Hey AE-ers! I attended the talk for JPEC students hosted by Red Frog Events and I am giddy with excitement about this company! This is one of the most creative and entrepreneurial companies I have ever heard of, and they host really exciting events such as Warrior Dash, Beach Dash, and Great Urban Race. Check out their website, and if you're as excited as I am about Red Frog Events the reps at the talk last week said they host tours for student groups, so we could set up a trip to Chicago and learn more about a very successful and exciting entrepreneurial company!
-Tine, VP of Camaraderie

http://redfrogevents.com/

http://www.redfrogevents.com/blog/

OK Go's "Needing/Getting" music video. Brilliant!

World War Z

Trailer for the highly anticipated zombie film based on the book World War Z by Max Brooks.
Highly recommended!

http://www.ted.com/talks/john_bohannon_dance_vs_powerpoint_a_modest_proposal.html

This is an interesting video from TED, if you're not familiar with TED talks yet you should check it out! The speaker in this video John Bohannon is a scientist and a writer who runs the annual "Dance Your Ph.D" Contest for Science journal where Ph.D students compete to use dancers to explain their thesis in lieu of a traditional power point presentation. In this video he makes his argument why dance is a better media to engage an audience. It's a great example of melding the arts with academics and how it's mutually beneficial. I thought the creative campus was a great next topic to follow the creative economy. The creative campus is a program that makes the arts central to academic learning, so instead of separating arts into it's own category the arts are melded with all other academics. The University of Iowa's Hancher Auditorium was one of the recipients of funding from the Creative Campus Innovations Program. You can read about that project by clicking the link below!

http://www.creativecampus.org/projects/university-of-iowa

-Tine, VP Camaraderie

Last week I posted a quote by John Adams, if you simplify it it reads "I study law, so that my children may study science and math, so that their children may study art and culture". What he meant by this is that having the freedom to study art and culture is a desirable goal to reach, and a sign that society has matured. In the United States we are at a point where our economy is moving away from industry and production of goods to making profits off of ideas, knowledge, services, and more creative ventures. I thought this was a good topic to talk about since the AE Summit this year is focusing on the Creative Economy. If you're not familiar with the idea of the creative economy or creative industries they are concerned with the generation or creation of new ideas and information and exploiting them for economic profit. Creative industries have become important to our economic well-being, and they don't just include traditional arts, but also marketing, graphic design, and technology which includes everything from software to video games to android phones and tablets. These industries could not exist without creativity and artistic minds that generate the products for consumption. When it comes to traditional arts such as dance, theatre, music, and art galleries they are important in boosting local economies. The arts bring audiences, which spend money on everything from dinner before the show, parking, shopping, and hotels if coming from out of town, pumping money into local businesses. In conclusion, creative industries are the future of our economy.
-Tine, VP Camaraderie

"The science of government it is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take the place of, indeed exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."- Quote by John Adams


http://www.artsenterprise.com/resources/ae-summit

-Tine, VP Camaraderie

Focus On Bold Ideas

Young Creative Entrepreneurs On the Rise

Airbnb from shatterbox on Vimeo.

JackThreads: Never Giving Up

Change Agents: Current TV's Max & Jason

Wow, check out these heart throbs!!!

CurrentTV from shatterbox on Vimeo.
About Current TV:
Current Media, the Peabody and Emmy Award-winning television and online network founded in 2005 by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, engages viewers with smart, provocative and timely programming – stories that no one else is telling in ways that no one else is telling them. Current’s programming shines a light where others won’t dare and boldly explores important subjects – opening minds, sparking conversations and forming deep connections with its viewers. The channel’s audience is comprised of affluent, curious, social and connected adults who crave the kind of entertaining, enlightening, witty and informative programming found on Current’s TV and online properties. Current is available in the U.S., the UK, Ireland and Italy in 75 million cable and satellite households and online at www.current.com.

Sculpture made by Bees ” by Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny

 

Over the course of the fair, 40 000 worker bees were released into the case to complete a wax honeycomb structure over the figure of a martyred christ rising out of the chaos, his weight seeming to be upheld by the mass strength of the swarm. The figure within the vitrine is made of a laser sintered framework in which the industrious bees created a honeycomb skin over before filling each cell with the honey they produce. Then bees worked to remove the honey from the cells and return it to the beehive, cleaning the figure back to the wax cells they originally created.

Slam Poetry by Joaquin Zihuatenejo: Speaking in Tongues

Designing Reality

Digitally modifying the physical world sounds like sci-fi, but such technologies have been steadily tiptoeing into our world.

3D projection on a building

Interactive projection at the London Aquarium


AR (Augmented Reality)

AR is a term for a "live direct or indirect view of a real-world environment where the "physical" real-wold elements are modified by computer-generated input," overlapping the physical with virtual elements. Fancy as it sounds, AR is already commonplace in sports telecasting (ex: the yellow "firstdown" line in football broadcasts). AR tech is already in use and available on iPhone apps, and webcam-interactive greeting cards and magazines.

The ARToolKit program uses a black square emblem as a tracking cue:


Virtual furniture?


Mini tanks!



Of course, current AR visuals can only be seen on the digital screen, but it might not be long before new technology will enable people to directly see and interact with AR in physical space without the aid of a digital screen, adding a new dynamic plane to daily life (ex: virtual public displays instead of physical signs, interactive advertisement, "real-life" subtitles and translation).

Social Tonight @ The Mill

My Dearest AE,

Instead of our regular meeting at the Bedell, please Join us for pizza & music @ The Mill tonight from 7-9pm.

Your President,
Lauren

Show, Don't Tell

I was always taught that with art, you should show not tell

:D

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