Maureen Hascoet de Cuestas is an extraordinary woman. I have known her for fifteen years now, we have worked together on many events. We have continued to support each other whenever things got tough. Often we needed just a safe place to talk and find solutions to what often felt like impossible challenges. Maureen […]
The last year has been SO busy that I have only just managed to get to a whole backlog of editing that needed doing, including this Behind The Scenes from our TEDxEaling event. You can watch all the videos from the TEDxEaling talks on the site HERE. I hope you enjoy the sneaky peek behind […]
From TEDxEaling, The Art of Seduction by Seema Annand, and the most popular TEDxEaling talk on YouTube. I could listen to her talk for hours! Onwards and upwards! Chris Jones My movies www.LivingSpiritGroup.com My Facebook www.Facebook.com/ChrisJonesFilmmaker My Twitter @LivingSpiritPix Sign up to my mailing list for updates on events, books and free film making tools […]
Finally the first batch of our TEDxEaling videos are live, and I thought I would share one of my favourite talks of the day, by rapper and urban poet, Dekay. What was so electric about this talk was that clearly this was the first time Dekay had done anything like this, but shore tore up […]
I never liked rap. It’s a musical artform that just never chimed with me. That’s one reason why I invited young British female ‘light-the-blue-touchpaper-and-stand-back’ rapper Dekay to come and present at TEDxEaling. And I am so glad she accepted as she ripped the stage up. Her passion, dedication to excellence and explanation of the artform […]
So the very first TEDxEaling took place on Friday, and what a day it was! It was on the Thursday afternoon before TEDxEaling that I realised that I had accidentally produced a stage show with lighting, multimedia, theatrics, sets… And coming from the film world, there was a lot of skills that could be transferred, […]
Yesterday we hosted our very first TEDxEaling event – to say it was awesome would be an understatement. I will share more about the day in coming posts, but I wanted to highlight one aspect of TEDxEaling experience, a simple principle of success that I have experienced over and over. Here it is… Seek out […]
As TEDxEaling nears, yesterday the whole team checked out the venue and worked out how we were going to transform this amazing space into an even more amazing TEDxEalingx stage. Speakers are now confirming and we still have a few lines out some huge names! Speakers here… Can you help with TEDxEaling? We are still […]
Some of you may know I am running a TEDx conference, TEDxEaling, the theme being ‘Story’. Ever since I saw my very first TED talk, I wanted to organise a TEDx, and now it’s happening on September 21st in Ealing. I thought I would share my favourite TED talk – with JJ Abrams. I am […]
The last few weeks have been frantically busy and I have hardly had time to get to the blog. I am working on two massive new initiatives – first is ‘50 Kisses’ (we will be announcing the 50 script winners next week – please join the Facebook page for info on the next leg for […]
