Lucid NYC is Your Inspiration Oasis

At Lucid NYC, we're really good at 2 things:  1.  Bringing together New York's best, brightest and hottest folks for evenings of inspiration and good times. 2. Beleaguering metaphors and analogies.  Come out March 2nd for #1 and in  spite of #2. 

We've just added our 3rd presenter, Brian Schechter, co-founder of the innovative dating site Howaboutwe. We also have stove-maker Jonathan Cedar and giver-of-stuff Michael Mandiberg (all bios below). We'll have live jazz from We Three Strings from Music for Tomorrow for the first hour.

So come out next Wednesday to rally in our streets, drink for our oasis pool or concoct your own pan-Egyptian metaphor.  See you there!

Brian Schechter secretly wants to be a theorist for the new Humanism. Starting a business seemed like an essential first step. Shcechter grew up in Newton, MA., down the street from Aaron Schildkrout - the other Co-Founder of HowAboutWe. Between 16 and 20, he became passionate about urban education, theology and all-things fun. From 20-30, he dove in to these passions, leaving all-things fun to the side more often than not. At 31, he started working on HowAboutWe with Aaron. And now, to his constant surprise, he is passionate about getting people to know about HowAboutWe - the only dating site out there he'd want to use.

More Brian: 

@bschech

Interview with 'We Are NY Tech'

Jonathan Cedar is an entrepreneur and product developer. Before starting BioLite in 2009, he spent 5 years working as a Senior Design Engineer for Smart Design in New York City. He has developed products ranging from housewares to biomedical devices, more than 90% of which have gone on to be successful in the market. His past clients include OXO, Staples, Pepsi, HP, Johnson & Johnson, Columbia University and various startups. He holds more than 15 utility patents for his various inventions. Jonathan received his BA in Engineering and Environmental Science from Dartmouth in 2003. When not at work, Jonathan enjoys playing the Banjo. Jonathan’s other products can be viewed at www.JonathanCedar.com.

More Jonathan:

BioLite on Worldchanging

Michael Mandiberg is known for selling all of his possessions online on Shop Mandiberg, making perfect copies of copies on AfterSherrieLevine.com, and creating Firefox plugins that highlight the real environmental costs of a global economy on TheRealCosts.com. He is the co-author of  Digital Foundations: an Intro to Media Design a text that teaches Bauhaus visual principles through design software, HowMuchItCosts.us, a car direction site that incorporates the financial and carbon cost of driving, and Bright Bike, a retro-reflective bicycle treehugger.com praised as “obnoxiously bright.” A former Senior Fellow at Eyebeam, he is currently Assistant Professor of Design and Digital Media at the College of Staten Island/CUNY. He lives in, and rides his bicycle around, Brooklyn. His work lives at Mandiberg.com.

About

Lucid NYC is an event series that brings together cutting edge innovators, performers and thinkers with New York City audiences. Our events are held in a social environment and center around three presentations of relevant and original projects, presented by their creators. Lucid NYC presenters come from many different disciplines, which results in diverse crowds and inter-disciplinary discussion. Additional segments of the evening include live music, interactive projects, and social networking with the smartest, sexiest, and coolest crowd in NY!

Click here to see a highlight video from a past event!

When: 

March 2nd, 2011.  Doors open and live music at 7PM.  Presentations from 8-9PM. 

Where: 

Drom Lounge.  85 Ave A between 5th and 6th Streets.

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