Down East 2013 ©
On Sunday, October 10 (10/10/10), I attended the TEDxDirigo event at the Frontier Cafe in Brunswick. It was intense and overwhelming in the best possible way. I left inspired personally and inspired about Maine and everything that is going on here. For a list of the speakers you can check out the TEDxDirigo website [1], and soon they'll post the talks as well and you can watch them. And I encourage you to. Because they are about Maine, and the future, and creativity, and inspiration, and technology.
And if you are not familiar with the TED lectures, do yourself a favor and go to their website [2] to take in some of the great talks they have posted. The likes of Malcolm Gladwell and JK Rowling, as well as leaders in tech, dance, music - you name it.
So the talks were great, the Frontier Cafe [3] was the perfect venue, and the food was top-notch as well. Dolcelinos [4] was there to offer us ice cream sandwiches at lunch and the Gelato Fiasco [5] provided amazingly delicious ice cream after dinner.
This leads to the TEDxDirigo blog [6] which has links to all of the non-maine TED talks that we watched. My favorites were the brainwave one and the dance troup.
Ari
Managing Editor Books/Online
Links:
[1] http://tedxdirigo.com/
[2] http://www.ted.com/
[3] http://www.explorefrontier.com/
[4] http://www.dolcelinos.com/
[5] http://www.gelatofiasco.com/
[6] http://tedxdirigo.com/blog