2015 TKR: Knowledge is Beautiful

Knowledge is Beautiful 

Data journalist, designer and founder of the blog sensation 'Information is Beautiful' (http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/) David McCandless visited the RSA to demonstrate how visualized information can help us comprehend, navigate and find meaning in a complex world.

• Watch on YouTube

• Information is beautiful: 30 examples of creative infography
• Ideas, issues, knowledge, data — visualized!

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• (More after the break)

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News and Notes

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• Burn2: Carnival of Mirrors, Oct. 18­-25, 2015 Get your plot now!
• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS
• WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
• HG WIP Show Sun. Sept 6, 20
• PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,
• SciFi Film FestivalSummer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis
• Scroll down for News, Notes, and Info
• Burn2 Website 

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• Use your head! They always tell you that. They never tell you how
• Brainstorming, ideation, getting ideas in virtual worlds   
• Quick tips to remember things
• Optional thinking: Draft; Un-; Zen; Final
• Leadership and the telling of stories
• Can You Make Yourself Smarter?    
• The people in your head. Be everyone you can be   
• The trouble with being perfect  

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News and Notes

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HG WIP Show Sun, Sept. 6

The Hypergrid WIP Show

The Hypergrid WIP is a one hour "show & tell" of works in progress or recently completed. All builders from beginner to pro are invited.  Presentations are in voice and text.  For text presentations, best bring the text in a notecard and paste it into chat.  Voice presentations may be captured in video.  Stills and videos from the show may appear in this blog. 

• HG address: Put the line below in the world map, next to Find. Click Find.  TP.
• grid.kitely.com:8002:Cookie II

• In Kitely: put the line below in the Firestorm nav bar, enter
• hop://grid.kitely.com:8002/Cookie II/77/373/22

• Upcoming WIPs: Sept. 6, 20

Previous Articles from the WIP show 

• The WIP show, 7/18/2015: Virtual mobile art by Lucy Afarensis
• WIP Show at Hobo Sandbox on Cookie II, Kitely
• WIP Show, works in progress on the Hypergrid June 3, 2015
• Hypergrid WIP meeting. The creatives of the hypergrid

PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE: UWA 3D Art & Film Challenges 2015,

The University of Western Australia (UWA) has launched 'PURSUE IMPOSSIBLE, the 6th UWA Grand Art Challenge and MachinimUWA VIII with a starting prize pool in excess of L$560,000.   Deadline: Midnight SLT, 31st October 201

SciFi Film Festival

• SciFi Film Festival 2015 has a submission fee but
• For videos shot in Second Life, University of Western Australia 
• pays the fee.  

• Deadline for Late Submissions: Midnight – 29 August 2015

Summer of Arts submissions open on Metropolis

• Summer of Arts 2015
• Open to artists now.
• Open to everyone September 25, 2015 

Entertainment on the Hypergrid

• Entertainment on the Hypergrid, a G+ community
• HYPERGRID EVENTS

Depending on your interests

• Best metaverse communities   
• Arcadia Asylum All Around   
• G+ community: Hypergrid Safari
• G+ community: Metaverse Tours
• Hypergrid Destinations

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