Skillshare + COMMON Pitch NYC: Startup Bootcamp
Skillshare is excited to announce that we’re a proud partner of COMMON Pitch NYC! We’re teaming up to host COMMON’s Mentor Day at the School of Visual Arts. On February 14th, COMMON is hosting a full day startup bootcamp at SVA. The day will include a series interactive lectures on the science of startups - everything from communications to legal complexities to things some famous founders wish they knew before launching their own startup.
Communication Design: Why You Won’t Succeed Without It
Startups, Profit and Purpose: Legal Structures for Entrepreneurs
How to Catch an Angel: Everything You Need to Know About Funding
With a Little Help From Our Friends: Successful Crowdfunding
Things I Wish I Knew Before Starting my Startup
Come out and learn from the best!
This is just sweet.
Open Source Ecology
The ultimate in agricultural nerding. Open Source Ecology is a network of farmers and engineers that has been creating an open source, low-cost, high performance technological platform that allows for the easy, DIY fabrication of the 50 different Industrial Machines that it takes to build a sustainable civilization with modern comforts.
The Carl Sagan-inspired surrealist GIFs of Ignacio Torres, featuring humans as star stuff.
(images by Ignacio Torres, full gallery at The Morning News)
Beyond the personal automobile
Dan Sturges writes in MIT’s Technology Review about how new advances in technology are allowing people to ditch their cars in favor of a more efficient, more connected system:
I think any transition would have to start with the roughly 70 million commuters in the United States. The recipe for making car ownership less necessary for them requires three main ingredients. First, we need express “trunk line” transit services (trains, buses, vans, or carpools) from residential neighborhoods to areas where people work. Next, people will need local, short-distance transportation in the form of a bike, low-cost taxi, shuttle, or small personal vehicle to get to and from the trunk line service. Finally, car-sharing services—like Zipcar or peer-to-peer services like Getaround or RelayRides—need to be available near both work and home so people can have access to a car when they need one.
Bikes Make Life Better
A nice promotional video for People for Bikes.
Check out the behind-the-scenes footage here.
NASA Skytran
Skytran is a bad-ass personal rapid transit system that will hopefully make its ways to cities soon. It consists of two-person pods attached to guideways above streets and roads. The pods can stop every half mile or so for anyone who needs to get off.
Art director interview
A student at the Art Institute of Colorado recently reached out to the FearLess Cottage looking to interview an art director for a school project. Here are my answers to his questions:
What do you like most about being a art director?
It’s kind of a tricky question because I don’t really think of myself as an art director. I just think of myself as someone who helps make creative ideas come to life. The best ideas we come up with at the FearLess Cottage are not any one person’s idea. They come from an environment that encourages collaboration. Everybody has a voice and everybody’s ideas carry equal value. What I like most is being able to dream big and having the opportunity to pursue those dreams.
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