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Future Arts 2009

Future Classic Presents:

FUTURE ARTS 2009
Collabo-Nation: An Urban Oasis

May 16, 2009 at The Roxy

6PM – 11PM / 21+

This year's Future Arts event is located at The Roxy on May 16th and the theme is: Collabo-Nation: Urban Oasis. Collaboration is the key to success in today's ever-evolving, creative world and this year's Future Arts will prove just that as over 15 prolific sound, visual and multi-media artists collaborate for one uplifting evening of urban expression

Confirmed audio, visual + multi-media artists include the following:
– Legendary musician DJ Andy Rourke from THE SMITHS
– Live, acoustic performance by Jesse Murphy from the BRAZILIAN GIRLS
– Ground-breaking video artist ZEBBLER
– More than two dozen other prolific, multi-media artists displaying, selling and painting live on-site at The Roxy.

The Roxy
279 Tremont Street
Boston, MA 02116

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I'll be painting live. Fun times.

You Were Never Lovelier features Fred Astaire and RITA HAYWORTH, so it's pretty good. It's not the greatest of Astaire's movies for dance numbers (although they're still great,) but what it lacks in dance it makes up in pure charm. It's funny, well acted all around and the title song is one of Astaire's best.

And it's got Rita Hayworth.

So, yeah.

If you're unclear on the subject of Rita Hayworth, let me provide some visual aid.

Email if you want one or all of the below. Free for all who ask- in the US, while supplies last.

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Gone Baby Gone is an uneven, but still pretty good film.

I'm going to avoid comparing it to the novel, which I just read. Book v. film is never a fair comparison, so I'm going to skip it. Imagine all the typical book to film complaints. I'm making them. All of them.
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The topic will be a hands on comparison JavaScript libraries. I'm going to write the same functionality (probably a Twitter search) in plain JavaScript and several popular libraries. I'll discuss the anecdotal findings of using all the different libraries for the task and I'll also offer up numerical analysis of the different pages- execution time, page load time, etc.

More info as I get it. Should be fun if it happens. It'll be a little bit of work as I'll have to prep for it, the work itself looks like it will be a lot of fun.

Good times.