Saturday, March 2, 2013
Sharing her journey from street artist to pioneer in modern-day patronage.
Lexington native Amanda Palmer, the musician and former Dresden Dolls frontwoman, was one of the featured speakers at this year’s TED conference. Her talk, titled “The Art of Asking,” explores the concept of supporting art through modern-day patronage, an idea she tested and legitimized by raising more than $1 million for her latest album “Theatre is Evil,” through a Kickstarter campaign. In her talk, which hit the interwebs earlier this week, Palmer recalls her turns as a street artist in Cambridge, and couch- and crowd-surfing in person and through social media. And how becoming "the hat" at her gigs and accepting money led to the idea of giving away her music for free, online while also asking for help for the project with her new band…
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Amanda Palmer’s in the lineup for TED 2013, but which Lexington native, past or present, would you like to see deliver a TED Talk?
Lexington native and pioneering artist Amanda Palmer will be one of the 70 speakers at the TED 2013 conferences, entitled “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.” According to Palmer’s microbio on the TED website, the “alt-rock icon … believes digital content should be free, and that artists should be directly supported by fans via a ‘patronage’ model.” A musician who gained fame with the Dresden Dolls, Palmer grabbed headlines recently for the über-successful Kickstarter campaign for her latest musical project. Her upcoming TED talk could in some form delve into crowdsourcing and sharing on the Internet. But TED talks famously cover all subjects, featuring innovators and influentials with “ideas worth spreading.” Diverse as they are, …
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013
The 'alt-rock icon' will be one of 70 speakers at this year's conference, titled 'The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.'
Amanda Palmer, the artist and Lexington native, has made the list – the list of innovators and influentials invited to speak at this year’s TED conference. As the Globe reported earlier this week, Palmer will be one of 70 speakers at this year’s conference, titled “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.” Palmer is, perhaps fittingly, listed on the roster for the session titled “Disrupt!” According to her microbio on the TED website, the “alt-rock icon … believes digital content should be free, and that artists should be directly supported by fans via a ‘patronage’ model.” About that: Palmer, formerly of the Dresden Dolls, recently showed what a modern, Internet-aided patronage model could look like by raising more than $1 million for her …
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
A community-based version of the popular TED talks hit the Emerson Umbrella Saturday, Oct. 13 with a focus on “urban inspiration.”
Despite the intentionally restricted attendance during its test phase, dozens of quizzical locals dropped $100 to attend the TEDxWaldenPond2.0 on Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts. It was a TEDx Talk, a localized version of the popular TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Talks, planned in four weeks with collaboration from TED as part of the City 2.0 campaign. Local organizer Marie “Twinkle” Manning was able to bring more than a dozen local speakers to talk about what the event’s marketing director, Cynthia Ellis, described as, “envisioning the future of the community … a day of urban inspiration” exploring the question of, “What does a community need to move into the future?” The Talk – Part 1 A total…
