Morgan Spurlock: the greatest ted talk ever sold
reasons this talk is awesome:
- Morgan Spurlock is awesome. Supersize me was obvi bangin and loved his tv series 30 days.
- the talk ends up being a satellite conversation to the main discussion he has in his upcoming doc, the greatest movie ever sold, both which uncover the hidden and influential world of brand marketing (what i do 9 to 5, so of particular interest to me). love to look at the thing i do 80% of my waking life in a different light. it's probably going to make me depressed about what i do.
Eric Whitacre: a virtual choir
looooove this ted talk. eric talks about his experience being part of a choir of the first time and literally how it takes your breath away, how it makes you feel a part of something bigger - something that you wouldnt ever be able to create on your own, how hearing classical music/opera live is just unreal, etc. totally feel him on this one, this is why i liked being in an orchestra. not because i played the violin well or really liked it all that much, but because it allowed me to be part of a bigger sound, dissonance and harmony, yada yada.
anyway, eric ended up with this awesome idea to conduct a chior based off of youtube videos. he sent out a video of him conducting, and 100 people sent back videos of themselves singing their part.
This is the first video he did, watch out it's flippin amazing:
and here's the ted talk eric did this year where he ends up doing a second virtual chorus of 2000+ people from all over the world:
it's decided. going to ted is officially on my bucket list.
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