Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

My focus is on how children learn science. “Many of the games at Babycastles don’t fit the traditional definitions of the medium; they veer closer to artistic experiementation than they do to mass-market viability.&# – New York Times. Learning Science by Design. Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Digital people running on Soul Machines’ dystopian-sounding Humans OS 2.0 Gaming isn’t just something you do to kick back and relax anymore — it’s a billion-dollar industry with whole ecosystems of developers, artists, producers, voice actors, QA professionals, marketers, and streamers. Does that make me more relatable to you?”

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

But looking on at some of our current, actual horrors, like America separating children from their parents at the border, Stålenhag felt compelled to explore a different alternate reality: one where the world is being destroyed, humanity is on the line, and people are asked to justify their grim decisions. I start with the visual.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2014

Sound familiar? Some serious parallels to curating exhibitions and performances, especially with living artists. Speaking of contemporary artists, one of my favorite recent blog posts was this thoughtful essay by artist Brian Fernandes-Halloran about navigating the compromises between artistic ambition and the marketplace.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 15, 2009

Listen/subscribe on iTunes Tranquility du jour with Kimberly Wilson Kimberly Wilson, author of Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life On and Off the Yoga Mat , interviews artists, creative entrepreneurs, yoga teachers, and other hip tranquil chicks. They often interview children as sources for their stories. Listen/subscribe on iTunes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

I know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. Does that sound like a fun and rewarding casual activity to you? It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The Foundation also supports organizations that provide direct services to children and youth (ages 0-18) by addressing their basic human needs and safety through financial grants as well as Adobe employee volunteer support and software donations. Youth Services. Youth Voices: Creating with Purpose. students with a global audience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. Does that sound like a fun and rewarding casual activity to you? It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2015

He and his wife Vicky established the foundation to help meet the needs of children and families facing hardships due to traumatic injury, illness, or financial crisis. The church stages big-name contemporary-Christian concerts with artists like Matthew West and Colton Dixon of American Idol fame. Tools the Church Uses to Do It All.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. This sound installation is delightful and adds surprise to the museum. A DIY wedding!

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Neon CRM

APRIL 7, 2025

Give Them a Call We know this might sound totally foreign to your average millennial and Gen Zer but many donors really appreciate getting a phone call to thank them for their gift! Original Artworks Commission bespoke art pieces for significant donors by collaborating with local artists.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. Sounds like that's a great way to play with the idea of the Ministry being a "shadow" organization within the larger museum. How did this project come about?

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

My focus is on how children learn science. CNN "Many of the games at Babycastles don't fit the traditional definitions of the medium; they veer closer to artistic experimentation than they do to mass-market viability." - New York Times Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

So you see a lot of backlash against AI right now, because you see artists who have been ripped off by AI platform companies that have scraped their artwork and used it without compensation or credit.9 Were using them instead in ways that someone else can make money from most quickly. And unfortunately, thats damaging the reputation of AI.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

When I attended, the theme was “Inkery”, so besides getting access to all the standard interactive exhibits, I was also able to get a caricature drawn, get ‘inked’ at a squid dissection, get a henna tattoo, decorate a sugar cookie with natural food dyes, and enjoy light snacks and drinks – all while a DJ mixed top tracks over the sound system.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

I might not go to a children's museum for a recharge, nor would I necessarily see myself as a good facilitator if I dragged my friends through a crowded mega-museum. In some ways this sounds impossible, but there are several small gestures that could get me in the door more frequently.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

This might make Advice sound more like an educational program than an exhibit, or like a failure on the unfacilitated front. In the end, the Advice exhibit offered four main experiences--two that were facilitated, and two that were unfacilitated. But the exhibit team did something novel.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2007

As Elaine puts it in the essay, When I was last involved in such an endeavor, it was when the Boston Children's Museum was small, insignificant, and unselfconscious. It also means that the museum palette needs to be stretched into areas that the Indian community talked about -- smell, sound, spirit, language, environments, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 22, 2024

14) Carrie Cunningham Carrie Cunningham (soundbarnauctions.com) is the owner of Sound Barn LLC and is the liaison between the music and auction industries. She is a veteran touring artist, songwriter, live sound engineer and music publisher. Tom lives with his wife and two children in Upstate New York.

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

That catchy alliteration makes him sound like a comic book character, like Clark Kent or Lois Lane, Peter Parker or Bruce Banner. To make ends meet, artists would sometimes team up as a studio — helping each other come up with ideas, chipping in when someone was in danger of missing a deadline, teaching each other tips and tricks.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Previously, the most realistic synthetic voices were created by recording audio of a human voice actor, cutting up their speech into component sounds, and splicing these back together like letters in a ransom note to form new words. The work of speech synthesis has improved massively in recent years, thanks to advances in machine learning.

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OpenAI

JULY 14, 2022

As part of our DALL·E 2 research preview, more than 3,000 artists from more than 118 countries have incorporated DALL·E into their creative workflows. That's a community effort — it's come from the past few months of me talking to other DALL·E artists on Twitter / Discord / DM. Lens types.

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

Their annual report, the State of Babies Yearbook , frames rigorous research, unbiased analyses, and clear communications to influence decision-makers positioned to improve public policies and interventions in support of children and families. This 157-page report created a useful tool for Zero to Three’s advocacy at any stage.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

American Jazz Museum Platinum – Cultural Websites Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 4, 2023

American Jazz Museum Gold – Cultural Institutions Website Located in the Historic 18th & Vine Jazz District in Kansas City, MO, the American Jazz Museum showcases the sights and sounds of jazz through interactive exhibits and films, and features live music in their venues, The Blue Room, and Gem Theater.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

It sounds like a loan, but it’s not a loan (at least in the sense that Creative Juice isn’t a bank, so they’re not allowed to say they give loans). But there’s always the risk that something goes wrong, and an independent artist gets caught in a contractual bind. Every Juice Funds contract is different.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. Forum One partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. Britt: That sounds like some of the things that are the most joyful parts of the things you do. That's just the reality.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are they wanting to fund children’s programs? That higher education level, the ability to communicate, the ability to complete their education affects probably their spouse or their partner, it might affect their children. ” Well, you know, it sounds like a good goal, right, but do I need to lose that?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. We're showing an installation by artist Shelby Graham which features beautiful photographs of butterflies juxtaposed with images of the bombing of Japan in World War II. This interactive was developed by intern Lucinda Shawcross.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

Does anyone in the room identify as an artist, by any chance? I just want to dispel the myth that we are not activists and that we are not artists. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland. First of all, who identifies with the word "activism"? Can I just see?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Within the organization, the AARP Public Policy Institute maintains the AARP Livability Index , a key tool in their mission to promote the development of sound policies to address common needs for economic security, health care, and quality of life. We partnered with the Museum to launch their new brand to the world.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Government bogeyman Elon Musk has been accused by his number-one nemesis, " 212 " rapper Azealia Banks, of having a "botched penis implant" a funny-sounding but extremely real and dangerous complication that can occur when people try to surgically make their dicks bigger.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

Screen time is just one of many topics explored in Poems of Parenting , a new collection of poetry out April 8 from author and artist Loryn Brantz , a consulting creative director for the beloved kids educational program Ms. It was as stressful as it sounds. Childrens media is so important and needs to be treated as such.

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 4, 2025

As the guests dance to thumping tunes, and the camera tilts and spins to capture them, Naveen sits still, fending off over-enthusiastic family members whose words of marital encouragement sound more like a dire warning: "You're next!" Marvel , and Blinded by the Light.

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Recode by Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Even very young children are adept at learning abstract rules from just a few examples. It would be pretty easy for o1 to just make it sound like its reasoning; after all, its training data is rife with examples of that, from doctors analyzing symptoms to decide on a diagnosis to judges evaluating evidence to arrive at a verdict.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 15, 2025

And while that may sound pretty dry, do not fear, Inside Out is an adventure and a half, a roller coaster through a pun-filled wonderland (Joy and Sadness ride the literal train of thought ). But this immersive, moving film is more than just a gorgeous retelling of the story we know and love — it is an artistic triumph.

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