Photo: James Duncan Davidson Julie Burstein is waving a pot at us. She is a fan of pottery, it turns out, and she starts off her talk by describing the Raku tradition, generally found in Japanese tea ceremonies. What’s particularly wonderful about Raku, she says, is both the speed at which pots are made and […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Steven Pinker is a linguist and psychologist. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein is a philosopher and novelist. The pair are also married, and they have taken to the TED stage, in front of a dinner table with several luminaries, to have a very public argument, or, in their rather more academic terms, a Socratic […]
In this session, TED is hosting a dinner party on stage, with various TED attendees and some speakers sitting on stage throughout. Seth Godin, Stewart Brand and Sir Ken Robinson are all primed and ready to jump in with discussion of those we are about to hear. Namely: Rebecca Newberger Goldstein writes novels that explore […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Michael Tilson Thomas is the music director of the San Francisco Symphony, founder and artistic director of the New World Symphony and principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. Now he’s up to round off this session in style, seated at a grand piano that’s been wheeled onto the stage just for […]
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 […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson “I’m here to give you your recommended daily allowance of poetry.” So says Billy Collins, former Poet Laureate of the United States. He tells the story of being approached by the Sundance Channel to record his poems and set them to animation. Attempts to set his poetry to music had failed in the past. But […]
We’re currently watching this video, shot by director Laurent Chanez for the UNHATE Foundation, founded by the Benetton Group to promote global tolerance.
Image c/o Warner Brothers Pictures, 1985 Jimmy Guterman (curator of TEDxBoston) starts a short audience talk with what is unfortunately an eternal truth of the human condition: “Everyone of a certain age has felt washed up.” It doesn’t matter if you’re a country, the environment or a person. There comes a time when you want a comeback. Guterman recently […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Andrew Stanton is the writer behind the three hugely successful Pixar Toy Story movies as well as the writer and director of WALL-E, the opening sequence of which will go down in, well, my personal history as being one of the most beautiful animation pieces of all time. His new live action movie, John Carter, comes out […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bg0KdglaOv0&list=UUjDrcS8Cocvi970K_lPffeQ&index=2&feature=plcp%5D The Helix Wave, installed at the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock, Arkansas, opened in 2012. Reuben Margolin is an artist and a kinetic sculptor. He likes working in his shop, listening to the rain. And he makes sculptures that move and sway — all operated by mechanical means. In one […]
A spotlight. A smoke trail. Dancers. Session 2 of TED, The Parlor, opened with a gorgeous performance by Quixotic Fusion, a dance company out of Kansas City. In three pieces, they showed a stunning combination of dance and technology, interacting with each other and with objects projected around them. And it didn’t stop there. A company known […]
For this session, we’re resurrecting the 17th century custom of the salon in order to delight and educate everyone gathered both here at TED — and at the simulcasts taking place around the world. In this session: Quixotic, a mixed-media theater/performance/aerialist company. See a sneak peek of their stage work >> Andrew Stanton, the writer […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Susan Cain, the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, is an introvert. So as she gets up to present from the TED2012 stage, bag in hand, it is not a comfortable experience. But it’s an important one, and that’s the point. Her family grew […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Chris Anderson comes on stage to acknowledge that the TED stage is more often the domain of the techno-optimist than the doomer. So, in somewhat stark contrast with Paul Guilding, the founder, chairman and CEO of the X Prize Foundation, Peter Diamandis now takes the stage. Diamandis starts off his talk with some fast-cut […]
Dubbed the “nine-piece party starters” by The Village Voice, Brooklyn-based banghra outfit Red Baraat is playing on the main TED stage now. They also caused a fair amount of mayhem at the block party in Long Beach last night: And the crowd went wild:
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Paul Gilding starts his TEDTalk with four words that say almost everything: “The Earth is full.” It’s a terrifying concept. Have we really strained, mined and otherwise depleted the planet’s resources to the point where social collapse is inevitable? Gilding believes we have, and he launches into a defense of that […]