TEDxAlcatraz - Robert King - Alone
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Robert Hillary King was the opening speaker for the inaugural TEDx Alcatraz. In this talk, "Alone," King takes us inside the mind of someone wrongly convicted of a crime, the consequence of which was an unfathomable 29 years of solitary confinement in Louisiana's Angola State Prison. Arrested as a member of the Black Panther Party in the 1960's,... Read more
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- -: TEDxAlcatraz - Robert King - Alone
March 30, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Robert Hillary King was the opening speaker for the inaugural TEDx Alcatraz. In this talk, "Alone," King takes us inside the mind of someone wrongly convicted of a crime, the consequence of which was an unfathomable 29 years of solitary confinement in Louisiana's Angola State Prison. Arrested as ...
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- -: TEDxAlcatraz - Larissa Sand - A Modern Speakeasy
April 5, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Larissa Sand is principal of Sand Studios, a multidisciplinary architecture, interior design and lighting design office in San Francisco. The studio houses its own fabrication facility. At TEDxAlcatraz, Larissa walks us through her recent project creating a new kind of San Francisco medicinal mar...
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- -: TEDxAlcatraz - Bob Weir - Masters of War to Bird Song
May 8, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Bob Weir has been on center stage for over 45 years, with as loyal a following as one could imagine. He speaks through poetry and song. A founding member of the Grateful Dead, these days Bob plays with several bands, including Furthur and Ratdog. Bob is also a philanthropist and founder of the F...
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- -: TEDxAlcatraz - James Nash - Russell County Gorge
May 29, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Songs about war are timeless and a part of American culture. In this talk, James Nash reflects on how he came to write "Russell County Gorge" about US Marine Corps 1st Lt. Ryan McGlothlin, killed in Iraq in 2005. Over the course of two years traveling and performing the song, James found Ryan's s...
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- -: TEDxAlcatraz - Peter Gregson - Soundscapes
June 22, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Born in Edinburgh in 1987, Peter Gregson is a cellist and pioneer of contemporary music. He has performed widely in the UK and the US, at venues ranging from The Royal Albert Hall, London to The Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh; from the Twitter Offices in San Francisco to Le Poisson Rouge, New York....
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- -: TEDxAlcatraz - Musical Cast - Journey to Alcatraz Jam
August 20, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Here captures the opening collaboration for the inaugural TEDxAlcatraz, introducing Alcatraz and the night's theme, "A Suspension of Disbelief." With alarms & sirens signaling escape, gunshots echoing through the room from watchtower guards, and simulated fog from the stage rolling into the unkn...
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- -: TEDxAldeburgh - Peter Gregson - Autotune Made Me a Socialist, and Here's Why
December 7, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Peter's talk looks at the shifting sands of pitch, and how over the years accepted and agreed pitches have creeped upwards. He also takes a closer look at the problems of homogenous music. Born in Edinburgh in 1987, Peter Gregson is a cellist, composer and pioneer of contemporary music. He has p...
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