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TED Comes to Vancouver : Speaker Nominations for TEDxVan by KK
TED Comes to Vancouver : Speaker Nominations for TEDxVan | Vancouver Photographer, Web Strategist & Creative Director [archived link]
TED is a great conference format that is focused on the theme of ‘ideas worth spreading’ in technology, entertainment and design. Showcasing the brightest and coolest minds our times, TED is an all around impressive event that videotapes all their speakers and puts the videos up for free on their TED talks list. They really stand behind their principles of sharing ideas, even if people are unable to attend the highly anticipated TED event.
They just recently announced TED x which is a franchised community version of the bigger TED conferences. They’re encouraging folks to take the spirit and format of TED and have local events focused on the coolest in technology, entertainment, and design. It’s a great concept that initiates community support, discovery and definitely promotes ideas that are worth spreading. I had the chance to speak at TEDxShanghai this past June. It was a great experience to give my ‘Open Everything‘ talk to an international audience in Shanghai and I was surrounded by brilliant local and international speakers that were incredible. TEDx is a great experience and really opens up the TED idea to a broader audience.
It is very exciting to hear that we have a TED x Vancouver event coming up for the first time. Vancouver (and its surrounding area) is saturated with brilliant innovators and pioneers, especially in the sectors of technology, entertainment and design. This event will hopefully be a great presentation of the amazing people and ideas that are coming out of the Lower Mainland. Nominations are now open for speakers and everyone is welcome to throw the names of their favorite heroes in the hat. Here’s some hardworking, interesting, kind peeps that I think would be great to consider as speakers for the event. Some of these people I know, some I don’t know, but either way they’re doing good work and it’d be rad to hear them speak.
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Dave Olson is a literary genius that has dabbled into the visual arts as well. Whether it is constructing love letters from a Russian War era to water color paintings of natural settings, Olsen captures the renaissance attitude of the modern day beat generation.
Round-up w/ photos, twitters, blogs, remix’d art…
Round-up w/ photos, twitters, blogs, remix’d art, slides, annotations, ratings and Elvis – F@ck Stats, Make Art at SXSW09
Submitted 2 solid SXSW pitches – Hitchhiking to the Boardroom for SXSWi and Rock N Roll Photography for SXSW Music + helped @kk with 2 more!
making slides for F@ck Stats Make Art at SXSW
Surviving #SXSW, One Twitter At A Time with @deanero @fiercekitty & me hanging at the @raincitystudios booth http://bit.ly/3d1094
thanks to all the folks who rated F@ck Stats Make Art at #SXSW – 23 of you so far clocking in at over 4/5 stars http://bit.ly/VMuYv
Chris Unitt from UK documents F@ck Stats, Make Art at SXSW
Chris Unitt from UK documents F@ck Stats, Make Art at SXSW – http://bit.ly/ef5Gp
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F*ck Stats, Make Art
Dave Olson
SXSW 2009
Art Makes The Future
More interested in what to blog or twitter about rather than blogging about blogging and tweeting about Twitter.
Popular art is not the stuff that lasts
No matter the circumstances, etc are, it’s the words that live on.
Craft + intent / integrity = art
(not a perfect formula but something to work from)
Tips:
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- Upgrade your heroes
- (something about telling stories)
- Embrace translucency (because not everything is interesting)
- Improve cross-training
- Up your skills
- Don’t get precious
- Ignore the gatekeepers (you can publish yourself)
- Reap the rewards
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There was a time when bloggers had the space to themselves and could be dismissive of traditional media, saying ‘they don’t get it’. Now all newspapers have blogs and there’s some good talent out there.
How can you rise above that? By being a better writer. Blogs, etc are the medium. That’s all. It’s still writing.
Build your castles in the air and put the foundations under them.
kinda stunned/flattered/amazed by the barrage of insightful messages from #fsma – found 3 haters and a busload of lovers – XO for the props
Getting gold pass and trying to get centered and chillaxed at sxsw