1000 Spherculists celebrations?

Excellent idea mr chutney, and I think you have just volanteered yourself as the official organiser

The event shall be called:

A Sphercular Ball

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I like that a lot

I think every party should be at the same time so we are all spinning at once. ie morning in US, noon in UK, evening in Oz. Or at least overlap them. Like Earth dance festivals do.

Perhaps we could sort out some live webcam action, just thought i'd put that one out there.

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Locations with broadband is a bummer cos it would be nice to be in a field.

Perhaps it would be better to get good quality video footage of each event, like 5 minutes of each person there. Then we could edit it all together, cut up between all the locations. That way we could see that we were all spinning together, we could see what we all look like and we could all learn from each other.

Then we could stick it on the server for downloads.

How about that?

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Probably.

I'm sure we can come up with a better name than that.

Here To Spin

A Sphercular Ball

Sphercular Alignment

3.1415....

How many poi spinners does it take to.....

1001 thinks to do with Socks

Slice of Pi

Spin Poi like Matt Terry
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how bout "It's a Sphercular World"?

That'd be cool seeing as the world is a ball and such. There's loads of petential there

l8rs!

Well the great thing is Rovo ~ You are a part of it

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I'll be at EJC

see you there

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That would be something I'd love to go to. I should be able to get to anything in London, with enough time

Lynne

Hey ... anyone else ever heard of this:

http://poi.meetup.com/

Meetup really only works if there are enough people in your area for a particular meetup to make it worthwhile. That means most of the ones on there (including poi) are pathetic. By pathetic, I mean that signing up to be part of a group that can only round up 3 complete strangers to plan to meet in the back of a Round Table Pizza sounds lame. In contrast, joining a larger group of people, many of whom already know each other, to spin fire in a park somewhere seems like a fun activity. I know every meeting has to start somewhere, but there are already plenty of mechanisms for organizing gatherings (ie Spherculism!) without having to resort to meetup.com.

While I'm in cranky mode... why the heck is it that flash mobs got so much attention last year? I mean people have been organizing random gatherings via the internet for ages, but suddenly, because some new york hipster does it, it becomes a cultural phenomenon?!? Lame.

Wow ... I just saw someone link to that, and was wondering if it was brand new or something and that's why there was no one on it. I would hardly call myself pathetic, but when I first took up poi, I didn't know anyone else in NY who did it. Yes, I have since met a good many of them, and have been organizing a gathering on a regular basis for a few months now -- but the point is I DIDN'T when I started.

I think newbies who are looking for their communities are smart to try the internet. I didn't even think of it - never even heard of HoP until I'd been doing it for a year. It's a shame that you would've called me pathetic, simply for not knowing other fire spinners. I don't think it's even remotely "pathetic" to want to meet people who are interested in the same things you are.

And on the second point - I know the people who are organizing the flash mob here in NY every Tuesday evening from 6-30 to 7:00 hundreds of young artsy types go to the center of the terminal where wall streeters get on the train to go home to the suburbs and recite the first amendment into their cell phones in unison. Very cool --- not even remotely "ny hipster" --- a political message. So there.

No worries, StoneT ... I just think it's important not to make people feel bad about themselves ... and I know for certain that there are a number of people on this site who don't know others in their local areas to meet up with .... and I didn't want those individuals to be hurt by these comments. And, frankly, if I had found that site a year and a half ago, I may very well have signed up.

OK ... I'm getting off my soapbox now.

I knew I shoulda edited more before posting... I'm sorry if I offended you, Saucy. Come by the Winking Lotus camp at Burning Man and kick my ass/arse.

I didn't mean that the people are pathetic. I'm signed up for the meetup, for one thing, so that can't possibly be true! ;-) But a meetup without critical mass, and one without any real context, will most likely fizzle. Meetup.com got a lot of attention because a bunch of Howard Dean supporters used it to organize gatherings -- and those meetups got to be huge meetings (I went to one!). With soo many different interests out there, the vast majority of the meetups are likely to be very small. And the smaller meetups, as far as I can tell, don't seem to get anywhere, because they don't reach a critical mass. And because they're not organized by any one person, there's usually nothing driving it - no promotion, no organization, no assurance that anyone's even going to show up. Another interesting comparison might be meetup vs tribe.net vs friendster, but I'll spare you that one...

My complaint about the flash mobs isn't even about the mobs themselves... In San Francisco, there have been tons of these types of events going on for years, but somehow because NY Hipsters are doing it now, it got a lot more attention. I'm sure you've seen the mobs at BurningMan -- nuns, santas, french maids, bunnies, ninjas, bears, etc. etc. continuing what the Cacophony society and others in San Francisco have been doing for a while now. Is it a political/artistic message to have 200 drunken santas rampaging through the streets? 30 PeeWee Hermans?!? a dozen teams of people in doggie outfits pulling shopping carts from one bar to the next? Maybe... or maybe it's just a bunch of people out to have a good time and mess with peoples' expectations. I think my complaint here is really about east coast bias in media. But then maybe some of the people here who do these types of things would be upset if more people found out about them...

Anyhow, I'm wandering off topic here... the point is, I don't think you're pathetic, Saucy. I generally don't think people are pathetic, just the situations that people get into sometimes. And unless Meetup somehow gets more people interested in their gatherings, their poi meetup for San Francisco is lame. We have a lot of poi spinners here -- meetup is not the right site to find them.

Ooh... it's best not to even go down the road of eroded rights in this country. If George Bush wins again I might be thinking about moving. Maybe if the Brits get their act together and kick Tony Blair out of office, that will convince some of our voters that things are amiss... but that's wishful thinking.

I am looking forward to meeting you on the playa though... I'll be sure to save a set of Barbie poi for ya!

Awww. :hug:
Isn't making up nice

But for the last 8/9 posts!

So this celebration!
To be honest unless something is happening in the SW UK I'll probably not be able to make it anyway due to work/family considerations

Are people leaning towards centralised national things (would be very impressive!) or lots of little things?

Well I'm definately up for it and I think it will be great publicity for the site. I think half the problem is no-one knows it's being considered.
Chut- if you manage to set up that member map we can start posting it around other forums and directing people to that. hopefully anyone who goes to see it will register and we'll see the interest.
As I say I would have to lean towards to lots of smaller meets option as I probably wouldn't be able to travel any further than say Bristol.
In fact- Anyone up for a massive meet in Bristol? It's a good place! Great music scene!
That would be my Ideal solution.

Is there any way you could put an option on that map thin to say how far you would be willing to travel? Then you could see where most people's travel radius circles overlap.(doe that make sense?)

But as I say I think this needs exposure and alot of pushing to get anywhere.

I'm off to the Where it's at forum.