Videos
Sharing the resources Paul collects.
Watch the “Powers Of Ten” remade using food
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 · Topics: creativity, visualization
From FastCompany: Micro-Macro, an animated short film that visualizes the nested scales of the physical universe using stop-motion-animated food. · Watch video →
Eugene Lee: Breathing Together — Leadership lessons from musical ensembles
Client: San Francisco Symphony
Friday, January 20, 2012 · Topics: classical-music, leadership, music, storytelling, team-building, vision
From TEDxAmericanRiviera: Lee draws business leadership and team management analogies from the world of classical musical ensembles — specifically orchestra conducting and chamber music. The first 2/3 of the talk draw analogies from the first episode of San Francisco Symphony’s Keeping Score — which gives behind-the-scenes looks at what it takes for Michael Tilson Thomas to prepare Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony. · Watch video →
Jane Fonda: Life’s third act
Thursday, January 19, 2012 · Topics: aging, happiness, health
From TEDxWomen: Within this generation, an extra 30 years have been added to our life expectancy — and these years aren’t just a footnote or a pathology. Jane Fonda asks how we can think about this new phase of our lives. · Watch video →
Will Hewett: Singing yourself alive
Client: Will Hewett
Sunday, January 15, 2012 · Topics: creativity, improvisation, music, personal-practice
From TEDx Rainier: Vocalist and improviser Will Hewett explores the language of sound beneath words. After singing 15 minutes every day for a year, Will Hewett describes and sings how a commitment to a simple creative practice can open you to a more vibrant life — a deeper connection with yourself and your world. · Watch video →
Tim Brown urges designers to think big
Sunday, January 15, 2012 · Topics: collaboration, design, design-thinking
Tim Brown says the design profession is preoccupied with creating nifty, fashionable objects — even as pressing questions like clean water access show it has a bigger role to play. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory “design thinking.” · Watch video →
Re-imagining Mozart
Friday, January 6, 2012 · Topics: creativity, music, music-composition
The score to Mozart’s 26th piano concerto is missing most of the left-hand piano part. Metropolis Ensemble commissioned composer/pianist Timothy Andres to re-imagine the entire left-hand part in his own 21st Century style. The premiere was described by music critic Alex Ross as “startling… mesmerizing… a fine display of creative bravado.” · Watch video →
Happy holidays from the Hubble Space Telescope: A cosmic snow angel
Monday, December 26, 2011 · Topics: astronomy, inspiration, space-exploration
From BigThink: This movie presents a visualization of the star-forming region known as S106. This unique three-dimensional view illustrates and emphasizes that many of the objects contained within astronomical images are not at the same distance, but, in fact, spread across light-years of space. The Hubble image is augmented with additional field-of-view from the Subaru Infrared Telescope. The stars and the lobes of glowing gas from the Hubble/Subaru two-dimensional image have been separated and sculpted using both scientific knowledge and artistic license to create the depth in the movie. Of note, the relative distances between stars and the nebula have been greatly compressed. · Watch video →
Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand
Monday, December 19, 2011 · Topics: creativity, flow, improvisation, jazz, mistakes, music, right-wrong
From TED: What is a mistake? By talking through examples with his improvisational Jazz quartet, Stefon Harris walks us to a profound truth: many actions are perceived as mistakes only because we don’t react to them appropriately. · Watch video →
