20mins to watch.
Great wisdom here (from some old friends and new).
Category: random
NaNoWriMo | 50,000 Word, 30 Days, 1 Novel
And so it begins (bussy with me).
As an aside, the guys / gals behind NaNoWriMo have a fantastic video explaining who they are (a great example for all organisations / companies out there):
What Do I Desire? | What Do You Desire?
What if money was no object?
Alan Watts fantastic provocation / vocational guidance to focus the mind / soul.
How can you not leave a comment about this…
Surprise Is Experience Reversed
The ‘gasp’ model.
Experience is knowing. Understanding. Awareness. Expectation. Safe. Trusted.
See title / above.
TEDxTeAro | Dates And Location Announced
The coolest little capital in the world will be hosting TEDxTeAro on the 1st December at the magnificent National Museum of New Zealand, Te Papa Tongarewa.
I’m a lucky TEDx license holder—full press release on the TEDxTeAro blog
Design & Thinking | Wellington Screening
Miss it, miss out.
If you’re free on 14th September 2012 at 4pm get yourself to The Film Archive to catch the first Wellington, NZ screening:
Design Thinking was applied as a term and methodology by a design firm in 2008. It was received as a tool to solve every problem, from daily life decisions to business challenges to world hunger problems. Attention and debates followed; some insisted on design education in all K-12 schools, some declared it is just marketing tool for that firm, some hoped it would turn his company into Apple. Some said it’s nothing new, just a new packaging of how creative people do things.
Design & Thinking, the movie is bought to these shores by the funky, clever folks from Empathy—not many tickets left, book now.
UX For Good – NOLA 2012 | Building Teams Around Causes
20mins of good stuff.
The model is simple:
“We lure the smartest, most creative, most influential people out of boardrooms and darkened auditoriums to get them engaged in designing a better world.”
The above will rarely succeed at most organisation / companies due to limited or little time and (head and / or physical) space.
Check out The Insights Labs for inspiration (and what I want to do when we all grow up).
Isn’t this the perfect model for innovation?
What I Have To Offer | What You Have To Offer
A delicious challenge to us all.
Seventy minutes concentrated into five (from the mind and mouth of Charlie Kaufman).
Here’s the whole talk for the soul:
https://soundcloud.com/bafta/charlie-kaufman-screenwriting-lecture (no longer live but here’s the transcript)
Via The Scout Mag
Cesar’s Bark Canoe | 57mins 55secs & No Narration
Caesar Newashish, a 67-year-old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve north of Montreal, uses only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum. Building a canoe solely from the materials that the forest provides may become a lost art, even among the Native peoples whose traditional craft it is. The film is without commentary but text frames appear on the screen in Cree, French and English.
Via Wood Gives Me Wood
We Stopped Dreaming | A New Perspective
“We went to the moon and we discovered the earth.”
A great video for the Penny 4 NASA crowd-funding project.