Raleigh Show
I’m putting together a more complete list of what’s coming up, but since this show is TOMORROW I thought I’d mention it here first. I’m playing at The Pour House in Raleigh, NC Thursday at 8 PM, followed by Paul and Storm at 9. Tickets are $8 purchased in advance and $10 at the door. It will be a good show, provided there is some kind of an “audience.”
I’m also looking for a merchandise helper, so if you want some free stuff and eternal gratitude, email me.
This Morning
I’m on this AM, probably about 10ish. I’ll be following Ask A Ninja and Chris Anderson. One bad thing about going on late in the program is that you get the chance to see how brilliant everyone else is, and then you start to think that maybe songs about zombies aren’t enough anymore. But hey, everybody likes a singalong, right?
Spore Demo
Will Wright just did a demo of Spore, which I’d seen before online, but seeing it again reminded me how much I want to play that game. He also talked a little about the philosophy behind it, generative systems, the idea of finding the right balance between power and simplicity when you’re allowing players to create game content. All of which dovetails very nicely with Brian Eno’s work – he showed some of 77 Million Paintings behind him as he spoke. Kickass!
I should mention, if you’d like to check any of this stuff out, they’re streaming the whole thing live. There’s a schedule on that page. I’m playing sometime on Saturday, but there are a lot of big names between now and then.
Did I mention that I really want to play Spore?
Pop!Tech
I don’t think I’ve mentioned this here, but this year I’ve been invited back to play at Pop!Tech, that zany happening in Camden, Maine that is simply chock full of CEOs, superscientists, and cutting edge entertainers. I flew in last night and went to the opening reception, and was reminded how awesome this place is. (Just a warning, over the next few days I’m going to do a lot of name dropping and bragging about the famous people I meet).
I shared a car from the airport with Ze Frank, whose current project is The Show, a year’s worth of producing a new short video every weekday. Having just finished Thing a Week, thinking about this makes me want to throw up. Ze also just started supporting this effort with this microsponsorship thing, a brilliant idea I should have thought of when I still had some content left in my poor, tired head.
And then last night I had some beers with Ze and Kent Nichols of Ask A Ninja. (See what I mean? I’m not worthy.) Kent told a great story about meeting Marlon Brando, so great I don’t even care if it’s true.
At the moment I’m finishing breakfast at the hotel, and in a minute I’ll walk to the opera house to hear Will Wright and Brian Eno talk about emergence. Good morning.
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