The Central VA AMA (marketing association) is hosting a screening of Art & Copy this Friday night at the Paramount with a QA session with executive producer Kirk Souder afterwards. The film profiles some of the giants of advertising and copyright and has won several film festive awards – including Sundance and Toronto.
From the film’s official description:
ART & COPY is a powerful new film about advertising and inspiration. Directed by Doug Pray (SURFWISE, SCRATCH, HYPE!), it reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time — people who’ve profoundly impacted our culture, yet are virtually unknown outside their industry. Exploding forth from advertising’s “creative revolution” of the 1960s, these artists and writers all brought a surprisingly rebellious spirit to their work in a business more often associated with mediocrity or manipulation: George Lois, Mary Wells, Dan Wieden, Lee Clow, Hal Riney and others featured in ART & COPY were responsible for “Just Do It,” “I Love NY,” “Where’s the Beef?,” “Got Milk,” “Think Different,” and brilliant campaigns for everything from cars to presidents. They managed to grab the attention of millions and truly move them. Visually interwoven with their stories, TV satellites are launched, billboards are erected, and the social and cultural impact of their ads are brought to light in this dynamic exploration of art, commerce, and human emotion.
Event details here.
Rowdy.com is a social networking and content site for Nascar fans. Yes, outside of the University and downtown Charlottesville, Nascar is really really big. In additional to providing blogs, forums, news and other social networking tools, they also produce a lot of their own original content – including videos and podcasts. Rowdy is run by Rusty Speidel for the Street and Smith Company with offices downtown on Water St. From the website:
Rowdy.com is the place NASCAR fans can express themselves, meet others and can stay current on the sport’s hot issues and talk about racing…or anything else. We aspire to be a next-generation social networking site where we make it easy for fans to express themselves on what they love most–racing, and most importantly, be themselves. Fans can blog, show off their favorite photos and videos, and of course, listen to Rowdy’s take on the sport, either via podcast or streamed on the site.
If you are part of an internet company, design / development firm or startup project in Charlottesville, we’d love to hear from you. The goal of First Wednesdays is to grow the internet / startup community in town by highlighting companies and hosting networking events. Help us find you! Email me at daniel [at] cloudbrain.com or just leave a comment here.
Cloudbrain is a digital media software company. Their flagship product, TidySongs, uses an online database to automatically organize and clean up your iTunes songs. Cloudbrain has seven employees working out of their office above Christian’s on the Downtown Mall and does all development, sales and marketing in house. They are also responsible for several local projects including CurbPlaces and FirstWednesdays (is it ok that I’m talking in third person) and the social media projects CollegeRuled and SaveTheSongs.org.
Follow Cloudbrain on Twitter here.
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We meet every first wednesday of the month at a bar / restaurant to-be-determine. Follow this blog and check it the morning of to find out the location. We meet from 7pm to whenever and everything is casual, chill, fun and engaging. Drop by whenever, have a drink, hang out and meet new people.
First Wednesdays tonight: Come meet up others in Charlottesville
interested in the intersection of the Internet, Business and
Marketing. 7ish at South Street. Feel free to tell a friend.
Unfortunately, I am out of town at MacWorld today and Adam Healy is
home sick (or so he says) which means your two hosts will not be
there. But don’t let that stop you from coming out and hanging out.
Just be sure to keep an eye out for anyone looking lost that might
want to meetup. Congrate in our usual spot in the back area (opposite
the bar).
What: First Wednesdays
Who: Cville Internet+Business+Marketing
Where: South Street
When: 7pm, TONIGHT
What: First Wednesdays #2
When: TONIGHT. 7:30pm
Where: South Street Brewery
What:
First Wednesdays is a gathering of coders, designs, bloggers, marketers, and entrepenuers in Charlottesville. Our goal is to meet up, hang out and increase Charlottesville’s internet cred. Come out and bring a friend. The only requirement is that you are interested in Business+Internet.
The first meeting last month went great so we’ll stick with what works: South Street. We can discuss tonight if we want to relocate for next month. Also, The Club is at South Street tonight at 9ish, so you can just stick around and hang out with the actual cool people in town.
http://www.firstwednesdays.org
See you there!
We had a great group for the first ever First Wednesdays meeting last night at South Street. It was fun! Thanks to everyone that made it out and sorry to all the people that couldn’t make it (sorry about the late notice!). I’m pumped about next month.
Put November 5th on your calendar for the next First Wednesdays. We’ll discuss the impact of the newly elected president on technology OR we’ll discuss the failure of our officials to use technology to get a more accurate vote count (depending on how the previous day goes) OR we’ll just drink and eat nachos.
Blame Adam for his crappy sideways iPhone pic.
Our first meeting will be tonight at South Street brewery. Come by 7:30ish and drink, hang out and meet other web developers, business owners, entrepenuers etc. Chat with people that get your nerdy jokes about how lame “twitter” is. No agenda except to hang out and maybe talk about what to do next month.
The Club is meeting around the corner at Cassis so that party can continue over there afterwards. Don’t bring your laptop. That’s too nerdy (but showing off your latest iPhone app is OK).
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