Facial Hair Handbook author Jack Passion will be giving a lecture at the third San Francisco Nerd Nite entitled “Beards and Bearding: A Pogonology Primer.” Nerd Niteis an informal gathering at which nerds get together for nerdery of all sorts (well, mostly presentations and drinking). Nerds and non-nerds alike gather to meet, drink and learn something new.
Thursday, July 8th, 2010, at 7:30pm
The Rickshaw Stop 155 Fell St. @ Van Ness, San Francisco (Directions)
Cover charge $10, tickets at the door
All ages
“Beards and Bearding: A Pogonology Primer” by Jack Passion
Competitive bearding. Yea, gentle reader, such a thing exists and it is as awesome as you think it is. With a two-time world championship beard ambassador as our guide, we will find out what it takes to cultivate award-winning whiskers, from the basics of protein synthesis to grooming gadgets galore. Also learn why facial hair plays an important role in human evolution and mating, and why great nerds throughout history have embraced hirsuteness.
Jack Passion is a two-time world champion of beards, having taken the Natural Full Beard category of the World Beard and Moustache Championships both in Brighton, England, in 2007 and Anchorage, Alaska, in 2009. Passion is the author of The Facial Hair Handbook, and tours the world as America’s beard ambassador. Most recently, he hosted the US National Beard and Mustache Championships in Bend, Oregon. Read more…
Beardo is a documentary about beards and the 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships. From the Beardo Website:
‘Beardo’ is a documentary on the 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships (WBMC). Held in Anchorage, Alaska in 2009, this biennial competition judges men in eighteen different moustache, partial beard, and full beard categories for the title of “Best Facial Hair in the World.” This international event boasts nearly 300 competitors from 15 countries. The WBMC usually takes place in Europe, but was held in the U.S. for only the second time ever. In years past, every competition has been dominated by the Germans…
Produced by Jeffrey Tocci and DIGICO Shoot | Post | Design, ‘Beardo’ talks to first-time and veteran contestants from different countries about facial hair in soceity, and the competition and the competition aftermath. One-on-one interviews get behind the beards and reveal motivations, passions, dreams, and the stigma of living in a modern world with beards and moustaches.
I am featured throughout the movie, and here’s the trailer:
Passion’s First Law of Facial Hair: Healthy Man, Healthy Beard.
And Movember is all about raising money and awareness for healthy men the best way possible: by growing mustaches! Learn more about Movember…
To show our support, every Facial Hair Handbook order you make from this site during November donates $1 to Movember and its charities, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG.
Buy the Facial Hair Handbook and grow your mustache!
Facial Hair Handbook author Jack Passion will be giving a lecture at the third San Francisco Nerd Nite entitled “Beards and Bearding: A Pogonology Primer.” Nerd Nite is an informal gathering at which nerds get together for nerdery of all sorts (well, mostly presentations and drinking). Nerds and non-nerds alike gather to meet, drink and learn something new.
