One Spark 2014! Live Coverage and Weekend Streaming!

[TheCat]

http://www.youtube.com/v/DsafFyL14eM

[TheCat]

http://www.youtube.com/v/NLmuhF3Y-b0

[TheCat]

http://www.youtube.com/v/RKufAWHjKR8

[thelakelander]

Some cell phone pics from this afternoon:



I loved listening to some of the conversations while waiting in line. Longtimers from the Northside declaring that Jax is changing for the better and that it would great if fixed transit were expanded north.





^I thought he was going to free style but he ended up handing the mic back.





^I so..want to see this happen. Heck, it may be time for me to buy a kayak so I can reach it.



^Love seeing the Skyway like this but I decided to park and walk instead of wait in line.



^A tunnel that runs between Forsyth (121 Forsyth) and Adams Streets (Shultz Building -- Zodiac Grill).

[sheclown]

great info, photos

Thanks for covering this.

[Jumpinjack]

http://members.jacksonville.com/breaking-news/2014-04-13/story/and-one-spark-winners-are

One Spark organizers announced the winners of its 2nd annual crowdfunding festival Sunday evening in Hemming Plaza.

According to #IgniteMedia, juried winners include:
Art: #ProjectAtrium (Creator No. 20196)
Innovation: The Meatrix System Meat Analyzer (Creator No. 20914)
Music: Sidereal 2014 Takeover (Creator No. 20476)
Science: Neuroinitiative – Inside the Neuron (Creator No. 21036)
Technology: PartPic: Visual Recognition for Replacement Parts (Creator No. 20730)

Each received checks for $10,000.
Check back for awards based on votes from festivalgoers.

[blizz01]

^ Cool - 2 checks?

[BridgeTroll]

Yay!  Big fan!   

First: Grandpa's Cough Medicine, fund-raising for the Jacksonville-based outlaw bluegrass band's next album.

[ProjectMaximus]

And it only really brought about 100 thousand people to town.

Curious to find out how many visitors One Spark brought to town.

[wordofmouse]

Print the facts, do you have gate receipts or where do you come up with this number. Every press release this event puts out is hyped higher and higher.  You actually going to compare having a super bowl to this arts and craft show?

[Steve]

Listen, I have been a Jaguars Season ticket holder since I graduated college 10 years ago, and I work for the largest Sports Merchandise ecommerce company in the world (making part of my day to day job to be up to date with the sports world, and this is a no brainer - One Spark is a way more important event for Jacksonville. If someone told me I had to pick between this every year and one more super bowl for my lifetime, I'd pick One Spark without a doubt.

This thing definitely can be Jacksonville's SXSW in a few years.

Furthermore, the attendance numbers I've heard have it in the 260,000 people range across the five days. Being downtown on a regular basis, and there for some portion of the event every day, I'd completely buy these numbers.

[blizz01]

This thing definitely can be Jacksonville's SXSW in a few years.

I really hope so.  But that will always belong to Austin exclusively, right?  My only apprehension would surround the prospect of other cities having their own One Spark (a la Berlin).  While I think the Berlin approach is appealing, stateside expansion might stand to dilute future growth in addition to diminishing the whole Jacksonville's signature event thing.  Maybe I'm just selfish...

On a side note, I did see where FORBES had a piece on Friday specific to One Spark. 

[Steve]

I don't disagree with that. I'd like to see Jacksonville retain the marquee event, so the top people from other regions all compete in Jacksonville for the big money, I don't know.

But I'm fine with the event expanding to other countries

[Tacachale]

Listen, I have been a Jaguars Season ticket holder since I graduated college 10 years ago, and I work for the largest Sports Merchandise ecommerce company in the world (making part of my day to day job to be up to date with the sports world, and this is a no brainer - One Spark is a way more important event for Jacksonville. If someone told me I had to pick between this every year and one more super bowl for my lifetime, I'd pick One Spark without a doubt.

This thing definitely can be Jacksonville's SXSW in a few years.

Furthermore, the attendance numbers I've heard have it in the 260,000 people range across the five days. Being downtown on a regular basis, and there for some portion of the event every day, I'd completely buy these numbers.

This is the most important distinction: The Super Bowl is huge, but it was one time and it will be many years before we're even considered again, while One Spark can be back every year.  Even if the numbers were really inflated, it would still catch up very quickly. But I think anyone who saw it for themselves would agree that those numbers over 5 days sound totally reasonable.

[Tacachale]

This thing definitely can be Jacksonville's SXSW in a few years.

I really hope so.  But that will always belong to Austin exclusively, right?  My only apprehension would surround the prospect of other cities having their own One Spark (a la Berlin).  While I think the Berlin approach is appealing, stateside expansion might stand to dilute future growth in addition to diminishing the whole Jacksonville's signature event thing.  Maybe I'm just selfish...

On a side note, I did see where FORBES had a piece on Friday specific to One Spark.

There are a few other festivals that do multiple locations. Art Basel has three (Basel, Switzerland; Miami Beach; and Hong Kong), each planned so as not to compete with the others. ComicCon has a second festival (WonderCon) in San Francisco. Even SXSW was conceived as a local version of the old New Music Seminar in New York and it now has second branch of its own in Las Vegas. I think the key is planning them so each version compliments the others rather than competing with them for attendance.