Tedx Brisbane 2013
A brief rundown of my time there
Technical difficulty maybe the bane of the modern world and is increasing rapidly, our reach is easily exceeding our grasp in that regard. I’m already 6 coffees deep as we enter the main auditorium of tedx Brisbane 2013, hosted at the state library. The show is a half hour later to due said technical difficulties, but with a crisis comes an opportunity, I did some virtual window shopping, caught up on my comics and listened to the house band Nonsemble, a six piece instrumental ensemble, heavy in the strings section and is the perfect accompaniment with a day that is sure to be inspiring in one capacity or another.
This is my second time at tedx. I first attended in 2011, when I was more of a novice and perhaps less cynical than I find myself today. Ted has always been a great eye opener, I first learnt of the brilliance of Malcolm Gladwell (His talk about Howard Moskuwits and spaghetti sauce, is something I call back on frequently) and gained a greater appreciation of food with integrity (From a Spanish foie gras farmer no less). Ted has been a parent on the side, a parental mistress and I am sure to have my eyes opened further and make me rethink some of the practices I hold.
House band nonsemble
One dream -
Simon Griffiths — Who gives a crap -toilet paper
Humorous thought provoking with a solid message attached for social change and the impact for social media, ensuring newsworthy and shareable
Helen Bird -street food australia — I really want to get behind what she’s doing with food, I love street food and feel Australia is lacking immeasurably in it, due to our youth as a country and national identity lacking in community food aside from the sausage sizzle. Perhaps from my own short comings and cynicism I can’t work with an altruistic mentality, I don’t believe it works, I want to but I clash far too often with people who preach it, finding their other beliefs to be counter to my own.
Michael Williams — soft soothing speech about listening, recognising the power of silence. A lasting quote being that if you don’t understand someone’s silence you cannot understand their words.
Rebecca McDonald — disjointed story made even more uneasy by the lack of technological synergy (not on Rebecca’s behalf but with the av guys) but emotional and with a lasting message of the affirmative one that left me welling up.
Shantanu Starick — by radically living by a code that disables the power of the current monetary system, Shantanu shows those experiences that can be gained by seeking out different ways of interacting with others, breaking down barriers that block one another from realising the unkown.
Darren Percival — the ingenuity of loops in live music is fucking brilliant and I can’t get enough of it, especially when one man harmony is in play, I didn’t watch the voice when he was on it but Australia is missing out given that he didn’t win.
One void
Chris Tamwoy — a Torres Strait island boy with a unique, part Asian part blue grass way of playing the guitar, with no formal training, it’s really impressive to listen and watch his talents, can’t read sheet music
Murray Fredericks — the emotional quality of space, experience the landscape without all the clutter. Art is of a time.
Michael Curren & James Teh — blind programmers, creating a screen reader for blind persons , second most used screen reader, the program Is being used by both Michael and James are they do their talk, using it to read their notes for the talk. As Shantanu broke down the barriers of the monetary, Michael and James’s success aids in breaking down minority barriers.
