variety of other pursuits involving organizing groups of like minded people. If you can get past the tangents, I think you’ll learn about the local scene, and you

Florida Creatives Happy Hour #22 Submitted by ryanprice on Tue, 08/12/2008 - 14:13. :: beer downtown events happy hour Start: 08/18/2008 - 18:00 End: 08/18/2008 - 21:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-4 Location(s) Crooked Bayou50 E Central Blvd # DOrlando, FL, 32801United StatesSee map: Google MapsLink: RSVP on Upcoming Every single 3rd Monday for the past 20 3rd Mondays, a group of geeks, artists, writers and other creative types have been gathering in Orlando for a networking event otherwise unheard of

FL Creatives 18: Eric Marden Submitted by ryanprice on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 12:10. :: history members music podcasts Download Show 18 flcreatives_18_eric.mp3 Length: 1:34:26 Eric Marden, AKA Xentek or Dr. XNLB, shares with us some stories from his past about starting record labels, trying to form creative collectives, and the creative climate in Orlando. Shameless Links: Xentek Dr. XNLB Polyvibe Records Egyptian Zombie Robot Party Machine Florida Creatives on iTunes ryanprice's blog

Well, this week I’ve gotten one step close to organizing a Brevard RIA/web developer user group. I hope to have our first meeting on August 21, 2008. I’d like to have the meetings every 3rd Thursday of the month starting @ 8:00 PM, lasting for about 1 to 2 hours based on the topic. Short of finding a place beachside or near 95 that is open in the evenings and has wifi, we’re going to stick with House of Joe for now on 192, next to the Melbourne Mall. Initially it looks like it’ll be a small gro

FL Creatives is the Best of Orlando! Submitted by ryanprice on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 11:02. :: barcamp orlando weekly press Exciting news: I was informed that Florida Creatives and BarCamp Orlando were named "Best way to staff your social networking startup" by the Orlando Weekly as part of their annual Best of Orlando issue. ryanprice's blog

Florida Creatives Happy Hour 7/21 Submitted by ryanprice on Mon, 07/14/2008 - 01:50. :: downtown events happy hour Start: 07/21/2008 - 06:00 End: 07/21/2008 - 09:00 Timezone: Etc/GMT-4 Location(s) Crooked Bayou50 E Central BlvdOrlando, FL, 32801United StatesSee map: Google MapsLink: RSVP on Upcoming.Y! Every single 3rd Monday for the past 20 3rd Mondays, a group of geeks, artists, writers and other creative types have been gathering in Orlando for a networking event otherwise unheard of in th

Back in April, a bunch of local theatre folks got together to have dinner and meet up. Tonight was the second installment in what seems to be a 3-or-4-times-a-year event, held in local theatre spaces. The April 6th pot-luck was hosted by Mad Cow Theatre downtown, and today’s was held in the lobby of the Orlando REP. From the Wikipedia page on Potluck: Folk etymology has derived the term “potluck” from the Native American custom of potlatch; the word “potluck”, however, is actually of English

Click to Play Ryan Price of Florida Creatives and Likemind | Download | Pecha Kucha Night Jacksonville Take a diverse group of some of Jacksonville’s most creative entrepreneurs, artists, architects, bloggers, designers and academics. Give them 20 slides and 20 seconds per slide to show off their work, tell you a story, or entertain. Rinse and Repeat. This video was originally shared on blip.tv by liberatr with a No license (All rights reserved) license.

So many great things in this video - it’s an hour and fifteen minutes, but you really should watch this. Not only did Randy achieve his childhood dreams, but he has taken his process for doing so and boiled it down to this talk, which we can now pass on to others. This guy is dying, yet he is so positive. I love it and I love this talk. Thanks @supaben34 for bringing up my day (actually, my whole year). Some key points: The Head Fake: we don’t send kids to sports to learn about football. T

“Florida Creatives is, first and foremost, a networking group. People of all disciplines and all levels of experience are invited to come together to enrich their creative experience, learn from each other, and gain inspiration in a social environment. The immediate benefits of such a group are often collaboration, employment opportunities and creative partnerships, with fringe benefits being innumerable.” However, since the beginning of Florida Creatives, people have clambered for a place to

I recently decided to put a code of ethics on my business website. Calling it “Our Pledge”, I thought it would be a quick task that involved a few Google and Yahoo! searches. I was very wrong. You would think a code of ethics would be a simple matter. In 2008, I fully expected to find dozens of examples from which to emulate or follow. I could hardly find any, and the few I found were paltry and even laughable. The chief reason I decided to put it on my own website was to set a tone with pote

New Group: Jobs Submitted by ryanprice on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 10:24. :: Brevard central florida ft meyers gainesville groups Jacksonville jobs members miami north florida orlando pensacola sarasota south florida tallahassee tampa west palm Since the beginning of Florida Creatives, the people have always clambered for a place to post and seek jobs. In the past, I have used the FLCreatives blog for this purpose, or some folks have used the Google Groups list: those days are over. Florida Creativ

Re-posted from New Group: Jobs on FloridaCreatives.com Since the beginning of Florida Creatives, the people have always clambered for a place to post and seek jobs. In the past, I have used the FLCreatives blog for this purpose, or some folks have used the Google Groups list: those days are over. Florida Creatives Jobs The ground rules: Use this space to post job availabilities, or say that you are looking for work. Please understand that joining this list will (by default) sign you up to r

Brevard county now has its own FloridaCreatives.com group, thanks to the initiative taken by Lawrence. We even have a logo that doesn't look like the second life logo (hah, couldn't resist Ryan.) The group is up to 16 members right now on the wiki, and discussion is getting started on the when's and where's of getting a happy hour going. It's looking like a healthy group coming together over here on the coast. So who is it for? What's it about? The Florida Creative meet ups have really been a

Likemind.orl and Drupal June 19, 2008 Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Drupal, Events, Coffee, floridacreatives, Likemind.orl, Teaching, open source , 2 comments In about 10 hours a group of likeminded folks will get together for good coffee and conversations with friends and strangers. We do this once a month at the Lake Eola Panera Bread. Likemind Orlando is part of a larger group of events which started in New York with two guys who were having good conversations online, and decided to move them

What do you hope to get out of Doterati? Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Markteting, Orlando, floridacreatives, Doterati , 6 comments A particularly salient comment by Mr. Alex on this Doterati thread: We have three of the top 10 largest universities in the country within striking distance and a low cost of living. We have a ton of available angel money and an eager local government. We have affordable bandwidth and office space. We have a strong creative community in part from our proximity to Un

Doterati Drama June 12, 2008 Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Events, Web Sites, floridacreatives, Social Networking , 13 comments Last night I actually took some time to start getting involved with the discussion over at Doterati, and then this morning, I am treated as though I am a hostile outsider, and I was told by Mark Krupinski to go and read the other blogs and comments that have shaped his comments into being so aggressive. Apparently, everybody hates Ted Murphy. I don’t. I think he’s a smar

Even though BarCampOrlando is a few months behind us, there’s still plenty to do this summer for us developers. It seems like in the past 2 years or so more and more events are springing up in town — exciting stuff. Finding new events can sometimes be a little tricky though. There’s a few ways to make this a little easier. Gregg Pollack from Rails Envy maintains a Google Calendar titled Central Florida Tech Events which is probably the easiest way to stay up to date. You can search for it with