TED’s photo editor Mike Femia digs this picture above: “It looks like an impressionist painting, but in neon lights.” From the Wednesday-night Block Party on Pine Street in Long Beach, with the amazing Ozomatli (below). More pics from the Block Party >>
Photos: TED / James Duncan Davidson
How the TED Machine was builtWhen illustrator/storyteller Oliver Jeffers and animator/woodworker Mac Premo get together, sketchbooks travel 60,000 miles, suitcases wander the streets of Brooklyn and sandwiches are skewered with bows and arrows. Jeffers and Premo created the opening video for TED2013 — and its star, the TED Machine. The TED Machine works like a schedule board in an old […]
China’s censorship battle between the cats and the mice: Michael Anti at TEDGlobal 2012A sick brick “I want to make my friends understand: China is too complicated,” begins Michael Anti. “You can’t tell a one-size story.” According to some, China is a brick, helping the world economy. According to others, it’s a sick country, with no access to Facebook. (The second phrase was as claimed in the Facebook […]
