We have confirmed our speakers for the first Show and Tell, next Tuesday, March 3rd at 6:00 pm. Jason Sherwood – Choffy for everyone Shaun Tinney of Substance – Adobe AIR Image creator Scott Benish – State of the Salmon Gene Ehrbar of Anomaly Incorporated – An Introduction to SnappyCards Vince LaVecchia of Instrument – Building Flash sites that don’t suck Anselm Hook – Spinny Globe Cinco…
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February 27th, 2009
Show and Tell PDX — The Lineup
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February 12th, 2009
Show and Tell PDX – March 3rd at Substance World HQSubstance and Pinch, along with the Flash PDX User Group, invite you to an evening of show and tell. We know that you have been working diligently on the next big thing, so we want to give you the opportunity to brag about it a bit. So on Tuesday, March 3rd at 6:00 pm, at Substance, we will be hosting…
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August 29th, 2008
The Substance Substantial Internship ProgramThis fall, we’ll be starting the Substance Substantial Internship Program. We’re looking for a handful of things in an intern: ONE: A student. (This is for college credit. We can’t afford to pay you, except with wisdom and the potential of a variety of beverages.) TWO: Someone who is passionate about consuming knowledge, has a open mind, and wants to learn. THREE: Someone…
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July 31st, 2008
Found in TranslationThis week, Stephen and I had the opportunity to present to a group of young Japanese design professionals at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. The group was here in Portland as part of Teruo Kurosaki’s international design-focused tours, and Substance was asked to come and speak to them about what makes us unique, and what makes Portland so special…
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July 10th, 2008
Life at the Summit – A Substance Summit Recap
Wow. What a great start to this idea. Thank you to everyone who make it, and we hope the rest of you who couldn’t make it this time will be at the next. I know I rely upon the advice the Brothers Chaps had for success, which was, “have no plan and low expectations,” but I will count this as big…
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June 24th, 2008
Announcing The Substance Summit“Do not covet your ideas. Give away everything you know, and more will come back to you.” – Paul Arden (thanks to @swestbrook for the quote) What? The first in a series of conversations with the Portland creative community to help each other understand how we can be more inclusive, collaborative and effective. We have been inspired by Portland’s creative technology community…
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March 5th, 2008
A Conversation About Food.Yesterday I was invited to speak at the Food Alliance’s 10th Anniversary Industry Forum. I was honored to be part of a panel with Lynette Xanders of Wild Alchemy and Jen Maxwell-Muir of Maxwell PR, to discuss the role of brand and digital brand in marketing sustainability. We had the pleasure of speaking to farmers, ranchers, packers, processors and distributors…
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October 23rd, 2007
Hollywood is BurningThanks to everyone who made our talk today. As promised, here are our resources for the talk and for mashups in general: Yahoo! Map Flashr Twitter Dapper Mashery Mashup Awards Mashup Challenge Thanks for coming and thanks to FITC for having us down. If you haven’t been to one of their events yet, you need to. We hope that we inspired you in some small way. Go out…
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October 16th, 2007
bambu Believes in SubstanceSubstance is pleased to announce our partnership with bambu, an innovative and design-driven company committed to renewable materials and sustainable ideas. Based in Shanghai, China, bambu designs, creates and sells premium contemporary products for the kitchen and home, made from renewable materials. “bambu is exactly why we created Substance. They’re the kind of company that believes in what they do, and…
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August 24th, 2007
We’re going to Hollywood!
That’s right. We got our big yellow ticket. Substance friend and mashupawards.com creator Shaun Tinney is joining up with our own David Lowe-Rogstad to present “It’s a Mad Mad Mashup World” at this year’s FITC Hollywood. The event is October 22nd and 23rd in exciting and exotic Universal City, California. Shaun and I had the chance to go last year, and…
Construction project starting tomorrow at #swhq (or @ohmytodd has started driving a big pile of lumber). http://t.co/CYDSBUKy
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