@vrandecic ... BTW: also the "slots" argument is nonsense on 2nd sight. There are known very nice alternative formats eg #pechakucha that would allow double the slots easily and that work very well, one could mix acceptance length (full/short talk rather than full/short paper)... I think we need to openly rethink this.

My personal favorite, though, is this #PechaKucha by Mary Beth Peterson. The photography is sublime, but even better is the story about how owner Kenneth Laurent got #FrankLloydWright to design an entire home around his needs as a person who used a wheelchair. Bravo! 6/6

https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/frank-lloyd-wright-laurent-house-rockford-illinois

My personal favorite, though, is this #PechaKucha by Mary Beth Peterson. The photography is sublime, but even better is the story about how owner Kenneth Laurent got #FrankLloydWright to design an entire home around his needs as a person who used a wheelchair. Bravo! 6/6

https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/frank-lloyd-wright-laurent-house-rockford-illinois

In this #PechaKucha, the Glencoe Historical Society tells how they preserved a #FrankLloydWright cottage built in 1913 by moving it to a different location. The mundane "you were there" photos give it a more documentary-style feel. 5/6

https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/saving-booth-cottage

They're far more than just piles of rocks, explains Allen Crabtree in his entertaining #PechaKucha about cairns alongside New England trails. 4/6

https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/trail-cairns-more-than-just-piles-of-rocks

Photographer Kat Gebauer began with a love of color, but a serious fear of heights (+ bears). Her #PechaKucha is a story of growth as she made new friends + started doing increasingly more ambitious adventure in the backcountry. 3/6

https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/wings-and-a-camera

Mountain guide Jakub Pina gives you a taste of his lifestyle with this #PechaKucha of stories about where he sleeps. 2/6

https://www.pechakucha.com/presentations/where-is-my-home

Anytime you truly embrace design constraints, serious creativity can emerge.

TIL about 20x20 #PechaKucha presentations, events where people tell stories against a backdrop of 20 slides, each shown for 20 seconds. https://www.sixmoondesigns.com/blogs/newsletter/using-pechakucha-to-document-our-adventures-by-jim-sutherland

Evidently this all started 20 years ago in Japan, but there's now yet another website trying to build social networks around the phenomenon. So here's a thread with a few particularly immersive examples of the form. 1/6

#throwback to OOP 2021 Digital when @kevlin presented his #pechakucha talk about why you can't prioritise by business value - compact and to the point in 6 minutes and 40 seconds and with just 20 pictures. This means: No time-consuming "babble", but crisp and entertaining information. Look forward to a colorful and entertaining selection of lectures with lots of inspiring content and pictures!

#businessvalue #oop #oopkonferenz #oopconference #throwbackwednesday

I'm considering signing up for a #PechaKucha talk (20 image-only slides, each displayed for 20s). I can think of images to represent ideas, and I can find photos... but the constraint of 20s per slide is tough.

For some topics, the right number of photos would take waaay too much time. Then I realised - #DALL-E and friends can custom-make me photos which combine concepts.

So happy with this as a first attempt. We lost the coffee, but I can live with that.
#LivingInTheFuture