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Shake Up Your Perspective: Raghava KK’s Wonderful TED Talk

ingrid — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:40:20 +0000

I hadn’t heard of Raghava KK before I watched this TED Talk yesterday but now I’m a huge fan. I love the idea of shaking up your perspective by shaking an iPad. Haptic change! Could be a whole new social movement!

Lekker Web: Eli Pariser on Online Filter Bubbles

ingrid — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:47:52 +0000

Do algorithms shape our worldview? What are we not seeing on Facebook and Google? As Eli Pariser puts it, “The Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see but not necessarily what we need to see.” This TED talk from Pariser is definitely worth a watch and a ponder.

Lekker Web: Aaron Koblin on Artfully Visualizing our Humanity

ingrid — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:18:48 +0000

Aaron Koblin is an artist who uses data and digital technologies in his work. He leads the Data Arts Team in Google’s Creative Lab and has worked on lots of projects I really love, including The Wilderness Downtown (with Chris Milk), The Johnny Cash Project (also with Chris Milk) and The Sheep Market.

Here’s his TED talk:

Beautiful Data

ingrid — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:48:11 +0000

I have become a bit obsessed with data recently. Numbers on a page don’t mean much to me. I’m very visual which is why I love documentary storytelling so much. But there are people doing things with data that will make your jaw drop. And the storytelling potential of data is something I am currently very interested in.

Hans Rosling gave an incredible talk at TED in 2006 – see the video below.

And now I have discovered Aaron Koblin, an artist and programmer who does really amazing and thought provoking things with data. It’s really worth watching his presentation at CaT where he runs through some of his projects, from Flight Patterns to The Sheep Market to Bicycle Built for Two Thousand. Aaron’s website has links to his work so definitely check it out.

By the way, O’Reilly have just published a book called Beautiful Data which looks really great.

We Heart Lawrence Lessig

ingrid — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:18:01 +0000

I’ve just added some links to the blogroll on the right hand side of this blog that link to sites working to protect our digital rights. The more excited I get by the possibilities for filmmakers in the digital age the more aware I am that we need to fight to continue to exercise our creativity (flexible copyright law is key here) and keep the channels of distribution open (if you don’t know what net neutrality is I really urge you to go to Save The Internet now). This is our video republic, our commons, our future.

With regards to copyright, watch this TED video from last year in which Lawrence Lessig, a well-known expert on copyright issues, explains his vision for reconciling creative freedom with marketplace competition.

TED – Get Inspired

ingrid — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:24:00 +0000

It is often good to raise our heads and look beyond the film world for inspiration and fresh thinking. TED is a really good place to start. TED started out in 1984 as an invite-only annual conference bringing together movers and shakers from the worlds of technology, entertainment, and design and has evolved into a global community of ideas. You can watch many of the talks online – from people as diverse as Al Gore, JJ Abrams, and Isabel Allende. And you can of course subscribe to their blog for a daily dose of new ideas.