January 2011
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Fischerspooner on Collaboration
This three-part video series takes a look at how creative force Warren Fischer of Fischerspooner, collaborates with musicians and film directors. Get a glimpse at Fischer’s methodology for uniting artists from different backgrounds through his collaborative work and take a look at his directorial work for emerging musicians CREEP, the last twelve years he’s shared making music with Casey Spooner,...
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Paolo Antonelli on Design & Technology
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA, speaks with The Creator’s Project about her upcoming show Talk to Me, exploring the fundamentals of communication between people and objects.
Antonelli is one of the foremost authorities on the relationship between design, creativity, science and technology. Her 2008 show Design and the Elastic Mind forever changed the way...
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The History of Youth Culture
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Layers of 3-D Graffiti
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Parkour: Urban Acrobatics
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Skateistan: To Live And Skate Kabul
This beautifully shot film follows the lives of a group of young skateboarders in Afghanistan. Operating against the backdrop of war and bleak prospects, the Skateistan charity project is the world’s first co-educational skateboarding school, where a team of international volunteers work with girls and boys between the ages of 5 and 17, an age group largely untouched by other aid programmes.
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Creating Successful Collaborations Between Artists...
INFLUENCERS In-depth Series features Steve Stoute, Founder and CEO of Translation, a brand management firm that arranges strategic partnerships between Pop Culture icons (Jay-Z, Gwen Stefani, Lebron James, Justin Timberlake, etc.) and Fortune 500 companies.
In this episode, Steve Stoute discusses the concept of cool, how new cultural codes are redefining traditional corporation...
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RFID in Shoes
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Why Teach Creativity?
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The Writing Spirit
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"The Wrinkles of the City" - JR In Shanghai
JR
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IBM Centennial Film: A Century of Achievements
This video takes you through 100 years at IBM told by past/present/future employees chronologically stating an achievement the company has made. The video is extremely touching and informative.
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Anthropology of Running
Run and Become is a project from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex. As well as a cultural project, it is also a research project, aiming to improve our understanding of the human factors involved in training for and completing a marathon run. The two key themes are motivation and transformation. What motivates people to carry on training and carry on running, through...
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The Future of Revenue
The Future of Revenue video identifies breakthrough ideas – scientific management, total quality management, supply chain management – and looks at the competitive advantage enjoyed by early adopters. The narrative culminates in the emergence of RPM, a systematic approach to analyzing and predicting the results of a business’ largest and least understood cost center: marketing and sales.
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Future of Mobile Tagging
PSFK’s latest ‘Future Of’ report presents key trends in the mobile tagging space, so as to inspire marketers and their creative agencies about their future use of technologies that include QR codes, barcodes and Microsoft Tags in their branding activity and communication campaigns. Mobile tags offer a unique opportunity for brands and their agencies to interact with potential and existing...
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Artist Takes Drugs, Creates Self Portraits
Psilocybin Mushrooms (2 caps onset)
Morphine IV (doseage unknown)
1/2 gram Cocaine
20mg Valium
Bryan Lewis Saunders
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Abandoned WWII Bunkers
Jonathan Andrew
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Portlandia - Dream of the '90s
Portlandia
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Victorian Infographics
BibliOdyssey
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Behind the Scenes at TED 2010
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Walking Across China, Time Lapse Beard Growth
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Stunning Footage of Life in Haiti
Leclerc Brothers
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Presenting Ethnography: a cultural approach to...
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Getting People to Talk: An Ethnography &...
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The Creative Generalist
The Creative Generalist
View more presentations from Steve Clayton.
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Found: Lost Pictures of New York Blizzard
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"Markets of Britain" - a short film by Lee Titt
Boing Boing presents “Markets of Britain,” a documentary discovered by Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz* from the archives of a great and underappreciated British filmmaker named Lee Titt, who also never existed.
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Cory Doctorow on Fetish Objects and Digital...
How do you design an object that trades on the unique physical aspects of a freely copyable digital work? As more and more artists experiment with free downloads and paid premium items, we’ve begun a glorious arms-race to see who can create and sell the most outrageous, artisanal, limited items. It’s a perfect storm of maker culture, free culture, and independent arts.
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Rethinking Design Thinking
In a world of increasing complexity, our problems just seem to get worse and worse. While the activity we call “design” began at the dawn of civilization, “design thinking” has recently been proposed as a means to solve these “wicked problems”—as well as all but guarantee a path to innovation for organizations of all stripes. But what is “design thinking”?
In an...
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Peter Diamandis - The Best Way to Predict the...
Peter Diamandis, Chairman and Co-Founder of Singularity University, discusses the best way to predict the future, and shares his personal philosophies on innovation and the commercial space industry. Flimed at Singularity University’s Executive Program, March 2010.
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Video Mural Depicts Journey From Hell to Heaven
Civilization, a video mural created for the new Standard hotel in New York City, by Marco Brambilla, depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through modern film language using computer-enhanced found footage. This epic video mural contains over 300 individual channels of looped video blended into a multi-layered seamless tableau of interconnecting images that illustrate a...
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Lawrence Lessig on the Needs and Requirements of...
Starting with Thoreau and moving through the cost of sugar versus corn and diabetes, Lawrence Lessig gives a compelling — and visually breathtaking — presentation on the impact of campaign cash on the policies of our nation. His message: We need citizens to take back our democracy.
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Dark Side of the Lens
This short story shows us a side to surfing that we, as observers or surfers can only imagine: the life of the photographer. Why they spend hours and hours in the cold water just for that one shot and what it is to be a water-based photography.
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Tod Seelie's Images from Haiti
Tod Seelie
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Ushahidi: Creating a New Narrative
In this video, the Ushahidi founders and others discuss the origins of and rational behind the Ushahidi platform.
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Lemmy: 49% Motherfucker, 51% Son of a Bitch
The life and career of Motorhead frontman Lemmy Kilmister is being celebrated in a new documentary.
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The Evolution of Prosperity
Matt Ridley argues that life is getting better despite the recession.
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Punk Attitude Documentary
Punk: Attitude is a documentary on the history of punk rock in the USA and UK. The film traces the different styles of punk from their roots in 60s garage and psychedelic bands (Count Five, the Stooges) through glam-punk (New York Dolls) to the 70s New York and London scenes and into the hardcore present.
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A Cartoon About Watching Other People Use The...
A popular comic about the frustrations of watching other people use the internet has been brought to life on YouTube in a cartoon by Redditor Guy Collins. The original comic shows a savvy web user watching a coworker do infuriatingly stupid things like Googling Google and then clicking on the link to Google, failing to put search terms in quotes, and (most rage-inducing of all!) scrolling...
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Matt Ridley - everybody is working for everybody...
Was life really better in the past? The Rational Optimist says “we’re all kings now” because of exchange and specialisation.
Matt Ridley
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Shanghai Migrants' Massive Bike Loads
On the DesignBoom blog, Andrea Chin writes:
The verticality of these formations echoes the incessant expansion of the urban area, constantly under construction. Here, De lorme gives a new vision full of humor and poetry of those porters – both super heroes and ants with impressive loads of tires, water containers, office chairs, flowers… Distanced from the typical photos of China...
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Paintings by Yago Hortal
Yago Hortal
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San Francisco's 1906 Earthquake
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The Sartorialist: Behind The Camera
The Sartorialist
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California Redwoods: Growing is Forever
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PES: The Deep
Metal objects of the past come to life in the depths of the sea in this beautiful stop motion film by PES.
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Undercity: Urban Exploration
Fresh from their four-day adventure in the New York City underground, Andrew Wonder and adventurer Steve Duncan unveiled a short film depicting their challenging yet unique experience, from scaling large-scale sewers to traversing winding conduits under the city streets.
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Eskmo: 'We Got More'
Eskmo
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Alexey Kurbatov
Alexey Kurbatov