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Thomas Kinkade - A Lifetime of Light
A Lifetime of Light - Online Exhibition
Experience this complete presentation of Thomas Kinkade's prolific 30 year career as America's Most Collected Artist. From his published works, we have prepared nearly 500 images; just click on an image to advance chronologically or use the links below to skip to a particular year.
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An American Artist - The Thomas Kinkade Life Story (video)
From his boyhood home in rural Placerville to becoming the renowned Painter of Light, Thomas Kinkade walked a focused path. An American Artist reveals the experiences and inspirations that influenced the artist...From the memories of family, teachers, mentors, and friends, here is the life of the man behind the art. Play An American Artist (57 min. video)
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Be an artist, right now!
TEDxSeoul · 16:57 · Filmed Jul 2010
Why do we ever stop playing and creating? With charm and humor, celebrated Korean author Young-ha Kim invokes the world's greatest artists to urge you to unleash your inner child — the artist who wanted to play forever. (Filmed at TEDxSeoul.)
Success, Failure and the Drive to Keep Creating
Elizabeth Gilbert was once an "unpublished diner waitress," devastated by rejection letters. And yet, in the wake of the success of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' she found herself identifying strongly with her former self. With beautiful insight, Gilbert reflects on why success can be as disorienting as failure and offers a simple — though hard — way to carry on, regardless of outcomes.
This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.
Theft vs Creative Inspiration
Rick Sammon joins me for a discussion about drawing the line between stealing and being inspired by someone's work.
Impact The Perception
“Architectural illustrators must realize how their input can impact the perception of a project for good or ill, and the results of their aesthetics and integrity can have considerable influence.”
F*ck You. Pay Me.
Our speaker at the March 2011 San Francisco, CreativeMornings (creativemornings.com) was Mike Monteiro, Design Director, and co-founder of Mule Design Studio (muledesign.com). This event took place on March 25, 2011 and was sponsored by Happy Cog and Typekit (who also hosted the event at their office in the Mission).
Mike's book "Design is a Job" is available from A Book Apart (abookapart.com/products/design-is-a-job)
A big giant thank you to Chris Whitmore (whitmoreprod.com) for offering to shoot and edit the video. Photos were graciously provided by Rawle Anders (twitter.com/rawle42).
The San Francisco chapter of Creative Mornings is run by Greg Storey (twitter.com/brilliantcrank).
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The key to success? Grit
In her late 20s, Angela Lee Duckworth left a demanding job as a management consultant at McKinsey to teach math in public schools in San Francisco, Philadelphia and New York.
After five years of teaching seventh graders, she went back to grad school to complete her Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now an assistant professor in the psychology department. Her research subjects include students, West Point cadets, and corporate salespeople, all of whom she studies to determine how "grit" is a better indicator of success than factors such as IQ or family income.
A Plea to Photographers
It's long been said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Other sources say put the worth at ten thousand.
A character in Ivan S.Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons said: ""The drawing shows me at one glance what might be spread over ten pages in a book.""
(Unfortunately we're not sure whether the character is referring to 10 pages in a university post graduate textbook or "Green Eggs and Ham" so it's hard to map on the ""picture worth x"" continuum) No matter; it's clear to everyone that pictures are worth a lot of words...more so as GenX, GenY and Millenials are eclipsed by ""GenA.D.D.""
But what about words AND pictures? Might the worth be exponentially greater? Alan Shapiro believes their value together goes far beyond either individually and will share his point of view on why photographers should seriously consider evolving their written storytelling ability especially now as social media experiences like Google+ are more important than ever.
Bio:
Alan Shapiro has been a creative storyteller his entire life. He took up photography a few years back to relieve the stress of his day job as an advertising Chief Creative Officer and to give himself a bit of a daily ""creative exercise regimen"". It took off beyond his wildest dreams and he is now published, shooting assignments for clients (including Scholastic, Lockheed Martin and General Motors) and his work is in galleries and private collections. He is currently the 4th most followed photographer in the world (with huge thanks to Google+) with 2 careers that he loves (both of which involve his passion for storytelling).
Website:
AlanShapiroPhotography.com
The World Needs All Kinds Of Minds
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How To Find And Do Work You Love
Scott Dinsmore's mission is to change the world by helping people find what excites them and build a career around the work only they are capable of doing. He is a career change strategist whose demoralizing experience at a Fortune 500 job launched his quest to understand why 80% of adults hate the work they do, and more importantly, to identify what the other 20% were doing differently. His research led to experiences with thousands of employees and entrepreneurs from 158 countries. Scott distilled the results down to his Passionate Work Framework - three surprisingly simple practices for finding and doing work you love, that all happen to be completely within our control. He makes his career tools available free to the public through his community athttp://LiveYourLegend.net
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The First 20 Hours - How to Learn Anything: Josh Kaufman at TEDxCSU
Josh Kaufman is the author of the #1 international bestseller, 'The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business', as well as the upcoming book 'The First 20 Hours: Mastering the Toughest Part of Learning Anything.' Josh specializes in teaching people from all walks of life how to master practical knowledge and skills. In his talk, he shares how having his first child inspired him to approach learning in a whole new way.
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Creative Problem Solving
Do you approach every situation with an attitude that allows for open-minded, creative problem solving? How often when presented with an idea do you just say, “no, that’s impossible.” or “been there, done that—it’s not going to work”?
When we attempt to solve a problem in this state of mind we are closing the door to creativity. However, there are two words that can instantly reopen that door and trigger a creative dialogue that’s bound to achieve results.
To find out what two words can change your life and how to successfully apply them to your personal and artistic life, check out this video...
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Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
Published on May 10, 2013
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility.
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Making of Audi Perfect Shadow
Making of Perfect Shadow directed by Fuse
Music : Roadgame by Kavinsky
Done in Maya.
Rendered with Vray and mental ray (just for dust particles and some volumetric lighting).
Compositing in nuke.
Editing and final compositing in after effects ( flares, light dust, camera aberrations).
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The Success Indicator
- Have a sense of gratitude
- Forgive others
- Accept responsibility for their failures
- Compliment
- Read everyday
- Keep a journal
- Talk about ideas
- Want others to succeed
- Share information and data
- Keep a "to-be" list
- Exude joy
- Keep a "to-do/project" list
- Set goals and develop life plans
- Embrace change
- Give other people credit for their victories
- Operate from a transformational perspective
- Have a sense of entitlement
- Hold a grudge
- Blame others for their failures
- Criticize
- Watch TV everyday
- Say they keep a journal but really don't
- Talk about people
- Secretly hope others fail
- Horde information and data
- Don't know what they want to be
- Exude anger
- Fly by their seat of their pants
- Never set goals
- Think they know it all
- Fear change
- Take all the credit of their victories
- Operate from a transactional perspective
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The Most Incredible Time-Lapse Video I’ve Ever Seen
This video was shot by photographer Dustin Farrell in Arizona and Utah (yay!). He said, “Every frame of this video is a raw still from a Canon 5D2 DSLR and processed with Adobe software. In Volume 2 I again show off my beautiful home state of Arizona and I also made several trips to Utah. This video has some iconic landmarks that we have seen before. I felt that showing them again with motion controlled HDR and/or night timelapse would be a new way to see old landmarks.”
In layman’s terms… he used a camera. Not a camcorder. A DSLR camera. And he put each individual picture together on a computer to make it into a video.
I’m blown away. I’m speechless. Some things are so powerful and so beautiful that to see them will turn your soul inside out. This certainly did it for me.
Thank you Dustin.
Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
And please, share this with everybody. As a fellow and very inferior photographer, I can tell you that he deserves every view he gets. The time that must have gone into this is almost unimaginable.
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Pixar Animation Studios Open Subdivision Technology Review
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