TEDxSMU releases first video talk: Turk Pipkin

by PegNews wire

University Park — Turk Pipkin is an Austin-based writer and filmmaker, and the director of the new feature documentary One Peace at a Time, which looks at the possibility of providing basic rights to every child. He has published 10 books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestseller, The Tao of Willie, which Turk coauthored with American music legend Willie Nelson. He is also the author of the novels Fast Greens and When Angels Sing. Turk also directed the feature documentary Nobelity and is the co-founder of the education and action nonprofit, The Nobelity Project. As an actor, Turk played that idiot narcoleptic guy in HBO’s The Sopranos. His feature films include Waiting for Guffman, The Alamo, Friday Night Lights, and Rick Linklater’s A Scanner Darkly.

Editor's note: This was the final talk of the day at TEDxSMU. This video is edited to fix the audio problems that occurred in the live talk.

Posted by Mike O.