Mindshare LA / Thursday, February 16th
The Mezz Bar, Alexandria Hotel - 2nd Floor, 501 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA 90013
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7pm / Doors & Happy Hour
Mix and mingle with the most exciting minds of LA and enjoy music, hors d'oeurvres, games & prizes! Happy Hour is from 7-8pm. Ensenada Restaurant will be hosting a full taco bar!
(¯`·._.· 8:30pm / Talks ·._.·´¯)
"Relate/Reframe"
"Everything in the Universe, throughout all its kingdoms, is conscious: i.e., endowed with a consciousness of its own kind and on its own plane of perception."
- H. P. Blavatsky
TALKS FROM
MC, "Relate/Reframe"
Douglas Campbell / Co-Founder & Curator, Mindshare LA
We see the world through a limited faculty of senses. While our brain attempts to construct a coherent narrative, we should still be aware that this is reality through a very limited lens. Relate/Reframe will explore the realtionships we have with ourselves, others and the world.
Doug is a community constructor, experience engineer and tuxedo traveler. He co-founded Mindshare LA in 2006 as well as the interactive collective Syyn Labs in 2009. He likes wearing tuxedos for charitable escapades.
The Bizarre World of Animal Relations
Andrea Choe / Postdoctoral Scholar, Caltech
Why do snails throw calcified darts at each other before mating? Why do birds like love shacks made from old cheeto bags? Here we explore some of the worlds strangest mating rituals, probing into the nature of animal magnetism at its weirdest.
Andrea is a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech, currently studying ways to eavesdrop on worm talk and using their language to possibly cure autoimmune diseases. She currently holds a PhD from Caltech and is also obtaining her medical degree from USC.
Social Media and You: A Love Story
Alie Ward / Writer and Drink Concoctioneer
Relationships were already complicated, but now social media has taken PDA from public pucker-ups to a textual (and pictorial) level, putting people on different sides of the “Relationship Status” debate. So what are the rules of romantic (dis)engagement in the blog/vlog/Facebook/Twitter era? Has much changed since the analogue days? And are there some practices or traditions that persist despite, or even because of, all of technology’s vaunted advances and social effects?
AlieWard is a writer, a painter, and an American TV actress. Ward has written for L.A. Weekly and the L.A. Times. She makes appearances on KTLA's Brand X segment. She has also achieved notoriety from her Alie and Georgia online videos, where she and her close friend, Georgia Hardstark, offer up their recipes for some rather odd culinary concoctions, such as the infamous McNuggetini.
The Relationship Revolution
Reid Mihalko / Sex and Relationship Expert
What's your self-Expression in love, friendship, family and intimacy? Discover why marriage, monogamy and dating seem to be shakier today than ever before. It's not that people are less able to commit; it's because we've got more choice and say in our relationship lives than ever before in history and yet, the cultural messages are the same as they were 200-years ago. Discover what relationships YOU should be choosing!
Sex and relationship expert Reid Mihalko of Reid About Sex helps adults create more self-esteem, self-confidence and greater health in relationships and sex lives. Reid has appeared on the Emmy award-winning talk show Montel, Fox News, in Newsweek, Seventeen, GQ, The Washington Post, and in thirteen countries and at least seven languages. His workshops have been attended by close to 30,000 men and women.
(¯`·._.· 9:30pm - Late / Interactions & Music ·._.·´¯)
Stay for the interactive technology installations, stocked bar, music and entertainment!
Explore the MUSIC, GAMES & ART on display!
ART, ENTERTAINMENT & INSTALLATIONS FROM
Combiform is a game platform that involves four wedge-shaped controllers that can be played separately or “stuck” together for cooperative play.
We Are Matik takes existing platforms to the next level by creating a richer user experience. Mashing up the Digital and the Dimensional, we offer a brand new sector: Immersive Design – forging engaging experiences that brands and people can interact with.
JOHN PARK is gifted live painter who mixes layers of mixed media to create compelling narrative.
Also, we'll once again welcome Super Tall Paul (of Helios Jive) will be bringing his headphone lounge! Local Hero Weekly says:"SuperTall Paul Newman is the man you call when you are looking for fun, silly, impressive, entertainment. "
Coined “The League of Extraordinary Nerds” by Fast Company Magazine, Syyn Labs is a Los Angeles-based organization that fuses the worlds of technology and interactive sciences with artistic mediums to design and construct visually dynamic spectacles that inspire thought and provoke conversation. (Read more…)
Wise Guys will be in the house once again, conducting another social game!
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