Last night, Thursday November 13, The Leonardo hosted Salt Lake's very first techie-influenced "Ignite" event. Ignite Salt Lake - for those who don't know what that is, because I didn't - is where people can talk about anything they want, using projected slides. The rules are they have five minutes, and 20 slides that rotate every 15 seconds. Sounds like a fun challenge? It certainly was for quite a number of participants.

A number presenters from the Salt Lake area talked about things like sequential art, photographing neon signs at dusk, zombie defense, Balinese music, "promoting your band," and building a 10,000 lb. jelly fish out of Christmas lights. Peter Giles, Executive Director of The Leonardo spoke about the Leonardo's mission. Also Pete Ashdown of Xmission, Greta deJong, creator of Catalyst Magazine, and Adam Price of the 337 Project presented.

Their presentations will son n be posted on the Ignite Salt Lake website, which you can find here.