Last week saw the 3rd annual ICA Figures of Speech Gala in association with SpinVox

The event saw several high-profile speakers take to the stage and spend five minutes (no more, no less) talking about the one thing that they could not live without, i.e.:

If your house was on fire and your family were safe, what would be the one thing you would run in and save?

The roll-call on the night included such luminaries as musician and campaigner Bob Geldof, journalist and broadcaster Janet Street-Porter and comedian and broadcaster Rory Bremner, along with musician, artist and writer Billy Childish; Inspirational Kids Company founder Camilla Batmanghelidj and contemporary artist du jour Ryan Gander.

And to celebrate the event I put the same question to my Twitter followers:

The answers came back thick and fast, mainly concentrating in and around tech – laptops, hard drives etc… but there were some really quite interesting ones in there too…

Take a look –

I’ve asked some of the guests who joined me on the evening of the event to write theirs up too…

What about you dear reader? Have a good, long think…
What one thing would you run in and save if your house was burning down?

What is the one thing that you cannot live without?

Answers in a blog post please

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A SpinVox Speech Mobster… as modelled by Elle ‘The Body’ Macpherson

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HALLO! …and HOLA!

(again)

From all of us at Mobile World Congress, Barcelona!

It’s been “GO GO GO!” since we started yesterday (hence the lack of updates – TOO BUSY!) but the SpinVox stand.. and everyone working in and around it, has been going fantastically well..

“The best stand at the congress…“ I heard one person say.

And our Speech Mobsters are like gold dust – you only get one if you’re VERY special…

I’ve been taking some photos around the stand and I thought I’d put them on here to share with you!

All comments welcome

If you’re at MWC – Why not come say Hi?

If you’re NOT at MWC – you can still get your message through by calling me, James Whatley on +447825798998…

Leave a voicemail and I’ll send the converted text message to the board in the pictures..

Now how’s THAT for a slice of fried gold?!

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As we say on our homepage SpinVox believes that “What we say, and how we say it, is a wonderful and powerful thing.“�

SpinVox captures thoughts and emotions spoken in the moment as voice messages and turns them into text. SpinVox then delivers that text to a destination of your choice – screen, inbox, blog, walls and spaces – within minutes.
So those moments are moments that can be read, preserved and cherished forever.

That’s who we are and that’s what we do.

So what about our blog?

Well we already have a PR section on our website. This blog is not about PR. This blog is about SpinVox. And SpinVox is about Speaking Freely.
Therefore, aside from content from around the world about SpinVox and our Speech-Mobbing events (which are kinda like Flash Mobbing events, but SpinVox style), we would also like to use this platform to enable and empower Speaking Freely.

Punctuating our blog-posts with some real emotion and real words; captured, in the moment and brought to you through SpinVox.

How are we going to do this?
Well, SpinVox would like to introduce “Figures of Speech“�.

The “Figures of Speech“� is a brand new format created by the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), the UK based and internationally-renowned home of pioneering arts and ideas.
As part of the SpinVox launch stateside, the ICA put together two evenings of dynamic presentations. One in New York and the other in San Francisco. These events each contained six speakers who were given the challenge of concisely introducing and explaining the one thing they could not live without. Drawing from an infinite array of objects and experiences, each speaker had to deliver their narrative in only five minutes, no more, no less.

Since its inception, twelve different “Figures of Speech“� have already spoken freely about their object of choice and, every week, the SpinVox blog will be where you can read what they had to say and what they had to say it about.

See you back here next Monday where will introduce our first speaker.

In the meantime, keep checking back to find out more about SpinVox, our vision, our Speech Mobbing and much, much more!