A couple of weeks ago, Libby Ballengee wrote about Pecha Kucha night for the Creative Crux. Last Friday, I attended the event and was blown away.

Here are a few of my takeaways.

10. Pecha Kucha’s 20 slides x 20 seconds format really works. It’s true: PowerPoint can be transformed from the world’s most boring medium into something engaging, exciting, and artistic.

9. Diving deep into a topic for 6 minutes is more fun than diving shallow for an hour.

8. You will learn something random and new if you come to Pecha Kucha. For example:

7. One in five people in the U.S. read at the fifth-grade level. Most job applications are written at the eighth-grade level. There are people in Dayton doing something about this (Project Read).

6. The Great Barrier Reef, stretching nearly 2,000 miles along the coast of Australia, is the largest living organism in the world (thank you Owner of the Dublin Pub, who traveled there).

5. The Shawrk is an imaginary creature that can attack underwater and in the sky.

4. Dayton’s Blue Sky Project has brought more than 66 artists from around the world to our hometown to collaborate with local artists. Kids and grownups participate.

3. You never know when someone will show up and start tap dancing (thank you, Sole Purpose and Dayton Tap Project).

2. “Now is the time to be alive in many Rust Belt cities.” — Aaron Renn, The Urbanophile

1. Pecha Kucha rocks. Be there for volume 6 on January 21.

Samantha Enslen runs Dragonfly Editorial and was really cold on top of the Firefly Building last Friday.