Visible Works A Multiplatform Perspective
Is Kony 2012 A Game Changer?
Everybody is talking about the documentary and when I say everybody, I mean at very least the 25million people who watched the documentary – yesterday! So far over 60 million people have watched the film on Youtube. For those of you who don’t know, Joseph Kony isn’t a pop star, but rather the leader of [...]
Granito: How To Nail A Dictator
Can a film tip the scales of justice in Guatemala? That is the question posed by Pamela Yates’ latest film, ‘Granito: How To Nail A Dictator’. The film is the sequel to her first film, ‘When The Mountains Tremble’(1984), which documents the genocide of over 200,000 Guatemalans by Government forces during a ferocious crackdown on [...]
World Press Photo 2012
One of the must see exhibits of the year is the World Press Photos and the winners of 2012 have recently been announced. Samuel Aranda was awarded World Press Photo of the year 2012 with this striking image. His photo was selected from 101,254 images submitted by 5,247 photographers from 124 countries, so winning [...]
Banksy: Art Or Vandalism
Banksy is arguably Britain’s hottest contemporary artist right now and quite possibly the world’s. For nearly a decade he has been creating a buzz with his distinctive style of street art – confronting, thought provoking, amusing and usually laced with irony. On a trip to London I visited the Royal Mail building on Newman Street [...]
A Winning Formula For Transmedia Activism
Lina Srivasta is an early adopter of transmedia storytelling. Even before the term ‘transmedia’ was coined, Lina used multiple platforms to generate awareness for the Kids with Cameras campaign in Calcutta, India. The initiative was made famous by the Academy Award winning documentary, ‘Born Into Brothels‘ and the resulting transmedia campaign generated substantial sales from the [...]
Using Tech To Enable Dreaming
Khoya is an interactive fantasy adventure storybook application made for the ipad. The app was developed by Shilo Shiv Suleman, Shilo Shiv Suleman is an Indian illustrator, animator and visual artist based in the city of Bangalore. Her story book app uses digital technology to create a magical world that encourage readers to interact with the [...]
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Ted Talks
- TED: Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain - Carl Schoonover (2012)There have been remarkable advances in understanding the brain, but how do you actually study the neurons inside it? Using gorgeous imagery, neuroscientist and TED Fellow Carl Schoonover shows the tools that let us see inside our brains. […]
- TED: David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence - David Kelley (2012)Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create... (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee P […]
- TED: Jean-Baptiste Michel: The mathematics of history - Jean-Baptiste Michel (2012)What can mathematics say about history? According to TED Fellow Jean-Baptiste Michel, quite a lot. From changes to language to the deadliness of wars, he shows how digitized history is just starting to reveal deep underlying patterns. […]