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Here are a couple of excellent inspiring video resources for you – even if you use them to procrastinate, you’ll be improving your mind.
The first is a video series called Encounter: USA Fellows. These short-short films feature artists who have won the United States Artists (USA) grant. (The non-profit awards 50 artists each $50,000 annually.)
These videos are beautifully shot and produced, and the artists themselves are fascinating.
I think in particular you’ll enjoy the video about Tanya Aguiniga, who creates furniture from things that would be otherwise cast off. And textile designer and dancer Nick Cave‘s Sound Suits are really interesting. (That’s him above.)
It’s also well worth a visit to the USA website, where you can browse profiles of all the 2007 USA Fellows and also the 2006 Fellows. Lots of inspiring things going on there – like this work by jewelry artist Arline Fisch.
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And then, there’s TED. That’s an acronym for “Technology Entertainment Design,” and it’s also an annual conference that brings together fascinating thinkers, makers, and doers.
The TED website is an archive of over 200 video shorts. These are films of talks and performances people have given at TED, ranging across subjects like design, ecology, the arts, culture, tech, and others.
I’ve been getting way into these TED videos of late. They’re challenging, inspiring, and thought-provoking. Just the section of videos on creativity is enough to keep you going for days.
So . . . we’re breathing rarified air today, my friends. Enjoy!
Your neato referrals make my head spin! I have them all bookmarked and will visit them one by one, and not do any work at all and then go home and fall to the ground and watch project runway while I think about suits of sound and found-things furniture and the absolutely mind-blowing things that can be crafted if only i weren’t lying on the ground!!
Then I’ll get up and put stuff together while my muse giggles.
Life Is Good !!!
Your neato referrals make my head spin! I have them all bookmarked and will visit them one by one, and not do any work at all and then go home and fall to the ground and watch project runway while I think about suits of sound and found-things furniture and the absolutely mind-blowing things that can be crafted if only i weren’t lying on the ground!!
Then I’ll get up and put stuff together while my muse giggles.
Life Is Good !!!
What I love about the internet is the fact that sites like TED can exist, even though they are basically a rich petrie dish full of growth media for clinical addiction, not unlike what I’ve heard is consistent with crack or heroin addiction. And they can’t be arrested! There is nothing illegal about TED! I can be completely helpless to its magnetism, and no one can stop it!!!
That’s what I love about the internet.
What I love about the internet is the fact that sites like TED can exist, even though they are basically a rich petrie dish full of growth media for clinical addiction, not unlike what I’ve heard is consistent with crack or heroin addiction. And they can’t be arrested! There is nothing illegal about TED! I can be completely helpless to its magnetism, and no one can stop it!!!
That’s what I love about the internet.
Donuts = Carbo Crack
Crafty Pod Internet Links = Crafty Crack
Nick Cave = Delicious Addictive Overdose of Pure Creativity Crack
I am currently downloading all of your PodCasts from iTunes so that I can listen to them while I work. And I’m psyched to see the Nick Cave video – I chanced upon an exhibit of a bunch of his sound suits when I was in Chicago a few years ago – OMG!! I sat on the floor of the exhibit hall for hours, entranced, until they closed and had to kick me out . . .
Donuts = Carbo Crack
Crafty Pod Internet Links = Crafty Crack
Nick Cave = Delicious Addictive Overdose of Pure Creativity Crack
I am currently downloading all of your PodCasts from iTunes so that I can listen to them while I work. And I’m psyched to see the Nick Cave video – I chanced upon an exhibit of a bunch of his sound suits when I was in Chicago a few years ago – OMG!! I sat on the floor of the exhibit hall for hours, entranced, until they closed and had to kick me out . . .