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Initial sketch above: Click to pop this image to FULL SIZE! And see the final image below or here. Nat Al-Tahhan is a graphic designer and illustrator based in the UK, with a wide background in creative endeavors, including the design of video games, podcast illustration, and live drawing, among other things. We were lucky […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Ken Mogi, a Ph.D and researcher from the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Tokyo, bears a flag nearly twice his height, bright blue, covered with images of koi fish and Japanese letters. He begins by reminding us about a tragically transformative day in his country on March 11, 2011 that would […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson The last time we heard from Terry Moore, executive director at the Radius Foundation, he challenged us to reexamine a process that most of us have known how to do nearly as long as we could read: tie our shoes. He returns to the TED stage today to share another valuable […]
Less than 24 hours before TED and just a few miles away in sunny Beverly Hills, the TED2012 house band gathers for its third day of rehearsal. It’s a very cool group of dudes, jamming away in the hidden, but fascinating Gibson Showcase Theater, where guitars of the one-of-a-kind variety dangle from the walls, threatening […]
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 […]
To get the shot of JR’s “eye” from above in Session 7, photographer James Duncan Davidson and photo editor Mike Femia spent a good deal of time climbing and crawling through the labyrinth of what I refer to as “the uppards” (as opposed to the innards) of the TED stage in Long Beach. Here are […]
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 […]
Above, Chris Fralic and friends take a tire-squealing ride in the Google self-driving car in spring 2011. Warning, profanity and lots of it. More video below. At TED2011, Sebastian Thrun from Google told us why he wanted to make a self-driving car: “Most automotive deaths are due to human error, not machine error. A driverless car can save lives.” Google’s […]
Kathryn Schulz, author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error: “We need to be able to look at the vastness and complexity of the universe and say, ‘Wow, I dunno. Maybe I’m wrong.’” John Hunter, creator of World Peace Games says, “I allow them to learn, in a bloodless way, how to do what’s […]
At the final session of TED University, we learned how to draw mindmaps, predicted a future in which buildings are self-assembling, and heard a touching story about a passenger’s life after the Hudson River plane crash. Here were some of the highlights: Bill Gates talks about state budgets, corrupt processes, and what this means for […]
Béatrice Coron is a paper cutter: “I visualize my story … and as my image is already inside the paper, I just have to remove what’s not from that story.” Sarah Kay shares her spoken word with TED and talks about the challenges and joys of poetry: “I show up to each new poem with a […]
Julie Taymor took us on a journey, from Indonesia, where she experienced a seminal moment in her life as a young artist, and through her life’s work, including The Lion King, The Tempest, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Morgan Spurlock shares his takeaway from his new marketing documentary, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold: “Today, […]
Carlo Ratti launches airborne pixels on little helicopters to make flying art. Aaron Koblin shows a crowd-sourced Johnny Cash music video created frame by frame by volunteers … Mattias Astrom demos C3, a new 3D mapping tech … Mike Matas demos http://www.pushpoppress.com/ for the first time live onstage, at TED. Chefs Homaru Cantu and Ben […]
At TED University Session 2 this morning, we discovered the science behind our smiles, witnessed a tale of a valiant shoe rescue, and heard about the “rich seed beds of serendipity.” Here are just a few of the highlights: Googler Amit Sood used his “20 percent” time to develop the Google Art Project, which transports us […]
At TED University Session 1, we learned about modernist cooking … saw a flower unfold in sped-up time … met a woman who grows her own clothes … and heard one of the most exquisite musical instruments ever made. A few highlights from this session: Cellist Joshua Roman, a TED Fellow, played his (borrowed) […]
The week of TED2011 kicked off with the TED Fellows pre-conference, where an extraordinary group of people shared some really fascinating work. The TED Blog spoke with a few Fellows after their presentations; look for more Q&As all week. Chris Woebken has created a device that gives you ant-vision, a billboard that translates for bats, […]