Show History
	Live shows were offered firstly in 2014 but mostly in 2024, with the intention to springboard the show from the Edinburgh Festival. Although Edinburgh is primarily comedy, it was thought to be the best national launchpad with the idea of spending about £10K of my own money. The hope was to gather sufficient free press attention from the act of publishing the shape of the universe to the website in the year before doing the festival. It was only right at the end that I began to lose faith that sufficient people might be sufficiently entertained by a show to make it a success at Edinburgh that I began to lose faith in this plan. So, in 2024, I tried to test it locally. I had the mature website; I had some decent marketing materials, I thought; I even had £3K for a marketing budget; plus I'd been active locally prior to this, reaching out to schools. Some of that history can be seen from the posts on my Facebook page, see the live feed on the Home page. But the £3K gained me, pretty much, zero interest, and that is the point when I seriously began to accept this plan was dead in the water. Instead of making a separate film I pivoted to publishing the complete talk in full to this website, as promised, on New Year's Eve, 2025, at midnight.
	Full Talk Publication
	The talk was published in full to Youtube on New Year's Eve, 2025, at midnight. My tongue was in my cheek when I named the YouTube video a world premiere, but only slightly. In many ways, this represents a dream come true for me as it brings together all of the key videos from the Youtube Channel as well as showing my preferred style and level of presentation so fully. It was just another rehearsal at the time, so it was very satisfying to find I had not had to compromise creatively. That is also why the quality of this video which even I have to admit is not great is not detrimental to its purpose. This is not an attempt to 'go viral', it is a statement of record. I have done what I set out to do and what I said I'd do. If I'm honest, all of the videos on the site are fairly horrible in that respect as I had zero resources, very little time and there was only me. Even so, I hugely enjoyed all of the video production aspects, and it didn't stop me learning a fair amount. As I lay down the baton others are free to pick it up. That is the beauty of not copywriting the ideas presented here. I do not have to own them; it is enough for me that they are out, in public, in full, on a date I cannot change, but nor can anyone else.

	Future Work
	The secret history of the Milky Way took the most time to do and is probably the most successful. I wouldn't look to have that remade as my first choice. But the food videos took almost as much time and those are still ripe today as a template for what might be so much better. In fact, it is this video 'the shape of the universe', the 'Billion' video and then food which are the big three that are crying out for higher production values, to me.
	Certificate of Learning
	A signed Certificate of Learning  was offered to each attendee, as shown.
	You can download a full-size PDF here.
	You could simply print out and bring along for the presenter to sign.
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