I applied to be a don. I didn’t get it.

Damn.

I think that that robot is a sign that mankind should begin bowing down before our new robot overlords…

No power points here. Watch the video on the page, just to the right of the article.

I legitimately enjoyed this video. Some dude did it for an art history class, at what I assume is some college somewhere in the US.

He goes a bit off the rails during his “I’m sure people will find it boring. Let’s all laugh at how I’m admitting that it will be boring” bit because, frankly, that’s the most boring part of his presentation. If the most boring bit is how you’re making fun of the fact that your presentation will be boring, you may as well take that part out and stop us all from being bothered in the first place.

All in all… looks really time consuming. It says that the guy spent like a week working on it; and I can believe it. I guess there’s some economy when you have a big stock of your images that you can pull from (instead of re-drawing custom ones), but still… even writing a 10 minute presentation is rough for most people; to do that AND all the animation AND video editing is pretty rough.

It IS really neat to see something that’s not a power point though…

I think that probably a good way of doing a less-then-totally-formal presentation would be to use the non-sequitor images in quick cuts through powerpoint as you’re talking more or less normally. The presentations that I’ve been most impressed with seeing have been ones in which there is almost no text on slides.

If you put up a slide with text, people are reading the text - not listening to you. If the audience is sitting there reading, ignoring you, you’re really just a hinderence to the process, aren’t you?

The one advantage to text-ful slides is that, when they’re done at least competently, they give people a clear template for how they should be organizing the data. I mean, I liked this presentation of his, but if I had to take notes on it… ugh, it’d be rough. With power point, it’s pretty clear to see, “Oh, here’s our concept, and look, four bullet point examples” copy copy copy.

My basic idea, whenever I make a presentation (or, I suppose, whenever I make a GOOD presentation…) - what are the 3 or 4 big “take homes” that I want to get across? And then I throw out the rest of my beautifully written project, and just focus on those. When you make a presentation, almost all the time, you’re there to give people a quick glimpse at a topic; I want to give someone an idea of why the topic might be interesting, and the basic facts that they’d need to know to get started.

Annoying presentation, but they had a surprising variety of chocolate rabbits.

Though, we do now have some idea of why I’m still single…

Binks says (10:48 PM):
probably not a bad blan
Binks says (10:48 PM):
or plan….
M - i’m only human at work says (10:49 PM):
lol
Binks says (10:53 PM):
man
Binks says (10:53 PM):
I like to keep tools around
Binks says (10:54 PM):
just in case I need to put some monkeys in their place
Binks says (10:54 PM):
“oh, check it out, opposable thumbs. Booyah! Come back when you’ve evolved more”
M - i’m only human at work says (10:54 PM):
huh?
Binks says (10:55 PM):
… I might be kinda tired…
M - i’m only human at work says (10:55 PM):
ok
Binks says (10:55 PM):
I just fixed something by hammering it
Binks says (10:55 PM):
so, I feel all-powerful and mighty when it comes to the use of tools
Binks says (10:56 PM):
remarkably, me hammering on a door frame for 2 minutes didn’t draw the attention of either of my roommates…
M - i’m only human at work says (10:56 PM):
i see
Binks says (10:57 PM):
maybe we should just step past this whole conversational land mine…
Binks says (10:57 PM):
so, weather was pretty crappy today
Binks says (10:57 PM):
glad I didn’t have to go out much

We’re now on minute 16 of the complete and total silence on her end.

Edit: after 34 minutes of silence, she signed out. Man… what the heck do you do in a situation like that?