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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TOMS One Day Without Shoes 2011 - Will You Join Us? - Song "One Day" by ...

Check out "One Day Without Shoes" an event created by TOMS.


"Millions of children grow up without shoes and at risk of infection and disease. ONE DAY WITHOUT SHOES is the day we take off our shoes to raise awareness of the impact a pair of shoes can have on a child's life."

Check it out: TOMS - Giving new shoes to children in need - Song "Coahuila" by Balmorhea

If you're interested in TOMS, Check out their story:

Blogggggggg!

Lastly, Check out GOOD magazine, they have awesome article posts every day on a bunch of current events ranging from Business to Design to the Environment, Media, Politics, and Technology. Here's an article on Art in the side walk cracks :) www.good.is/post/finding-art-in-the-sidewalk-cracks/

Tick Tock!!!

Very creative video. Definitely a trip! Worth the watch - maybe more than once :)

2011 Emory Campus MovieFest - Best Picture

Kinetic Wave Sculptures

Making Music a Viable Profession

Founder of Pandora, Tim Westergren, on his excitement about music & entrepreneurship.



Pandora’s secret sauce is people. Music lovers. Professional players who pass job application tests requiring them to pick, for example, one of four jazz tunes and "describe the harmonic language," answer whether it’s "tonal or modal," and "outline the progression."....Read more

Extreme Swan Lake

Even if your aren't one for sitting through a ballet, you have to appreciate how insane this choreography is. Natalie Portman has nothing on this girl

Madison Kasper's post

Truly inspiring video!

Nick Vujicic


http://urhajos.tumblr.com/page/2

Cool photos,paintings,drawings, etc.

Alex Brown's post

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgsbIfI0uIg

This is a amazing animated video about Japan and Japanese culture. It was created by a student as a final thesis and intended for Japanese people. It's a shocking look at the culture in a way we don't look at Japanese culture nor look at our own.

http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2100445:BlogPost:325145&commentId=2100445:Comment:343220

MyModernMet.com is a site dedicated to sharing unique looks at culture through art and how they influence each other. It's an open community to post blog posts on a huge range of topics.

Last is my favorite, and one of the few sites I visit everyday.

Woot.com

They sell one product every 24 hours and only one, more than that they write a creative blog about the product with a great (at times corny) mix of humor.

Circus!

I love the circus. It can be anything, inspiring, skillful, sexy, or even downright silly. Here are a couple of my favorite acts:

Hand to Hand by Sébastien Soldevila and Mimi Bonnavaud



Ivan Zubkevych - Straps





And if all the goodness above just wasn't enough, the 32nd Annual Cirque de Demain competition just finished in Paris last week. Thanks to Arte TV France, it's streaming online.



My reccomendations:
1:03:00 Nikolai Scherbak and Sergey Popov - Hand to hand - Classy music, astonishing technique, beautiful lines.
1:53:20 William Wei-Liang Lin - Diabolo - Effortless speed, technique, and charisma.
2:39:20 Wes Peden - The hippest juggler on the planet.

Ideas, Storytelling, and some SCOPE

This is a short video about ideas. Pretty simple, but it's interesting and well-made.

Rethink Scholarship at Langara 2010 Call for Entries from Rory O'Sullivan and Simon Bruyn on Vimeo.

And here's a link to an interesting series from Ira Glass (NPR: This American Life). It's in 4 parts, but the first one is featured here. There are links to the other parts in the articles.

http://www.openculture.com/2011/01/ira_glass_on_the_art_of_storytelling.html

Finally, I wouldn't be doing my job as a SCOPE member if I didn't let you know about at least one of the concerts that we're bringing this semester. The New Pornographers, April 27th $19 Student Tickets.

made

Someone showed me this video the other day, and I thought it was very inspiring. I feel like this is the ideal work place for me; it is always changing with its environment, and I love that! It's a place where your creativity seems to be the only limit.


MADE: Typographic Ballet featuring Ebon Heath & Talib Kweli from hypebeast.tv on Vimeo.

Great Sites

Presentation Zen
On presentations and public speaking. Topics covered in the past include the importance of simplicity in creating PowerPoint slides, techniques for connecting with an audience, and life skills that children teach us.

TED
TED "offers free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers". The nonprofit records speakers at annual conferences held around the world. Speakers come from every discipline including business, art, education, and politics.

Economix
A blog that compiles opinions from some of the world's leading economists. The posts are accessible and concise. Some posts are about typical economic topics like unemployment, while others focus on more unique subjects like how people buying more top-shelf liquor = economic recovery.

The Sartorialist's Creative Process

Scott Schuman, photographer and creator of the popular fashion blog The Sartorialist
talks about his creative process & inspiration.

Inspired by The Remix Project

The Remix Project is a cultural incubator, working with young people from across the Greater Toronto Area. They work with young people whom they deem as brilliant, mind-blowing, amazing, and creative. But these kids have also been labeled a lot of other things in their lives, whether it’s at-risk, in conflict, or what have you.

Read about it's founder, Gavin Sheppard TED fellow

The mission & vision of The Remix Project has inspired my dreams of what I want to use my talents for.

-Lauren