Archives > Monthly

May 2011

Live from TEDGlobal

A day at the Green School in Bali

on

The Green School is hiring science and physics teachers. To learn more, visit the Green School website. And watch John Hardy’s TEDTalk from TEDGlobal last summer. In the shade of the open-air bamboo warung (the Balinese equivalent of a small cafe), I listened to the buzz of the cicadas rather than the buzz of fluorescent []

Architecture

A speech to graduating Harvard architects

on

Last week, TED’s curator, Chris Anderson, addressed the 2011 graduating class of architects from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His advice to them? Don’t pursue your passion directly. At least not yet. Instead … pursue the things that will empower you. Pursue knowledge. Be relentlessly curious. Listen, learn. Read the text of Chris’ commencement []

Live from TED

Shooting the Full Spectrum speaker portraits

on

Keeping with the spirit of the Full Spectrum Auditions earlier this week, TED photo editor Mike Femia and myself—photographer Duncan Davidson—decided to add something a bit new and different to our photo coverage of the event. The result is a set of speaker portraits that we made in the break between the afternoon rehearsals and []

Q&A

Fellows Friday with Perry Chen

on

Perry Chen used to spend his time working on art and music, but now he helps others realize their creative dreams. His current inspired endeavor is Kickstarter, a platform that helps fund creativity through the power of crowdsourcing funding. Check out the new TED Fellows’ Curated Kickstarter page here! Interactive Fellows Friday Feature! Join the []

“From one to millions”: Chris Anderson in the Sydney Morning Herald

on

TED’s curator, Chris Anderson, gave a thoughtful interview via Skype to Tim Dick of the Sydney Morning Herald, just posted today, talking about the growing power of web video. From the story: Anderson thinks web video represents a fundamental shift … the potential of which is unimaginable. ”There is something mysterious, magical and incredibly powerful []

TED Fellows

The death of Zé Cláudio

on

Yesterday, Juliana Machado Ferreira shared this awful news on the TED Fellows blog: On feb 8th 2011 I wrote a post at this blog about Zé Cláudio, a Brazil nut collector in Pará, Brazil, who was fighting the illegal timber industry. The people who Zé Cláudio was denouncing and fighting against are big time criminals, []

Live from TED

The power of one second: Q&A with Cesar Kuriyama

on

Video animator Cesar Kuriyama was selected a one of 17 finalists for the TED Full Spectrum auditions. Cesar has been selecting one second of video from every day of his life, and editing them together into a montage that both records his life, and forces him to revaluate how he approaches each day. (Watch: his audition video.) Last night, []

Live from TED

Tonight: Watch TED’s Full Spectrum auditions online

on

Tonight: Watch the first-ever TED auditions, to explore the theme of TED2012: Full Spectrum. We challenged the TED community: Make a one-minute video that describes your idea worth sharing — and how you’d share it with the world. We received hundreds of submissions from around the world in our short timeframe, and narrowed our finalists []

TEDTalks

Welcome to our 1,000,000th Facebook fan

on

The warmest of warm welcomes to our millionth fan on TED’s Facebook page … and all 999,999 who came before. You’re right at the heart of the global TED community, and we really love being able to connect with you every day on Facebook. Collectively you’re an amazing army of idea spreaders. THANK YOU. — []

TEDTalks

Beauty/Complexity: The TED Salon in London

on

Welcoming a Unicorn Theatre jammed with 250 TEDsters old and new, host and TED’s European director Bruno Giussani promised “possibly one of the most eclectic programs we’ve ever put together” on Wednesday night in London at the spring TED Salon. The Salon was hosted in collaboration with TEDGlobal partner frog. And eclectic it was, covering []