Thursday, March 28, 2013

Pecha Kucha

There's a phenomenon called Pecha Kucha that's like a combination of beat poetry and PowerPoint presentations. It's a standardized format simply restricting the presenter to 20 slides, each lasting exactly and only 20 seconds.

Apparently there are gatherings, where folks get up and for 6:40.0 show you slides and talk about something.

My boss recently offered a few of us on the team a chance to give a Pecha Kucha presentation to the entire team here in Seattle, about 40 of us, and I'm giving mine tomorrow.

I have 16 slides in no particular order although it's starting to take shape. The topic is meandering but I think that's OK, it's not necessarily about making a single point per se. The title is Grains of Sand, it's going to be roughly about humans tending to perceive groups and patterns, how we process everything in our brains and how words are just like our other groups.

All in six minutes forty seconds, with twenty slides. I'll post each of them in order here with essentially what I said, I'll be improvising.