Nerd Nite Boston

Archive for May, 2009

Hey there Nerdnite nation,

Nerdnite is tonight! Hope we’ll see you all at the Midway.

Talk 1: Termites: Beyond Home Wreckers
by Kelley Schultheis
A lively introduction to the — how shall we put it — boring world of
termites.

Talk 2: The Aesthetics of Blood
by Mat Laibowitz
How to make fake blood and how to use it in a horror movie. Featuring

The next Nerdnite approaches — Friday May 15 at the Midway Cafe.
Herein you will find the lineup. You can find the Midway at 3496
Washington Street in Jamaica Plain.  We’ll get things started at
8pm.

Talk 1:  Termites: Beyond Home Wreckers
by Kelley Schultheis
Perhaps you’ve had nightmares about termites destroying your home or
devouring you in your sleep.  Well, perhaps that is because you know
nothing of these minute-wood-crunchers.  Put your fears aside as you
learn of the fascinating adaptations of these friendly social
roaches.

Kelley is a world-renowned expert on giving Nerdnite talks on odd
animals.  This will be her second appearance on our stage.

Talk 2: The Aesthetics of Blood
by Mat Laibowitz
Making extensive use of scenes of a graphic nature and a complete
disregard for good taste, Mat will give us an in-depth discussion of
the creation and use of fake blood throughout the world of cinema.
Get ready for an extremely nerdy cataloguing of the various formulas
for blood effects, and the blood aesthetics they create.

Mat is an overeducated aspiring filmmaker. His dreamy path to
realizing his visions in 24 frames per second of glowing light has
brought him through Columbia University, through a graduate degree in
digital (yuck!) special effects from NYU, and, his crowning
achievement, being accepted into the Joe Blasco College of Make-Up.
Due to forces beyond his control he never attended this prestigious
institution, and instead enrolled in the lesser-known MIT Media Lab
where, to this day, he researches filmmaking technology of a different
sort.

It’s a great lineup, so come on out this Friday.

Be there and be square!
Friday May 15, 8pm
Midway Cafe
3496 Washington Street
Jamaica Plain, MA
(617) 524-9038
boston.nerdnite.com

Hi nerdniters,
One more email for tonight. I’ve heard that some people wanted to get
in touch with us but were having trouble…

If you want to email us, just send mail to bos…@nerdnite.com

I highly encourage any of you who are thinking that it might be fun to
give a talk at Nerdnite to fire off an email to that address. We are
always looking for speakers, and I think most people who’ve done it
will tell you that it’s pretty fun.

Hey Nerdnite fans,

Exciting news on the technology front — we’ve got a fabulous newly
redesigned website. Check it out at boston.nerdnite.com. Yes, the
nerds who run Nerdnite finally figured out how to make a reasonably
useful website. It’s about friggin’ time.

The biggest change is that we now have a blog — click the “updates”
link on boston.nerdnite.com. Come on over and sign up for our RSS
feed! Or just go here: http://boston.nerdnite.com/feed/

Don’t worry if you’re not into RSS — we’ll still post all info here
about upcoming events. But there will be lots more content on the
blog — since I don’t have to worry about filling up everyone’s inbox,
I’ll probably post there way more often.

I hope everyone will come check out the blog. We are planning some
big stuff for Nerdnite, and we want your input on that. So we hope
the comments section of the blog will have some good back and forth —
providing a forum for you to let us know all the good ideas you’ve got
about what you’d like to see. Plus, you can lavish us with richly-
deserved ridicule for joining the blog revolution 7 years behind the
curve.

While you’re checking out the Boston site, take a minute to poke
around and see the rest of nerdnite.com — there’s lots of new stuff
and more is coming.

-Jeremy

Welcome to the new Nerdnite.com website and the Nerdnite Boston blog. Surf around and check it out. How can we improve this place? Let us know in the comments.

One exciting change is that now we’ve got Nerdnite t-shirts available online! No more leaving a post-it note in a bowl on stage during the show. See here to see our nerdtastic design.

Hey Nerdnite fans,
The next Nerdnite will be Friday May 15, 8pm, at the Midway. Come on
out and hear about the nerdy art of horror movie special effects, plus
other exciting nerdery.

Be there and be square,
-Jeremy