http://failcamp.co.uk A one day event in Birmingham for stuff that didn't work. Mon, 17 May 2010 10:50:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Slightly cart before the horse I know, what with no date announcement. Looking for speakers for Birmingham Fail Camp 2010. What sort of things are we looking for? Whatever you want to talk about. If it relates to failure and you don't mind sharing it, we'll be interested, attentive and supportive. You'll get ... http://failcamp.co.uk/panels/ National Treasure Charlie Brooker has a new comedy panel show on National Treasure Radio 4. They celebrate "one of Britain's favourite subject- failure". One for me then. It's a game of competitive ineptitude, the aim of which is to come up with the wrongest answer to each question. In this episode, the ... http://failcamp.co.uk/so-wrong-its-right/ Hello there, sorry for the silence. I could make something pithy and intelligent sounding about the reason behind the silence. Taking time to reflect etc. Truth is it''s my own mini-failure. I didn't save the admin address anywhere and didn't want to admit I'd got something wrong. So we're back. Planning is ... http://failcamp.co.uk/back-in-business/ 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/