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TED Weekends calls us to embrace nature’s wrath

TED Weekends calls us to embrace nature’s wrath

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“That is a part of you up there. That’s your water that helps to make the cloud, that becomes the rain, that feeds the plants, that feeds the animals.” These were the words Camlile Seaman’s grandfather said to her on a hot summer day when she was young. Inspired by her Shinnecock Indian heritage, and []

Gallery: Chasing storms with Camille Seaman

Gallery: Chasing storms with Camille Seaman

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A Shinnecock Indian, Camille Seaman has spent her career as a photographer illustrating the interconnectedness of all life. When she was a child, her grandfather took her outside to play on a hot summer day. He pointed to the sky and said, “Look, do you see that? That’s part of you up there. That’s your []

TED Fellow Naomi Natale lays One Million Bones on the National Mall

TED Fellow Naomi Natale lays One Million Bones on the National Mall

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This weekend, thousands gathered in Washington, DC, to help lay one million handmade representations of human bones — 1,018,260 bones, to be exact — on the National Mall. This breathtaking installation created a haunting river of bones leading to the US Capitol, and represents the culmination of a nearly five-year social activism project imagined by TED []

Camille Seaman named a Knight Fellow

Camille Seaman named a Knight Fellow

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Photographer Camille Seaman sees the personality in elements of nature. The TED Fellow thrilled us at TED2011 with her haunting photos of polar ice — some glaciers timid, others proud and defiant — and, at TED2013, shared stunning images of supercell clouds, which she characterizes as “lovely monsters.” We are very excited that Seaman has []

Clouds as ‘lovely monsters’: Camille Seaman at TED2013

Clouds as ‘lovely monsters’: Camille Seaman at TED2013

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Clouds. We think of them as light and fluffy, sometimes a touch menacing. But TED Fellow Camille Seaman sees something even deeper in the clouds above her. Seaman, who is known for her stunning images that give personality to icebergs, was raised as a Shinnecock Indian, in a culture that taught her that everything is interconnected. “When I []

Beautiful Imperfection: Speakers in Session 2 of TED2013

Beautiful Imperfection: Speakers in Session 2 of TED2013

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Moving images and hidden systems — Session 2 moved into the world of the unexplored. Listen for an exploration into the secrets of cities, find out how the elusive giant squid was caught on film and hear a case for the virtue of ignorance. The speakers who appeared this session. Click their name to read []

Touching the directions: Fellows Friday with Camille Seaman

Touching the directions: Fellows Friday with Camille Seaman

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Native American photographer Camille Seaman devotes years to her subjects, revealing the unfolding of reality over time. For the last decade, she has traveled repeatedly to the Arctic and Antarctic to take portraits of polar ice, witnessing the beauty and loss of a part of Earth most of us will never see. How do your []

Q&A: TED Fellow Camille Seaman’s photos give life to ice

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At the Fellows pre-conference and then again at TED University, Camille Seaman introduced us to the icebergs of the great oceans; as she described them: one snowflake on top of another snowflake, year after year. Her “portraits” of these great towering sea beings document the life of the iceberg, from its youth through its melting and []