The Baltimore Buzz
/Listen to Eubie Blake's tune "Baltimore Buzz" as performed by the Shuffle Along Orchestra in 1921. One nugget from a first look at the Library of Congress' glorious National Jukebox.
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Listen to Eubie Blake's tune "Baltimore Buzz" as performed by the Shuffle Along Orchestra in 1921. One nugget from a first look at the Library of Congress' glorious National Jukebox.
My talk on culture in a disrupted, digitally networked era at Ignite Baltimore is now on video. Some nerves meant I read more than performed, but I'm proud of the ideas and imagery I cobbled together.
Here are much clearer images of the slides I used:
The Fate of Culture in an Age of Disruption: An Ignite Talk by Andrew Hazlett
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Nerve-wracking and exciting: I'm speaking at Ignite Baltimore #6 on the evening of Thursday, September 30th. My proposal was to talk about older forms of culture and whether and how they can survive and flourish in the networked age.
If you're so disposed, you can "tune in" to the Ignite Baltimore live stream here.
I'll post notes and slide images here after the talk. I'm sure I spent at least as much time selecting and preparing the images as I did composing the talk.
That was cool. Here are the slides I used:
Things Fall Apart... and a Terrible Beauty is Born: Culture in an age of Disruption
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