Alright. This video was shot with a point and shoot. A $600 all-in-one consumer grade camera. A further example of how constraining your tools leads to creativity for solving problems.
So. There’s no excuses. There’s no more waiting. Pick up whatever’s in your hands and make the thing already. You don’t need anything else. You don’t need better.
Always watch this man. Hard, honest work. Thoughtful. Pragmatic.
And a pleasure to watch do his thing.
Ok, look. I don’t have that many heroes. I try to keep my eyes wide and my ears open and steal borrow the best bits from wherever I can. But Aaron James Draplin is a pretty impressive man. Get watching, people.
Portland/CreativeMornings – Aaron James Draplin from CreativeMornings/Portland on Vimeo.
First off: the language in this is NSFW.
Second: This man is an inspiration.
Third: YouTube borked the soundtrack to part of his presentation. It’s a damn shame.
This is Adam Savage talking with David Chang. They’re talking (mostly) about food, but the parallels to education and learning are profound- Chang (and Savage, for that matter) is obsessed with learning. And it’s clear that while he’s not an educator, he has spent an enormous amount of time thinking about how to learn more. I’d argue, in fact, that Chang not being a educator (in this case) makes his views all the more important.
Anyway. Required Viewing.
So I was watching this video the other day, and it’s about racing rally cars. That’s not a topic I’m likely to ever delve into here, but what caught my ear was a bit of conversation part way through about drivers investing in knowledge and mastery to succeed. The parallels to teaching are plain. You’ll want to skip to 33:33 for the most relevant portion.
I caught part of this live yesterday- a great talk about stimulating creativity.
Required Viewing.
This is from Casey Neistat. There’s everything right with it and that’s why it’s RequiredViewing.