Google Goggles: A Video Interview on Visual Search
/Google Goggles demo at Zeitgeist 2010 from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.
Use pictures to search the web.
http://www.google.com/mobile/goggles/#text
An interview with Google Rep on how this new search capability works.
Visions of the Future from Google Zeitgeist 2010
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The welcome sign is made from hundreds of Rubic's Cubes.
As the world emerges from a challenging economic environment, the organizers of this conference believe a change in perspective is needed. This belief has led to the theme for Zeitgeist 2010: Mindshift.
This year, the Zeitgeist community took a look at how shifts in thinking have rippled through all aspects of the world. Alphachimp Studio Inc. was invited to graphically capture content clustered in six themes: Opportunity, Lead, Catalyst, Innovate, Unite, Renew.
Harvard Business Review on Graphic Facilitation
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Graphic recorder Stephanie Crowley depicts the central themes of the classic 1960 HBR article by Ted Levitt.
It's official: Graphic Facilitation lives!
I know this because the Harvard Business Review (aka. Ye Olde HBR) has published an article about graphic facilitators, examples of who uses our services, and the main point... our work can help businesses.
Plywood People: Interview with MailChimp CEO, Ben Chestnut
/A man after my own heart... Ben had the gonadal circumference to name his service after a simian! We use MailChimp for our sporadic newsletters, too.
Within a year, Ben launched MailChimp, which grew alongside The Rocket Science Group.
MailChimp was a hit, and he started focusing exclusively on it in 2005. Since then, MailChimp has grown from 9,000 users to more than 400,000.
MailChimp makes it easy to design and send beautiful emails, manage your subscribers and track your campaign’s performance. It takes powerful tools like segmentation, a/b testing and ROI tracking, and turns them into something anyone can use.
Ben’s interests include brand personality, monkeys and cars. His interests do not include golf.
Videoblogging at the 15th Annual International Forum of Visual Practitioners
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via flickr.com
LIVE from the Bay Area in California, and armed with a spanking new Kodak Zi8 Pocket Video Camera, I have had a blast being both participant and videoblogger for this tribal gathering of scribes.
Check out the results on http://www.graphicfacilitation.com!
Interested in learning more about IFVP... not to mention the 2011 conference in Hawaii(!)... then visit ifvp.org.
(Thanks CoBrandit, for tips on videoblogging conferences!)
Awesome PopTech Acceleration Goodness
/Like the crazy Rube Goldberg machine in this OK GO video, PopTech is a wonderful, eclectic mash-up of disperate moving part performing in orchestrated chaos to bring something wonderful to the world.
Was that a stretch?
Irregardless, the PopTech team and vast network of volunteers, sponsors and partners have pulled together amazing gatherings, projects, conversations and programs that extend throughout the year.
Alphachimp Studio is proud to play a small part at these many gatherings, big and small. Most recently, we participated in the Ecomaterials Lab Innovation Lab at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
The Electric Scribe
/The Electric Scribe from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.
Alphachimp Studio collaborated with a team of adventuresome creative partners to pull off live, electric scribing -- plus a trippy light show -- for 300 guests. This behind-the-scenes look at the show is set to wicked peppy music by Kevin O'Donnell's Quality Six.
FULL DISCLOSURE: We can't take credit for any of the incredible staging or brilliant technology... just showed up with a trusty MacBookPro, a Wacom tablet and a belly full of butterflies!
Designers Respond to Crisis
/ This month, has been one of witnessing communities respond to catastrophe through information, art, and action.
Local artists, including our own Alicia Diane Durand, submitted designs for posters and t-shirts to benefit flood victims
Social Crisis, Social Mapping & Social Change
/Social Mapping for Social Change from Alphachimp Studio Inc. on Vimeo.
This week at at the Graham Foundation in Chicago, PopTech brought together three speakers (and a smart audience in this city of news aggregators and social good organizations) for a special salon event on the current and future impact of social mapping tools.
WARNING: Designers Tend to Fall Prey to Ideas!
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"Designer vs. Dinosaur" by Lillian (6) and Peter (40)
Robert "Fabi G" Fabricant is inspiring jealousy (in me) by being in East Africa, blogging, and hobnobbing with the globally challenged superheroes and villains at the World Economic Forum.
His observations in his Fast Company post examine the long shadow cast by the rise of Design Thinking.
Specifically, Fabricant calls out the dirty little secret that designers--while clever, innovative and unafraid of funky footwear--don't actually know how to get stuff done within complex systems.
Sketchbook Paintings of D.Fullerton
/Great illustrations and paintings by David Fullerton (thanks Bruno!)http://bit.ly/9ivF4u
Remote Graphic Capture for Vanderbilt Center for Teaching
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Mind map created remotely from Dallas and projected live in Nashville during the workshop.
This workshop for university faculty and staff featured many tools for physical and virtual facilitators and educators, including remote graphic capture and presentation on group facilitation and graphic recording by Alphachimp Studio Inc.
From the Vanderbilt Center for Teaching (CFT):
Our brains are wired to rapidly make sense of and remember visual input. Visualizations in the form of diagrams, charts, drawings, pictures, and a variety of other ways can help students understand complex information. A well-designed visual image can yield a much more powerful and memorable learning experience than a mere verbal or textual description.
On Wednesday, March 17th the CFT hosted Show and Tell: Integrating Visual Thinking in Your Teaching in order to begin dialogue about how we might tap into our students’ ability to think visually when teaching.
To see the results and access the list of visual methods, tools, books and resources from the workshop, visit: http://bit.ly/viz-teach
Alphachimp @ TEDx Nashville
/See more graphic recording from the event on Flickr: images | slideshow
While our visual compatriots Sunni Brown, Austin Kleon and David Gray were cavorting with the SXSW Interactive crowd, we had the honor of providing visual capture for this inaugural TEDx Nashville event focused on the future of health care.
Alphachimp Gets Down in Dubai
/Streets of Dubai from Alphachimp Studio on Vimeo.
Whilst on assignment in the United Arab Emirates, team members take an adventurous day trip to haggle for brand name knock-offs, peruse backstreet markets, and convince a taxi driver to make a speedy stop at the world's tallest building.
[view the same footage sans music here.]
The Elephant and the Rider
/Nonprofit Management and Making Change: Chip Heath
Great podcast on how to switch behaviors when change is hard from Social Innovation Conversations.
Those in nonprofit management constantly adapt to move their organizations forward.
In this audio lecture sponsored by the Stanford Center for Social Innovation, Chip Heath, Stanford professor and coauthor of the book Switch, provides a framework for change.
He demonstrates in case studies that three principles are involved in successful change, whether it be on the personal or societal front:
1. Convince the driver.
2. Motivate the elephant.
3. Shape the path.
Leaders in nonprofit management are called to attune to these principles when tackling change situations.
And Heath calls out examples from cleaning coach Flylady to unlocking secrets to protect kids in Vietnam from malnutrition.
Messiest Home: What the Heck?
/This is my wife's worst nightmare: specifically, that I will cram our home so full of live monkeys and tools that a make-over show will arrive with cameras and snarky professional organizers to mock us.
Host of Clean House: Search for the Messiest Home in the Country, Ms. Niecy, arrives with her crew at The Monkey House.
If it is any consolation, they only let the little one sleep in the bed.
The 100th Chimp at Tacugama
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Tompey arrives in the late evening at Tacugama
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Sadly 100 – Tacugama: The 100th chimp was rescued two days ago! A tiny girl. Hardly 1 year old. Arrived dehydrated, weak, with deep scars under her neck and hips caused by the ropes cutting through the poor girl’s flesh….and I have seen those “helpless”, “all lost” eyes many times before! An employer of the Sierra Rutile mines felt sorry for the baby and had bought it from a hunter. The little girl was called “Tompey” |
MONTHLY: Feed a chimp: $20.00/mo
ONE TIME DONATIONS:
Adopt a Chimp: Guardian ($149.00)
Adopt a Chimp: Sponsor ($79.00)
Tacugama 2010 Calendar ($20.00)
NPR : RADIOLAB : ANIMAL MINDS
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WNYC - Radiolab: Animal Minds (April 02, 2010):
ANIMAL MINDS When we gaze into the eyes of our beloved pets, can we ever really know what they might be thinking? Is it naive to assume they're experiencing something close to human emotions? Or, on the contrary, is it ridiculous to assume that they AREN'T feeling something like that? In this hour of Radiolab, we explore what science can say about what goes on in the minds of animals.
FastCompany: Where the Jobs Will Be in 2018
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Infographic of the Day
As part of a series looking at employment trends for the coming decade, NPR has created an interactive chart summarizing their findings.
