Interesting South
Interesting people. Interesting ideas. An evening of interestingness.2007 Topics & Speakers
A huge thank you to the guys at Precinct for their fabulous filming and editing. And to pureprofile for their big, glossy hosting.
- How to make a place people love
- Jeffre Jackson, www.pinkair.com
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- How to Learn a Language
- Katie Chatfield, www.getshouty.com
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- How To Not Feel Like A Twat When Looking at Modern Art: Based on the experience of an artist, who spends a helluva lot of time in galleries, pretending she knows what she’s talking about.
- Lauren Brown, sheseesred.blogspot.com
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- The Well-Tempered Personal Environment: Chucking social software at your local energy sources, giving you a personal energy profile, which can then be aggregated to your street, your mates, your neighbourhood, your region, your city etc.
- Dan Hill, www.cityofsound.com
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- How to Make a Zombie: In three minutes, Matt will bring together b-movies, dr Karl, the plasticity of human nature, & Crypropharmacology. There will be an opportunity to put theory into practice in a follow-on session
- Matt Moore, engineerswithoutfears.blogspot.com
- Video coming soon

- Smalltown Australia: For the last 2 and a half years Martin has been traveling through smalltown Australia capturing photographically what he believes to be a mostly overlooked perspective of our regional areas. He doesn’t believe that Australians have comfortably settled into their environment and from this he senses a yearning for place. Along with the Author Tim Winton he is creating a photographic book and exhibition of this topic.
- Martin Mischkulnig, www.martinmischkulnig.com
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- Open Arms and Open Homes: A discussion on reclaiming hope in humanity in the digital age, using social networking websites to create real world change
- Juan Mann, (aka Free Hugs Man), www.freehugscampaign.org
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- Juan Mann, (aka Free Hugs Man), www.freehugscampaign.org
- What is this thing called Happiness?: Dolly Parton once said “Smile – it increases your face value”. So, what is this thing called happiness? Who gets it? And why do you want it?
- Dr Adrienne Withall Primary Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, a.withall[at]unsw[dot]edu[dot]au
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- On Dork-bot Sydney: a diverse range of people doing strange things with electricity, from home made enthusiasts, professionals and artists, that meet regularly to celebrate the wonders of electricity
- Pia van Gelder, Dork-bot Sydney Overlord, dorkbotsyd.boztek.net
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- What is Green?: Trying to explain things to people who speak your language, but live in another universe - things you learn teaching kids who can’t see.
- Errol Flanagan, www.errolflanagan.com
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- What is Fairtrade and Why Should We Bother?
- Natasha Lewis, Chair of Fairtrade Assoc. Australia & NZ, Managing Director of Organic Trader, www.fairtrade.com.au, www.cocolo.com
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- Moose dancing: Combine -30C in the wilds of Alaska, two hearty huskies, a one-way ski trail and a lonely she-moose
- John McWhorter, www.mytb.org/Hangzhou-Johnny
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- Speaking the world into being: I’m a little obsessed by the way language creates the world we experience, and shapes our thinking and actions. Yet our relationship to language is like a fish to water – we don’t know we’re in it….
- Samantha Graham
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- It’s Not Rocket Surgery: Ideas on sustainabilty without the weasel words:
- Dr. Tim Baynes, environmental scientist
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- The Secret Life of Tango
- Tiffany Kenyon, tiffanykenyon.typepad.com
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- Looking Through the Eyes of a Child: To get a different perspective we are often advised to “look through the eyes of a child”. But what if you could? A fascinating look at Gavin’s own life through the photos of his four year old daughter
- Gavin Heaton, www.servantofchaos.com
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- Beyond Body Language: new paradigms for listening and speaking, and for interpreting the richness of the human voice.
- Tim Noonan, Visionary Communications, www.visionarycommunications.com.au
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- Sex workers providing services to clients with a disability
- Rachel Wotton, Integrated Sex Industry Solutions Consultancy and Training Specialist(ISIS CATS)
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- Taking it to the Streets: Exploring varying levels of authenticity and activism in the Australian urban environment
- Tim Longhurst, www.timlonghurst.com
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