Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 1, 2011

The first post is by Jennifer Lee, author of The Right-Brain Business Plan: A Creative, Visual Map for Success. Jennifer is a certified coach, writer, artist, yogini, and the founder of Artizen Coaching. I love seeing their visual plans (which look quite a bit like a Right-Brain Business Plan!) Women here in Oakland.

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The Verge

MARCH 11, 2021

NFTs can really be anything digital (such as drawings, music, your brain downloaded and turned into an AI), but a lot of the current excitement is around using the tech to sell digital art. That really depends on whether you’re an artist or a buyer. I’m an artist. Some already have.). GIF: NyanCat on OpenSea. What’s the point?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 27, 2011

." - Naomi Natale, One Million Bones Naomi Natale is the founding artist behind One Million Bones , a collaborative art installation designed to recognize the millions of victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by ongoing genocides and mass atrocities in Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burma.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

June 1-22: My Juicy Blogging E-course: The Art and Play of Blogging for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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Recode by Vox

MARCH 8, 2025

An artist rendering of the NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) space probe approaching the asteroid Didymos and its minor-planet-moon Dimorphos. Illustration by Nicholas Forder/Future Publishing via Getty Images In 2012, astronaut Ron Garan did an AMA on Reddit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Waabi’s competitors are tackling simulation by getting artists to create three dimensional CAD models of the world and assign material properties for every object, like trees and buildings, says Urtasun. Rather, we experience something and instantaneously our brain rewires to be able to handle the situation better. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

In contrast, the Synthetaic (pronounced “synthetic”) approach combines the work of 3D artists and modelers with technology based on generative adversarial networks , making it far more affordable and scalable, according to Jaskolski. Image Credits: Synthetaic. The startup announced today that it has raised $3.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2023

I’ll have a longer story soon about how it’s being used by VFX artists in innovative and totally uncontroversial ways soon, but the papers on display were also pretty great. Elsewhere, we have some interesting cross-pollination between brain science and AI. This session in particular had several interesting new ideas.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Designed to have a short conversation with visitors about herself, she runs on a proprietary “digital brain” and studies my expressions via webcam. Sam isn’t a real person — she’s a digital human created by Auckland-based tech company Soul Machines. At one point Sam asks me to smile but can’t seem to register my biggest, brightest “cheese.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

These artists are all great examples of how media can be used for social change - as a vehicle for storytelling. KRS1 was the brains behind Boogie Down Productions, and he was a master storyteller. Last week I was listening to some old school hip-hop - you know, Eric B and Rakim , Public Enemy , Boogie Down Productions , etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

4 Steps for Selling Your Art: Interview with Alyson B.

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The Verge

MARCH 10, 2021

The event is already under way, and so far the first meme, Bad Luck Brain, sold for just over $37,000. There have been artists talking about how their work has been stolen and NFT-ized, and Giphy has tweeted that it was looking into user content being used by NFT sites. Have you ever wanted to see thicc Nyan Cat? Now you can. ).

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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. Impacting: Mental health. Headquarters in: Riverview, FL. How To Support Laughs for the Troops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2005

" According to the @rt Room , it is an idea that excites the synaptic nerves in your brain and stirs your imagination. Great - artist books for kids - we made a book out of a paper bag. It is a snow day and with two young children at home, we need something to do after the snow man is finished and we have painted in the snow.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

A Brief History of Foundation Models We are in a time where simple methods like neural networks are giving us an explosion of new capabilities, said Ashish Vaswani, an entrepreneur and former senior staff research scientist at Google Brain who led work on the seminal 2017 paper on transformers.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. The goals include learning made personal, extension of experience onsite and online, and access for all learning and lifelong learning – underlying all of it is innovation in learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2009

How does this change our brains and the way we process information or even learn? Rob Cottingham, one of my favorite stand up comics, cartoon artists, and social media/nonprofit gurus, got to attend the Real Time Web Summit. Constant stream of information - where do get a chance to reflect? Or does that happen in real time?

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M+R

AUGUST 23, 2023

You open TikTok to recharge your brain and treat yourself to some bite-sized videos. Read Time: 4 minutes It’s lunchtime. You’ve heard Spongebob AI covers of songs from the early 2000s, devoured playbacks of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and learned all there is to know about submarine engineering within ten minutes.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

June 1-22: My Juicy Blogging E-course: The Art and Play of Blogging for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders. August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Taking inspiration from Jim Henson and Shigeru Miyamoto With the rise of NFT artwork over the past year, many artists have floated my way through the Twitter content rivers. Henson is one of the most overlooked artists in my eyes, the amount of people he has reached through his characters and storytelling is nothing short of impressive.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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The Verge

MARCH 29, 2022

of the artists that are making music and putting it out there cannot survive off of streaming income. Even if you are a big artist — even for me — I might get some really high streaming numbers on a few songs, but it’s only a few songs. Yes, as proprietor of a label or as an artist yourself. It’s something like 0.008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Here is an example of an artistic program or creative process undertaken as a crowd and it isn't a cheap publicity stunt. Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2011

Through coaching, workshops and a variety of online events, Jamie helps women find the confidence and courage to discover and express their creative spirit, whether that means exploring their artistic self, or bringing more of their creative capacity to their life and business.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2024

What sets this apart is the collaboration of 100 artists from diverse countries, orchestrated by the Playing For Change Foundation. Beyond its social impact, music has profound effects on the soul and the brain. Playing For Change leverages this by directly impacting over 50,000 students through on-site teachers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2016

Going offline for 24 hours or more to reboot your brain can do your spirit, mind, and body a lot good. And it is a lot of fun to do with other people – so that’s why I really like the idea of the “ National Day of Unplugging ” which begins today, March 4th at sundown and last until sundown on Saturday, March 5th.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 16, 2012

Supporting art and artists, writers and books. Music, walking, running, happy hour with girlfriends, yoga, living by the ocean, and the way the internet bends time and space so I can meet people anywhere at anytime. Feeding people.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

Back to the actual fundraising event, don't wrack your brain for ideas, but put your own twist on your fundraising. Consider reaching out to the artist community and within your organization (children in particular) seeking artwork to sell. Here are a few fundraising ideas that I have seen work in the past.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Sure, the creator economy grew last year, but this year more major platforms are working to help power individual artists. I kid, my brain is a colander with extra-large holes; I need all the help I can get. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for January 20, 2022! Today’s theme is more. Oh and Peloton is having a terrible day.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Inspired by The Artist's Way's Morning Pages , I committed to free-writing three pages in my journal each day. Inspired by a Speaking of Faith interview with Stuart Brown , the author of Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul , I committed to playing every day, which took many forms.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Splatoon 2 is weird but taps into that part of your brain that loves to make a mess. Ghost of Tsushima: Directors Cut is $50 (physical): This artistic marvel borrows heavily from the works of Kurosawa, and is a romantic take of feudal Japanese culture. Read our full review. Read our full review. Read our full review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

I’m always on the lookout for good icebreakers that don’t suck and was delighted with her movement icebreaker, although it might might work best with artist or activist audiences. She did so in the first few minutes. It was before we did anything else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Their program includes about teaching artists. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together. Erika’s organization is a small to midsize arts organization, with six full time staff members and an operating budget of less than $1 million. Opening Acts executive director then shared a list of ideas.

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The Verge

APRIL 14, 2022

There’s just a different way about how it engages your gameplay brain. If you’re an artist and you have a game design idea, if you’re a tester and you have a game design idea or a writing idea or whatever — that the team is kind of small and intimate enough that everybody feels ownership. Because it’s different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. That's where I learned about a Twitter hashtag called #2amt - a channel for theatre artistic professionals to discuss their craft and trade and support one another. After hearing a story from a peer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. At that point, I researching and organizing resources for artists on Arts Wire on how to use the web. It reminds of how I used to feel exploring gophers and the early web in 1993.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." " Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people.

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