the BURRITO files
Downtown Geographical Expeditions

join the dialogue at:
http://www.downtowntucson.blogspot.com

thursday june 12 2008 6:00pm to 8:00pm

at design co*op’s studio concept:moca 174 easte toole avenue

the first of many events that will bring artists, architects, landscape architects, and graphic designers together in one space to discuss their work, the pertinent issues they face, and to party. please bring your own choice of beverage, it is quite warm in our studio. we will try to provide some ice and light snacks.

design co*op was created with the expressed mission of developing critical modes of inquiry relevant to the human condition. the design co*op is a dynamic synthesis of six noted emerging architects and designers all based in Tucson: Kelle Brooks, Dale Clifford, Bill Mackey, Erin Moore, Jason Vollen and Beth Weinstein. committed to a vision that the design of the built environment can and should improve the quality of life for all, members of design co*op work across disciplines to raise public awareness of the value of affordable and appropriate design.

contact info: Bill Mackey, workerarchitect@yahoo.com

Lex Vilanova will be doing a presentation/workshop covering the content management system Joomla.

Location: 115 East Broadway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85701

Time: Arrive anytime after 7pm. Presentation starts at 8pm.

What will be covered:

• Brief Overview of the Joomla-Framework
• Using the Modules-Components-Menus
• Deconstruction of the Joomla Template (un-vailing of sfUnique’s “elasti-smart-skeleton” template. This template is a collaboration/hybrid of many ideas and techniques from myself and some talented individuals in the Joomla community. I really couldn’t come up with a better name, but it is elastic and flexible).
• And to wrap it up we’ll discuss some popular extension

Assets

• Download latest
• API Reference
• I’ll be posting files relevant to the presentation on my Google Group here.

Location: El Centro Cultural de las Americas, 40 W. Broadway, Tucson, AZ. Parking is available across the street from El Centro.

Workshop dates: June 17-20, 2008; October 7-10, 2008; and December 3-6, 2008
To register and for more information please contact: therese@bayviewmedia.com

The June Tucson Digital Arts Community meet-up will take place at the Dinnerware gallery in downtown Tucson.

Come on by between 7pm and 9pm

DINNERWARE artspace
264 e. congress street
Tucson, arizona 85701

Dinnerware is starting a new event called IGNITE TUCSON (see description below) and they’d like to test it out with some tech savvy folks, i.e. TDAC members!  The IGNITE format (it was started in Portland) was inspired by presentations at high tech companies. The idea is to get information out in a quick and dynamic way. Anyone up for putting together an Ignite 5-minute presentation for the June 19th meetup??

What is “IGNITE TUCSON” ?

What if you had an innovative topic to talk about and you had 5 minutes to talk about it in front of an audience.

To make your talk more visual, what if you had selected 20 images beforehand, running 15 seconds on a timer projected on a big screen behind you?

What would you say?
Where would you take your audience?

Presentations must:

• Be no longer than 5 minutes.
• Be on an innovative topic.
• Be on a CD or DVD ready to run on a Macintosh.

Here’s a link to a few good examples from Ignite Seattle, Ignite Portland, and Ignite Boston:
ignitenight.blip.tv
+
igniteportland.com
+
www.oreillynet.com/ignite/blog

We’ll be hosting a private screening of the film Helvetica on Thursday, May 22nd.  The meet-up will begin around 7pm at The Screening Room with the film beginning at 7:30pm.  Afterwards join us at Hotel Congress for drinks and discussion.

This screening will be free, however a donation of $5 is requested.

The Screening Room is located in downtown Tucson on the North side of Congress Street just West of 6th Avenue. 127 E Congress St., Tucson, AZ 85701

Jared McFarland will be giving a presentation covering Ruby on Rails on May 1st, at 6pm at 115 East Broadway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85701.  Here’s a list of things I’ll be going over:

• What is Ruby?
• What is Rails?
• Setting up a new Rails App
• Scaffolding
• Database Migrations
• IRB
• RJS
• Ruby Console
• Some outside RoR resources that will be helpful

I’m going to do a really common tutorial known as the “15 minute blog tutorial”.  If you’d like to follow along you’ll need a computer with:

• A text editor
• Command line access
• MySQL Database
• Ruby on Rails

You can get Ruby on Rails those by following these links:

Windows: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnWindows
Macintosh: http://developer.apple.com/tools/rubyonrails.html

Please visit www.Autopoetic.org for more information about this interdisciplinary event of art + music + performance.

In May of 2007 visual artists, bands, dj’s, live aerosol artists, a fire performer and many viewer-participants gathered in Tucson, Arizona for a playful night of art, multimedia, performance and music. This convergent event, which embodied the creative spirit of a community, was given the name Autopoiesis. Based on the success of this gathering, organizers of the event realized that it was a process worth repeating. Please join us on the night of June 14th at Splinter Studios for Autopoiesis 2008!

Join us Thursday evening, April 17th, at 7pm.

115 East Broadway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85701

Please bring drinks and snacks.