Videos
Ignite 5-Minute Talks
Ignite is a global network of events where people give five-minute talks within a rigid format: they must present twenty slides and each slide must automatically change to the next after fifteen seconds. Speakers can talk about any topic except their own business interests. Previous talks have included technology, travel, personal hobbies and passions and [...]
Night of the Ad Eaters
The Night of the Ad Eaters is an international travelling show that screens five and a half hours of adverts from around the world, including Russia, Asia, Africa, and South America, Mongolia, Iraq and the Guarani region of India in “an enthusiastic fairground cum rock concert atmosphere”. The tour happens annually and visits 40 countries. [...]
TED Talks: Long News
Ex-ad guy Kirk Citron’s “Long News” project aims to collate the news stories that will still matter centuries from today. He outlines the project in this TED Talk. Watch the video:
The Perfection of Pollen
Jonathan Drori, the first Head of Commissioning for BBC Online, has taken to waxing lyrical about the wonders of pollen. Watch the video or read the transcript to find out “why it’s not just something that gets up your nose”:
Disaster Communication Dog
Messenger Dog is a communication system that allows people caught up in disasters, such as earthquakes. to communicate with their loved ones to tell them they are OK. Messenger dogs wearing special high tech vests are equipped to record geo-tagged audio/video messages. The recording device is triggered by the dog sitting down; the dogs are [...]
How to Build a Marshmallow Tower
On the marvellous TED Talks Tom Wujec reveals how a team-building problem involving dry spaghetti, a marshmallow and one yard of tape reveals that toddlers are more creative and collaborative (and successful at solving the problem of building a tall tower with the marshmallow at the top) than MBA students. Fortunately for us, architects and [...]
FORA.tv
FORA.tv “helps intelligent, engaged audiences get smart”. It features videos from conferences, debates and university lectures around the world. It’s been compared with TED, but Fast Company have produced a handy comparison table so you can find out whether you are a TED or a FORA.
How To Write a Letter to Your MP
In this TED Talks video, Omar Ahmad, vice-mayor of the City of San Carlos (and ex-Discovery Channel online exec) explains why, if you need something doing, you should write your MP a handwritten letter once a month. For those of you who have forgotten how to write in more than 140 characters he also provides [...]
5 Second Films
A little bit of nonsense to get you over the middle of the week: 5 Second Films, are exactly what they sound like. Some funny, some not so funny, but all tell a little story, which is pretty impressive. Overall, it’s not a bad way to waste a couple of minutes with a nice cup [...]
Project Rant
Luis Caffesse and Cliff Wildman of PitchProductions have created Project: Rant which uses actors dramatize rants from the Rants and Raves section on Craigslist (from the approx. 30,000 published every week). If getting writing in to Craigslist makes you feel a little scuzzy, you can submit your rants directly to Project: Rant for their consideration. [...]
