I never knew

Depuis 7h ce matin NextMontréal est en ligne. Nouveau projet au sein duquel je serai impliqué en tant qu’éditeur en chef. Vous pouvez aller voir mon entrée Bienvenue sur NextMontréal qui explique mon choix et parle du mélange anglais/français. Profitez-en aussi pour regarder mon entrée sur notre usage de Twitter, c’est une petite partie de ce que nous allons faire mais considérant le volume de liens intéressants que je vois passer sur Twitter, je mise sur ce mode de découverte et j’aimerais bien que chacune de nos entrées “crowdsourcées” sur Twitter soient pleines de contenu intéressant.

Note : Ce n’est pas une implication temps plein, je continue à travailler sur mes autres projets et sur quelques contrats clients, arrêtez-pas de m’appeler ;).

Are there people like this in Montréal? Who are they? Where are they?

Filed in the “awesome ideas that need doing in Montréal” folder; the Brooklyn Brainery.

Brooklyn Brainery hosts collaborative learning classes. What’s that mean? Think book clubs on steroids. It’s a place to experiment with all the things you’ve wanted to learn but just haven’t….

Brainery classes don’t have real teachers. That part is important! Class leaders aren’t necessarily experts, they’re there to keep things on track and guide the learning process.

The extent of their expertise is mostly having rolled around on the internet and bookmarked some Wikipedia pages – they have a general idea of where you are going (West!), but not that you need to take I-80 for a few thousand miles to get to Sutter’s Mill.

That’s where you come in! Before most classes, you’ll get an email with a bit of homework – say a few randomly assigned vocab words to look into. You become the expert on that information and get to share it with everyone else during class. Class is way more fun this way!

One of my favorite things in Inception is the way everyone is dressed, mix of futuristic and cool retro. Jeffrey Kurland did the costume design and there’s an interview with him on Clothes On Film. He also did Ocean’s Eleven and Collateral, two other movies with great suits and looks.

Not wanting to date the film, I was trying to create an upscale world of business and intrigue with architecture being a constant metaphorical thread running throughout… definitely forward thinking, without being futuristic. That enabled me to travel from reality to dreams and back, keeping a certain amount of stylization that would serve all the situations presented in the script.