Here are some items that caught my eye and attention this past week.
1. Is the iPhone Killing Your Creativity? Mark McGuiness talks about losing creativity in a world with no downtime. Wow- a must read.
2. Wisdom Book is a project inspired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu's vision to share and pass on the wisdom of one generation to another. Features Clinte Eastwood, Graham Nash, Robert Redford, Dave Brubeck and many others. I love the simplicity of the videos: just a white background.
3. Behind the Camera: The ABCs of Documentary Cinema is another amazing site and resource from the National Film Board of Canada. "Behind the Camera" is a great learning tool for those interested in understanding more about documentary filmmaking. A great companion to "Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary."
4. The Sputnik Observatory for the Study of Contemporary Culture is another highly engaging site integrating video, social media and thought-leadership. It's best described through their "About" page:
"Sputnik Observatory is a New York not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to the study of contemporary culture. We fulfill this mission by documenting, archiving, and disseminating ideas that are shaping modern thought by interviewing leading thinkers in the arts, sciences and technology from around the world. Our philosophy is that ideas are NOT selfish, ideas are NOT viruses. Ideas survive because they fit in with the rest of life. Our position is that ideas are energy, and should interconnect and re-connect continuously because by linking ideas together we learn, and new ideas emerge."
---Tom
