Here is a video I made of the San Diego Science Festival at Petco Park March 27, 2010. It had about 120 exciting hands-on science booths, with about 50,000 people attending. (I am a member of the festival advisory board). Note that you can see the film in HD by clicking on the link that says 360p on the bottom of the image and selecting the 720P option.
And here is my film from the 2009 festival at Balboa Park.
James Hubbell is a most fascinating artist/philosopher/visionary/poet. I’ve had the pleasure of knowing him for 10 years, when he was a great inspiration in helping me design my home. Beneath a wonderful aura of quietness and wonder, he has a seething creative mind. When he says something, it’s well worth listening to. I’ve had the pleasure of supporting his Ilan Lael Foundation as well as his efforts to build a “ring of pearls” around the Pacific with the Pacific Rim Parks .
Here is a wonderful video of an award honoring him for his lifetime achievement of art and humanitarian work through art at the Mingei International Museum in San Diego, CA on Oct. 3, 2009.
Here’s an earlier post I wrote talking about his resilience in recovering from the devastating fires that raged through his home and studio.
This is a short movie produced for the San Diego Science Festival “Sell your science” competition It was shot at Torrey Del Mar Park, San Diego. Music by Kevin MacLeod. Produced by Tom Munnecke
Barbara Marx Hubbard founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution talks with Tom Munnecke and others on the night Obama’s inauguration. She discusses her campaign for the vice presidency 25 years ago, and how her dreams and visions of that time are coming to fruition with the new shift in direction. She talks about her notion of Peace Rooms, ways of finding out what’s working, how to develop grass roots organizations that also feed information to centralized ones. Tom talks about the network effects of goodness, and how all this might “go viral.” Heather Wood Ion, Jim Pinto, Prapanna Smith, Nancy Walsh, and Carla Gerstein also participate. Video by Robert Foxworth, music by Kevin MacLeod, editing by Tom Munnecke. Taped Jan 20, 2009 in Encinitas, Ca. See also James Fowler’s Interview on the positive effects of Social Networks. This interview has been permanently saved at the Internet Archive.
This is conversation between UC San Diego Political Scientist James Fowler with Tom Munnecke and Heather Wood Ion on James’ research of happiness, obesity, drinking, and more based on the Framingham Heart Study data. He provides some provocative evidence that social networks might propagate happiness in a contagious fashion, more powerfully than unhappiness. We also talk about the spread of loneliness, ways of researching empathy, centralized “smart center” networks vs. smart edges, group selection, the work of happiness and elevation by Jonathan Haidt, and ways we might construct networks of uplift. Videography by Robert Foxworth, music by Kevin MacLeod. Taped Jan 6, 2009 at the UC San Diego Faculty Club. This video is also archived at the Internet Archives.
Frederick Turner, inteviewed at San Simeon on the California Coast Highway on his experiences growing up in Africa; J.T. Fraser’s theory of time, as well as some of his poetry. We were driving up California Highway 1 coast road to the International Society for the Study of Time triannual conference. Turner is Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Produced by Tom Munnecke.
Mark Frisse, now of Vanderbilt University, was one of the reviewers of Tim Berners-Lee’s original paper presenting the concepts behind the World Wide Web in 1989. Mark describes how he thought that the architecture would not scale, and that Tim’s decision to allow “broken” pointers (i.e. violate bidirectional integrity) would lead to a “spaghetti bowl of gotos.” Tim’s paper was relegated to a poster session, which turned out to be wildly successful. Tim’s decision to relax the requirement for bidirectional integrity (allowing 404 not found error) turned out to be one key features for the success of the web.
Philip Longman is author of The Best Care Anywhere – Why VA Health Care is Better than Yours He was asked by Fortune Magazine to find the “Jack Welch of Health Care” and after some time, discovered that the VA was one of the top providers. He discusses his journey, partially triggered by his experiences with the health care system during his wife’s death from cancer. He presents his research on the VA Hardhats, who created the VistA system, as well as his thoughts on centralized vs. decentralized systems. Produced by Tom Munnecke, 2008
