Friendly Suggestions for Next Year's One Spark

[Traveller]

Maybe next year we can have this floating in the St. Johns...



http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/hong-kong-s-giant-rubber-ducky-slideshow/florentijn-hofmans-floating-duck-sculpture-20130502-000425-666.html

[Cheshire Cat]

^I love it!   LOL 

[urbaknight]

Is that the same duck from our one spark?

[Cheshire Cat]

Is that the same duck from our one spark?

No, check the size of it next to the people and the boats.  lol   Our "Quacker Jax" would be this one's baby. 

[urbaknight]

Is that the same duck from our one spark?

No, check the size of it next to the people and the boats.  lol   Our "Quacker Jax" would be this one's baby. 

LOL, oops, I was just focused on the duck. Wow that's one huge duck!

[Coolyfett]

any coverage on this years event?

[Coolyfett]

any coverage on this years event?

[thelakelander]

We'll have some coverage as the event goes on.

[ronchamblin]

Is that the same duck from our one spark?

No, check the size of it next to the people and the boats.  lol   Our "Quacker Jax" would be this one's baby. 

Anybody know what happened to Cheshire Cat? 

[fsquid]

#onespark was trending nationally on twitter this evening.  That was pretty cool.

[ronchamblin]

If I might be allowed to think out loud for a moment....   Always offering options about ways to look at things ... I'm wondering if it might be ultimately more exciting, and more productive as to the quality of the projects offered by creators -- as a consequence of having more time for them -- to have One Spark every other year, and actually, to consider alternating each year between the Jazz Festival and One Spark ... for reasons explained below.

Given that a primary objective of One Spark is to engage new ideas and creations by participants, especially ones potentially having great gains for the creators -- by way of money and support -- one might consider that it takes time for some individuals, perhaps more than a few months, to imagine, contemplate, plan, design, produce, and have ready to submit, a creation worthy of One Spark.   

By this move of giving the One Spark creators more time for their projects, it might encourage One Spark projects to be even greater than so far, and would distant it from a tendency to become a second Jazz Festival. 

Perhaps my offering of the idea of giving more time for generating ideas and projects is because I've always been slow in general... in reading.... in thinking, and in doing.  I realize that many people are not slow, and therefore might not require the extra time to imagine and produce the more exciting projects suitable for One Spark.

The relatively short time of a few months, to "do" an idea or project, might be a limiting factor, on average, as to the overall quality of the them.  Of course, those who are slow, like myself, could simply skip a year, and have their project ready after two years of work.  Why didn't I think of that in the first place, and avoid offering this post of thinking out loud? 

[TheCat]

Or, maybe we can have the restaurants open on alternate days instead of all at one time? It seems like a waste of resources and very short sided to have all of the available restaurants open at one time in such a tight area. Just a thought I'd like to put out there.

On a serious note, really consider alternating open days for restaurants.

On a more serious note, people aren't just incubating ideas the 11 months prior to one spark. This is just an annual window for ideas to be presented, One Spark presented concepts may have been in the works for years. As long as the prize pool is real and there is a genuine sense of fairness in the award distribution the ideas will get better each year.

[Gamblor]

Or, maybe we can have the restaurants open on alternate days instead of all at one time? It seems like a waste of resources and very short sided to have all of the available restaurants open at one time in such a tight area. Just a thought I'd like to put out there.

On a serious note, really consider alternating open days for restaurants.

On a more serious note, people aren't just incubating ideas the 11 months prior to one spark. This is just an annual window for ideas to be presented, One Spark presented concepts may have been in the works for years. As long as the prize pool is real and there is a genuine sense of fairness in the award distribution the ideas will get better each year.

It will get better, but larger as well putting it on every year. As for restaurants being open alternating days, that's a great idea! It would encourage restaurants to be more genuine and well thought out in what they serve... also just putting it out there.

[ronchamblin]

Thanks for considering the point I intended to make .....whatever promotes and achieves excellence and creativity, and avoids mediocrity ... repetition ...... loudness ... or frequency.   

[Gamblor]

Thanks for considering the point I intended to make .....whatever promotes and achieves excellence and creativity, and avoids mediocrity ... repetition ...... loudness ... or frequency.   

So OneSpark is mediocre, repetitive, and too loud this year?

Also why should a downtown be quiet? While I often love finding a quiet street in the cities I have visited through out the world, for the most part they are loud entities. That is how you know they are alive...