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Jorge Colombo’s iPad art from TED2012

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQPUntutX5Q] Jorge Colombo, the iPad artist (you’ve seen his work on the cover of the New Yorker), came to TED2012 to hang out at the Syfy space and draw. It’s fascinating to watch his process … as in the video above, where a few blurry swipes suddenly sharpen and coalesce into the TED auditorium. See []

Lo-fi photos from TED2012

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Lo-fi photos from TED2012

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To document TED, the photo team uses every camera at hand. Big digital SLRs with huge lenses are perfect for photographing the stages, but some moments can simply sing when captured with an iPhone and processed with Instagram. Here are a few of my favorites from TED2012 that I collected while in between sessions. Duncan []

Spell TED wherever you are: Scenes from TED Live

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Spell TED wherever you are: Scenes from TED Live

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Photo: Tokey + Associates, Calgary, AB, Canada During TED2012, we asked TED Live members to submit their own creative ways to spell out TED, then had members vote on their favorite. The winner? Susan Macaulay’s TED Full Spectrum in the snow. Susan is from Magog, Canada, and is a longtime TED enthusiast and member. She []

Live-drawing TED2012: #illustraTED party at Duarte

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Live-drawing TED2012: #illustraTED party at Duarte

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On Friday of TED2012, the Duarte Design team gathered up their colored markers and sat down to live-draw the great moments of Session 11: The Classroom. You can see some of their work on the @Duarte Twitter feed (until they too hit their Twitter limit; been there) or via the tag #IllustraTED. Or watch this []

Who wrote about TED2012? A roundup

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Who wrote about TED2012? A roundup

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First of all, we counted, and the TED Blog live-bloggers wrote ~34,000 words about what happened at TED2012 over the past week. That’s enough to make word count on two young-adult novels, and there’s some beautiful writing in there. Someone on Facebook called it “insanely detailed” … you’ll see. Read our coverage of TED2012 >> []

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“It’s Time for TED”: TED2012 remixed by John Boswell

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDHET3aCI2U] John Boswell — he created the “Symphony of Science” videos — came to TED this week. Not to talk, but to listen and remix. Hear his mix of TED2012, with some classic TED moments mixed in. Find out more about each speaker in the mashup in our “Live from TED2012” coverage on the TED []

Choose your own TEDTalk: Sebastian Wernicke at TED2012

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Choose your own TEDTalk: Sebastian Wernicke at TED2012

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Photos: James Duncan Davidson Sebastian Wernicke thinks there’s something missing from the Full Spectrum of TED2012: The audience has had no influence over the talks. This is in the vein of the old Choose Your Own Adventure books, invented by accident by Edward Packard. Wernicke is going to tell us that story, but he needs some []

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The Symphony of TED: John Boswell wraps up TED2012

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John Boswell is the musician and producer behind the Symphony of Science. The goal of the project is to bring scientific knowledge and philosophy to the public through music. So far in the series, he’s mixed together insights on topics such as the earth’s place on the cosmos, the quantum world and, as shown below []

Filming one second every day: Cesar Kuriyama at TED2012

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Filming one second every day: Cesar Kuriyama at TED2012

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Photo: James Duncan Davidson On his 30th birthday, Cesar Kuriyama quit his job in advertising. At the same time, he started a project: “One Second Every Day” for which he cuts together one second of footage from every day of his life into an ever-expanding project. We’ve seen these daily-picture kind of projects before, but []