Gel Videos

These Gel presentations offer ideas and inspiration on a wide array of topics. New videos will be posted every week or so: get the RSS feed or email newsletter to be notified.

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: Marie Lorenz; Sculptor, boat builder, Tide and Current Taxi; 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"; Tags: business; Posted: 12/16/08 | Recorded at Gel 2008; 2 comments; 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; Tags: community, education; Posted: 12/09/08 | Recorded at Gel 2006; 1 comment; 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; Tags: art; Posted: 12/09/08 | Recorded at Gel 2008; 1 comment; 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; Tags: art, design; Posted: 12/03/08 | Recorded at Gel 2008; 88 comments; 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; Tags: performance, psychology; Posted: 12/02/08 | Recorded at Gel 2006; 7 comments; 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; Tags: psychology, technology; Posted: 11/21/08 | Recorded at Gel 2008; 5 comments; 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; Tags: business, design; Posted: 11/20/08 | Recorded at Gel 2008; 4 comments; 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; 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; Tags: music, technology; Posted: 11/19/08 | Recorded at Gel 2007; 1 comment; 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)