{"id":192,"date":"2008-05-23T22:21:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-24T06:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:04:15","slug":"salon-gathering-001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/salon-gathering-001\/","title":{"rendered":"Salon Gathering: First of many to come"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imageframe imgalignright\" style=\"width:320px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/salon-gathering-001.jpg\" alt=\"salon-gathering-001\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" class=\"attachment wp-att-193 alignright\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Muse me: inspiration drawn from foreigning the familiar. &#8230; It&#8217;s a beautiful thing when two people can share a conversation but not a conclusion,&#8221; noted one of tonight&#8217;s salon gathering attendees, Tamara Jackson, earlier this year on <a href=\"http:\/\/tamjackson.blogspot.com\/\">her blog<\/a>. Tonight, over cocktails at a bustling bar in Los Angeles, a small and informal group of like-minds &#8212; ranging from young masters of the universe to wise men and women dabbling in 2.0 &#8212; converged to talk about film, web, design and so much more.<\/p>\n<p>It was always the plan that FWD:labs would have an off-line balance with regular <a href=\"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/salon\/\">salon gatherings<\/a>. Uniquely for FWD:labs, this bridges artists in film, web and design working with cinema. Six tenets of these salons, based on the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creatingcustomerevangelists.com\/\">Creating Customer Evangelists<\/a>, include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continuously gather feedback about our work, our goals and ourselves<\/li>\n<li>Share knowledge freely between those ahead, behind and just plain curious<\/li>\n<li>Build word-of-mouth networks for work or for play<\/li>\n<li>Meet and share with the community beyond your comfort zone, your own rolodex and your own industry<\/li>\n<li>Smaller, bite-sized offerings rather than big, oft-overwhelming extravaganzas<\/li>\n<li>Rally behind a cause, be it FWD:labs or other: it&#8217;s all welcome<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As of tonight, and after a <a href=\"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/29\/cinema-artists-manifesto\/\">long time on the back burner<\/a>, it&#8217;s come full circle. Hardly at all about talking shop, which would have been all too easy, the group included some of the FWD:labs collective as well as some new faces, each of us comfortably stretching from our own social networks with stimulating drinks and intoxicating conversations.<\/p>\n<p>One thing was clear: everyone was enjoying themselves. Tonight will be followed by Salon Gathering #002 and #003, powered by momentum and proximity. In just a few weeks across town, the next stimulant will be Saturday morning coffee at a quiet cafe, before another Friday evening cocktail at a boisterous bar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/salon\/\">Check the calendar for updates,<\/a> as the time and place will change up to stay fresh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Muse me: inspiration drawn from foreigning the familiar. &#8230; It&#8217;s a beautiful thing when two people can share a conversation but not a conclusion,&#8221; noted one of tonight&#8217;s salon gathering attendees, Tamara Jackson, earlier this year on her blog. Tonight, over cocktails at a bustling bar in Los Angeles, a small and informal group of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fwdlabs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6289,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/6289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}