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People say I’m too intense

December 1, 2013 By Administrator

Guest post by my friend Becky Blanton

I was feeling bad about the fact people distance themselves from me because they say I’m “too intense.” Then I asked someone what that meant and she said, “You speak up.”

  • When a man on the plane began talking about raping women and hurting women and a 10-year-old girl and her mother cowered, afraid to say anything — I spoke up, and even though I was quaking in fear, I confronted him when he tried to intimidate me.
  • When a mother was beating and slapping her son, confined to a wheelchair with Cerebral Palsy, I told her to stop, made her stop and called 911. No one else in the restaurant could meet my gaze or her….too ashamed or scared to “get involved.”
  • When a family was throwing rocks, destroying a national monument I spoke up, and took their photo…
  • When a kid in a middle school where I was giving a talk to a classroom was being bullied in the hallway by three boys, I stopped it.

What people call rabble rousing, intense, argumentative…I call courage.

It’s okay to be a coward. To not speak up. To not get involved, to not help. But don’t give me shit because I do. One day I may be the ONLY one who stands up for YOU.

Courage Fear Buttons Shows Bravery Or Scared

All about Homelessness

October 29, 2009 By Administrator

My friend, Becky Blanton, spent a year as a homeless person, and last summer she was one of the seven-minute speakers at TED in Oxford, England. Here is the video of her presentation.

Blanton just published an eBook, and you are welcome to download it. It’s called “Homeless for the Holidays,” and a terrific book for people interested in ensuring that homeless people have the best possible holiday.
http://homeless4theholidays.com/index_files/Homeless4holidaysFINAL.pdf

Storage tips for van dwellers, RVers & mobile travelers

September 26, 2009 By Administrator

becky-van-1My friend Becky Blanton just published an eBook that can significantly help people who live in vans or RVs of any kind. Why? Experience. She lives in a van. Her ebook is a how-to secure articles in your van or RV, along with storage and other tips.

Her eBook is called “Biners and Bags,” and is for sale on her website. This highly illustrated publication shows how one can live in 78-square feet comfortably!

TED Magazine

September 10, 2009 By Administrator

thumbsupsquareTonight my friend Becky Blanton got an advance copy of TED magazine. She wrote an an article in it – and although the full copy of the magazine won’t be released until Sept. 21 in London at a special TED Salon, you can read it here now! You’ll need to click through to the full version of this and then click on designmind_TEDGlobal to download your FREE copy of the magazine!

According to the official press release:
SAN FRANCISCO / LONDON, September 22, 2009 – Global innovation firm frog design today released a special edition of its award-winning design mind magazine, devoted exclusively to TEDGlobal (the twin conference of the annual TED conference in Long Beach, California), which took place from July 21-24, 2009 in Oxford, England.

Sixty speakers and performers as well as 700 attendees from diverse backgrounds, disciplines, and cultures came together to explore, discuss, and celebrate the conference theme, “The Substance of Things Not Seen.”

frog design, a TEDGlobal partner, also produced the official program guide for TEDGlobal. The special edition of its design mind publication captures key moments of the conference – among them talks by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, author and philosopher Alain de Botton, and Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – and features interviews with and essays from many of the most intriguing TEDGlobal speakers and attendees. Furthermore, the magazine contains behind-the-scenes impressions of “the making of” TEDGlobal as well as observations from the social gatherings and adjunct events at the conference.

Highlights include:

• Icarus Unbound: Adventurer Bertrand Piccard prepares for the first solar-powered flight around the world.
• Behind Closed Doors: Photographer Taryn Simon captures “America’s Hidden and Unfamiliar Places.”
• Hiding in Plain Sight: Journalist Misha Glenny investigates the underworld of organized crime.
• A New Way to See: Scientist and installation artist Beau Lotto envisions a synesthetic model of education.
• Eyes Can Hear: Pop singer Imogen Heap visualizes her music.
• 21st-Century Medievalism: Political scientist Parag Khanna describes the new global powers in a multi-polar world.
• Small World: Willard Wigan’s micro-sculptures fit within the eye of a needle.
• Sitopia: Architect Carolyn Steel proposes a new model for feeding the world’s expanding cities.
• The D in TED: Journalists Andrian Kreye and Antonia Ward examine the changing concept of design.
• The Wounded Man: Writer Andreas Salcher explains why early childhood traumas break some but motivate others to greater achievements.
• The Invisibles: Writer Becky Blanton reviews her trip to homelessness and back.
• Public Diplomacy 2.0: Digital governance expert Evgeny Morozov argues that governments need to upgrade their social media outreach.

In addition, the magazine includes a special TED bonus session on “The Meaning of Business” with contributions from Beth Comstock, chief marketing officer and senior vice president of GE; Henry Tirri, senior vice president of Nokia and head of the Nokia Research Center; as well as Dev Patnaik, founder and principal of Jump Associates, and author of the book Wired to Care.

design mind was the first publication invited to fully document a TED conference. Granted unlimited access to TEDGlobal in Oxford, the frog design team returned home with thousands of photographs, as well as books full of notes, sketches, illustrations, and many insights and fascinating encounters.

“Our goal was to turn the ideas presented at TEDGlobal into rich content that extends the dialogue between speakers and audience beyond the conference,” said Sam Martin, editor-in-chief of design mind. “It’s an opportunity to experience the conference in a different medium and at your own pace. Both those who were there and those who weren’t can delve more deeply into the passions and ideas shared at TEDGlobal, and learn more about the topics and the people who took part on-stage and off.”

Bruno Giussani, European director of TED, who curated the TEDGlobal 2009 conference and served as the guest editor for the design mind issue, said: “The design mind magazine is a beautiful and compelling publication that provides a new perspective to everyone who follows TEDGlobal. It is both a souvenir and a conversation starter, offering Oxford attendees and the broader TED community a look at the conference that goes far beyond the events it chronicles.”

Tim Leberecht, frog design’s vice president of marketing and communications, and the publisher of design mind, said: “For a design and innovation firm such as frog, TED is a wonderful gift. TED’s philosophy is a perfect match with frog’s interdisciplinary approach to creativity and innovation. With the design mind magazine, we hope to add value to the global TED community while at the same time benefiting from first-hand access to some of the world’s most remarkable ideas and thinkers. We’re very excited about this unique partnership.”

The design mind TEDGlobal edition, “The Substance of Things Not Seen,” was unveiled on September 21 at an exclusive TED Salon in London featuring TEDGlobal speakers, contributors to the magazine, and special guests. The magazine will be distributed to the TEDGlobal attendees and through the TED Book Club. It is also available in select bookstores and online at http://designmind.frogdesign.com.

About design mind
design mind is the award-winning publication of global innovation firm frog design. Written and designed by frog’s employees as well as featuring contributions from guest writers and artists, it provides perspectives on industry trends, emerging technologies, and global consumer culture. The Web site is updated daily with blogs, videos, and podcasts. The print version is published three times a year. The special TEDGlobal issue, “The Substance of Things Not Seen,” is the fourth print edition after “Numbers” (July 2008), “Motion” (January 2009), and “Power” (June 2009). design mind was selected as a winner for 365: AIGA Annual Design Competitions 30, STEP Magazine’s STEP Inside Design 100, and Creativity + Commerce, Print Magazine’s International Business Graphics Review.
http://designmind.frogdesign.com

About frog design
frog design is a global innovation firm that helps the world’s leading companies create and bring to market meaningful products, services, and experiences. frog’s multidisciplinary process reveals valuable consumer and market insights, and inspires lasting, humanizing solutions. With a team of more than 400 designers, technologists, strategists, and analysts, frog delivers fully convergent experiences that span multiple technologies, platforms, and media. frog works across a broad spectrum of industries, including consumer electronics, telecommunications, healthcare, media, education, finance, retail, and fashion. Clients include Disney, GE, HP, Logitech, Microsoft, MTV, Seagate, Siemens, Yahoo! and others. Founded in 1969, frog is headquartered in San Francisco, with studios in Austin, New York, Seattle, Milan, Amsterdam, Stuttgart, and Shanghai. frog design is an independent division of Aricent, a global innovation, technology, and services company, focused exclusively on communications. Aricent is owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office, and Flextronics.
http://www.frogdesign.com

About TED
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then, its scope has broadened to include science, business, the arts, and the global issues facing our world. The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives – in 18 minutes. Attendees have called it “the ultimate brain spa” and “a four-day journey into the future.” The diverse audience – entrepreneurs, scientists, creatives, philanthropists – is almost as extraordinary as the speakers, who have included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Jane Goodall, Sir Richard Branson, Philippe Starck, Isabel Allende and Bono.

TED was first held in Monterey, California, in 1984. In 2001, Chris Anderson’s Sapling Foundation acquired TED from its founder, Richard Saul Wurman. In recent years, TED has expanded to include an annual international conference, TEDGlobal; media initiatives, including TEDTalks (available with subtitles in 40+ languages) and TED.com; the TED Fellowship; the TED Prize; and the newly launched TEDx initiative. TEDGlobal 2009, “The Substance of Things Not Seen,” was held July 21-24, 2009, in Oxford, UK. TEDIndia will be held in Mysore, India, November 1-4, 2009. TED2010, “What the World Needs Now,” will be held February 9-13, 2010, in Long Beach, California, with a TEDActive simulcast event in Palm Springs, California. TEDGlobal 2010, “And Now the Good News,” will be held July 13-16, 2010, in Oxford, UK.

For more info on TED: http://www.TED.com
For more info on TEDGlobal 2010: http://conferences.ted.com/TEDGlobal2010/
Contact
Kerry Emberley (US, Asia)
frog design inc.
San Francisco
+1 415 609 4292
kerry.emberley@frogdesign.com

Till Grusche (Europe)
frog design BV
Amsterdam
+ 31 (0)62 503 4660
till.grusche@frogdesign.com

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