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Listen to Ed Catmull’s “Pixar’s Collective Genius” talk, for Harvard Business Review
Pixar cofounder Ed Catmull exemplifies the greatest form of leadership: empowering others to achieve the extraordinary. People tend to think of creativity as a mysterious solo act, and they typically reduce products to a single idea: This is a movie about toys, or dinosaurs, or love, they’ll say. However, in filmmaking and many other kinds of complex product development, creativity involves a large number of people from different disciplines working effectively together to solve a great many problems. Ed Catmul is an unpretentious man. He doesn't like to talk about how he performs his job as president of Pixar and (since a 2006 merger) Disney Animation Studios. But the article and accompanying podcast shed light on his exceptional leadership qualities [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation Also tagged animation, collaboration, Computer, Creative Process, Creativity, design, Development, Disney, Editor, Edwin Catmull, entertainment, Film And TV, filmmaking technology, founder, Harvard, Harvard Business Review, leadership, media, Pixar, Podcast, President, project management, Scientist, work Leave a comment
Autodesk helps Smoke & Mirrors New York bring The Beatles’ Abbey Road album cover to life
The visual effects team for Smoke & Mirrors New York (SMNY) recreated the classic Beatles Abbey Road album cover and then brought that moment to life for 30-second and 60-second spots promoting the MTV videogame The Beatles: Rock Band.
Posted in design, information technology, innovation, software Also tagged animation, Animation software, Autodesk, Autodesk Media and Entertainment, design, entertainment, Game, information technology, MTV, New York, Softimage, United Kingdom Leave a comment
Autodesk Ships SketchBook Mobile App for iPhone, iPod Touch
Autodesk announced that Autodesk SketchBook Mobile, a new professional-grade paint and drawing app that offers a full set of sketching tools in a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod touch, is available on Apple's App Store [...]
Posted in design, innovation, software Also tagged App Store, Apple, Autodesk, Autodesk SketchBook Pro, design, design software, desktop software, gestural devices, gestural interfaces, Graphic Design, Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Interaction Design, iPhone, IPhone OS, iPod, iTunes, Manufacturing Industry, mobile devices, Mobile Phones, multi-touch, professional-grade paint, Robert "Buzz" Kross, Sketches, sketching, software, software interfaces, Susan Murtaugh 1 Comment
Watch Golan Levin making art that looks back at you at TED
Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at the curious viewer [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation, software Also tagged carnegie mellon university, cognitive research, Cognitive researcher, Cognitive Science, computer technology, education, Golan Levin, high tech, Interactive Installation, Museum, performance artist, Pittsburg Museum of Art, software engineering, software programs, TED conference, Time-Based Leave a comment
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-07-19
And Yes: my feet hurt! # Paris Walking Tour: covered the L’Arc de Triomphe, Effiel Tower, Louvre, Notre Dame, D’Orsay, Pompidou in two days… nearly over 50 kms … # http://twitpic.com/ax98y – Paris Walking Tour: It’s past 10:00PM and sky still looks gorgeous as a backdrop to the Effiel Tower # http://twitpic.com/awfvx – Paris Walking Tour: crowd at [...]
Posted in twitter Also tagged Allie Shi, Amsterdam, animation, Arc de Triomphe, Asia Pacific, basketball, Brazil, Centre Georges Pompidou, Champs-Élysées, Charles de Gaulle, Claude Levi-Strauss, Daniel Szuc, Effiel Tower, Eglise de La Madeleine, Eiffel Tower, Elaine Chow, elementary school, Élysée Palace, energy, France, Georges Pompidou, google, Guangzhou, Kunming, Louvre, Louvre Pyramid, M.I.T, Michael Jackson, National Basketball Association, NBA, Paris, Pont Neuf, search engine, Shanghai, Song Dong, Stephen Chow, Technology Review, United Kingdom, United States, User experience design, Yunnan Leave a comment
Watch Bill Gates’ “A New Kind of Philanthropy” talk at TED
Bill Gates hopes to solve some of the world's biggest problems using a new kind of philanthropy. In a passionate and, yes, funny 18 minutes, he asks us to consider two big questions and how we might answer them [...]
Posted in economics, trends Also tagged AIDS, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, disaster, education, founder, healthcare, HIV, HIV/AIDS, internet, leadership, microsoft, Personal Computing, TED conference 1 Comment
Watch Golan Levin’s “The software (as) art” talk at TED
Engineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two programs he wrote to perform his original compositions [...]
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Watch Bruce McCall’s “faux nostalgia” talk at TED