Pixar - Brad Bird: Directing

Incredibles and Ratatouille Director Brad Bird discusses directing an animated feature.

for more Interesting Pixar people go here : http://www.pixar.com/behind_the_scenes

Talks - Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012

Tedsday - Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!

In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning -- creating conditions where kids' natural talents can flourish.

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. Full bio »

"Very many people go through their whole lives having no real sense of what their talents may be, or if they have any to speak of.” 

Ken Robinson

Ira Glass on Storytelling

David Shiyang Liu did  this video that ilustrate a fragment of a recording from Ira Glass.


Source audio(part3): http://youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY
David Shiyang

Tedsday - Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action

Simon Sinek has a simple but powerful model for inspirational leadership all starting with a golden circle and the question "Why?" His examples include Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers ...

In 2009, Simon Sinek released the book "Start With Why" -- a synopsis of the theory he has begun using to teach others how to become effective leaders and inspire change. Full bio »

"If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”

Simon Sinek

Tedsday - Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed

Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for the first time.

Ric Elias is the CEO of Red Ventures, a marketing services company that grew out of Elias' long experience in business. Full bio »

  "I regretted the time I wasted on things that did not matter with people that [do] matter.”  

Ric Elias

Tedsday - Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

Games like World of Warcraft give players the means to save worlds, and incentive to learn the habits of heroes. What if we could harness this gamer power to solve real-world problems? Jane McGonigal says we can, and explains how.

Reality is broken, says Jane McGonigal, and we need to make it work more like a game. Her work shows us how. Full bio »

"My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.”

 Jane McGonigal

Tedsday - Erik Johansson: Impossible photography

Erik Johansson creates realistic photos of impossible scenes -- capturing ideas, not moments. In this witty how-to, the Photoshop wizard describes the principles he uses to make these fantastical scenarios come to life, while keeping them visually plausible.

Photographer Erik Johannson creates impossible but photorealistic images that capture an idea, not a moment. Full bio »

"Who hasn’t wished to simply iron out a kink in one’s character? Or to punch one’s own face after making a mistake?"

Environmental Graffiti

Tedsday - J.J. Abrams' mystery box

J.J. Abrams traces his love for the unseen mystery –- a passion that’s evident in his films and TV shows, including Cloverfield, Lost and Alias -- back to its magical beginnings.

Writer, director and producer J.J. Abrams makes smart, addictive dramas like TV's Lost, and films like Cloverfield and the new Star Trek. Full bio »

"As a boy, JJ Abrams was fascinated with magic. As a television writer, director, and producer, he has beguiled audiences with a masterful use of suspense, plot reversals, and special effects."

Wired

Talks - Animating Art (Art Babbitt, Richard Williams)

I like to watch old or new documentary and talks, so from now on I will dedicate a Monday to put the most interesting ones that I find on the net.
To start this one that is very interesting with the great Art Babbit and Richard Williams.


You might also find interesting this workprint of The Thief and the Cobbler. 
More Info:
Art Babbitt
Richard Williams

Tedsday - Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face

Ed Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versions of Brad Pitt's face for "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

At Digital Domain, Ed Ulbrich works at the leading edge of computer-generated visuals. On a recent project, filmmakers, artists, and technologists have been working at a breakthrough point where reality and digitally created worlds collide. Full bio »

"The difference offered by [this] technology is in the detail. Standard motion-capture systems are generally limited in resolution to several hundred points on a human face, while this system can recreate facial images at a resolution of 200,000 pixels. The digital video images produced by the system are startlingly realistic."

New York Times

Tedsday - Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face

At TEDxUSC, computer graphics trailblazer Paul Debevec explains the scene-stealing technology behind Digital Emily, a digitally constructed human face so realistic it stands up to multiple takes.

Paul Debevec's digital inventions have powered the breathtaking visual effects in films like The Matrix, Superman Returns, King Kong and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Full bio »

"By creating more accurate artificial lighting on a computer, he says, his team is "giving filmmakers more flexibility" in their shots and more efficient ways to generate effects. Which means time and money saved on shooting, editing, and drawing graphics-not to mention more convincing results."

Gregory T. Huang, Technology Review

Tedsday - James Cameron: Before Avatar ... a curious boy

James Cameron's big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. In this personal talk, he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic -- from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving -- and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits "Aliens," "The Terminator," "Titanic" and "Avatar."

James Cameron is the director of Avatar, Titanic, Terminator, The Abyss and many other blockbusters. While his outsize films push the bounds of technology, they're always anchored in human stories with heart and soul. Full bio »

 "Don't put limitations on yourself. Other people will do that for you -- don't do it to yourself, don't bet against yourself, and take risks."

James Cameron

Tedsday - Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story

Filmmaker Andrew Stanton ("Toy Story," "WALL-E") shares what he knows about storytelling -- starting at the end and working back to the beginning. (Contains graphic language ...)

Andrew Stanton has made you laugh and cry. The writer behind the three "Toy Story" movies and the writer/director of "WALL-E," he releases his new film, "John Carter," in March. Full bio

 

"I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure."

Andrew Stanton

Tedsday - Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

I like a lot Ted's talks, so I decided to dedicate one day of the week to publish my favorite ones.
So for now on Thursday will be Ted's day.
To start one of my favorites of Ken Robinson.
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. Full bio »

"If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never come up with anything original."

Ken Robinson

Conversations about the future.

This is a part of a series of conversations between famous people that a bank of Spain (banco Sabadell) is putting together, this one I find it very interesting,  and is also whit subtitles:
In this one Pepe Guardiola (manager of FC Barcelona) and Fernando Trueba (Film Director)