He’s the subject of a 2016 short film, The Snow Guardian, and a bar six miles away in Crested Butte is named the billy barr in his honor. (Barr lowercases the B’s in his name,…
Browsing Category Humans
Cape Minstrel Celebrations, Green Point, Cape Town
Brenton Geach, a South African photographer and contributer to GroundUp. He captured some stunning images of minstrels and crowds at the Tweede Nuwe Jaar Festival.
More precisely physicist, less precisely woman…
An old, but humorous talk by Shohini Ghose from 2014. She talks about what she calls, “The surprising power of uncertainty”, and has some wonderful analogies about shape-shifting, existing in two states at the same…
The power of “super-facilitators”
I’ve been reading about “super-facilitators”: people who make teams smarter together by improving how they interact. It struck me how relevant this is to futures and foresight. Futures methods are often treated as the main…
500 50+ women
Curator Jane Scott approached Australian photographer Ponch Hawkes with the idea of photographing 500 naked women over the age of 50 for an exhibition that would challenge stereotypes about ageing, titled Flesh After Fifty. “One…