The Cosmonauts

If you happen to be in Madrid on June 29th and 30th don’t miss this mini-music-festival to raise funds for thecosmonaut.org. Get your ticket and become a producer of the movie:

If you understand Spanish you’ll enjoy these promotional videos for the event. They are made by the guys at Riot Cinema. They rock too!

Spot 1

Spot 2

If you are in Madrid tomorrow you may want to attend the presentation of El Cosmonauta (The Cosmonaut - Kokmohabt) at Medialab Prado. Nicolás Alcalá and the guys from Riot Cinema will be explaining their project of filming an amazing science fiction movie applying the principles of Creative Commons and crowdfunding.

When: Thursday April 23th, 19:30h.
Where: Medialab-Prado. Plaza de las Letras, C/ Alameda, 15 · Madrid (map)

As you may know, Vostok is pretty involved in this initiative which we mentione a few posts earlier. We hope you find it as exciting as we do.

Estos días pasados he asistido al UCAM Medialab en Murcia, una jornadas que se celebran cada año, centradas en nuevos medios y comunicacón. He ido invitado por Josep Martínez Polo y José Manuel Noguera, que me sugirieron hablar sobre Planetaki. Para que no fuera sólo “hablar de mi libro”, intenté que Planetaki fuera la excusa para hablar de diseño para medios de comunicación en internet y ansiedad informacional.

RosaJC tuvo el detalle de grabar casi toda mi charla, donde hablo de la metáfora del fregadero y la fuente en los lectores de feeds (además de algunos otros conceptos).

Autobombo aparte, las jornadas estuvieron francamente bien. El público era jovencito, casi todos estudiantes de comunicación y a pesar de la edad se les notaba un nivel alto de “avispamiento digital” y bastante madurez a la hora de hablar de ciertos temas tecnológicos. Supongo que el mérito de esto es en parte por la labor de los profes de Comunicación de la UCAM.

También me gustó que el nivel de palabrería dospuntocerista estuviera controlado. No se habló de modelos de negocio, de inversiones ni de emprendimientos y eso contribuyó a mi paz de espíritu.

Yo fui ilusionado por poder oir a gente con mucha experiencia como Chiqui de la Fuente o Georgina Cisquella, pero también disfruté de las charlas de Rosa Jiménez Cano o de Juanlu Sánchez, por mencionar algunos, o de las conversaciones con el resto de ponentes, alumnos y la gente de la organización que estuvieron muy atentos con nosotros.

This year’s SHiFT conference (Lto be held in Lisbon) has a very nice panel of speakers:

Andrew Baron
Andy Budd
August de los Reyes
Brian Suda
Eduardo Manchon
Felix Petersen
Geoff Marslett
Joshua Kaufman
Julian Bleecker
Leonel Moura
Manuel Lima
Mark Wuben
Nick Cristea
Nick Weldin
Sanky (Simon Sankarayya)
Stephanie Booth
Stowe Boyd
Tara Hunt
Tijmen Schep

The price is also affordable (240€) and there are discounts for flight tickets and something else I don’t recall now. Let me know if you plan on attending.

Man, I am soooo looking forward to tonight’s Unvlog Party…

Some are extracted from the talks I attended while some others come from my personal-internal reboot:

1. There is a world out there, go reach it.
2. Your shit is someone else’s food (metaphorically speaking, ok?).
3. Own no more than 5 things you use, or else things will use you instead.
4. Leave your shit behind, it will serve others and make you more free.
5. If you reinterpret space and use it in non-conventional ways you are on advantage.
6. Courage is one of the most important things in life.
7. You can design your own life.
8. Do-ers are better than thinkers (in case you had to chose).
9. Conferences on a far away city are great for putting thoughts in order.
10. Web2.love is still the only strategic approach that makes sense when creating things.

I would love to see some more of these shared by other atendees. Please, let me know if you happen to post yours.

As some of you know, I’ve spent the past days at Reboot10. Now I can confirm what people usually say about it: there is something special at reboot that empowers you and insipires for new things.

I made a few decisions while here in CPH. First one is going back to posting in English. I feel sorry for those who prefer Spanish. I know the blog may lose a bit of freshness (if it ever had that) but hey, the world is huge and ther are so many amazing people out there who I couldn’t reach otherwise.

Personal stuff may come in Spanish sometimes, so don’t expect too much consistency. As chaotic as life, I guess.