TEDxGranta - Merlin Crossingham - Aardman, Animation and Bringing Wallace & Gromit To Life
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Merlin Crossingham is a climber, acrobat and Creative Director for Wallace and Gromit. As an animator at Aardman, Merlin has worked on Morph, Chicken Run and co-directed the Creature Comforts USA series for CBS, for which he gained an Emmy nomination. He has also trained with the Moscow State Circus in acrobatics, unicycle and trapeze. In the ... Read more
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- -: TEDxGranta - Merlin Crossingham - Aardman, Animation and Bringing Wallace & Gromit To Life
April 12, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Merlin Crossingham is a climber, acrobat and Creative Director for Wallace and Gromit. As an animator at Aardman, Merlin has worked on Morph, Chicken Run and co-directed the Creature Comforts USA series for CBS, for which he gained an Emmy nomination. He has also trained with the Moscow State Ci...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Ross Sargent -- Blindfold Kung Fu
April 12, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Ross Sargent is co-Founder and Chief Instructor of Cambridge Kung Fu Ltd., a not-for-profit social enterprise. His vision is to pass on the fundamental benefits that can be gained through the practice of intelligent martial arts and movement. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a pr...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Tim Minshall -- Building the Future
April 12, 2012 (about 12 years ago)With a PhD from Cambridge University Engineering Department, Tim Minshall researches, teaches, and writes on technology, enterprise and open innovation and, since 1998, has been involved in helping people get new technologies to market.
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Eben Upton -- Raspberry Pi
April 13, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Eben Upton is the founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which is developing a $25 microcomputer with the goal of putting programmable hardware in the hands of every child in the UK. Eben is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device. In the spir...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Ross Sargent -- Mindful Movement
April 13, 2012 (about 12 years ago)Ross Sargent is co-Founder and Chief Instructor of Cambridge Kung Fu Ltd., a not-for-profit social enterprise. His vision is to pass on the fundamental benefits that can be gained through the practice of intelligent martial arts and movement. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a pr...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Kirsten Lavers -- FLACK -- More Than a Magazine
April 13, 2012 (about 12 years ago)With the support of the homeless community, Kirsten Lavers and her team have launched FLACK: a monthly magazine showcasing the talents of its homeless contributors. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- David Constantine -- The Chair That Changes Lives
April 13, 2012 (about 12 years ago)David Constantine MBE is co-founder of Motivation, a charity working to improve the quality of life of people with mobility impairment. David himself is wheelchair dependant, and works to create a charity and social enterprise that gives disabled people in the developing world access to wheelcha...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Jenny Tillotson -- A "Science Fashion" Story
April 11, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Jenny Tillotson brings a background in art into science. Her work is merging the ancient art of perfumery with modern technologies to contribute to find new ways of enhancing the emotional wellbeing of women. In this talk, Jenny shows us projects in which she fuses fashion, technology and the sc...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Anne Dobrée -- An Appeal from the Society for Start-ups
April 11, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Anne Dobrée is Head of Seed Funds with Cambridge Enterprise Seed Funds. Anne's talk shows the significance of seed funding in promoting and enabling technological advancements emerging from the laboratory, and their impact economically and on society. About TEDx, x = independently organized even...
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- -: TEDxGranta -- Ian Price -- The Cult of Busyness
April 12, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Ian Price is author of new business book "The Activity Illusion", and an experienced business leader turned business psychologist. Ian's talk shows how advances in communication technology have removed brakes on our availability, and how being visibly busy is becoming a status symbol. About TED...
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