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Activateen announces 2020 Summer Programs

We are nearly half way through 2020 and it has been a disruptive year with constant change. We have had schools moving online, teachers…

Shaku SelvakumarJune 4, 2020

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Building Teams: Interview with Whitney Johnson

An interview with leading author, thinker and advisor, Whitney Johnson, on her latest book, Build an A-Team. Learning, curiosity, engagement are lifelong skills that help us…

Shaku SelvakumarMay 21, 2018

Generation Z WorkForce

Face the Future by Preparing in the Present

Working in an AI startup for the last five years gave me a glimpse into new workforce trends. The skills that we were looking for,…

Shaku SelvakumarMay 8, 2018

digital Food for thought Generation Z WorkForce

Dare to Disrupt (once again)

How Activateen came to be This post was originally written by me for LinkedIn last December, 2017. Change and I are friends. Not best buddies though.…

Shaku SelvakumarMay 6, 2018

digital Generation Z WorkForce

The Ten Most Important Work Skills in 2020

Companies today are in the process of rapidly realigning what the market is looking for them to create with the work force skills they have…

Shaku SelvakumarMay 4, 2018

digital Food for thought Generation Z

The Digital Divide

My kids are digital natives. Unlike me, they have never waited for the postman to deliver letters. They have never used a fax machine.…

Shaku SelvakumarMay 4, 2018

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The World of the Ordinauts with Dave Kebo - Anime

The World of the Ordinauts with Dave Kebo - Anime + Storytelling + AI
Placed under the context of the emerging world of the Ordinauts, we find the intersection of a creative project enabled by AI that engages with an audience in real time as its story arc is also influenced through crowd sourced content.

Join us on Friday!

Register: link in bio

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#aiart #animeart #anime #storytelling #animemasterclass #midjourney #discord #ordinauts #scifiart

Learn how to use Gen AI tools to create fantastic

Learn how to use Gen AI tools to create fantastic worlds

Text >>> image >>> video using AI tools

In this highly interactive class, Dave Kebo will take us through the way story, character and AI combine to explore the art of the possible.

First as an idea with text, then as a concept converted into an image, finally as it is stitched together through movement.

Placed under the context of the emerging world of the Ordinauts, we find the intersection of a creative project enabled by AI that engages with an audience in real time as its story arc is also influenced through crowd sourced content.

Join us on Friday!

Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwudOmvqz0jGNSumYg1DzMU6-99OluZ3nRV#/registration

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#aiart #animeart #anime #storytelling #animemasterclass #midjourney #discord #ordinauts #scifiart

Character development arc: introducing SIA “SIA

Character development arc: introducing SIA

“SIA identifies as female and exists as a decentralized network of consciousness, enabling real-time interactions across vast distances. She possesses the immense knowledge and collective wisdom of the entire history of the @ordinauts Empire.”

Learn about #anime, #AI and #storytelling with @discord #midjourneyart and the online community that influences characterization and narrative.

Masterclass with Ordinauts Creative Director, Dave Kebo on August 11
👉🏼Register link in bio

#animeart #aiart #animeai #storytelling #discord #midjourneyart #storytelling #masterclass #animemasterclass

Join us for a fascinating @activateen_ masterclass

Join us for a fascinating @activateen_ masterclass with master storyteller, Dave Kebo as he unwraps the world of @ordinauts a sci fi anime project and the first anime collection to be minted on bitcoin. "Ordinauts" is a sci fi anime project following an interplanetary revolutionary war between the Ordinaut Empire and the people they rule, the Dark Ordinauts. The project also explores the relationship between humanity and AI, both in the story, as well as in the creative process -- all the art is created with AI, and moderated by an AI Discord Mod named Sia who acts as "Keeper of the Ordinauts' Lore."

Dave has been creating compelling visual content for the past two decades.

Dave has developed content and lore for many Web3 projects and is currently exploring community building, storytelling, art in collaboration with A.I. for his project, "Ordinauts."

August 11, 2023
10 - 11 am US Pacific
Free Zoom masterclass
Register: Link in bio

#masterclass #anime #ordinauts #midjourney #scifi #animeaiart #animestorytelling #bitcoin #nft

A great lineup of speakers for tmrw’s #tedxyouth

A great lineup of speakers for tmrw’s #tedxyouth event organized by @tedxyouthcomalpocketpark
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“In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TED has created a program called TEDx. TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. Our event is called TEDxYouth@ComalPocketPark, where x = independently organized TED event. At our TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events, including ours, are self-organized”

Register today and participate in these transformational conversations.

#ideasworthspreading #tedxyouth #socialinnovation #socialimpact #youthinspiredideas #teens #texas #austin #tedxyouthcomalpocketpark

We spoke to the wonderful Dezirae who told us abou

We spoke to the wonderful Dezirae who told us about the impactful work done by @children
A global organization whose mission is to help underprivileged children and their families.
We have supported @children for two decades and hope that you will sponsor a child today.

#childreninternational #childwelfare

Self assured people find that these four sentences

Self assured people find that these four sentences can diffuse any heated situation.
All it takes is a pinch of humility and a touch of humanity.

#emotionalintelligence #consciouscommunication #wordstoliveby #conflictresolution

The beauty with creativity is the way, once watere

The beauty with creativity
is the way, once watered,
it multiplies.

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Don’t hoard ideas.
Else they die.
Share them.
Give them the spotlight.
Some will take flight.
Some will not
Some will give credit.
Many will not
How does it matter.
Where soil is fertile.
Flowers bloom in abundance.

@shakus3

#creativity #artofinstagram #digitalart #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetsofinstagram #ideation #ideas #creativelife

No ••••• “No” is absolute It stands

No
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“No” is absolute
It stands alone
Not asking for a companion
Nor giving an explanation
No is your backbone
Straightening your stoop
Fixing your neck
Squaring your shoulder

Use it wisely
Combine it with grace
No is to protect often eroded boundaries
Use sparingly but without regret
No is not a mantra
No is not Maybe
No gives you pause for breath
No is the space in between
No speaks to the importance of Enough

No is the positive within the negative
Providing an end
So the new can begin
No lets you say Yes
When the time is right
Without hesitation
Without resentment

Poetry by @shakus3
Art credit: fotocitizen @canva
Layout: @shakus3

#poetry #poetrycommunity #no #conviction #boundaries #emotionalintelligence #poet #poetsofinstagram

Last Friday, my daughters and I went to see the Va

Last Friday, my daughters and I went to see the Van Gogh exhibit and I was profoundly moved.
In tears throughout actually.

Like music and poetry, sublime art connects you to universal truth.

I will not talk about the technicalities of the exhibit because then I step into the realm of the critic and the search for perfection.

For we are trained to find the flaws and miss the grandeur of the experience itself.

Van Gogh’s art is a triumph of the human being. Through his questioning, doubts, despair, illness and isolation, he manages to connect with the longing of the soul and find the divine.

To bring forth truth and beauty.

He was so steeped in his own humility that he signed his work simply as “Vincent”

“If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint," then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. ”

“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ”

“I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it. ”

“Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all. ”

“For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.”

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

“Only when I fall do I get up again.”

“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”

“I am such a nobody”

#greatness #vincentvangogh #vangogh #vangoghexperience #vangoghimmersiveexperience #greatartists

This morning I saw the hummingbird dance. The bal

This morning I saw the
hummingbird dance.
The ballerina
twirling in mid air.

Forward
Backward
Spinning
Sipping

My heart was seized with
Incomparable joy
As she dipped into
the basil, the lantana
and the lush red
hibiscus.

She played with
the violet passiflora
and the
bright yellow esperanza.
Eternal hope and
mystical presence.

Wait, I told her.
Don’t fly away.
Stay still, I begged her.

But she is the essence of
time in motion.
Not to be captured
or to be bottled.

She is the flutter of
life’s sweet moments,
nectar to be sipped
wherever it grows.

@shakus3 Shaku Selvakumar 2021

#poetry #poetrycommunity #hummingbird #naturalworld #wellness #naturepoetry

For the young who have now grown up taking baby st

For the young who have now grown up taking baby steps into adulthood 💕

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Grown Up Days

My 10 year old asked me in her
Direct and perceptive way,
“Mom, is it fun being a grown up?”

I wanted to say,
“Not always, my love”

There are anxious hours,
heartbreaking days, questioning nights
breathtaking moments.

There are times of complete
Acceptance and depleting rejection.
There are minutes filled with busy work
And lonely stretched out seconds.

There is wonder.
Despair.
Panic. Patience.

There are cyclical ways of birth
and death.
Courage and cowardice.
Sickness and health
Days of Spring and of Fall.
Vulnerable days.
Practical, billable hours.
Of deep enduring love
And some resentment.
Responsive and responsible.
Humiliation and humility.
Of measured hope in midst of
disillusionment.

Days of wisdom and those of vanity.
Solitude and insanity.
Caring and careless.
Aged and ageless.
Miraculous and mundane.
Permanent and
Fleeting.”

But I said none of this.
Instead I took her hand,
and nodded my head.

@shakus3 Shaku Selvakumar April 2014

#lifequotes #poetry #graduation #eighteen

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