One of the designs that will be featured is the much-discussed “Life Straw” and other products that were featured at Pop!Tech 2006.
The exhibit will focus on water, shelter, health and sanitation, education, energy and transportation.
While at the museum, you can also check out the Design Triennial where the design for the Ipuli Medical Center is featured. (See previous Pop!Tech blog entry here)
The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 East 91st Street
New York , NY 10128
Linda calls attention to the fact that it is becoming increasingly harder to score tickets to the conference and, rest assured, Pop!Tech will continue to make the content as widely available as possible to keep the conversation open to everyone. Our favorite quote from the Fast Company blog post:
“Can PopTech! scalpers be far behind?”
Imagining seedy scalpers prowling the charming streets of Camden whispering “you need two tickets?…I got two tickets…” — it tickles me.
It’s been about over a week since we have made our very first batch of Pop!Tech Pop!Casts available online and we’ve had some great movement since then.
We are featured on the homepage of iTunes, we’ve been linked around the web (Thanks to everyone who have been moved to write about the release of the Pop!Casts). All in all - not a bad start. And that was only with our first 22 podcasts.
We have two more to share with you today:
Brian Eno - Musician, producer and artist Brian Eno shows how simple things can give rise to complex things—in art and life. See how he uses Darwin’s ecological model of the world as a roadmap for human culture now and in the future.
(I still admire him for his lovely purple velvet jacket)
Rodrigo y Gabriela - The Mexican acoustic guitar duo sensation Rodrigo y Gabriela put fast fingers to strings for a performance that will put you on your feet and keep you moving. There’s no better way to say it: they rock!
(They inspired me to pick up my guitar again, but I quickly realized that my playing compared to theirs is like those of a monkey with socks on its hands)
There are also some new features on the Pop!Casts page to make it easier to share these amazing talks and performances with your friends. Now you can send an email, share a permalink or embed the Yahoo! Video player on your website or blog.
Pop!Tech “Artifact” Project Nominated for Best of Design in New England.
Last year at the 2006 Pop!Tech, we defied time, conventions and perhaps logical thinking to produce The Artifact.
The Artifact was a full-length book documenting the three-day Pop!Tech 2006 conference. The theme, Dangerous Ideas, inspired our objective: capture the essence of the experience. Immediately. And do that on-site, in collaboration with graphic designers and a Pop!Tech guru, and, oh yeah, print and ship the book on a deadline that tailed the close of the conference by a day or two. Could we do it? Crazy, but why not put our talent to the test, work around the clock and deploy some state-of-the-art technology. Why not?
Throughout the conference, an army of contributors (drawn from the 500-plus truly creative and insightful Pop!Tech participants) invigorated us to pull 304 pages together in real time. Participants fed us a constant stream of raw content in the form of wiki comments, blogs, digital photos, scanned notes and tablet PC sketches. Professional photographs and illustrations added an extra wow factor. At last, the complete book was pointed toward the digital printer, an HP Indigo Press 5000 with the variable printing technology to make each copy unique. Then voila! Let’s get this baby shipped to our Pop!Tech attendees—if they take the scenic route home, the book will be there when they arrive.
That’s 600 one-of-a-kind books with content created almost neck-in-neck with the experience. Got a couple more days? Edit. Print. Ship. And make dust of a dangerous deadline. (from AHA’s website).
Well, all that hard work and dangerous thinking did not go unnoticed. Pop!Tech’s Artifact has been nominated for the BoNESHOW7, AIGA’s Best of New England design competition.
The Artifact, along with the other nominated projects will be showcased at a gallery opening on June 7 2007 at MassArts’ Bakalar Gallery in Boston.
Here is a look at the book that made its way to YouTube (thanks to Aaron from Designverb for posting it!)
Finger’s Crossed! and Congrats to everyone that worked on this project!
Last month, at the Design Indaba conference in Cape Town, South Africa, there seemed to be a veritable Pop!Tech reunion. Brian Eno was one of the speakers at the design conference and had personally invited Reggie Watts to perform at the closing of the conference.
Watch Reggie try his hand at some traditional African dancing and some “not-so-traditional” moves.
Reggie recently sent over a video clip of his gallivanting about town with Eno (who is holding up a video camera and in yet another sharp suit) and in the background you can see Alex Steffen and Cameron Sinclair, other Pop!Tech alums.
AND don’t for get to check out the recording, ANTIBABEL, that Reggie Watts and Yungchen Lhamo made exclusively for Pop!Tech and to promote sustainability in rural Tibet via the Machik organization. You can purchase the CD HERE.
People have staged concerts, speeches and rallies on Second Life but this was the first time that a group staged a cataclysmic flood. That’s exactly what Adventure Ecology, founded by Pop!Techer David de Rothschild, did to remind of the real world outside of their computers and the real climate crisis that we face.
Creating the flood that covered cities like London, The Netherlands, and Ibiza is much more than a geeky hack. Because locations in Second Life are owned and created by hundreds of individuals, Adventure Ecology had to get property owners to agree to create the flood at a specified date and time.
Read the National Geographic account for the full story. Apparently avatars were calm, some pub going avatars just climbed into boats and continued on with their pints while the conversation shifted to global warming.
“People have a lot to learn about ecology—but first you have to get their attention” said David. This surely grabbed our attention.
Here is a YouTube video showing the flood in Second Life.
Also, if you are in New York City this Saturday (April 14th), don’t miss the Sea of People rally. Thousands of people will dress in blue and make a line around lower Manhattan defining the projected coastline of the City under a 10 foot sea level rise scenario. It will look amazing and sobering.
via:: Treehugger
A live performance by Jason is featured in a video installation called The Shape, The Scent, The Feel of Things by seminal video and performance artist Joan Jonas. This piece is based on Joan Jonas’ recent site specific work, presented as a performance at Dia:Beacon (New York) in October 2005, and repeated in October 2006. Also included in the exhibition is a new My New Theater project, part of an ongoing series of video objects. The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things is a response to German art historian Aby Warburg’s essay about his visit to the American Southwest at the end of the nineteenth century. This five channel video installation continues the artist’s investigation of the performing body and its interaction with media and space, transformed through drawings, photography, video projections, sound, music, movement and found objects. For the pieces, Moran composed new music for this collaborative work. The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things is presented at the Yvon-Lambert Gallery from April 26-March 29.
Jason also lent his skills to the short film STUTTER. He scored, along with The Bandwagon, Janice Ahn’s short film, which will screen at NYU’s First Run Film Festival April 13 - 3:30 April 14 - 9:30 The Cantor Film Center 36 E. 8th Street NY and also being screened on April 20th at SAY SO.
Mark your calendar and set your Tivo to watch Chef Homaro Cantu on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, at 3:00 p.m. CST this coming Tuesday, April 10. This will be an incredible pairing of one of the world’s most creative chefs and one of Hollywood’s most creative comic personalities.
(and that’s a picture of Chef Cantu when cooking with Class V Lasers were but a sparkle in his eye. It was too tempting to post that picture from his website - it had to be done.)
Everyone here at Pop!Tech is excited to let you know that today we released our first twenty-two Pop!Casts, freely available online video and audio presentations available in both streaming and downloadable formats, on our newly refreshed website.
Available at www.poptech.org/popcasts, the Pop!Casts feature some of the very best presentations from the 2006, 2005 (and eventually 2004) conferences, and we’ll be releasing new ones ever two weeks throughout the rest of the year.
The first set includes fabulous recent presentations by:
Thomas Friedman — Pulitzer Prize winning author and New York Times Columnist. Serena Koenig — Global health leader and Director of Haiti Programs for Partners in Health Richard Dawkins — World renowned biologist and evolutionary theorist Zinhle Thabethe — Renowned AIDS activist from South Africa Sinikithemba Choir Performance — South African Choir of Zulu men and women who provide support to persons with HIV/AIDS Bunker Roy — Founder of the Barefoot College in Tilonia, India Carolyn Porco — Chief Imaging Scientist on the Cassini Mission to Saturn Erin McKean —Editor-in-chief of U.S. Dictionaries for Oxford University Press and self-proclaimed “word geek” Juan Enriquez — Leading futurist and bestselling writer on the future of nations Neil Gershenfeld — Director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms Jonathan Coulton — Singer/Songwriter and the official Pop!Tech Balladeer Thomas Barnett — Strategist and expert on national security and best-selling author Jesse Sullivan and Todd Kuiken —Jesse Sullivan and his doctor, Todd Kuiken, work together to make Jesse the world’s first bionic man Martin Marty — One of the most prominent interpreters of religion and culture Chris Anderson — Editor in Chief of Wired magazine and author of “The Long Tail” Theo Jansen — Dutch “kinetic sculptor” who creates wind-powered robotic “animals” Marcia McNutt — Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute director Reggie Watts - Human Beat-Box Polymath Musician and Comedian Marianne Weems — Artistic director of the new media theater ensemble The Builders Association Homaro Cantu —Inventor, entrepreneur and molecular gastronomist Lester Brown — Preeminent environmentalist and head of the Earth Policy Institute Kent Nichols — Co-Creator of the wildly popular website and podcast AskaNinja.com
The Pop!Casts are being made available to the public with the help of our friends at Lexus with production support from Yahoo! To encourage their distribution, we’re releasing all of these as open-source, non-commercial Creative Commons licensed content.
You can also subscribe to Pop!Casts within iTunes. With one click you can get them delivered to your iPod automatically!
VERY SPECIAL THANKS to Jakob Trollback for designing the Pop!Cast opening titles, Betsy Henning and AHA! for their beautiful written descriptions, Hamilton Hughes Design for their as-always elegant design work and visual refresh of our website.
Tell your friends, neighbors, colleagues — these are truly worth sharing with anyone who appreciates the innovative ideas and people that change the world.
Mathematics, finance and foresight guru, and Pop!Tech 2005 speaker Nassim Nicholas Taleb is interviewed in this month’s Wired Magazine by James Surowiecki on the limits, biases and flaws in humanity’s ability to see the future. Nicholas’ latest book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (a follow-up to his also terrific 2005 cult hit, Fooled by Randomness) will be released on April 17th. Nicholas has an incredibly wide-reaching conceptual palette, and his insights are applicable to every human domain, from industry to homeland security, where human beings try to see what’s next. The Black Swan should be considered a 2007 must-read.
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