March 30, 2012

#TEDMEDscribe Jill Sobule

March 30, 2012/ Peter Durand

Alphachimp loves the musical stylins of Jill Sobule. Whether musing about the death penalty, anorexia, or what it would be like if Edgar Allen Poe had taken Prozac, she delights and challenges in her sly, funny way.

Check out our electronic scribing of her presentations at #TEDMED so far, in addition to the other incredible speakers we've gotten to see. If you missed her, don't worry- she's peppered all over the schedule, so we'll be hearing lots more about how "Disease Don't Care!"

March 27, 2012

TEDx Nashville 2012 - Impact: Making a Difference

March 27, 2012/ Peter Durand

TEDx Nashville was back at TPAC for its third annual event.

This year's theme was Impact: Making a Difference. The amazing list of confirmed speakers will be sharing on everything from changing your brain without surgery to communicating with extraterrestrials, child literacy, and unlocking your creativity with paint. Southern Word, Nashville's crew of compelling high school spoken word poets, will be making an appearance, no doubt to bring the audience to their feet once more.

Alphachimp Studio's co-founder and creative director, Peter Durand, was working stage left to capture visual summaries of each exciting speaker. The event was once again emceed by Ross Scott, who did a fine job keeping pace and "keeping it real".

There were many special moments during the day, but a special one was created (literally and in real-time) during a first-tem collaboration by musician K.S. Rhoads and painter Rachel Kice.

More 2012 TEDx Nashville Speakers include:

Barry Alexander
Cosmo Buono
Jeffrey Conn, Ph.D.
Tom Dillehay
Bob Garfield
Craig Havighurst
Debra Hopkins
Mai Iskander
Rachel Kice

Jack Kruse
Amanda Little
David Onoprishvili
Stephen Paletta
Meredith Perry
Kevin Rhoads
Odessa Settles
Dave Stewart
Douglas Vakoch
Southern Word

To see more of Peter's drawings and photos,
check out this Flickr set.

Or see slideshow here.

Learn more at the official TEDx Nashville website: http://tedxnashville

March 26, 2012

4/5 LIVE WEBCAST - Rock the Monkey: Visual Facilitation Skills & Brain-Based Learning

March 26, 2012/ peterdurand

Click the link for local broadcast times and to register:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/323700162

We will be talking about the visual, must-know, brain-based techniques that you need as a facilitator, consultant, teacher or coach in order to increase the success of your clients and students, while making you look like a rockstar.

February 24, 2012

PopTech Climate Resilience Lab

February 24, 2012/ peterdurand

Last week, PopTech brought together an amazing and diverse group of thinkers, stakeholders, and domain experts in Nairobi, Kenya for a Climate Resilience Lab. The three-day event was PopTech's first major convening around the issue of building resilience to climate change effects at the community level with a particular focus on identifying the roles of and opportunities for girls and women.

February 05, 2012

A Homecoming and That Hip & Happening iHub

February 05, 2012/ peterdurand

Ever since I met Erik Hersman, I have dreamed of traveling to Nairobi to work with him. So now, my dream has come true. Last week, I traveled with my daughter and mother back to the country where I was born, Kenya.

January 23, 2012

Doodles Take Over ScienceOnline12 #sciencescribe

January 23, 2012/ Peter Durand

Hello everyone, it's Perrin Ireland reporting back from my recent trip to Raleigh, North Carolina, for the ScienceOnline2012 Conference.

Journalists, bloggers, scientists, science artists, advocates of open science, librarians, data specialists, and everyone in between showed up for the seventh year of this event. It's a really great community of people who support each other's work online disseminating high quality scientific information and commentary.

For this year's conference, I helped contribute part of the visual presence at the conference.