Marketing and brand strategist Steven Addis turns up to show the 15 most treasured photographs in his collection. But these are not the highly produced shots you might expect from one who works in visual communications. Instead, they are the father-daughter snapshots he started as a unwitting project when his child was born. Every year […]
“Hi, my name’s Frank, and I collect secrets.” That’s Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret. He started with a crazy idea. In November 2005, he made 3000 postcards with simple instructions. It was blank on one side, and on the other instructions telling them to write an anonymous secret and mail it to him. He passed the […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Jennifer Pahlka is the founder and executive director of Code for America, an organization she describes as being like Peace Corps for geeks, “only instead of sending people to the third world, we send them to the wilds of City Hall.” The fellows’ mission, should they choose to accept it, is to […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Possibly the most meta speaker on the TED stage is Lior Zoref. He had a dream: to speak at TED. He shows a video of himself saying to his friend that he wanted to do that, and his best friend telling him it was impossible. But his Facebook and twitter friends encouraged […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Known as the “startup whisperer”, Reid Hoffman has invested in storied Internet companies including Flickr, Facebook and Zynga, companies that have helped deliver us from the “information” age to the “network” age. Interested in the social side of the Internet revolution, he is also the co-founder of LinkedIn, a company he started to […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson “I forget names,” says David Hornik. “I forget them all the time, every day. And I thought everyone did.” But he realized (after forgetting a very important name) that his name-blindness was actually a symptom of another condition: his dyslexia. And it made him think: What other disabilities do we have, […]
Now showing onstage at TED, a video on the eternal question: “Who’s your favorite? Mom or dad?”
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Opening Session 6 of TED2012: Cameron Carpenter, one of the world’s top organists — he’s brought the “king of instruments” out of the church and into concert halls. He starts with “Slaughter on 10th Avenue,” by Richard Rodgers. The organ sounds are first out of place, then mesmerizing. He then moves into Chopin’s […]
The crowd has been a heated topic in recent years. We add our voice to the discussion with this themed session of TED2012. In this session: Cameron Carpenter, who brings drama, improv — and glitter — back to the majestic organ, “the king of instruments.” Reid Hoffman is co-founder and executive chair of LinkedIn, and […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson On stage now is an excerpt from The Civilians Investigative Theater, performing an excerpt from their musical The Great Immensity. For the musical, they interviewed scientists about climate change, and wove their responses into a full Broadway-style musical. Watch “Margin of Error,” the first song performed on the TED stage: [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/33631675]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson “We’ve run into a giant fracking problem,” says TED curator Chris Anderson by way of introducing the next speaker, energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, who comes to the stage to talk about methods to solve the energy crisis facing the United States. Or as he puts it, his “alternative to alternative energy” […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Drawn into controversy Wearing his wide-brimmed hat, climate scientist James Hansen starts his TEDTalk by asking, “What do I know that would cause me, a reticent midwestern scientist, to get arrested in front of the White House, protesting?” Hansen studied under professor James Van Allen, who told him about observations of Venus […]
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 Wade Davis is a familiar figure on the TED stage, but he’s probably best known for sharing his incredible pictures of Tibet or the Amazon or the various farflung places to which he’s traveled. This time, he tells the “story of my own backyard,” the sacred headwaters in British Columbia. “It’s the […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Artist Sharon Beals is captivated by the art form of nests, and she is fascinated by the industry, endeavor, and materials used to make them. So she photographs them, making beautiful images like those shown above. At TED2012 she breathed life and color into a meditative walk through the nests of an extraordinary […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson As a filmmaker and photographer, Karen Bass has traveled from one end of the earth to the other to film and photograph the earth, its creatures and people. Bass proceeds to show some of her truly jaw-dropping footage to an appreciative TED audience, much of it shot with the BBC or for National Geographic, […]