- -: 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 - Michael Zuckerman - A World's Cup
August 3, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Michael Zuckerman is the founder of 3rdSpaces, Director of Sustainability for San Francisco's Temple Nightclub, and Chair of the Kyebando Green Age in Kampala, Uganda. Under his guidance, Temple Nightclub (the host site of the inaugural TEDxAlcatraz) has established industry best practices in res...
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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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- -: TEDxAlcatraz - Miwa Matreyek - Dreaming of Lucid Living
September 2, 2011 (over 12 years ago)A TEDGlobal 2010 speaker, graduating from CalArt's Experimental Animation program with an MFA in 2007, Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and multi-media artist working in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as works that integrate animation and live performance/installatio...
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- -: Authors@Google: Andrew Baggarly
May 27, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Andrew Baggarly spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on May 23, 2011 about his book A Band of Misfits: Tales of the 2010 San Francisco Giants. He is introduced by Ryan Terribilini. About the book: "The 2010 San Francisco Giants were the most unlikely World Series champions of all time. Sure, they...
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- -: Authors@Google: Anthony Myint and Karen Leibowitz, "Mission Street Food"
September 8, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Mission Street Food is a restaurant. But it's also a charitable organization, a taco truck, a burger stand, and a clubhouse for inventive cooks tucked inside an unassuming Chinese take-out place. In all its various incarnations, it upends traditional restaurant conventions, in search of moral and...
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- -: Monk - Tony Shaloub On Objectivity in the Monk Zone
December 17, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Actors Jason Gray Stanford (Lieutenant Randall Disher) talks about losing objectivity after so many years as Monk. Series co-creator/executive producer David Hoberman and executive producer Randy Zisk talk about writer Andy Breckman and the setting of the show in San Francisco.
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- -: West Wing Week: 2/18/11 or "Goodbye, Gibbs"
February 18, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, President Obama released his federal budget, discussing the need to take responsibility for our deficits while investing in education, to prepare our children to be competitive in the ...
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Harvey Milk: Gay Pride Rally Speech
March 24, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Harvey Milk - the first openly gay politican to be elected to office in California - speaks at a rally in Gus Van Sant's drama about his life, "Milk". He is played by actor Sean Penn.
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