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April 21, 2005
Great Idea for a Great Competition
Check it out -- Tony forwarded me information about how these people are holding something they call the Pitch, which they describe thusly:
The Pitch, the brainchild of San Francisco artists Jon Rubin and Jason Mortara, is an evening of live art that revels in the promise of a good idea. The duo pre-screens and recruits fifteen individuals to pitch their original ideas to a live audience and panel of judges. The presenters compete for cash prizes, selling ideas brilliant and outlandish, pragmatic and fantastic. The judges include a local building contractor, newscaster, brand strategist, librarian, urban planner and cognitive scientist. The Pitch privileges the idea over the work, the imagined over the realistic. And in the end, as any self-respecting car salesman will confess, it all comes down to the act of persuasion.
Live Art
Jon Rubin and Jason Mortara
Saturday 30 Apr 2005 - 8 pm
Tickets $5 members, students, seniors
I wish I could go! Of course, I'm not one of their pre-screened participants, but I really hope that some new cable station picks it up as a brainier alternative to American Idol. Wouldn't that be great?! to have a bunch of people pitching their crazy ideas and then the audience votes, etc.
Anyway, you should go. I can't.
Posted by mary at April 21, 2005 2:54 PM
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