Diane Ragsdale on Surviving the Culture Change

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Video of Diane Ragsdale's keynote at the Arts Alliance Illinois 2010 Members' Meeting and Reception on June 21 at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, Illinois. For more information, visit artsalliance.org/reception.

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Diane Ragsdale’s Keynote at the Arts Alliance Illinois 2010. In 40 minutes Ragsdale delivers an accurate state of the performing arts, provides six well-informed, achievable steps to embrace cultural, technological and sociological change and encourages a forward-thinking vision of art-making. Another presentation that accurately explains my philosophy of art and how it should be supported and marketed.

 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

Pixar's Randy Nelson on collaboration

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via makinads.blogspot.com

Fantastic. In 9 minutes he adresses collaboration vs. cooperation, how one must be able to translate ideas and most importantly be interested.

 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

The Method Behind Chef Wylie Dufresne's Molecular Gastronomy Madness

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via bigthink.com

“…one of the things that we like to do, one of the formats that we play with a lot and I think successfully is, we will take something very familiar and serve it in an unfamiliar way, but then we will take things unfamiliar and serve them in familiar ways…”

Most of his philosophies about food apply to any kind of creative work. His reconstructed eggs benedict are mind boggling, and delicious.

 

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

John Cleese shares the wisdom of his creative process

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This is a great find and I’m glad 37 Signals posted it. It is always good to hear how great talent works. This presentation also made me realize the reason I have made my apartment into a kind of creative sanctuary is because that is my way of creating boundaries of space and time. Without realizing it I’ve created a working and living environment where I can welcome creative thinking and have complete control of interruptions.

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.

A Storytelling & Transmedia Master Class In 10 Short Videos

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Professor Henry Jenkins, coiner of the term transmedia, continues to make his teaching resources available online. 

Here are ten short videos, thoughts about the present and future of storytelling with:

Ian Condry, MIT Cambridge
Joshua Green, UCSB Santa Barbara 
Dean Jansen, Participatory Culture Foundation New York
Henry Jenkins, USC Los Angeles
Joe Lambert, Center for Digital Storytelling Berkeley
Nick Montfort, MIT Cambridge
Clay Shirky, New York University

Part 1: Changes in storytelling

 

Part 2: Storytelling and video



Part 3: Transmedia



Part 4: Potential of Social Media



Part 5: Collective storytelling



Part 6: Media revolution



Part 7: Risks of Social Media



Part 8: Motivation to participate



Part 9: Games



Part 10: Final Thoughts

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Antonio Ortiz

Antonio Ortiz has always been an autodidact with an eclectic array of interests. Fascinated with technology, advertising and culture he has forged a career that combines them all. In 1991 Antonio developed one of the very first websites to market the arts. It was text based, only available to computer scientists, and increased attendance to the Rutgers Arts Center where he had truly begun his professional career. Since then Antonio has been an early adopter and innovator merging technology and marketing with his passion for art, culture and entertainment. For a more in-depth look at those passions, visit SmarterCreativity.com.