http://failcamp.co.uk A Barcamp in Birmingham for stuff that didn't work. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:10:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I, as in Pete Ashton, am pulling out of doing FailCamp. My reasons, for what they're worth, are on my blog but suffice to say it's nothing to do with the event and all to do with me. We've seen a lot of enthusiasm for this happening - Screen West ... http://failcamp.co.uk/pete-out-you-in/ 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 ... http://failcamp.co.uk/edison-on-failing/ 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 ... http://failcamp.co.uk/coudal-on-failure/ 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 ... http://failcamp.co.uk/kate-bornstein-talks-failure/ One of out newest followers @weltim complained on his twitter stream about how negative his experience of Heathrow was. I then wondered aloud about how rich a seam #Travelfail could be. So begins the bidding war. We're looking for the worst travel experience you've had personally. We're trusting people (so don't start ... http://failcamp.co.uk/travel-fail/ 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) http://failcamp.co.uk/pithy-quote-of-the-day/ No, not the one in Trafalgar Square, but the one in Centenary Square, Birmingham. There used to be a statue called Forward by Raymond Mason that dominated the space. It was affectionately known as the jelly mould or the Lurpack statue. It was destroyed by arsonists n April 2003 and it's never ... http://failcamp.co.uk/the-empty-plinth/ FAILcamp seems to have sparked an investigation. A few years ago Birmingham City Council announced they were to have a spangly new website but very little has been heard since. Paul Dale posted a report on the Birmingham Post site today indicating it's another Capita-related snafu but, in the spirit ... http://failcamp.co.uk/whatever-happened-to-the-birmingham-city-council-website/ Lots of questions bubbling in my mind: Who haven't we talked about yet? What kind of fail haven't we mentioned? What inspirational nonsense haven't we looked at? What conversations do we need to have? The best people to advise us, is are you. (Grammatical fail, there) You might be thinking that your suggestion isn't clever ... http://failcamp.co.uk/set-us-some-failure-homework/ 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 ... http://failcamp.co.uk/youre-a-failure-charlie-brown/