One Spark 2014! Live Coverage and Weekend Streaming!
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This year, metrojacksonville is covering the actual festival once again, but this time, we are LIVESTREAMING it baby! Check out all the video and updates by clicking on the article!
Read More: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2014-apr-one-spark-2014-live-coverage-and-weekend-streaming
Well Alright.....
I've been riding my bike around One Spark again this year. I must say that I'm really proud of this City and this event for showcasing downtown and the City in this way. People are out. (People that would not otherwise be in downtown.) There's live music. There's a sense of culture. There's energy. I see this as nothing but a win for Jax.
One Spark 2014, just like One Spark 2013, shows that Jax has what it takes to elevate it's game, albeit for a long weekend. However, it should create momentum. I especially love seeing people that I know live in Jax, but would never come downtown or take the Skyway. You can spot them easily, and they're enjoying themselves, as they should. I guess what I'm saying is that One Spark is a showcase not just for the out-of-towners, but also for the locals that are realizing that this can be a great urban core with vibrancy. I really enjoy this, and it's exciting.
The official One Spark round up is on, go go the main article to watch it live streamed.
The camaraderie and mutual assistance among the Creators is just fantastic. It's' really fun to see people walking around totally blown away by the energy and ideas that are here. I keep hearing, "We didn't know there were people and ideas like that in Jacksonville." Just wonderful to see peoples' low expectations of what this city is like shattered into pieces.
My wife and I were there Wednesday and Thursday night and she commented on how polite and friendly everyone was. It was as if we were all on the same page, on the same mission.
We just wrapped up our first live segment on One Spark discussing the largest movers in the art section.
We'll be back up in 12:15.
we're back on
A few random pictures from this afternoon:
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Take note. The same people who hang out in Hemming are still hanging out today. They are the least of downtown's concerns.
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Inside the Barnett.
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Last, I'll be helping my friend Gary Sass by taking guests on free tours of one of the underground tunnels from 2pm to 6pm tomorrow at 121 West Forsyth Street. Gary operates AdLib Luxury Tours and is trying to raise funds to restore the safe under the old Atlantic Bank Building. When that is complete, the next phase will be to work on restoring some of the closed off sections of other tunnels, in an effort to make them once again accessible. Feel free to stop by and say hi. Here are a few underground pics I took earlier today:
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We'll be doing interviews all day and cutting to and fro from the live stream. See below for the list of the "Top Movers" as of 6PM last night.
From the One Spark Blog:
http://www.beonespark.com/blog/welcome-to-one-spark-day-4
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TOP MOVERS BY CATEGORY
Each day at 6PM in Hemming Plaza, we'll announce the top movers over the last 24 hours by category. These are the top movers in total votes from Thursday to Friday. In no specific order:
Art
Theatre on a Mission
#ProjectAtrium
Boneshakered Bigwheel
Innovation
Open #PrattGuysStore
Snyder Memorial Building Renovation
Farm To Truck
Music
The Katz Downstairs
Brittany Lawrence
Grandpa's Cough Medicine
Science
Down to Earth Farm
St. Augustine Aquarium
AquaJax
Technology
WaZINIT
EarthGuy.com
3D Printed Solar Panels by FORGE
Vote for and contribute to the Projects that inspire you. Votes are really stacking up and YOU are the one who decides which Creator Projects receive funding! When you vote, be sure to share your votes over social - the app and mobile site make it easy. Voting closes at 3PM tomorrow, so let your voice be heard!
Today's Event Highlights
CREATOR SHOWCASE If you've not explored the 20 square blocks that make up One Spark, you are missing out. Check out over 600 Creator Projects as they showcase in 77 different Venues throughout downtown Jacksonville. Vote for the Projects that inspire you, and DECIDE which Creators receive funding.
MUSIC CREATOR STAGE One Spark Music Creators will take the stage at The Jacksonville Landing beginning at 11AM today through 10PM tonight - this stage is FREE and open to all.
ONE SPARK AFTER DARK Party the night away with DJ Lil Boy (T-Pain's Official DJ), Fort Stories, and Beebs and her Money Makers along with craft brews and food truck eats - if you came out last night, you know that this is One Spark's best new activations. BE THERE.
Questions? Please email support@beonespark.com or stop by One Spark HQ, located at the Main Library at Laura and Monroe.
Elton Rivas, co-founder of One Spark.
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Some cell phone pics from this afternoon:
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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.
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^I thought he was going to free style but he ended up handing the mic back.
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^I so..want to see this happen. Heck, it may be time for me to buy a kayak so I can reach it.
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^Love seeing the Skyway like this but I decided to park and walk instead of wait in line.
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^A tunnel that runs between Forsyth (121 Forsyth) and Adams Streets (Shultz Building -- Zodiac Grill).
great info, photos
Thanks for covering this.
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.
^ Cool - 2 checks?
Yay! Big fan! 8)
QuoteFirst: Grandpa's Cough Medicine, fund-raising for the Jacksonville-based outlaw bluegrass band's next album.
Quote from: stephendare on April 14, 2014, 03:47:37 PM
And it only really brought about 100 thousand people to town.
Curious to find out how many visitors One Spark brought to town.
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?
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.
QuoteThis 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.
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
Quote from: Steve on April 14, 2014, 05:36:58 PM
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.
Quote from: blizz01 on April 14, 2014, 06:15:37 PM
QuoteThis 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.
I wasn't arrested or my vessel seized. Scott Wilson feel free to jump in here. I'm happy that I was able to participate in One Spark. 2014-190 in Finance tomorrow. CRA/DIA in the USA has one more opportunity for Public Comment before being advanced to the Jacksonville city council for approval. Open our river in our new DIA zone. Please.
One Spark hands down has put Jacksonville on the Map. I was there 3 days out of 5. If the crowds was not that big I would be surprised.
Quote from: stephendare on April 14, 2014, 03:47:37 PM
Superbowl cost 12.9 million dollars to bring to the city.
And it only really brought about 100 thousand people to town.
sure...but there were another 100+ million that watched the game (not to mention all the coverage leading up to the game) worldwide.
that said, One Spark (as an annual event) is much bigger for Jacksonville than any one Super Bowl could ever hope to be.
If your analogy is to be promoted as fact. Then next year charge an entrance fee and get an exact account to compare to $100 for a S.Bowl ticket. If you work for the TU, go back and read the economic impact of the need to bring the S.Bowl to town. You guys keep over hyping this event, be sure to step up when the curtain is pulled back and expose truth in cost, value and return on investment.
Quote from: wordofmouse on April 15, 2014, 07:22:05 AM
If your analogy is to be promoted as fact. Then next year charge an entrance fee and get an exact account to compare to $100 for a S.Bowl ticket. If you work for the TU, go back and read the economic impact of the need to bring the S.Bowl to town. You guys keep over hyping this event, be sure to step up when the curtain is pulled back and expose truth in cost, value and return on investment.
Not sure there is a bigger football fan and promoter than I... but I would rather have One Spark every year to an occasional Super Bowl everytime... No contest.
Quote from: wordofmouse on April 15, 2014, 07:22:05 AM
If your analogy is to be promoted as fact. Then next year charge an entrance fee and get an exact account to compare to $100 for a S.Bowl ticket. If you work for the TU, go back and read the economic impact of the need to bring the S.Bowl to town. You guys keep over hyping this event, be sure to step up when the curtain is pulled back and expose truth in cost, value and return on investment.
You keep asking us for our sources. Mine are the local media as well as JTA for the skyway numbers...I do trust them to read a turnstile.
Now, since you're the only one that is convinced that the event wasn't that big...what are your sources? Did you not feel it was crowded when you were there? What day(s) were you there?
Also...tickets for the Super Bowl were $500 for general bowl that year, and $600 for club. Not that many people pay face value anyway, but those were the numbers. Out of the 8000 Super Bowl volunteers, I was one of 200 volunteer captains for the event, overseeing a different area every day, from hospitality at the airport to helping the Eagles at their hotel. This is definitely not to toot my own horn, but I did work with them for over two years leading up to the event, so I had an idea of it's impact...and this was better, dollar for dollar, and a much more sustainable event year in and year out.