David Sibbet

TED BIG VIZ Book and Movie are LIVE!!

You can download the TED2008-BigViz Book and see an amazing Movie of the 700 plus illustrations Kevin Richards and I did for Big Viz (see stories below). It's a BIG file, but amazing to see. Enjoy.

The Artistry of Leadership: The Role of Design, Participation & Community"

Late February I traveled to Minnesota to be a conversation starter at the Heartland Circle Thought Leader Gathering on the topic, "The Artistry of Leadership: The Role of Design, Participation & Community." I was very stimulated by this invitation, and found myself reflecting on some important topics. If you would like to hear this 40 minute talk, check out the Heartland web site. My talks are available in the left-hand column. A pdf transcript is available here.

Download TLGArtistryofLeadership.pdf (185.8K)

Here is a photo of me after dinner (on a crisp winter night) with (from left) Patricia and Craig Neal, founders of Heartland, and Paula Ray, a fellow Californian and Thought Leader who traveled out to the event.

Vision 2020—The Bifurcation of Business

I'm getting ready to go on a vision quest at Joshua Tree National Monument this April, seeking guidance in these challenging times. In the process I stumbled across a podcast I made for Firehawk Hulin and Bill Veltrop and their Vision 2020 series with Stranova. I was in a flow that day, talking as if I was in 2020. It's a fun listen!!! Can you imagine returning to localized agriculture after peak oil? Can you imagine visual literacy and multi-touch walls commonplace? Can you imagine children's creativity being held in public trust? Can you imagine the West Coast's major industry being health and tourism? Can you imagine re-embracing indigenous wisdom and having a different dream in the north, which honors the long cycles?  Click here to listen to The Coming Bifurcation of Business.

TED2008-BIG VIZ Production

Here is a short video of the work I was doing at TED2008 with Tom Wujec, Kevin Richards, and  John  Schmeir of Autodesk and Phil Davidson of Perceptive Pixel. It was a tour-de-force of documentation, where we graphically illustrated all 50+ speakers on the topic of The Big Questions. The illustrations were created by Kevin and myself on Wacom tablets, and then accessed from our hard drives by the Perceptive Pixel-Multitouch wall shown in two posts ago. I made this video from photos and videos I took at the event. Tom Wujec is now making an on-line book of all our drawings that will be available at www.autodesk.com. If you want to start seeing some of the talks live, click here.

White Mountain Studio Tour

Here is a short little tour of my White Mountain Studio. I made this to test out how to get video into this blog!! I also have a new gallery show in our Third Life Galleries in SL. Just search for Third LIfe, and at the Pier teleport up to the Galleries.

TED2008 Is Complete

650 images later Kevin Richards and I have finished our illustration of TED2008. Tom Wujec is now creating the book (and a video). All the TED talks will be posted on their web site soon. I'm exhausted,  very inspired  and wanting to share a couple photos of the Perceptive Pixel-MultiTouch Wall that we used, and some of the drawings. I plan to write a nice piece about the substance of the conference this week.