Hunter S. Thompson Film: Gonzo June 7, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : News, Quotes, Video, Beer, Film, Orlando Weekly, Storytelling , 2 commentsThe man who invented Gonzo journalism is a guy who I’ve really been meaning to check out on a deeper level for quite some time. I love the film versions of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I actually share a birthday with him - we were born 45 years apart, and he ended up living to be 68.
One of my favorite things about Gonzo Otaku is Flying Dog’s Gonzo Porter - a seasonal beer dedicated to Hunter, featuring the artwork of Ralph Steadman (he does all the art for Flying Dog), with a dog-portrait of the author, clutching his signature cigarette holder and wearing sunglasses. Apparently H.S.T. was a friend of the brewers. He is quoted on their site as saying:
“Good People Drink Good Beer”
So far the closest opening for the film is 4th of July in Atlanta, at Midtown Art Cinemas 8 (an eight-screen art-house? Que?)
In other Gonzo trivia, I would classify local Orlando Weekly columnist Billy Manes as a disciple of that style of journalism, if you’ve never read his weekly back-page column, Blister, you don’t know what you’re getting in to.
Hopefully I’ll have a chance to see the film some time soon, until then, do some LSD, smoke, drink, go for a drive, and don’t forget to bring your lawyer with you!
BarCampOrlando IZEA Geekout Party April 7, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Podcasts, Orlando, Links, Events, Video, Beer, floridacreatives, Entrepreneurship, photos, Contributors, OrlandoScene, BarCamp, Social Media Events , 1 comment so far
This was how I spend 90% of the time at the IZEA GeekOut Party - talking to Tara Lamberson and Dan Kinchen about a Central Florida Tech Association, or something like it.
Thanks to Ted Murphy for throwing the party - we hope to see you on the 21st for Florida Creatives. Also thanks to Adam Teece for hosting the podcasts.
Also appearing in this video: Ted Murphy, Gregg Pollack and a widdle baby
See more videos by Adam at the GeekOut
Florida Creatives Happy Hour 1/21 January 17, 2008
Posted by Ryan in : Site News, Events, Beer, floridacreatives, OrlandoScene , add a commentFlorida Creatives
RSVP & Event Info
Monday, January 21, 2008
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Crooked Bayou
50 E Central Blvd #D
Orlando, FL
Yes, it’s the first month of the new year, but the holiday hangovers are a long-gone memory. It’s just the right time to head downtown for a drink!
Come meet some new people, catch up with old friends and get a clue about what’s going on in the coming year.
IF YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO FLORIDA CREATIVES NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME. It’s the start of a new year, and one of your resolutions should be to “Get out more”, “Meet new people in my field”, “Follow up with the people I swapped business cards with a few months ago”. If you feel you’re doing fine in all these areas, INVITE SOME FRIENDS.
Don’t experience Florida Creatives through a second-hand account - like a boyfriend or an intern - the event exists for you to attend, you are meant to participate, and the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. All of us are doing amazing things, and we all hold great potential, and mixing things up, rearranging the pieces, and otherwise adding catalysts to a beaker full of volatile chemicals can only be seen as a good thing. The problem is, our community contains so many different ingredients, and we have barely begun to scratch the surface. Make 2008 the year you got off your duff and became part of the solution.
The FLCreatives Wiki is starting to take shape, but you can help! Create an account or edit anonymously. Add something about one of your friends, and ask them to add something about you! If you think we’re missing a category or a metro area, go ahead and add a new page.
Florida Creatives is a networking group currently serving Central Florida and looking to expand to schools and other metro areas. Membership is comprised of people who pursue creative activities for work or pleasure. Each month we get together to discuss what we do, share stories, make connections, catch up with friends and have a drink.
New Media ‘Think and Drink’ at Red Light, Red Light Saturday Jan 5th at 5:30pm December 31, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Podcasts, Orlando, Links, Events, Video, Beer, TV, Trends, Radio, floridacreatives, mashups, OrlandoScene, PodCamp, Storytelling , add a commentMore than a year ago, I hatched an idea about uniting the creative communities around Florida under a common banner at a Creative Summit. We are much closer to such an event now, but still so far away. After doing a dance in several directions, we came up with a Think and Drink.
This Saturday at 5:30, local media producers will gather at Red Light Red Light in Winter Park (map) for perhaps the first event of its kind in Central Forida. 2008 will see the coming of age of many types of new media. Blogging will become a pre-teen; podcasting is no longer a toddler; YouTube even turns 3 this year. As we start to see the hardening and refactoring of several popular and useful services and standards, it becomes more important for the enthusiasts and early adopters to come together to get on common footing and think about the future of media.
Orlando’s technology, media and other creative communities have been growing along side each other for the past few years in a collection of several small fast and focused movements. What better way to start a new year than with a gathering with the purpose of setting goals and recording the words of the trend-setters of our community.
We’ve been setting aside January 5th on our calendars for some time now as a day to share our thoughts and experiences with new media. In December, a few of us got together to discuss what we’d like to get out of a PodCamp or a New Media day. Everyone agreed we should plan to have a much larger and more ambitious event later in the year, perhaps this summer, but a small event would help us get a solid idea about what sorts of topics to discuss and how we sell the event to the community.
BarCamp was a great event that really brought a lot of the community out in force, but the focus on programming made the video people, the podcasters, the storytellers and the writers believe that we could have our own Unconference. Enter this PodCamp Party.
Be sure and hop on the Facebook Group and to add some of your favorite sites and links to the Ma.gnolia Bookmarks Group. We’ll make it worth writing home about.
P.S. I’m also trying to plan a “Photowalk” at 3PM for all the photographers and people who might like to take a walk around Winter Park and grab some food before the Happy Hour. Reply via Facebook if you’d like to go.
Beer Bomb Bus Tour Twitterstream via 30boxes Twapper September 17, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Blogging, Orlando, Events, Beer, Reviews, Trends, Web Sites, mashups, Contributors, interface , 1 comment so farLive Tweets from today’s awesome tour.
Hosted by Mike of Shipyard
Twitters courtesy hailtheale johnrife liberatr
Over at m.30boxes.com they’ve got a neat little service called Twapper - “Twitter Mobile for WAP”. I didn’t think much of it until just now when I realized that I only twittered a few times today, but John and Chris wrote several texts. I was even quoted in one of them!
Twapper is so easy you can use it from your cell phone, but it makes a great deal of sense as a web service as well. Think, I wanted to see tweets from just a few users, not all my friends, not just me. No special #tagging or @addressing needed, just a good service. If you want to see more than one stream, just type +bloggingfringe or +johnrife+hailtheale to the end of your URL. I think it has a limit on the number of streams you can combine, but it is ad-hoc groups! Ad-hoc! Buzzword compliant!
Another very useful thing that was omitted from this screenshot (for archival purposes) is a little text box just below the stream that bears the legend “Direct twitter this group only!” That’s a very useful feature, so easy you can operate it from your crappy cellphone browser.
Also, John was inspired to try out some live YouTube as per my suggestion at Friday’s lunch, so check out that link too.
Welcome to Beer Blog (historic) September 9, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Site News, Career, Blogging, Beer, Web Sites, Historic , add a commentThis was my first post to Wordpress over on RyanPrice.org exactly 2 years ago. 5 days later, I wrote my first post on RyanPriceMedia.com, interestingly enough about the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD debate. Who knew it would be 2 years, and there is still no end in sight. Check out my first post:
Welcome welcome welcome to the world of BEER! Beer Blog is a place to discuss and learn about beers both good and bad from around the world. If you are a friend of hops and barley, you have come to the right address!
My friends and I are part of a local beer enthusiast’s club, and we have this blog to share our beer experiences with you.
I’ll be doing a few more of these “historic” posts, as other blogging anniversaries come up. I consider two years ago to be my “public” blogging anniversary, even though I was writing long before then using static HTML. If I figure out when that was (start up my old clunker PC), I’ll be sure and post about it.
I have to thank my friend Nathan Kohlun of the Semi-Circle for getting me into writing online in the first place. Back in 2002 when I first had aspirations of starting a web design firm, I had Nathan and my friends Charley Cartee and Peter Brown gathered in a conference room at the UCF Student Union and pitched the idea to them of getting into small business web design. Peter would do photoshop, I would do HTML, Charley would do layout and Nathan would be the geek. I had such big dreams then, and now I see web pages as a means to an end. Funny how that works.
A few days ago, Charlie (Krueger) and I talked about setting ourselves up with a revenue stream that will let us pursue some of our more hairbrained schemes, and we just might have something. This blog will certainly be the first place you hear any new announcements, so stay tuned.
Portland, Maine 4th of July Weekend July 16, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Blogging, Music, Video, Beer, Reviews, Travel, Restaurants , add a commentI took a trip to New England seeking Beer, Whales, Lobster, and good times. Portland, Kennebunkport and Saco, as well as Oxford, Mass. Beer by Grtty McDuff’s and Sebago.
Music by Jason Spooner
Florida Creatives Happy Hour 6/18 June 15, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Site News, Markteting, Podcasts, Orlando, Events, Beer, Coworking, Coffee, Trends, MySpace, Liberatr, floridacreatives, Likemind.orl, Facebook, Virb , add a commentThird week of the month, the two events we host come around, and I blog/email/post the hell out of it! First of all is likemind.orl at Lake Eola Panera Bread, that happened already this morning, but it happens every month. Alex Rudloff and Ryan Price (that’s me) host this event for… well… anyone in Orlando! The likemind.us fellas in New York got a very nice company named Anomaly to send us some coffee/bagel money, so come for free coffee and good conversation.
Now, for the big news - Florida Creatives Happy Hour is turning 7 months old! Officially our baby is 27 weeks along in its development (but been drinking since day 1? ouch!). I’m really hoping we will be able to get some presence in the local schools once the next year gets started, so I’d like to have a short directed discussion about that, maybe record it, when we feel like we’ve got “quorum” (enough people to make decisions). John Rife is supposed to be returning from his trip this week, so I’m sure he’ll have stories to share. I’ve also spent the last 2 months on a big recruiting push, and just sent a couple of fresh emails today to local illustrators/podcasters. Not to mention the social networking groups and doing lots of outreach there too. If you’re on Upcoming (meaning you have a Yahoo ID), Facebook, VIRB or MySpace, join the groups. Don’t forget the mailing list.
Event Page & RSVP
Monday, June 18, 2007
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
crooked bayou
50 E Central Blvd # D
Orlando, Florida 32801
If you’ve never been to a happy hour, all you need to know is BE YOURSELF. We have a very casual atmosphere at Florida Creatives, and we are mostly made up of people who want to make some friends who are passionate about the same things they are. In addition to likeminded friends, we are most of us interested in learning about other disciplines, so we are here to learn as well. Last but not least, there are some of us who want to see this community thrive, and what we can accomplish by getting organized. Admission is free, business cards are plentiful, discussion is honest and friendly. Check us out.
Florida Creatives Updates June 6, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Orlando, Events, Beer, MySpace, Web Sites, floridacreatives, Likemind.orl, Facebook, Virb , add a commentFirst let me remind you that we have an event coming up on Monday the 18th at the Crooked Bayou, our home now for 4 of 7 months of Florida Creatives Happy Hours. As usual, meet and greet will be from 6-9PM officially. I have often stayed far past 10 o’clock myself, but you’re welcome to come and go when you like.
Also, If you haven’t seen already, a Florida Creatives group now exists on several major social networking sites. If you have friends living elsewhere in the state, get them to join these groups and meet some other creatives in another commmunity.
Mailing List - 51 members - http://groups.google.com/group/florida-creatives
MySpace - 151 members - http://groups.myspace.com/floridacreatives
Facebook - 21 members - http://ucf.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2731760310
Upcoming - 9 members - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/2967/
Virb - 5 members - http://virb.com/groups/15363582
I’ve also just spent a bit of time writing an About Page at FloridaCreatives.com - check it out, let me know if it needs clarification or updating.
Hope to see you all on the 18th! Thanks for supporting Florida Creatives.
2007 Orlando Fringe Festival May 20, 2007
Posted by Ryan in : Tech, Career, Blogging, Podcasts, Orlando, Links, Events, Beer, Trends, Fringe, Travel, Liberatr, Web Sites, floridacreatives, Entrepreneurship, photos , 1 comment so far
So this year for Blogging Fringe, in addition to providing day-by-day accounts of what’s going on, reviews of the shows we see (we being me and 3+ other people, come help out if you like), making the occasional video and taking some photos, I am doing something else. I have a vendor space in the “Beer Tent” area (beer is NOT Orlando Brewing). So far, I didn’t have anything there Thursday on account of the rain and all the stuff to do, and I didn’t have it Friday because I was seeing shows, but I actually set up today and had a decent experience.
I only made $10 at the tent today, but I think the real goal is to make sure it’s serious, to set ourselves apart, and to give the team a home base to work from. I’ve also encouraged artists to come by the tent and hang out, particularly those from out of town. One such maiden is Amy Salloway, who is a lovely Minnesota girl with a one-woman show about Jewish summer camp. She came by to chat with Emily, Jamie and I tonight over some delicious corn Arepas from the booth next door. I hope she comes back and is the first of many.
Also, I finally met John V. of Radio Rickshaw tonight - apparently, they sponsored the poetry smackdown at the outdoor stage… S.K.I.P. of Nonsense won the prize tonight, and rightly so - he’s fantastic. Mark Baratelli said many times that the spoken word community needs to put together a Fringe show next year: he’s right. Amy Steinberg’s been doing it for years, even Unicornicopia had a show - why hasn’t Nonsense Records done something?
After that there was a very small excursion to the Peacock Room where we ran into the Senorita from Matador. Now that I think of it, I could be dropping names all night in this post, but I don’t have all night… I have to get up and go fly a kite.
