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 […]
. Director Ridley Scott is returning to a genre he defined: Prometheus, a sci-fi epic, is due out in early June. Like the rest of Scott’s work, it’s a movie steeped in ideas about what it means to be human. Screenwriter Damon Lindelof thought it would be appropriate and, well, incredibly cool to have one of […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Space archeology pioneer and Egyptologist Sarah Parcak zooms out from the moment 90 years ago when Howard Carter peered by candlelight into King Tut’s tomb to a new age of archaeological discovery: seeking ancient civilization by 21st-century candlelight. Sarah uses satellite imagery to find evidence of ancient Egyptian cities. Take the […]
Photo: James Duncan Davidson Superstring theorist and physicist and the co-founder of the World Science Festival, Brian Greene splits his visually rich, action-packed talk into three distinct sections, all in the name of convincing us of the existence of the multiverse, the possibility that way beyond the earth, the milky way, we’ll find that our universe is part of […]
It’s time for TED! To kick off this year’s official TED2012 programming, we’re taking a 30,000 foot view to examine where we are — and where we’re going. Session 1 is the “The Observatory,” with a gorgeous background imagining the audience in a space station looking down on Earth. Follow along the TED Blog as […]
Jessi Arrington, speaking at TEDYou during TEDActive 2012, February 28, 2012. Photo: Marla Aufmuth / TED TEDActive 2012 begins the first day of TED sessions with vibrant and explosive TEDYou talks. Jason Silva says it well: “Gravity and antimatter shaped the early universe, but the future will be building toward an infinitely powerful mind.” JD […]