NerdNite[24]: Hallucinating cavemen and pipes
… no, not that kind of pipes.
Come on down to Nerd Nite and throw back a couple of LUCID’s finest cocktails while enjoying the nerdisms of our fabulous speakers and your new nerdy friends. Be there and be square!
Nerd Nite Seattle
Monday, November 18th| 7:30 (Doors open at 6:30)
Admission: $5
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Be there and be square!
Coon Huntin’, Pipe Organs, and a Cigarflute: A Passion for Musical Pipes
Don R. Crawley
Don R. Crawley
How can “coon huntin'” be used in the same sentence with “pipe organ”? And, what on earth is a cigarflute? What could be more nerdy than the world’s loudest, non-amplified musical instrument controlled by hundreds of keys, buttons, drawknobs, pedals, and toe-studs? In this talk, you’ll be introduced to the instrument Mozart called “The Kind of Instruments” and go behind the scenes of a giant pipe organ to discover its inner secrets from bellows, to 64 foot long pipes, to giant fan blowers, and more.
Don R. Crawley, Linux+ and IPv6 Silver Engineer, is a lifetime geek, plus speaker and author of six books ranging in subject from Cisco to Linux to Compassionate Communication. His focus is on helping IT and other technical staff to master the arts of customer service and communication. He is also President/Chief Technologist of the Seattle-based IT training company, soundtraining.net. He has more than four decades experience working with workplace technology and automation and holds multiple technical certifications. In addition to being a best-selling author, he has spoken before audiences in all 50 states and Canada, plus the United Kingdom and Australia. In his spare time, he plays the pipe organ, watches the ships on Puget Sound, and laughs with his family.
Hallucinating Cavemen Invented Art?
Dean Pospisil
A highly contested but popular theory of the origin of art is that it derived from hallucinations associated with religious practices of early man. Relatively recently neuroscientists have figured out why certain types of visual hallucinations are quite common: grids, spirals, spiderwebs, tunnels. Dean’s talk will be on the background of both these topics, and then on what he discovered while comparing early art to neuroscientific models of hallucination.
Dean Pospisil is a southern California native now a research assistant at the University of Washington in I-LABS. He spent a year funded by a Watson Fellowship to study the intersection of art and neuroscience. For four months of that year he worked with archaeological institutes to compare neural models of visual hallucination to indigenous arts in South Africa, and Australia.
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