Posts Tagged → Art
The Artist in the Computer Scientist: more humanity to our research
How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity
I’ve just read an excellent article from the Harvard Business review magazine: “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity”. The article is written by Ed Catmull, the cofounder of Pixar and the president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios. He describes how is the creation process of Pixar movies, and how this process changed and evolved since Toy Story, the first movie from Pixar.
There are some points in the article I’d like to highlight.
What is creativity?
Better Science Through Art – the talk
Common wisdom says that science and art are entirely different beasts; moreover, a similar source of wisdom tells us that science is valuable to society while art is a luxury. Why else would schools drop art from their curricula over the past 20 years? But artists and scientists approach their work in similar if not identical ways.
This presentation was created by Richard P Gabriel and presented at IME-USP – São Paulo on 31/Mar/2011 sponsored by CCSL
Better Science Through Art
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Designed as Designer
Conceptual integrity arises not (simply) from one mind or from a small number of agreeing resonant minds, but from sometimes hidden co-authors and the things designed themselves.
This presentation was created by Richard P Gabriel and presented at IME-USP – São Paulo on 30/Mar/2011 sponsored by CCSL
Better Science Through Art – Photos
For the last two days, we have an awesome event at IME-USP with Richard P. Gabriel and Joe Yoder. Here are some pictures of this great moment!
Better Science Through Art
CCSL sponsors the coming of two big names of Computer Science to Brazil. They will be here next week (March 30th, 31th), at the Event “Better Science Through Art” with Joe Yoder and Richard Gabriel. The event will be awesome and FREE!
Common wisdom says that science and art are entirely different beasts; moreover, a similar source of wisdom tells us that science is valuable to society while art is a luxury. Why else would schools drop art from their curricula over the past 20 years? But artists and scientists approach their work in similar if not identical ways.
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Samba do Akita
O Akita nos convidou
Prum evento muito legal
Nóis fumo e foi muito mais que animal
Nóis twitêmo RailsSummit o dia inteiro
Da outra vêis, nóis vai vortá
Nóis não semo tatu
Outro dia encontremo com Akita
Que mostrou pra gente a morena Open Source
Isso não se faz Akita
Nóis sêmo geek
Era só ter ponhado o projeto no git
(música apresentada pela primeira vez na desconferência do Rails Summit 2009)
Art in our children’s education
In this video, Ken Robinson shows how schools kill creativity.
The coolest part is when he says today we are forgeting we have a body. We focus just on our heads, because the ultimate objective of one would be become a University Professor. He says Professors are people who think their body are just transport for their heads. The body exists just to take our heads to meetings.
I can extend this to every IT professional. We are tremendously focused on our heads. I admit that sometime I forget I have a body (Thankfully, not every time)! We need to start dancing!
I was used to dance forro before I’ve got married. It was a great time in my life (nothing to do with the girls I’ve got there). Now I dance with my wife sometimes, not so often, but every time it happens it’s a big pleasure and I have no doubts that, if I start to measure my productivity on week that I dance, I’ll get better results on dancing weeks.
Whatch the video, take you own conclusion and, LET’S DANCE! Continue reading
Some Theater Performance
I’d like to share with you 2 scenes that I made in the theater. One was in 2005 in a play called a “Sétima Arte” – the scene is a trio singing Day’o Banana. The other is on a play called “O Banquete da Vida” – the scene is a guy selling Mentos in a train. Both were done in the Oficina dos Menestréis group.