The Power of Storytelling
“I wish I was a doctor but I’m not, I’m a storyteller. Maybe I can inspire someone else who can save a life.”
Photographer and storyteller Giles Duley has worked everywhere from South Sudan and Bangladesh, to Iraq and Lebanon, documenting stories of those affected by conflict across the world. In 2011, while photographing the conflict in Afghanistan, Duley lost an arm and both legs, an ordeal that inspired him not to focus on what he couldn’t do, but on what he could – become a better photographer.
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The Competition Between Stubbornness and Fragility
Breaking the mold
“This list was evidence to many people of the script’s value, and that a great script had greater value than a lot of people had previously anticipated.”
Starting out as a junior executive at a Hollywood production company, film producer and entrepreneur, Franklin Leonard grew tired of reading bad film scripts. He created an anonymous ‘Black List’, which would go on to completely change the way people looked at scripts, by asking if conventional wisdom was correct.
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How I accidentally changed the way movies get made
Embracing circumstance
“Creativity also grows from the broken places.”
Radio producer and author, Julie Burstein draws on her own experiences and those of writer Richard Ford, filmmaker Mira Nair, sculptor Richard Serra and photographer Joel Meyerowitz to explain that there are four key aspects of life to embrace for your creativity to flourish: Experience, Challenges, Limitations and Loss.
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4 Lessons in Creativity
Changing paths
“I struggled with the transition between making something as a hobby and then turning that into a real life working job.”
With a web and graphics background, founder of Blok Knives, Ben Edmonds shares his experience of turning his hand to craft and the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people.
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Inside the Mind of a Maker
Combining Art and Technology
“That’s the value in the studio of having self-initiated projects, because you’re not waiting for the opportunity to start at zero, you always have something in process.”
Founder and design director of communication design practice Thirst, Rick Valicenti discusses just some of the processes and back stories behind a variety of their projects.
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Rick Valicenti: The Intersection of Art and Technology
Preserving heritage
“What happens when a story is forgotten?”
Inspired by a desire to further explore her cultural identity, filmmaker and composer Kayla Briët turned to creativity to preserve her heritage, by infusing her work with stories of her Dutch-Indonesian, Chinese and Native American heritage.
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Why do I make art? To build time capsules for my heritage
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