A Source Of Inspiration

Hello everyone !

12:00-12:30

50Done & friends is presenting. For those who don’t know yet 50Done & friends is a project of Rui Vieira ( currently Creative Director at Fullsix Portugal) to do out of the box projects in the areas of digital creation and communication they work with real clients but in a diferent way of communication. Rui presents the Body and Soul, a project for Nokia that showcases beautiful models (one component shows the body , the other a more emotional soul) .

Ingrediente X - A motion design showcase.

Carlos Matias - Dialectica shows his creative work applied on t-shirts and shoes, and some of the illustrations shown here at the venue.

Pedro Pinto, a 3d motion designer at Fullsix with some sample work.

13:00

Karlssonwilker with a weird piece: a spoken portfolio, on audio tape.

14:00

Regine is on stage, sharing how We-Make.-oney-Not-Art evolved and reflecting on emerging art and the relation with technology. Right next to her, Andy Cameron, now creative director at Fabrica, talking about his work and what interactive media means. They both hate Second Life, and finish their talk with a discussion on the challenges of nem media art.

16:00

Hellokimori is now on stage.

17:00

A great panel on information visualization. Quite more useful than the usual showcase that we’ve seen today.

18:00

FakePilot rolling his impressive ground of work. Feels a lot like Chris Cunningham.

19:20

Now a Interaction Deigin Panel, starting with the folks from naninka. Beats me why the organization decided to this “panels” when no interaction with the audience kicks in. Surprised to find out that Nanika was involved in the BBC radio (below).

20:00 -21:00

After some astonishing works by Alex Trochut, we’re ending with Hi-Res.

Hello everyone. It’s been a few days since I’ve posted, but back from vacations (and a bit sick) I’m ready for the full 3 days at OFFF Lisbon 2008, live blogging and twittering.

12:00

Loads of people outside (an estimate of around 2000). Collecting their tickets, getting a sun tan and drinking beer. I’ll need to do an errand, but i’ve been told the doors are already opening.

12:30

TheKDU is showcasing their works.

12:40

Just found out that some conferences are being broadcasted at
http://videos.sapo.pt/offf. For those abroad, Sapo is a xtra cool portuguese portal, and i’ve met with some of their team here at the event.

13:10

Dino dos Santos, one of Portugal’s most famous type designers, talking (in English) about the process and themes that inspire him.

18:00

Late lunch and more errands, after watching Eric Natzke (North kingdom cancelled their talk).

Now watching Trafik and their several interactive projects.

19:00 - 22:00

Last but not the least, the all exciting Joshua Davis, with his humorous talk, inviting everyone to get naked. The day wrapped with the work of PsyOp (and a wonderful making-of their latest commercial for Absolut). See ya tomorrow.

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Tickets are sold out for a while, and the new site by José Carlos and Nuno Ribeiro, has released the schedule for OFFF Lisbon’08, so now i can plan my attendance at the meanest and biggest design/technology event ever to take place in Portugal.

With so much to see and so little time, here’s the current schedule:

Also available as a Google iCal for the 3 venues: ROOTS (iCal), OPENROOM (iCal) and LOOPITA (iCal).

See you in Alcantara, Lisbon in a few days.
(Drop a comment and we might arrange a meetup).

hCalendar event:

Singularity is the first large-scale online web conference in the world.

Born in the mind of the Flash genius Aral Balkan, the event is scheduled for October 24-26th, 2008, with more than 100 of the world’s top web visionaries, developers, designers, thought leaders, and celebrities.

Last year, Aral asked his blog readers to promote the mysterious new brand. Shame on me for not having posted a badge before, but as i knew Aral’s work was mostly in the Flash arena, i was expecting something like a framework or some new Open Source project. But this blows my mind. It’s a huge one man effort, and skyrockets my respect for Aral as a true SOURCE OF INSPIRATION.

The sessions will be available to attendees for a period of six months, and later released under a Creative Commons license. It will take advantage of existing networks to get full community involvement (yeah, i follow you on Twitter, Aral).

And get inspired with this list of confirmed speakers:

• Andy Budd
• Ann McMeekin
• Brendan Dawes
• Carlos Ulloa
• Cheryl Annett-Baker
• Christian Heilmann
• Craig Swann
• Derek Featherstone
• Dr. WooHoo
• Ian Forrester
• Jeremy Keith
• Joshua Hirsch
• Keith Peters
• Lynda Weinman
• Mario Klingemann
• Mike Davies
• Molly E. Holzschlag
• Paul Boag
• Peter Elst
• Ralph Hauwert
• Richard Rutter
• Seb Lee Delisle
• Stephanie Sullivan
• Steve Webster
• Thomas Vander Wal

Aral, the badge is now on the sidebar, but it would be great if you had also a countdown badge. How long do we have to wait until October?