Recent Ignite Presentation

My friend sent me the following:

Our city had an Ignite event. I saw it in the paper today, the first mention I had seen, and luckily it was just a couple blocks away at the pub and theater where they show 2nd run movies. Pretty diverse presentation quality, and hugely full of irony. The whole thing is a celebration of tech and new media and twittering and such, but it looked like it was being run by the geeky 9th grade boys who started the AV club and were just threading the film projector for the first time, in front of the whole class, with the teacher looking on impatiently. The Mac that was running the show had its desktop projected on the movie screen, along with the pointer and all the other stuff, so we got to watch the operator fumbling around with every slide show. But if you let yourself relax into the spirit of the event, and the pint of Arrogant Bastard ale, it was fun.

Intellectually, I think the concept of 20 slides at 15 seconds is a fundamentally sound way to stimulate creativity. I have thought about how I might do one, and always concluded it would be way harder than "normal."