Gel Videos
These Gel presentations offer ideas and inspiration on a wide array of topics.
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- Marie Lorenz
- Sculptor, boat builder, Tide and Current Taxi
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Tags:
art,
community,
design
- Posted: 12/16/08 | Recorded at
Gel 2007
- Marie runs the Tide and Current Taxi, which takes passengers on a boat (that she hand-built) on voyages on New... (read more)

- Phoebe Damrosch
- Author, "Service Included"
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Tags:
business
- Posted: 12/16/08 | Recorded at
Gel 2008
- Phoebe was the first female head captain at Thomas Keller's prestigious New York restaurant Per Se. Here she describes the experience of... (read more)

- Geoffrey Canada
- President, Harlem Children's Zone
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Tags:
community,
education
- Posted: 12/09/08 | Recorded at
Gel 2006
- In one of the all-time most popular Gel talks, Geoffrey Canada describes how his nonprofit, the Harlem Children's Zone, works... (read more)

- Sam Brown
- Artist, explodingdog.com
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Tags:
art
- Posted: 12/09/08 | Recorded at
Gel 2008
- For years now, Sam has drawn cartoons at explodingdog.com based on reader-submitted captions. The simple-yet-rich feel of his art is... (read more)

- Terry Border
- Artist, Bent Objects
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Tags:
art,
design
- Posted: 12/03/08 | Recorded at
Gel 2008
- Everyday objects take on surprising and often hilarious roles in Terry Border's hard-to-describe project. For years now, this unassuming photographer-sculptor-bargain-bin-shopper... (read more)

- Marc Salem
- Mentalist
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Tags:
performance,
psychology
- Posted: 12/02/08 | Recorded at
Gel 2006
- Marc focuses on "how the mind creates reality and meaning," according to his site, and this presentation shows how.... (read more)

- Kelly Dobson
- Artist and technologist
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Tags:
psychology,
technology
- Posted: 11/21/08 | Recorded at
Gel 2008
- After communicating with Blendie, her custom-built voice-activated blender, Kelly starts with a great first line - "I work with machines"... (read more)

- Alex Lee
- President, Oxo International
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Tags:
business,
design
- Posted: 11/20/08 | Recorded at
Gel 2008
- If you spend any time in the kitchen, you're likely to use an Oxo product regularly - an apple corer,... (read more)

- Henning Rübsam
- Choreographer, dancer, Sensedance
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Tags:
culture,
performance
- Posted: 11/20/08 | Recorded at
Gel 2007
- Henning describes the important place that dance occupies in culture today, and shows some of the elements that go into... (read more)

- Jim Bumgardner
- Hacker, krazydad.com
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Tags:
music,
technology
- Posted: 11/19/08 | Recorded at
Gel 2007
- Jim discusses screensavers, information theory, and (with crowd participation) the Whitney music box, which sets an algorithm to music. Blending visual, musical, technical,... (read more)