TED favorites
I know that the TED.com website is easily accessible to everyone but I felt the need to further push some of the ideas and concepts which I believe are of value to all of us. I will use this section of my blog to post direct links to my TED favorites. This should also give me the opportunity to respond and expand on some of these ideas. I thank you for your interest.
Dave Eggers: 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School
Karen Armstrong: 2008 TED Prize wish: Charter for Compassion
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
Michael Pollan: The omnivore's next dilemma
Howard Rheingold: Way-new collaboration
Hans Rosling: New insights on poverty and life around the world
Sir Martin Rees: Earth in its final century?
Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
If you liked those...get the rest at TED.com
More get released everyday.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Creating a Poverty-Free World
CBC had a short interview with Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel peace prize winner, and it caught my interest. These ideas may be in tune with my optimism towards positive global change. It's definitely a step in the right direction...I wonder how many people would feel the same? I will expand my thoughts on this soon.
CBC had a short interview with Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel peace prize winner, and it caught my interest. These ideas may be in tune with my optimism towards positive global change. It's definitely a step in the right direction...I wonder how many people would feel the same? I will expand my thoughts on this soon.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Oh Creative Commons...Ourmedia and native land... The cc's are small in stature but big in meaning.
I have been learning about them, and their ideas, for a couple of years now. It was in a MADT200 class called Remix where it all began. I can’t find the old blog but this popped up: http://remixtheory.net/ these pages look incredibly interesting.
I have been learning about them, and their ideas, for a couple of years now. It was in a MADT200 class called Remix where it all began. I can’t find the old blog but this popped up: http://remixtheory.net/ these pages look incredibly interesting.
Ourmedia is a great way to share your work and still protect your rights. (http://www.ourmedia.org/) I have an image and a number of audio files “archived” with them. There they sit in the digital universe I suppose…forever? I kind of forgot about this stuff. So how it works is that anyone can use my files for whatever they want but if they make money off of them then they must contact me and then we deal.
I’ve used Open Source audio before. I believe in creating my own audio so it is rare for me to do this…but it followed my concept of the assignment. You can see the video here:
ReRemix
It’s pretty long (2 songs) and not my greatest…but it is what it is.
Side note: I should try to build my own video player that would use .flv files which are used by podcasts and are far more efficient then the old (codec) system. I heard somewhere that the encoding procedures on web-video today are the same as they were in the 90’s? Meaning, that possibly, like gasoline, the industry failed to evolve for some reason? (You know the old…why would petro companies, and their governing buddies, want vehicles to find more friendly fuels…a small conflict of interest which screws over everybody.) Check out the discussion tab on this page http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyesunday/feature_100208.html.
Nowadays we hear about disputes over bandwidth restrictions like it’s a valuable resource. Could it be in someone’s best interest to keep video transfers big and fat? I’ll find out more about this and get back to you.
The Creative Commons idea encourages people to contact the source of their borrowed media, but it’s not a requirement. Connections between artists are morphing and the possibilities are endless. I heard a director, of an animation work I think, getting interviewed at the Oscars. He said that he’s never actually met the sound guy who he worked with on the project. I guess they live on separate sides of the globe and found each other on the net. They passed sample works, digitally, back and forth and only spoke on the telephone once. And I suppose if he’s at the Oscars than it must’ve been a pretty successful collaboration. To be a business partner with a complete stranger…I guess PayPal can make people credible wherever they are.
One last thing about Open Source…as I mentioned in class…I’m seeing the benefits directly (PD fixes). Another one is Audacity, a free digital audio editor that works great. Open Source programs get allot of attention and are constantly improving themselves. Mozilla Firefox and Pure Data (PD) are other Open Source applications which I use a lot because they destroy the competition. I use Phidgets but will soon be using Arduino. Another open-source project.
ReRemix
It’s pretty long (2 songs) and not my greatest…but it is what it is.
Side note: I should try to build my own video player that would use .flv files which are used by podcasts and are far more efficient then the old (codec) system. I heard somewhere that the encoding procedures on web-video today are the same as they were in the 90’s? Meaning, that possibly, like gasoline, the industry failed to evolve for some reason? (You know the old…why would petro companies, and their governing buddies, want vehicles to find more friendly fuels…a small conflict of interest which screws over everybody.) Check out the discussion tab on this page http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeyesunday/feature_100208.html.
Nowadays we hear about disputes over bandwidth restrictions like it’s a valuable resource. Could it be in someone’s best interest to keep video transfers big and fat? I’ll find out more about this and get back to you.
The Creative Commons idea encourages people to contact the source of their borrowed media, but it’s not a requirement. Connections between artists are morphing and the possibilities are endless. I heard a director, of an animation work I think, getting interviewed at the Oscars. He said that he’s never actually met the sound guy who he worked with on the project. I guess they live on separate sides of the globe and found each other on the net. They passed sample works, digitally, back and forth and only spoke on the telephone once. And I suppose if he’s at the Oscars than it must’ve been a pretty successful collaboration. To be a business partner with a complete stranger…I guess PayPal can make people credible wherever they are.
One last thing about Open Source…as I mentioned in class…I’m seeing the benefits directly (PD fixes). Another one is Audacity, a free digital audio editor that works great. Open Source programs get allot of attention and are constantly improving themselves. Mozilla Firefox and Pure Data (PD) are other Open Source applications which I use a lot because they destroy the competition. I use Phidgets but will soon be using Arduino. Another open-source project.
Copy of comment on another students blog: (ACAD design etc.)
There is more to life than what other people think.
I hope the showing of my "golf art" project, today in interdisciplinary madt, inspired your post.
The ACAD design side is a strange phenomenon. I mean, it's great that they are one of the best around and that most of those students will find prosperous jobs. But at the same time…I don’t really care at all. Maybe I’m a little bitter about getting rejected? You see, I’ve always been at the top of things that I do so it was a tough pill to swallow. I knew that I didn’t take the mandatory “colour fundamentals” class but I thought that they would still want me. I can draw like anyone and am a bottomless pit of ideas. It was probably the written portion of the submission that did me in…(or the fact that I built my portfolio case) I must have showed too much potential for free thought and someone judged that I was not right for design. That’s cool…I’m not bitter…I know that I’m now on the right path. I used to think that my mind was too “engineer like” to become a real artist. Screw that noise…there is plenty of room for rational thinking in new media art.
There is more to life than what other people think.
I hope the showing of my "golf art" project, today in interdisciplinary madt, inspired your post.
The ACAD design side is a strange phenomenon. I mean, it's great that they are one of the best around and that most of those students will find prosperous jobs. But at the same time…I don’t really care at all. Maybe I’m a little bitter about getting rejected? You see, I’ve always been at the top of things that I do so it was a tough pill to swallow. I knew that I didn’t take the mandatory “colour fundamentals” class but I thought that they would still want me. I can draw like anyone and am a bottomless pit of ideas. It was probably the written portion of the submission that did me in…(or the fact that I built my portfolio case) I must have showed too much potential for free thought and someone judged that I was not right for design. That’s cool…I’m not bitter…I know that I’m now on the right path. I used to think that my mind was too “engineer like” to become a real artist. Screw that noise…there is plenty of room for rational thinking in new media art.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Curating Immateriality…
Yes, the issues here are pretty clear. My feelings towards these things are, I believe, rather well informed. My time as an art student has been extremely interesting. I have been determined to find out about this thing called art & am now mixed up in the civil-war within it. We are in changing times and it is painful for the old world to adjust to new ideas. I find it absurd to suggest that art can’t or shouldn’t be immaterial. What could be more immaterial then the imagination? Art has always originated from the imagination. So art has and will always have some immateriality to it. Our minds can obviously make sense of things which are not in our reality. We are not mere animals, our brains work on levels far beyond anything else here. That being said, I do realize that things like our feelings and consciousness could be constructions of nature which have formed to help us survive. (My thoughts are echoed at TED by Michael Pollan http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/214 )
Anyway, the most important thing I got from chapter 1 of Curating Immateriality by Joasia Kryss can be triggered with the statement “transformed the nature of art”. If we can accept this idea that “the nature” of art as something that will change depending on the culture and society around it, then new media will soon be considered a credible high art. I see the "nature of art" statement, even for those diehard old art types, to be impossible to deny. The museums and art galleries of the future will be very different than those of today and the past.
I don’t see the whole archiving thing to be that big of a deal. I must not understand the full story or something? Are they worried about media getting damaged or outdated? Can’t we record these works it by writing about them or using technology like video? ARS Electronica and communities of artists are still kind of archiving this history...as we are making it.
It's like the established museums don't know what to do with us. It would be a challenge to curate the immaterial but it’s far from impossible.
Yes, the issues here are pretty clear. My feelings towards these things are, I believe, rather well informed. My time as an art student has been extremely interesting. I have been determined to find out about this thing called art & am now mixed up in the civil-war within it. We are in changing times and it is painful for the old world to adjust to new ideas. I find it absurd to suggest that art can’t or shouldn’t be immaterial. What could be more immaterial then the imagination? Art has always originated from the imagination. So art has and will always have some immateriality to it. Our minds can obviously make sense of things which are not in our reality. We are not mere animals, our brains work on levels far beyond anything else here. That being said, I do realize that things like our feelings and consciousness could be constructions of nature which have formed to help us survive. (My thoughts are echoed at TED by Michael Pollan http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/214 )
Anyway, the most important thing I got from chapter 1 of Curating Immateriality by Joasia Kryss can be triggered with the statement “transformed the nature of art”. If we can accept this idea that “the nature” of art as something that will change depending on the culture and society around it, then new media will soon be considered a credible high art. I see the "nature of art" statement, even for those diehard old art types, to be impossible to deny. The museums and art galleries of the future will be very different than those of today and the past.
I don’t see the whole archiving thing to be that big of a deal. I must not understand the full story or something? Are they worried about media getting damaged or outdated? Can’t we record these works it by writing about them or using technology like video? ARS Electronica and communities of artists are still kind of archiving this history...as we are making it.
It's like the established museums don't know what to do with us. It would be a challenge to curate the immaterial but it’s far from impossible.
Career Goals…Agent, Critic, Artist, Educator, Social Business Entrepreneur?
I would love to have a job which allowed me to travel and have lots of free time. I was once a slave to the system and I won’t let that happen again. For the first time, maybe ever, I know what direction to go. I see my life as being full of opportunity and the future is open for me to create. Above all, I stand for making our world a better place. This can be done on a number of levels and in so many different ways. I am awake, I have a voice, and I can contribute to the solution. In some cases the issues that we challenge may extend beyond our lifetimes. We should each be able to sacrifice a little now to help insure a prosperous future.
So where does someone like me fit into the working world? I don’t know of an official term for what I want to be but “agent” might be close. Some of my activities may include connecting things…people, ideas, artists, communities, actions. Or even standing up to things that I know are wrong or unjust. In a way, an agent could be seen as a soldier, fighting for their beliefs and values. We are truly in a war, one like never before, it is taking place in our collective thoughts, and we must make our move while there is still time. Revolution! Sometimes I wonder about my role...can I really make a difference?
I have also thought about being a critic. A critic could be very closely tied to an agent in a number of respects. Both would include speaking your mind, investigating things, sharing your ideas, and all with the intention to help others. A critic of art, new media art, products, services, technology and just about anything you can think of. I’m not really sure how I would get to this goal? Do I just start my own website with many daily activities and updates which would have a healthy following of viewers, readers, and contributors?
As a full time new media artist I would have to participate with galleries and really try to get myself known and out there. This path might have to start off as a part-time hobby but if positive things started to happen than this would be an extremely rewarding direction. I have also thought about making video documentaries, I would get to travel, create art, and fill my responsibilities as an agent.
ADD ON: March 18 2008
I’ve thought about teaching before but the situation would have to be right. (I remember what school kids can be like from the age of 12-18…have I got some stories) Anyway, the existing primary school system could be vastly improved. I would love to express ideas about this very soon. The topic can get into a sticky mess in a hurry. What to do with the youth? Should they be encouraged to follow their own ways? I mean, looking from the perspective that different individuals have different gifts. I would strongly consider being an instructor…if it is where I’d do the most good?
The next day I watched this video http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/233
Dave Eggers: 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School. It's 25 minutes well spent.
As noted in the ”Creating a Poverty-Free World” post… “Social Business Entrepreneurs are the answer”. So where so I sign up? I need to find out more about this kind of stuff!?
In the distant future…our GWS (Global World System) will have room for everybody. No more poverty! Give everyone a get a chance to live! Our collective consciousness is waking and soon we will make a difference. For now I will just spread the ideas around.
I plan to do more research in these areas and will update the blog as things develop.
I would love to have a job which allowed me to travel and have lots of free time. I was once a slave to the system and I won’t let that happen again. For the first time, maybe ever, I know what direction to go. I see my life as being full of opportunity and the future is open for me to create. Above all, I stand for making our world a better place. This can be done on a number of levels and in so many different ways. I am awake, I have a voice, and I can contribute to the solution. In some cases the issues that we challenge may extend beyond our lifetimes. We should each be able to sacrifice a little now to help insure a prosperous future.
So where does someone like me fit into the working world? I don’t know of an official term for what I want to be but “agent” might be close. Some of my activities may include connecting things…people, ideas, artists, communities, actions. Or even standing up to things that I know are wrong or unjust. In a way, an agent could be seen as a soldier, fighting for their beliefs and values. We are truly in a war, one like never before, it is taking place in our collective thoughts, and we must make our move while there is still time. Revolution! Sometimes I wonder about my role...can I really make a difference?
I have also thought about being a critic. A critic could be very closely tied to an agent in a number of respects. Both would include speaking your mind, investigating things, sharing your ideas, and all with the intention to help others. A critic of art, new media art, products, services, technology and just about anything you can think of. I’m not really sure how I would get to this goal? Do I just start my own website with many daily activities and updates which would have a healthy following of viewers, readers, and contributors?
As a full time new media artist I would have to participate with galleries and really try to get myself known and out there. This path might have to start off as a part-time hobby but if positive things started to happen than this would be an extremely rewarding direction. I have also thought about making video documentaries, I would get to travel, create art, and fill my responsibilities as an agent.
ADD ON: March 18 2008
I’ve thought about teaching before but the situation would have to be right. (I remember what school kids can be like from the age of 12-18…have I got some stories) Anyway, the existing primary school system could be vastly improved. I would love to express ideas about this very soon. The topic can get into a sticky mess in a hurry. What to do with the youth? Should they be encouraged to follow their own ways? I mean, looking from the perspective that different individuals have different gifts. I would strongly consider being an instructor…if it is where I’d do the most good?
The next day I watched this video http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/233
Dave Eggers: 2008 TED Prize wish: Once Upon a School. It's 25 minutes well spent.
As noted in the ”Creating a Poverty-Free World” post… “Social Business Entrepreneurs are the answer”. So where so I sign up? I need to find out more about this kind of stuff!?
In the distant future…our GWS (Global World System) will have room for everybody. No more poverty! Give everyone a get a chance to live! Our collective consciousness is waking and soon we will make a difference. For now I will just spread the ideas around.
I plan to do more research in these areas and will update the blog as things develop.
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