How many wonderful and tasty things get cooked up in a kitchen. Well quite a lot when I’m at the stove, but sometimes the things getting cooked up are ideas. A little over three years ago, Ryan Price and I were sitting at his kitchen table hatching some community building schemes. Lo and behold, 3 years later, Florida Creatives is a fixture of Central Flroidas creative community and we are set to celebrate that fact tonight at 6 pm at the Brooked Bayou downtown.
Florida Creatives happy hours are an incredible melting pot of talent. I’ve always come away with fresh inspiration, a few more creative contacts and with a full belly of gumbo and good beer. Particularly if you are a freelancer or a work-from-home creative, this happy hour is a great way to meet other creative-shut-ins and make inroads to establishing your personal brand in Orlando’s creative community.
As an appetizer of the kind of crazy talent you can find in the Florida Creative members check out the amazing work of Plinio Pinto of GrapeSodaStudio,Inc. I just discovered his work though the Florida Creatives and I his illustrations are seriously “Legend”.
I hope to see you there tonight. Please stop by and introduce yourself to me. Check the About page if you need a picture to know who the heck I am. Cheers.
FYI the engine under the hood of this blog is WordPress, and there is an incredible conference going on tomorrow at Rollins College in Winter Park dedicated to all this WordPressy called WordCamp Orlando.
I’m really excited about the speakers on the schedule and to catch up with the digital media kids in town. I’ve had my head out of the game since the birth of our child and it will be nice to see my old pals, make some new ones and learn a few new things.
Oh there is also a happy hour (well hours) following the event at the Globe downtown in case you want to share a cold one with some truly excellent peeps. Hope to see you there.If you can’t make it at least check out WordCamp Orlando’s Twitter feed.
You can also follow the Flickr photo stream of the event in case you can’t make it. Additionally the official Twitter # tag for the event it #wco if you want a minute by minute, blow by blow account via Twitter.
It’s that time of the year again. It is finally starting to get cold (if you are worried about the global warming maybe you should become carbon-neutral) and the New Oxford American Dictionary is preparing for the holidays by making its biggest announcement of the year. The 2007 Word of the Year is (drum-roll please) locavore.
The past year saw the popularization of a trend in using locally grown ingredients, taking advantage of seasonally available foodstuffs that can be bought and prepared without the need for extra preservatives.
The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores also shun supermarket offerings as an environmentally friendly measure, since shipping food over long distances often requires more fuel for transportation.
“The word ‘locavore’ shows how food-lovers can enjoy what they eat while still appreciating the impact they have on the environment,” said Ben Zimmer, editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Press. “It’s significant in that it brings together eating and ecology in a new way.”
“Locavore” was coined two years ago by a group of four women in San Francisco who proposed that local residents should try to eat only food grown or produced within a 100-mile radius. Other regional movements have emerged since then, though some groups refer to themselves as “localvores” rather than “locavores.” However it’s spelled, it’s a word to watch.
Subscribe
