Barcamp ~ Conference for Geeks

So the previous week-end was full of Barcamp. Geeks from Armenia and some other foreign countries gathered to Barcamp together on IT, media, design and general social topics. In comparison with the last years I think this year  I was geeker to actively participate at the Barcamp.
I wasn’t really able to participate in all the sessions I would have liked to, but still some of the sessions I did participate and would like to share my impressions.
Eveything started from the pre-party at Friends BarClub, it followed by night and the opening in the next morning which was pretty cool, a lot of fun and creating the mood for the upcoming 2 days.
Actually I had to leave right after the beginning for couple of hours so I got back only during the Armcomedy presentation. This is actually the session that had the most of the audience. It was a lot of fun... guys were telling about their general activities and their new NewsՀԱԲ project. The session was so much fun and the project video teaser was even funnier that I can not exactly remember what the project was about :)) so I’ll stop telling about the project here not to give any disinformation…

ArmComedy Narek presents...

ArmComedy Sergey presents...

NewsՀԱԲ coming soon

 By the way, once again my warmest congrats to the Armcomedy guys for getting the prize of the best presentation of the Barcamp.

The next session was dedicated to the Armenian Wallie (the Cymeroid)… cute and smart robot able to move, see, detect, follow and do some other things I guess :))

Wallie the Cymeroid

Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of Wallie doing all that because I had to translate the session to a Slovenian friend of mine.

As I am not really a technical person, I really enjoyed media and design related session, as I interact with both of them.
I would particularly like to mention the presentation of Vadz about the Design as Art and Art of Selling, and how much I enjoyed it… within those 30 minutes he gave a lot of useful information on design techniques, problems and challenges. There was a big discussion on the topic as well, so I really enjoy it and got so much carried away with the session that I forgot to take any pictures :))

I really enjoyed the session with BBC journalist Pooneh GHODOUSI about the BBC World News civil journalist.

Pooneh presents...

But the culmination of all the session I attended of course was the Arpik’s “How to date a Geek Girl” session… 

Arpik presents...

You know what I can say for sure is that some of the recommended tips can be used even when you are not geek… I am just saying it from personal experience.
I am afraid I might not be able to fully describe how much I enjoyed the session; I just go ahead reading it here. 

This was the session that raised a lot of emotions in the audience...

YES!!! say it Arpik, say it :))))

Girls thoughful, older generation sleeping back there... :)

Some guys are really nervous :)))

... and some are making LOVE confessions :))

Arpik presents

There was a comment I heard during the presentation and it totally made my day :))
Quote from a presentation:
"Geek girls are not that kind of ones you can achieve by sending the standard flowers, inviting for a classic café dates. :)"
Here the Slovenian friend of ours asked in rhetorical form. "If we can not send standart flowers, can we at least send pictures of flowers?" :))))))
Aprik, please clarify this part with him, so that he doesn't get into trouble when dating a geek girl :))) 

Opera guy was presenting something technical and here I would definately lie if I say that I loved the session, as didn’t really get much of what he was saying, just was accompanying my muss’ :)))) But judging from the discussions after, I think if was quite informative :)) 

Opera Guy presents...

the audience at the presentation

Geeks discussing/testing after the presentation

Well I didn’t attend many sessions as at some point I was enjoying spending 2 hour talking to Nouneh Sarkissian about life stuff… I really appreciate the insights I got. Thank you so much for that.

Indie Libertines present...

the conference is drawing to its end

Other Opera guy is getting a  Barcamp certificate

Organizing committee photosession

According to the logical flow then was the time for afterparty :)))

the greatest music band for the party

people having fun

some networking

:))

That was definitely one of the best after-parties I have attended… a lot of fun, a lot of networking, a lot of singing and dancing. I was very impressed about the fact that Geeks do not only dance, joke and have fun, but also sing and play musical instruments.

So huge round of applauses goes to the whole organizing committee team for making the conference happen, volunteers for supporting the organizer, presenters for making the nicest content for the conference and the audience for being there and spreading the word after, of course, all the partners and YOU for reading this post till the end :))))

p.s. unfortunately I couldn’t display many photos and talk about more presentations, as I still need an external flash for my camera... a lot of pics were rather poor in their quality...

p.p.s 

Find 3 differences

p.p.p.s.

Happy Muss’ with JUICE (not M***)

Wednesday Karaoke

Guess where?!

Bureaucrat Bookstore and...

~PowerPoint Karaoke~ 

Seemingly serious but truly fun event that I have attended...
A place you can be, or better said, encouraged to be totally random and make fun at the serious stuff projected on the screen :)))

You know what, this kind of events are actually meant to educate, foster breaking the barriers, and do something that probably you would have never thought you could do and all this is spiced with laughters, smiles and positive environment around…  :)))))
A small scene I faced... a girl says “I am really bad at bull shitting” and the next scene goes with her at the presentation stage talking about hmmm let’s say nature that has always been divided between males and females or men who get pregnant or chickens… chickens… chickens and if I am not mistaken… a chicken :))

Actually this has been the 2^nd PowerPoint Karaoke… the First One I unfortunately missed, so I was really looking forwards to the upcoming PowerPoint Karaoke to really see what it is about to talk about something you have no idea and still have fun. 
I am still not sure whether I could do it or now :)))

So the event was of great interest to me not only because of the event itself but also because I had my camera... which meant I could TRY to make my 2^nd Photo Reportage of the event.

I am at the polishing-skills stage in photography which means I experiment a lot… well, at least I try to. So this event was not an exception as this time I experimented not only with ISO, Aperture and Shutter priorities but also with my current “White-balance” mode addiction.

As a result of my expeiments the event got a bit bluish :))))

Blue is a nice color... No! “Nice” is not the word to describe the blue… its pure, serene, aristocratic and elegant… not sure how the blue worked with these photos... maybe you could tell me?! :)))

Hayk Asryants, one of the organizers of the event opened the event

the 1st brave volunteer who made the presentation

then other brave people were found :)

no~no... he was not bored ;))))

ha~ha... now it's your turn :)))

some people were seriously following the presentations

a random guy was following the event from the back ... and... and I am going to marry him :P :)))

Arpiii, a dearest friend of mine, so reluctant to make a presentation, eventually DID it :))

and that was good :))) like almost all the presentations

Then, all of the sudden I noticed that the guy, I was going to marry, disappeared, so I went to look for him... and this is what I saw

when a man stands like this, it means something serious is going on in his head...

So I joined him and saw that he is looking for designs for our future apartment in the nice interior design books... but I'll tell you more about that in my upcoming posts :)))

...~...

... as you probably already guessed, we missed the ending of the event sitting in the Bureaucrat cafe and thumbing through the books...

If you still haven’t attended any of the PowerPoint Karaoke events, make sure you attend the upcoming ones. It’s really fun, and you can be the one to make it even more joyful.

Here I will pass to the special Thank-You parts to the organizers, who would be Hayk Asryants and Albert Poghosyan, Bureaucrat Bookstore for the nice aura of the event venue, Ashtarak  Kat for making the tasty break with their Mojo yogurts and, of course, thank you for reading the post :))) 

p.s. I think I need an external flash for my camera

p.p.s. Some of the photos I uploaded got auto-rotated, so I apologize for that... no idea how to fix it :(

... when I got back to Arts

I remember to have mentioned about my love for arts, and painting particularly, in my previous posts… and I also remember to have mentioned that I quit painting for 5-6 years then started it over again in 2010.

When I started painting and got deep into graphics I somehow came to realize that I would like to do something more that just paintings. Painting is very cool and extremely difficult especially for the ones who are not good at drawing… I don’t feel I am… so I started experimenting…

I took wires and started making random images and they turned out to be something nice and probably what I have been looking for while thinking of my own style. I thought I wouldn't really draw anything, but rather make the images and create my compositions with wires and color the background.

Never been a feminist, but have always valued the beauty of a woman. So the great majority of my works seemed to be dedicated to women. So tell me what you think of it all ?!... will appreciate to get feedback... :)))

The beauty of the woman (paper, oil, wire)

Love (paper, oil, wire) 

Head off (paper, oil, wire)

the Girl with umbrella (paper, oil, wire)

Lenin (paper, oil, wire)

man and woman (paper, oil, wire)

This is how I became a Wire-Addict :)))

oh, by the way, I think I got carried away with wires… look at my Christmas tree

my 1st XMAS tree 2010-2011

All the decorations of the tree are handmade by Ivana Krcadinac and Gohar from Kapan (If you've ever bought anything from Homeland Handicrafts you’d know her)

Talking about my first artworks, let me share also the ones actually painted and not "wired" :))

the Sad Elephant (already known :)

the Girl with a cat (paper, oil and marker :)))

Every Child Matters (paper, water color)

the Woman

Serenity (paper, oil)

NU (paper, oil)

the Reach (paper, oil)

another NU in autumn :) (paper, oil)

...........aaaaaand...........

 my palette :))) 

The great majority of the photos here were taken during my first exhibition by a super talented artist and the dearest friend of mine Lilie Altunyan who lives in France now :) 

Thank you for your attention and the time spent on this page :)) 

p.s. Lilie, I miss you so... :*