Photo: Michael Brands If watching a TEDTalk inspires insights (see this post for more) — imagine giving one. From speakers’ own blogs: Here’s what Brené Brown learned >> The first lesson I learned is about vulnerability (no suprise). The folks in the picture are raising their hands in response to two questions that I asked […]
Vijay Kumar and his autonomous flying robot. Photo: James Duncan Davidson People watch TED to find insights across many different disciplines — and over this past week, bloggers have been sharing what they learned, what insights struck them, at TED2012. Below are a few. (Find more writing about TED2012 in last week’s roundup … and […]
Speed Meeting at TED2012 — 3 minutes to share who you are. Photo: Robert Leslie This thoughtful blog post from Hadiyah at Engineers Don’t Blog contains four great takeaways for conference-goers: “TED2012 and why conferences will never be the same” From the post: 2. Attend a conference with a purpose. I previously despised networking at […]
Photo: Brian W. Jones / Coffee Common On the Tuesday before TED2012, artist Gabriel Dawe and assistant Sandi Edgar began work on a piece of art that would consume them until the following Saturday — stringing 37 miles of colored thread from edge to edge of the dramatic staircase at the Long Beach Performing Arts […]
[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 […]
Photo: Duncan Davidson Bryan Stevenson’s talk inspired one of the longest and loudest standing ovations in TED’s history. And it provoked a blizzard of requests from audience members that we find a way to support the work of his nonprofit organization, the Equal Justice Initiative. When I asked Bryan about funding needs, this is what […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 >> […]
[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 […]
Photos: James Duncan Davidson Brené Brown is an expert on vulnerability who starts off her talk by describing the extraordinary impact of giving a talk in 2010 at TEDxHouston: The Power of Vulnerability. For starters, she says, the day after giving the talk, she woke up in a state of depression that she’d shared details […]
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 […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Leymah Gbowee is a 2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Today, she speaks around the world, and people ask about her drive, challenges, moments, and regrets. In 1998 she was a single mother of 4. Three months after her fourth child’s birth, she went to do work as a research assistant in a […]
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 […]
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 […]