Tiffany Shlain

Women, Bullying and Tech: Women of SXSW on Online Personas

Kelly Meeker | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Secret Society of Women, Lisa Ling, Tiffany Shlain, Susan Orlean, Huffington Post Women, Bianca Bosker, Women News

The vocabulary of social media - "like," "follow," "friends" -- are painful artifacts of the teenage years. Only now we have an actual number."

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Weaving the Web of the World Even Tighter

Pat Mitchell | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Paley Center for Media, Connected, Tiffany Shlain, Tedxwomen, Pat Mitchell, Media News

As we come of technological age, how can we be more skillful and more thoughtful in how we use the latest gadgets so as not to diffuse the power of our most fulfilling relationships and work?

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Last Tree Down: Embracing A New Treeless World

Kisa Lala | Posted 04.18.2012

By Kiša Lala Landscape by Stuart Hall © Stuart Hall - A future earth without trees? © J F Rauzier - Cranach's Dream - The New Garden o...

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I Sneak Into The Bathroom To Tweet ... And Other Things I Learned While Making A Film About Connection

Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Father-Daughter Relationships, Video, Female Filmmakers, Women Online, Tiffany Shlain Filmmaker, Tiffany Shlain Connected, Tiffany Shlain, Autoblogography, Connected Documentary, Women News

Tiffany Shlain has won numerous accolades for her documentary films, but until her new film "Connected," she had never made one where her own life -- ...

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Making an "Autoblogography": Moving From the Third to the First Person

Tiffany Shlain | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Art, Leonard Shlain, Sundance Film Festival, Interdependence, Film, Technology, Love, Tiffany Shlain, Death, Arts News

In the 15th century, a Spanish noble woman named Leonor López de Córdoba wrote her "Memorias," which are considered to be the first autobiography....

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The Life Out Loud: An Interdependent World

MeiMei Fox | Posted 11.29.2011

Read More: Goethe, Connected, Filmmaking, Interdependence, Webby Awards, Documentary, Movie, Tiffany Shlain, Planned Parenthood, Connected the Film, Entertainment News

Connected tells the story of how, in this digital age, we are more interdependent than ever before. The wellbeing of family members depends on events happening on other continents.

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Connected the Film: A Technology Story With Heart

John Bergquist | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Portland Oregon, Brian Solis, Documentary, Leonard Shlain, Connected, Tiffany Shlain, Film, Connected-Film, Technology News

I first learned about the film Connected through watching the filmmaker's interview with Brian Solis. The film was created by Tiffany Shlain who is al...

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WATCH: Al Gore-Approved Local Film Explores Interdependence

Robin Wilkey | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Connected, Tiffany Shlain Film, San-Francisco-Film, Tiffany Shlain Movie, Connected Premiere, San Francisco Around Town, Tiffany Shlain Connected, Tiffany Shlain, Tiffany Shlain San Francisco, Connected Movie, Connected San Francisco, Connected Film, Video, San Francisco News

As San Franciscans (or really, as grown-up Americans), we like to consider ourselves independent: independent from our parents, our families, our home...

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Interdependence Day 2011

Glyn Vincent | Posted 11.09.2011

Read More: Gasland, Josh Fox, David M. Steiner, Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, September 11, Interdependence Movement, Governor Howard Dean, Tiffany Shlain, Global Cooperation, Civic Activism, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, New York News

This weekend, the national media focus will be on the September 11 events at Ground Zero in New York City, as well as those commemorations being held ...

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The Artist's Urge to Proselytize

George Heymont | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Isabel Stenzel Byrnes, Mark Smolowitz, Double Lung Transplant, Leonard Shlain, Film, Organ Transplant, Connected: An Autobiography About Love Death and Technology, Organ Donation, Anabel Stenzel, David Brooks, Tiffany Shlain, Philip Leakey, Donor Family, The Power of Two, Cystic Fibrosis, Arts News

In many ways, Dear World was out of sync with the moment. Its relevance to the corporate greed and political corruption plaguing today's world is staggering.

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Egocentric or Allocentric connectedness?

John Bergquist | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Narcissism, Interconnectedness, Egocentric, Tiffany Shlain, Allocentric, Brian Solis, Ego, Healthy Living News

We don't need to exclude ourselves from the tribes and interest groups that feed us, but we should continue to expand our understanding and and be more allocentric in our connectedness.

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Con Games: Aspen Shortsfest Rock Short Film

Michael Conniff | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Brent Benacorso, Short Film, Short Films, Indie Films, Television Commercial, Kristian Ussing Andersen, Cristiano Ronaldo, Emil Stang Lund, Tiffany Shlain, Zelalem Woldemariam, Shortsfest, Lou Reed, Denver News

If there's a better evening of entertainment in a dark venue than Aspen Shortsfest then I've never seen it.

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PHOTOS: 10 Most Romantic Films of All Time

Tiffany Shlain | Posted 05.25.2011

A recent evolutionary study on the large size of the human brain proposes that it did not grow for a greater capacity for knowledge, but for our grea...

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Connected: a new film from Tiffany Shlain

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sundance Film Festival, Connected, Tiffany Shlain, Impact News

Hey, Tiffany does great, thoughtful documentary work like The Tribe, which I like a lot. Today, at the Sundance Film Festival, she premieres Connecte...

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The Man Who Attended His Own Funeral

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Synagogue, Funeral, Death, Leonard Shlain, Goddess, Kimberly Brooks, Evolution, Tiffany Shlain, Green Buriel, Shrine, Video, Arts News

There was my father on a huge screen next to the platform in the center of the synagogue. He said, "I always wanted to attend my own funeral. Well...I'm here!"

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A Vigil for My Father, Leonard Shlain

Kimberly Brooks | Posted 02.15.2012

Read More: Leonard Shlain, Einstein, Albert Brooks, Dying, Physics, Picasso, Vigil, Kimberly Brooks, Jordan Shlain, Ina Gyemant, Living, Tiffany Shlain, Heisenberg, Arts News

I asked him the other day while I was helping him add quotes to his newest book: "Are you afraid to die?" "No" he said." I'm not afraid to die. I just want to live."

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