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

Cool Hunting Video Presents: Chances With Wolves

Cool Hunting's video on how three friends from Brooklyn collaborate to make the most creative show in radio. Cool Hunting is a cool culture, travel, food, style, tech, design blog: coolhunting.com

Chances With Wolves from Cool Hunting on Vimeo.

AE's Dream Gathering

Last night's meeting was awesome! Thanks to everyone who participated in our Dream Gathering!

We wrote down our dreams on pieces of paper, placed them in a bowl, drew each other’s dreams, read them out load, & guessed who those dreams belonged to.

It was an incredibly inspiring experience. I dream every day but I don’t write them all down. My vision for myself is to be creative, active, entrepreneurial, and loving. Articulating that visual into specific dreams was a challenge. I want to make this a habit so that my pursuits become more purposeful. The variety of dreams in the room was fascinating and the similarity between our dreams was encouraging. Hearing other people’s dreams reminded of my own and made me think of new ones. It also made me realize that dreams can’t be reached alone. I am capable of helping someone else reach their dream, which is a dream of mine. And I know I won’t be climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro alone, I’ll be needing help with that!

I would recommend that everyone attend The University’s Big Dream Gathering Friday, November 19 at the Levitt Center from 5:30-8 p.m. (Come and go).

-Lauren Bevineau

Photo Cred: Kalle Kataila

Dream Big - Work Hard

Open Mike Speghetti Nite!

Arts Enterprise is hosting an Open Mic extravaganza with free spaghetti ! All musicians, comics, poets - whatever your talent may be is welcome. Please join us for a great evening of music and enjoyment at Uptown Bills where delicious spaghetti and friendship will be provided. All are welcome! Invite your friends!

We Are the Influencers

This is a great short documentary that comments on how trends & creativity spread. It describes so well what I think is our generation’s creative class.

My favorite quote from the film, "The places where people assemble based on passion...are usually the places where you see the most influence."

INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo.

We Are the Change

I just can't get enough of these videos via Fast Company. The entrepreneurs that the videos highlight embody the passionate & savvy spirit that is Arts Enterprise.

Fast Company is a great online magazine for creative entrepreneurs: www.fastcompany.com, Check it out!

AE Projects

Arts Enterprise is where creative minds meet.

Our group is welcome to all majors.

We are creative, energetic, fun, & intelligent people who are working on some exciting projects this semester. Please join us!

Our Projects Include:
• Hosting Spaghetti Feed/Open Mike Night to support Uptown Bills
• Compiling album of music from local artists - including a music video
• “Art-Business Playground” – seeking opportunities for student arts to been enjoyed in Iowa City

Bring yourself & your ideas to our next meeting this Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 9:15pm at the Bedell Entrepreneurship Center (directly across the street from Burge Hall)