Mick Ebeling

Mick Ebeling

at Internet Week New York
May 18, 2015
Born 1970 (age 44) [1]
Alma mater UC Santa Barbara ('92)
Occupation producer, author, entrepreneur, philanthropist

Mick Ebeling (born 1970)[1] is an American film, television and commercial executive producer, author, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Ebeling has been honored by Advertising Age as one of the “Top 50 Most Creative People”, 2015 Wired Magazine Agent of Change, and the recipient of the 2014 Muhammad Ali Humanitarian of the Year Award.

Ebeling is the founder and CEO of Not Impossible Labs[2] a company committed to creating technology of the sake of humanity. Ebeling is also founder of The Ebeling Group and the nonprofit The Not Impossible Foundation.[3]

Career

Ebeling's first entertainment job was launching Venice Beach based, FUEL in 1995. FUEL was a motion design studio using one of the first versions of the Adobe After Effects software. FUEL was bought by Razorfish in July 1999. Ebeling then went on to be the CEO of THEY. THEY was a cross-platform design company that worked with clients such as NASA. In 2001, Mick formed The Ebeling Group (TEG), a commercial and film production company that focuses on animation, design and visual effects.[4]

From 2006 to 2011, under Ebeling's leadership the company branched into film and long form content with credits on titles such as “Stranger Than Fiction” (2006), “Kite Runner” (2007), “Quantum of Solace” (2008), the award-winning animation "Yes, Virginia" television special for CBS (2009)[5] and a series of short films with Marvel Studios called "One-Shots" (2011).[6]

Ebeling is also the executive producer of the documentary film "Getting Up: The Tempt One Story", winner of the Audience Award at the 2011 Slamdance Film Festival.

In 2014, Ebeling will be featured as one of Intel's Innovators for their "Look Inside" Series.[7] Other sponsored Innovators include Jack Andraka.

Ebeling's first book, Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done, discusses his work on the Eyewriter and Project Daniel and was released by Simon & Schuster on January 6, 2015.[8] The Book is now in its fifth printing.

The Eyewriter

In April 2009, Ebeling flew five programmers and hackers from Graffiti Research Lab, Free Art and Technology Lab, and openFrameworks to Los Angeles and in the living room of his home created the EyeWriter, an open source, DIY device which enables individuals with paralysis to communicate and create art using only the movement of their eyes.[9] The EyeWriter project was conceptualized and first created for Tempt One, a Los Angeles based graffiti artist who was diagnosed with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2003.[10] Tempt1 wrote his first piece of graffiti after seven years using the EyeWriter on April 10, 2009.[11] Ebeling's March 2011 TED talk: The invention that unlocked the locked-in artist discusses the creation of The EyeWriter and Ebeling's mission to raise public awareness and inspire ideas that encourage change. With no technical background in ocular recognition technology, Ebeling asks the question: “If not now, then when? If not me, then who?” [12] TIME magazine called it one of the “50 Best Inventions of 2010,” and the device is now part of the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

Project Daniel

In November 2013, Ebeling traveled to Sudan to 3D-print arms for children who lost their limbs in the war. Ebeling set up what is likely the first-ever 3D printing prosthetic lab in the Nuba Mountains.[13] The mission was called "Project Daniel." Ebeling debuted "Project Daniel" at CES 2014 in Las Vegas alongside Intel.[14] Of the project, TIME's tech journalist Harry McCracken wrote, "it’s hard to imagine any other device here doing more to make the world a better place.”[15] Project Daniel has won numerous accolades, including a 2015 SXSW Interactive Innovation Award, as well as being nominated for “Design of the Year” from London’s Design Museum. In 2014, it garnered the Titanium Cannes Lion as well as Gold and Bronze Lions. Project Daniel also won Association of Independent Commercial Producers’ Next Cause Marketing Award, Best in Show in the 2014 One Show, Silver and Bronze Telly Awards, and the 2014 Maker Faire Editor's Choice Blue Ribbon.

Project Daniel has been featured in Time,[15] WIRED,[16] Business Insider,[17] Yahoo! Finance,[14] BBC,[18] The Guardian,[19] Globo,[20] The Independent,[21] and CNET [22]

Personal life and education

Mick Ebeling was raised in a family of entrepreneurs and philanthropists, son of Marge and Les Ebeling.[23][24] He was born in Long Beach, California and raised in Phoenix, Arizona where he attended Brophy College Preparatory. He went on to play basketball for the Air Force Academy, Colorado before he transferred to University of California, Santa Barbara where he graduated in 1992 with a degree in political science.[25] Mick is married to Caskey Ebeling, an American filmmaker and screenwriter; they have three children: Angus, Bo Jameson, and Trace.[26] Caskey is a partner of The Ebeling Group and co-founder of The Not Impossible Foundation.[27] The Ebelings documented the creation of the EyeWriter that began in the living room of their Venice Beach home in a documentary titled "Getting Up: The TEMPT ONE Story”.[28]

Appearances

Awards and Press

Wins

Nominations

EyeWriter awards and press

References

  1. 1 2 Chang, Andrea (April 25, 2014). "Great Read: With ingenuity and a 3-D printer, group changes lives". Los Angeles Times. The 43-year-old graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a degree in political science
  2. ↑ "Not Impossible Labs". Not Impossible Labs.
  3. ↑ "Mick Ebeling | Profile on". Ted.com. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Business RX for your design company?". Death Fall. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  5. ↑ ""YES, VIRGINIA" Online Advert for Macy*s by JWT New York". Coloribus.com. January 2, 2010. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  6. ↑ "IMDb Pro : Mick Ebeling Business Details". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Intel Innovators Series". Intel.
  8. ↑ "Not Impossible Book By Mick Ebeling Official Publisher Page Simon & Schuster". Simon & Schuster.
  9. ↑ Contact Adam Frucci: Email the author Comment (August 25, 2009). "EyeWriter Lets You Draw and Write Using Only Your Eyes". Gizmodo.com. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  10. ↑ "Top 10 Most Important Inventions of the 21st Century in Medicine – Health & Fitness – InfoNIAC – Latest Inventions". InfoNIAC. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  11. ↑ "An Eye for Art: The Ebeling Group and Graffiti Research Lab Take on a Cause – Jeff Beer – Ad Critic News". Creativity Online. April 22, 2009. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  12. ↑ "Innovate this". The Irish Times. April 4, 2011.
  13. ↑ "Using 3D Printing to Make Prosthetic Arms (and A Better World)". IT Business.
  14. 1 2 "Mick Ebeling Shares his story of 'Project Daniel' Using 3D Printers and UltraBooks to Make Arms for Children of Sudan". Yahoo Finance.
  15. 1 2 "How a TIME Article Led to the Invention of a $100 3D Printed Arm". Time.
  16. ↑ "Sudanese volunteers are Printing £60 limbs in six hours for amputees". WIRED.UK.
  17. ↑ "How a $100 Limb is Saving the Children of Sudan". Business Insider.
  18. ↑ "The Man Who Wants to Tackle the Impossible". BBC.
  19. ↑ "How a 3D printer gave a teenage bomb-victim a new arm and a reason to live". The Guardian.
  20. ↑ "Conversamos com Mick Ebeling, responsável pelo projeto que cria com impressoras 3D membros para amputados no Sudão". GLOBO.
  21. ↑ "3D-printed prosthetics: How a $100 arm is giving hope to Sudan's 50,000 war amputees". The Independent.
  22. ↑ "How 3D printers are changing kids' lives in war-torn Sudan". CNET.
  23. ↑ http://wellcarefoundation.org/margesStory.aspx
  24. ↑ http://catholiccharitiesaz.org/Portals/0/documents/CC-web-annual.pdf
  25. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20111105024609/http://www.tedxphoenix.com:80/speakers. Archived from the original on November 5, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  26. ↑ "Ad Age's IDEA Conference". Advertising Age. November 12, 2009. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  27. ↑ "Vote for the Eyewriter @ Pepsi". Art Is Now. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  28. ↑ "IMDb Pro : Getting Up: The TEMPT ONE Story Business Details". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  29. ↑ "Seoul Digital Forum". Seoul Digital Forum.
  30. ↑ "USA Network Announces Top Ideas and Influencers of 2011". USA Network.
  31. ↑ "Complete List of Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award Recipients and Presenters Announced – Includes A-List Celebrities". Muhammad Ali Center.
  32. ↑ "iMedia 25 – 2014 Marketing Leaders and Innovators". iMediaconnection.
  33. ↑ "Creativity 50 2014: Most Creative People of the Year". Advertising Age.
  34. ↑ https://web.archive.org/20110505093430/http://www.aicp.com:80/show/2010-next-awards.html. Archived from the original on May 5, 2011. Retrieved November 7, 2011. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  35. ↑ "Events – SKIP of New York". Skipofny.org. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  36. ↑ "Cannes Lions 2010 Winners Film Craft : Cannes Lions : Award Winning Ads, Festivals, Events". Coloribus.com. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  37. ↑ "Cannes Lions 2010 Winners Titanium and Integrated : Cannes Lions : Award Winning Ads, Festivals, Events". Coloribus.com. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  38. ↑ "Mick Ebeling wins even more than a Titanium Cannes Lion". The Stable. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  39. 1 2 3 4 "Not Impossible Earns Five Cannes Lions Including Cannes Titanium Lion Award". Business Wire. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  40. ↑ "The One Club / The One Show | One Show". Oneclub.org. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  41. ↑ "The One Club / The One Show | One Show". Oneclub.org. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  42. ↑ "One Show 2010 Winners Branded Content : One Show : Award Winning Ads, Festivals, Events". Coloribus.com. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  43. 1 2 "Cannes Titanium Lion Winner Mick Ebeling Honored with Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Humanitarian of the Year". Shoot. Retrieved December 29, 2014.
  44. ↑ Runtagh, Jordan. "Celebrity News & Gossip, Movies, Fashion & Style". VH1. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
  45. ↑ "The 50 Best Inventions of 2010". Time. November 11, 2010.
  46. ↑ http://www.designsoftheyear.com/2010/03/05/category-winners-2010-are-announced/
  47. ↑ http://2010.futureeverything.org/abouttheawards/eyewriter2

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