Jackie Mahendra
Field Notes
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Make your own infographics with this tool from GOOD! My friend made this awesome one about Fluffington Post.
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Highlight of the (work) week? Sprinting on this infographic for the #TrayvonMartin campaign. Featured on Mashable and The Guardian.
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WATCH: “Magic and Storytelling, Marco Tempest @TED2012.” Loved this: “Our stories make us the people we are, and sometimes the people we want to be.”
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Post reblogged from Univision News Tumblr
The vocabulary learning mobile app “Vocabador” is one of the winners of the Revolucionario Awards to be given on March 12 at SXSWi. (Facebook.com/Vocabador)By NURIA NET and CONZ PRETI
Channel: MediaAre you ready for SXSW interactive in Austin?
With the the biggest meeting of entrepreneurs and digital media innovators in the world just around the corner, we wanted to share some big announcements regarding the Revolucionario Awards at the Social Revolución event — an event that Univision News is proud to be a part of.
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#StopKony2012 = storytelling on steroids?
Invisible Children’s new viral video captures the intensity and urgency of “an idea whose time is now.” The goal? Stopping Uganda’s rebel leader Joseph Kony by making him famous.
“Kony 2012” seeks to “raise support for [Kony’s] arrest and set a precedent for international justice.” It sets forth to accomplish this through a powerful sequence of layered storytelling that calls the viewer to participate in an international “army for peace.”
The viral video — with millions of YouTube views in just 2 days — slices and dices conventional wisdom about online video for social change. It’s 30 minutes long, for one thing! The high-quality cinematography and gripping plot, however, combine forcefully with the “promise” at the start, which carries us willingly along to the end: that the narrator will tell us how to right an incredible wrong.
By deftly carrying viewers back and forth between “what is” and “what could be,” the video successfully sells viewers (at least those coming from a Caucasian, male, Western perspective) on the creators’ idea. “Kony 2012” manages to convince potentially apathetic viewers that they are capable of changing something that seemed nearly impossible to affect a mere thirty minutes prior: the ongoing kidnapping and exploitation of children in Uganda.
Storytelling at its most potent.
For their part, celebrities are beginning to take note — and tweet their fans. A quick search for #StopKony2010 is dizzying, as people are tweeting the video multiple times a second. Proving its efficacy, the video has already spawned several sarcastic memes and extended critiques, including an important question about promoting US military intervention to stop Kony.
What do you think of Kony 2012?
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If failing is not an option, you’ve ruled out success as well.
- Acumen Fund: 10 Years Infographic by @Hyperakt.
Our mission is to create a world beyond poverty by investing in social enterprises, emerging leaders, and breakthrough ideas.
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The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson via It’s Okay to be Smart. (via explore-blog)
Photo credit: Eastbaypen.org
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Worth watching to the end.
Via @LaniVoivod, “The secret structure of great talks,” by @NancyDuarte.
#TED #storytelling
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Asparagus and grilled corn with chipotle & olive oil dressing
Ring in spring with this delicious appetizer (made up today).
Ingredients:
- corn (1 ear will serve 2)
- asparagus (small bunch)
- sea salt, black pepper, and chipotle powder (substitute: smoked paprika)
- olive oil
- soy sauce
Method:
Blanch asparagus by placing stem down in a tall pot of boiling water, standing straight up. Leafy ends can remain above water. Cover and boil for about 3 minutes, until tender but firm. Remove from pot, rinse with cold water, and then soak in a 1 tsp. olive oil, 1 tsp. soy sauce dressing (use more or less depending on quantity of asparagus). Sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper and set aside.
Place ear of corn into boiling water, cover, and cook for about 7-10 minutes (or until tender). Remove from pot, dry, and then place directly onto stove-top flame (a barbeque works great if you have one going). Rotate until each side is nicely blackened, about 30 sec on each quarter of a cob.
Rub corn with 1/2 tsp olive oil, 1/4 tsp chipotle powder (or smoked paprika substitute), and sea salt to taste. Place on cutting board and slice into sixths (use a very sharp knife).
Happy plating (and eating)!
