Boost Your Creativity Through Self-Restraints — Scott Robbin
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Coding, arts, Cards Against Humanity, software, creativity, and self-imposed restraints. Scott is a web developer and co-creator (with Naz Hamid) of Vapid, an intentionally simple content management system to create websites. Get more on .
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Become Your True Self — Jen Ellison
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Comedy. teaching, Drunk Jcrew, empowering others, and having fun. Jen Ellison is an actor, writer, director, and professor focusing on comedy and theatre. She performed and directed at ComedySportz, Collaboraction, The Neo-Futurists, and The Second City—the legendary improv theater where Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Key and Peele, and Stephen Colbert first learned how to be be funny on stage. As a professor, she is the former lead of an Ethics in Gaming class, analyzing how we, as players, can become somebody else, living through another point of view, experience empahty, and how videogames and...
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Improve with People Smarter Than You — Cody Gough
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Radio, curiosity, podcasting, health, and becoming smarter. Cody Gough is a radio host, producer, and audio editor. For over a decade he worked as a producer and content creator with WGN Radio, GonnaGeek Network, and Curiosity.com. Mr. Gough's skills help shows to take shape and become even more successful while he works with hosts like Spike O'Dell, Brian Noonan, Nick Digilio, Steve King and Johnnie Putnam, Milt Rosenberg, and Pete McMurray. He hosts the award-winning, daily curiosity.com podcast and Game/Life Balance U.S., a lifestyle show. Get more on .
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Space Channel 5 VR Kinda Funky News Flash — Okamura Mineko (岡村峰子)
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First-ever review of Space Channel 5 VR in May 2018, the day before the official opening of VRLA. Okamura-san is the CEO of Grounding, an independent video-game company based in Japan and currently developing the virtual reality sequel to one of SEGA's most successful and bizarre games ever: Space Channel 5, a visionary music game first released in the late 90s where Ulala, a space news reporter in the 25th century, saves humanity by defeating evil aliens through dance moves and singing, sometimes even helped by Michael Jackson as Space Michael. As one of the few executive women and...
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Embrace Your Limitations — Luca Badetti
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Disabilities, emapthy, understanding yourself, and community. Dr. Luca Badetti tries to embrace both abilities and inabilities, arguing that this is the best way to become a more complete and connected human being: by encountering disability. Professor at Loyola and DePaul University, as Director of Community Life at L'Arche holding a PhD in Disability Studies, in his TED talk Luca shares powerful stories from his live-in experience with persons with and without intellectual disabilities, inviting everyone to befriend and accept their own perceived limitations to stimulate human growth. Get...
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SNL, Police Academy, and What Truly Matters — Tim Kazurinsky
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SNL, Police Academy, shifting careers, writing, and what really matters in life. Tim has performed on SNL for years, starred in movies like Police Academy, musicals like Wicked, paid for Eddie Murphy's dentist. We discussed what really matters in life—even when you reach fame. Get more on .
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Change What You Can't Change — Ashley Ray
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TV shows, race, sexuality, and comedy. Ashley shares her personal stories with no filters, touching important topics like gender, race, unconventional relationships, and sexuality. She writes for The A.V. Club, Vice, and The Chicago Reader. Get more on .
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Clown, Art, and Infinite Beauty — Adrian Danzig
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Physical comedy, aging, changing ideas, and opening up to infinite beauty. Adrian is a co-founder of 500 Clown and a physical performer known across continents for his skill and shows. Get more on .
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Find Your Still Point — Lisa Wagner-Carollo
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Mental disabilities, social justice, theater, and becoming a catalyst. Lisa spent over 30 years connecting people with developmental disabilities, marginalized communities, and incarcerated women to their own still point through art and theater. Get more on .
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Learn to Fail — Kelly Leonard
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Being constructive, learning from failures, comedy, yes and, and mental flexibility. Kelly is a historical producer from the legendary The Second City theater where improvisation was born. He helps to study improvisation under the lenses of business and behavioral science. Get more on . Get more on .
info_outlineCoding, arts, Cards Against Humanity, software, creativity, and self-imposed restraints. Scott is a web developer and co-creator (with Naz Hamid) of Vapid, an intentionally simple content management system to create websites.
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