A Barcamp in Birmingham for stuff that didn't work.
Thomas Edison proves to be a bit of goldmine for fail-related quotes. Here’s a few:
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will [...]
From an interview with Jim Coudal on Design Glut:
What’s next?
I don’t know what’s next! It’s kind of a joke, but we’re proudly “without business plan” in our 13th year. We’ve had a lot of things not work, and that’s OK too. If it’s a good idea and it gets you excited, try it, and if [...]
I’m experiencing my own personal fail by not knowing how to embed video on the blog.
Kate Bornstein speaking at reunion.
Kate Bornstein is a failure as man and as a woman.
She’s in her sixties and has been talking openly about her life as a trans person.
I studied some of her performance work and writings at university [...]
Success is dangerous. One starts to copy oneself & copying oneself is more dangerous than copying others. This leads to sterility- Picasso (Tweeted by the Pet Shop Boys)
I really identify with Charlie Brown.
Sure we both have very little hair & strangely shaped heads.
He was thwarted by an evil girl called Lucy. I have a sister called Lucy. You make your own pop-psychological links.
Growing up I always wanted people to think I was a bit like Schroeder, I played the piano, I wanted [...]
Here’s Clay, doing his thing, asking folk to tell stories of what didn’t work, which is what FAILcamp is all about.
I wonder if the audio-video miss-sync is deliberate…
Yes, we have a Twitter. Duh!
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