Workshop in Vuollerim today
Every now and then, people ask me if I do a lot of speeches and presentations about my work. The answer is no, I don't. Every now and then I get requests and invitations, but I don't like to speak in public so I have never seen it as any serious option. Besides, I live in northern Sweden and most conferences and events take place in other parts of the world, so it would be a major project just to get to an event.
But today I am making an exception, as I will be hosting a small workshop about creativity behind the computer screen together with illustrator and artist Lukas Thelin, also from Jokkmokk. The workshop will be held in neighbour town Vuollerim as a part of the annual culture week. The doors open in two hours, and I haven't prepared anything at all. I'm bringing my experience, stories from the 10 exciting years that I have been using computers to create various forms of material (music, poetry, digital art, website templates and more) and some related material such as my CD collection (including a few copies of "Dreams"!), the Tjuvlyssnat.se book and my laptop. How these things will be used is all up to the visitors.
I have no plan for the day, other than doing my best to inspire others to use their computers to create whatever form of art they are interested in. And not to forget, to encourage them to share their work with the rest of the world as it can give a lot of inspiration in return. This will be exciting!
Edit: Now I'm back home again. The three hours passed very quickly, and even though there were only a few visitors it was enough to get into wild discussions about everything from building CMS:s to formatting and positioning TLA links using CSS. Not to mention game coding, logotype designs, YouTube videos, security in homemade PHP template sets, sNews and other things. I wouldn't call it a success since the arrangers expected much more visitors, but it was definitely a nice afternoon for me personally!
Edit 2: Viddes writes about the workshop…
Comments
Comment from Mind
Time: July 5, 2007, 11:20 pm
It was actually very nice. I certainly did not regret coming there. =)
Comment from Andreas
Time: July 5, 2007, 11:33 pm
sintra: The title "Dreams" for the TSEC album came from our second song, which was called "Dreams". The song title was a reference to the Dreamtrance or Dreamdance genre, which became popular thanks to artists like Robert Miles and DJ Dado. The genre was basically dance music with lead melodies played on the piano, like in Miles' songs "Children" and "Fable" which I still think are two of the best songs from the 90's. It also reflected a distant dream about releasing an own CD. But at the time we released the song, that was just a funny idea, not something we could believe in for real. By the time we were ready to make our first real album, "Dreams" was just the perfect name to use…
Mind: Me neither, thanks for the good company! I hope to see the lightning generator live soon. :)
Comment from Mind
Time: July 5, 2007, 11:43 pm
Lightning generator would be a more correct term. But I hope I can muster up enough will to actually make it =)
Comment from Andreas
Time: July 6, 2007, 12:07 am
Yes, lightning is the word. Not flash. Corrected!
Comment from MJ
Time: July 7, 2007, 1:28 pm
Surely great workshop, but i couldnt be there. But nice to hear though.
Comment from Tomek
Time: July 7, 2007, 4:47 pm
About the edit: I also sometimes think that I can do a CMS or something like that but it's always something else to do so I start to think maybe next week? :) and that it's my point of view on the ideas like "I made a great CMS". But when I see what You are doing here (templates etc.) I think it can be reality not only dreams…
Comment from beablogger
Time: July 7, 2007, 6:43 pm
If your apearance at the workshop was nearly as good as your templates it must have been a success, I hope that you continue with more seminars and workshops! GL
//a template user
Comment from beablogger
Time: July 7, 2007, 6:44 pm
Sorry wrong URL in the previus post…
Comment from Arama Motoru Optimizasyonu
Time: July 13, 2007, 3:38 pm
Thats really nice.We couldnt see this kind of workshops a lot in turkey :( So if you decide to come and share your experience in Turkey too. we will be waiting :)
Comment from sintra
Time: July 5, 2007, 4:22 pm
It will be an interesting experience and hope you'll enjoy it, i'm sure your audience will. And yes, you are right, people should learn to share more. Tell me about the name, why "Dreams"? Whaiting for details about workshop…..