Breakfast Clubbing #12
Week of July 1st. London pops back up, DTBK takes the week off, BK Classic, Easthampton, PDX and CDMX soldier on, and Las Vegas returns for round two.
Hi all,
Holiday week here in the states so I’ll keep it short. Las Vegas launched, Berlin blew up, DTBK went huge (and promptly took a week off) and London looms again this week. Come hang sometime, it’s a good vibe. All the info follows here. And if not this week, another one soon.
Ben & BC Gang
Breakfast Club’s Esprit de Corps:
Everyone’s invited - especially you.
Feel free to share, bring friends, colleagues, family, anyone.
No agenda, no required buy-in, no RSVP. And no pitches.
Everyone pays their own way.
You’re welcome to subscribe. And anyone can join the group here, too.
Breakfast Club Events this Week:
Tuesday, July 2:
Portland, OR
Co-hosted by Scott Crane
9a @ Proud Mary
Wednesday, July 3:
Brooklyn (Williamsburg)
8:30a @ Le Crocodile at The Wythe Hotel
Easthampton
Co-hosted by Mike Kilcoyne
8:30a @ Tutto Cafe
Mexico City
Co-hosted by Steve Bryant
8am @ Lardo
Thursday, July 4th:
London
Co-Hosted by Amy Daroukakis, Steph Clarke and Sarah Hyndman
9:30a @ The Cafe at Foyles, 107 Charing Cross Road
Las Vegas
Co-Hosted by Steph Balzer
8a @PublicUs
Breakfast Club Events Upcoming:
July 9: Portland, OR
July 10: Williamsburg, Easthampton, Mexico City
July 11: Downtown Brooklyn, Las Vegas
July 24: Milan
August 1: Manhattan
October 14-17: Camp Cultivate: Mammoth, CA
Last Week Briefly:
Breakfast Club Classic 6.26.24 Report
At my table we talked Connor O’Malley’s "Standup Solutions", Vine OGs, evergreen content, meta-narratives, what even is YouTube, cross-platform contamination, music, kids and gaming, Bollywood AVOD, the relative popularity of fishing, vacationing in the Midwest, county fairs, live-stream poker, the country Russia, Vichy Catalan Corporation, the idea of Camp Cultivate, the highs and lows of Summit at Sea, the nervousness of potluck contributions, overdoing it on Powerpoint Karaoke, screaming maximalism, Toastmasters International, being really good at Corporate Speak, not talking to Kanye West, the modern print paradigm, the proliferation of Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity photos, being ‘wildly competitive’, the trend toward gatherings across industry verticals , tentpoles becoming more essential, Vogue World, making up an awards show, discord as the new universal login, breakfast club manhattan, defining the human psychological typology and puppy training among other topics.
The gang this morning was Leann Abad, Zachary Mallard, Chaz Mee, Ryan Espinosa, Olivia Burca, Paul Greenberg, Zach Sokol, Eva McCloskey, David Gill, Jose Castillo, Frankie Caracciolo, Ben Hudson, Jonathan Wormser, Emily Nemeth, Elliot Aronow, Jasmine Takanikos, Ian Edgar, Ben Pruess and me (plus Freya and Asha, but they're dogs).
We do this every Weds in Williamsburg. Kat Popiel and Jeff Weiner host in Downtown Brooklyn every Thurs. And Heidi Hartwig and Radhika Malhan are kicking off in the East Village on August 1st. Irrespective of the spot, everyone's invited, especially you.
Breakfast Club Easthampton Report 6.26.24
Per Mike’s Post:
I spent an entire year of MY ADULT LIFE in the video game World of Warcraft.
365+ days IN. THE. GAME.
Not, like, "Oh I played it for a year."
I SPENT A YEAR, IN THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT.
That's a lot of goddamn time.
It provided me a sense of community that I found nowhere else.
And that's the beauty of games like that - you can find the connection that we often need as humans, without being truly vulnerable.
So I rarely ever was.
And I made friends in the digital world.
That shifted when after a particularly brutal and shitty winter, in 2013 I started hosting things like Steaknight in NY (and elsewhere) in an attempt to make some friends. It worked.
I took that same concept and applied it to things like Startup Denver (in Denver).
And, now, Breakfast Club.
We can make friends as we get older, it just require effort. People are busy. They have a lot going on. It's exhausting to meet new people.
Anyway, come hang. Every Wednesday @ Tutto Cafe in East Hampton.
Last week we talked about:
- robots and the moral questions around that
- Air soft guns and preparing for battle
- Klara and the Sun (kids and robots)
- Charli xcx
- Alien gang infiltration theories
- Best coffee on the east end
- Outside reason
- Air Soft games
- Connecting in a photograph
- Don’t be a dick TM
- BRING YOUR OWN LID
Attendees:
Via Wohl, Haim Mizrahi, Jonathan Shoemaker, Jim Porcarelli, Phillip Lehans, Adam Donald
CDMX Breakfast Club Report 6.26.24
The fourth-ever Mexico City Breakfast Club b'fast is in the books, daintily fingerpainted into the artbook of avocado and toast history!
At our table we talked about the history of presidential libraries, the creative process of developing interactive museum installations, the Greenwood Rising History Museum, the vexing fact that certain employers impose overmuch laptop security, the joy of admin privileges, the post-Mexican election dollar exchange rate bump, the role of competing interest rates in currency valuations, mirrorless vs. mirrored photo cameras, the lock-in of usurious lens prices, getting lost on the train to Cinque Terra, the difficulty of remote work in the Balinese time zone, a great vegan restaurant in Tlatelolco, Airbnb scams, how the word bodega in Mexico means little roof hut, and the delightful fact that sea otters have (apparently) 600,000 hair follicles per square inch.
For this fourth-ever breakfast we were five, including Daniel Meyer, Ryan Schoenherr, and all the way from Richmond, Virginia where it is currently an ungodly 94 degrees Fahrenheit, Deborah and Bruce Yoder.
It was a blast, and we do this every Wednesday!
Everyone is invited 8am next Wednesday at Lardo—especially you!
CDMX Breakfast Club Report 6.26.24
Breakfast Club DTBK Report 6.27.24
Per Kat’s Post:
This morning felt like a summer party. Yes Breakfast Club is now an 8:30am party with coffee & salmon platters & baked goods.
Thanks to Jasmine Takanikos for hosting our last Breakfast Club this month, including Rosslyn Ortega Connie Lui Patty Marando Bree Nichols Marisa Mendez Marthaller Tara Tonini Eason Yang Melani De Guzman Alex King Molly Aaker Saheedat A. Peter Courtien Ebenezer Bond Marc Weissman Joseph Ari Aloi Marina Garcia-Vasquez (+ Augustin) - (also great to see you Jason Wishnow!!)
We talked about it all - the rise of creative capitals in Asia (Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam), Brooklyn’s gentrification, if Aesop Rocky or Mos Def had a cult (we would join btw), the blooming of a city from one chapter to the next, cultivating a consultancy practice, Supernature festival, New York to London as the other “bi-coastal” lifestyle and more - we came, we feasted, we discussed all the things.
Join myself & Jeff Weiner every Thursday at 8:30am at The Ace Brooklyn or every Wednesday with Ben Dietz at Le Crocodile/The Wythe.
JULY'S HOSTING LINE UP:
🔥 July 4 - no Breakfast Club
🔥 July 11 - Joe Fucigna
🔥 July 18 - Hardeep Gill
🔥 July 25 - Kim Mackenzie from Ladies Who Strategize
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Breakfast Club Las Vegas Report: 6.27.24
First Breakfast Club Vegas in the books! We were a mighty three including me, Paysha Rhone and Jennifer Martinez.
We talked about summer jams and Eminem's Houdini (and Steve Miller Band's Abracadabra); Yacht rock; 90s v. 2000s fashion, including overalls; Gen X anger; hiking the south rim of the Grand Canyon, Havasu Falls, and Fletcher Peak at Mr. Charleston; hiking gloves and whether you need them; homemade almond milk; immersive art experiences as team building; the shortcomings of the job interview; stringing for People magazine and getting paid to sit in bars; nonprofit incubators; fierceness v. meanness; and women in gaming, club promotion, and social clubs that have outfits: Red Hat society, white parties, Mrs. Roper romps.
Join us next time! Everyone is invited, especially you.
Thursdays | 8a
PublicUs | 1126 Fremont St.
No pitches | No RSVPs | No agenda
Live in Las Vegas, or just visiting? Would love to have you.
Breakfast Club: The Berlin backyard edition 6.28.24
Per Amy’s Post:
With gratitude to my co-host (and epic friend) Sabine Koppe for finding us a cool space for conversations that sparked new connections, served with a side of coffee. Ben Dietz, hashtag#Berlin was a hit.
Varied voices, vibrant & intriguing.
Thank you for coming!
Kat Loughrey, Charissa Chioccarelli Sylvie Gagelmann-Visevic, Anna Demiyanova, Johannes Hilf, Katja Krämer, Charlott Stave, Daniel Cachandt, Janine Katzberg, Anne Prib, Sabrina Faramarzi, Nadine Bruder, Margherita Sgorbissa, Tabea Venrath, Ramona Liberoff, Sven Arn, Elizabeth Kimball, Amie Lin, Alexi Gunner, Max Celko, Liubov Timofeeva, Sabine Koppe, Amy Daroukakis & Björn Michael
Next Thursday the 4th is London!
I can't wait to co-host the second edition of BC in Milan on July 24th with Mortiz Gaudlitz.
Tocinoooooooooo!!!