RSA Animate – Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

Great little video on what motivates us. The answer might surprise you.

Seconds of Beauty

A second is a long time, maybe it’s dwarfed by it’s longer siblings, but a whole lot can fit into a second. This is a compilation of submissions to The Beauty of a Second film contest.

Vines: A love story

I love finding ways people communicate with each other. The most earnest ones are between couples, and this does not fail. It’s a great little idea and hopefully we’ll be seeing more things like this.

My favorite Christmas commercial

Influencers Documentary

INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo.

INFLUENCERS is a short documentary that explores what it means to be an influencer and how trends and creativity become contagious today in music, fashion and entertainment.

The film attempts to understand the essence of influence, what makes a person influential without taking a statistical or metric approach.

Written and Directed by Paul Rojanathara and Davis Johnson, the film is a Polaroid snapshot of New York influential creatives (advertising, design, fashion and entertainment) who are shaping today’s pop culture.

“Influencers” belongs to the new generation of short films, webdocs, which combine the documentary style and the online experience.

www.influencersfilm.com
www.facebook.com/influencersfilm
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Director’s Note: http://on.fb.me/bQ3kHj
Playlist: http://on.fb.me/cve0yF

How to be alone

Leadership Lessons from Dancing Guy

Pros, Elected Ones and the New Boys: Teaching

This is one of my favorite scenes from WKRP. I can see someone doing something like this for a Table Topic in Toastmasters

Anatomy of a Homurous speech

This is a video of a John Zimmer, a toastmaster in Europe, on his site he’s broken down the contents of his speech and his thought process behind why he did certain things. His commentary is just fascinating as his speech.

The science of listener attention

From the West Wing:

”Food is cheaper. Clothes are cheaper. Steel is cheaper. Cars are cheaper. Phone service is cheaper. You feel me building a rhythm here? That’s because I’m a speech writer, I know how to make a point. It lowers prices and raises income. Do you see what I did with ‘lowers’ and ‘raises’ there? It’s called the science of listener attention. We did repetition, we did floating opposites, and here comes the one that’s not like the others. Ready? Free trade stops wars … and we figure out how to fix the rest.”