Let us now bullet-point our praise for Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein, two Tokyo-based architects who have turned PowerPoint, that fixture of cubicle life, into both art form and competitive sport. Their innovation, dubbed pecha-kucha (Japanese for “chatter”), applies a simple set of rules to presentations: exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each. That’s it. Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down. The …
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i’m digesting your book, over and over again. it’s been two years since you’ve spoken at the art center in pasadena, thanks so much dan!
dude, it’s pecha kucha, not pecha chuka
Great info, especially as I make signs.
Aaarggh.. It’s Pecha-kucha, NOT “pechachka”!!!!
Terrible!
I loved your article
Your video here was a dissapontment
And let us not forget the most emotionally intelligent sign of all time (IMHO) – a book cover that reads “DON’T PANIC” in large friendly letters… a book used by people likely to find themselves in some most difficult and stressful situations in the Galaxy…
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy…
Wrong! U is an almost silent vowel in Japanese. So it indeed sounds more like pecha-kcha than pecha-kooocha.
It’s great. I love this 20×20 method as well as your empathy signs idea!
Terrific! I finished your book last week and was very impressed. Insightful, useful, and playful. Thanks!
Hey im doing a pechakucha for my university project. I hate to sound much smarter than i am but i thought that it had to be 20seconds on each slide. Your speech sort of rolls into the next one so it isnt really 20seconds perslide, its more like 6mins 40 seconds of speech with images that change every 20 seconds.
Exactly what it should be.
It isn’t: blah blah blah about this slide. Ok next slide. Blah blah blah about this slide. Next slide.
Pecha-kucha is like speed golf of presentation, I gather.
Ahem! “exquisitely matched words and images”
Sorry – that was supposed to be a reply to ‘tehblunderbuss’s comment but came out in the wrong place for some reason…
Just posted a video response … you say towards the start of your video, Daniel, that doing a PK on PK is too post-modern for you…… so I got all post modern and did it instead! Thanks for inspiring me!
This was my introduction to Pecha Kucha and I loved it. The subject matter had a lot to do with that though. Great job!
On another note, my vid titled “Reading is Fundemental” clearly isn’t Pecha Kucha. Since I’m not familiar with this topic, does anyone know if that particular video falls into any presentation classification?
Is “Fundamental” supposed to be misspelled?
no. thank you for pointing that out
remember there were 8 minute abs, then 7 minute abs? well, i’ve invented 18 slides shown for 18 seconds each. go fuck yourselves, 20 slides for 20 seconds! haha
Thank you very much, that gave me an idea how I’m going to prepare and what I should put into my Pecha Kucha presentation.
Hey there
I’m currently across from the UK working in DC for a month, and was interested to learn you are also here. Do some presentation work myself and loved both your talk and content.
Thanks
David
woohoo.just upload my first clip Pecha Kucha presentation!!! i am excited LOL.
This is how Powerpoint should be used. I don’t personally adhere to the time limit per slide. However, the point of letting the image silently “speak” WITH the speaker – not in place of – is what this presentation skill is all about in my mind. Jeff Korhan
Thanks! I love learning new strategies and this is new for me! I love it and I can’t wait to use it!
good talk, but
it’s not “peh-CHAch-ka”
but rather “peh-CHAK-cha