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EBX 24hr film festival

written on April 30th, 2010 with 2 comments

Last week, the East Bay Express held its annual 24-Hour Film Festival. Seven teams were challenged to make a film of up to five and a half minutes in 24 hours. Each team was given a basic scenario, nine props in which to choose six, and a line of dialogue selected at random that could be spoken or visually displayed.

Screenings and judging of the films took place on Earth Day, April 22, at Chabot Space & Science Center. Judges included Peter Sahaidachny from Ex’pression College for Digital Arts; Eric Havel from Chabot Space & Science Center; and Stephen Buel from East Bay Express.

Thanks to all who participated!

First Place:

Team 4: Yak, Golly the Rainmaker

2nd Place (tie):

Team 6: The Visible Theater, EBX-2087
Team 1: Dirt Factory, Our Future Is Today

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Ravi Shankar in SF

written on October 30th, 2009 with no comments

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On Thursday, October 29, 2009, I had the wonderful joy of listening to Ravi Shankar and his daughter, Anoushka, perform at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, CA.

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Best Of the East Bay

written on August 24th, 2009 with no comments

Wrestling at Best Of the East Bay party at the Oakland Museum!

Event sponsored by the East Bay Express!

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WordCamp SF

written on May 19th, 2009 with no comments

I attended WordCamp this year in San Francisco, CA. The all-day event took place at the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco. Then there was a cool party at Pier 38 on the Embarcadero where I was lucky enough to meet the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg.

http://2009.sf.wordcamp.org/

Facebook Developers Garage

written on March 26th, 2009 with 8 comments

I had a fun evening tonight at the FB Dev Garage in the San Francisco Hyatt Regency near the Embarcadero. You know you’re in the right place when a Ukrainian sits down in the seat next to you and you happen to sell Ukrainian Folk Music! It’s true!

Overall, it was a great event and networking opportunity. I’m really excited about Facebook Connect now that I now what it’s all about and I’m going to start using social analytic service Kontagent first thing tomorrow at work! Here’s a full list of speakers from the night. It would be interesting to take a class with Andreas Weigend in the future. He “gets it”.

Albert Lai (Kontagent,co-founder/CEO), Intros
Andreas Weigend (Data Mining Professor at Stanford and Former Chief Scientist at Amazon) – Keynote
Eric Ries (Kleiner Perkers, co-founder IMVU) – Metrics for Social Engagement
Jia Shen (co-founder/CTO RockYou) – Metrics of notifications
Jeffrey Tseng & Fredric Newberg (Kontagent co-founder/CTO & VP engineering) – Viral tuning beyond conversion + insights across applications
Josh Elman (Facebook) – fbConnect on Web & iPhone and others
Justin Smith (InsideFacebook, Former Head of Products at Watercooler) – Social Gaming trends
Andrew Mayer (Media Shifters) – Casual gaming metrics applied to social gaming
Vikas Gupta (co-founder Jambool) – Virtual Economy Optimization
Michael Hart (Netflix) – Netflix Facebook Connect Metrics

Apple Introduces MacBook Wheel

written on January 7th, 2009 with no comments

Via the Onion News Network:

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

San Francisco Apple Store Showcase

written on December 15th, 2008 with 1 comment

This past Thursday I took a group of about a dozen students from Ex’pression College to the San Francisco Apple Store to present their work and portfolios in the theater. This was actually the third time that I’ve done this, but it was by far the best showing.

Read the Ex’pression College news item.