Posted from TED2011, happening now in California: JR, a semi-anonymous French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. Learn more about his […]
In an experimental Session 6, Bill Gates hosted and guest-curated the speaker lineup. David Christian charts our course from the Big Bang to today: “To understand complexity, you have to survey the whole history of the universe. So let’s do it.” Amina Az-Zubair on the UN Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria: “We are making progress. […]
Julie Taymor took us on a journey, from Indonesia, where she experienced a seminal moment in her life as a young artist, and through her life’s work, including The Lion King, The Tempest, and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Morgan Spurlock shares his takeaway from his new marketing documentary, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold: “Today, […]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/20618607 w=525&h=294] From Romy Owens’ Vimeo channel: Jason Hackenwerth, Leah Blair and a few TED folk all appear in this time-lapse detailing the three days of building a sculpture for TED2011 in Long Beach, California. The build was short and on location at the Performing Arts Center where TED is currently being held. Many […]
The fabulous Phantom Galleries LA opens at noon today for the new show JR@TED. It’s open to the public — come by and see it if you can, and learn more about JR’s work and wish and his new project, INSIDE OUT. Noon-7pm, Thursday, March 3 10am-7pm, Friday, March 4 JR @ TED at Phantom […]
Antonio Damasio: "If we are interested in gravity … why should we not be interested in what is happening in the human self?" Damon Horowitz on the Prison University Project: “At that moment … it is not professor and convict, it is two minds ready to do philosophy.” Felisa Wolfe-Simon: “Can a microbe use arsenic […]
A video roundup of the second day of TEDActive 2011: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUGiZdPBhww&w=525&h=325%5D
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo24PmD9eic] During Session 6: Knowledge Revolution, TEDx’s Lara Stein played this inspiring video, pulling footage from TEDx events all over the world. Barely into the second year of TEDx, the community of hosts around the world is closing in on 2,000 events of all sizes, sharing great ideas in their schools, companies and hometowns around […]
The first talk posted from TED2011, happening now in California: As a democratic revolution led by tech-empowered young people sweeps the Arab world, Wadah Khanfar, the head of Al Jazeera, shares a profoundly optimistic view of what’s happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and beyond — at this powerful moment when people realized they could step […]
Every minute, 300 new learners are born into this world. How can TED play a role in enriching their education? We need your help to answer this question. In a few weeks, TED will be launching an online forum. We’re calling it the TED-ED Brain Trust. We’re seeking the expertise of visionary educators, students, organizations, […]
Since the TEDx program launched 18 months ago, it has grown to include over 1,700 organizers globally, with hundreds of TEDx events planned for the upcoming months. On Sunday, February 26th, at Cabot’s Pueblo Museum in Palm Springs, over 160 TEDx organizers gathered in the desert for the now-annual TEDx Workshop at TEDActive. Workshop organizers […]
Carlo Ratti launches airborne pixels on little helicopters to make flying art. Aaron Koblin shows a crowd-sourced Johnny Cash music video created frame by frame by volunteers … Mattias Astrom demos C3, a new 3D mapping tech … Mike Matas demos http://www.pushpoppress.com/ for the first time live onstage, at TED. Chefs Homaru Cantu and Ben […]
Watch our video overview of day one at TEDActive 2011: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw2-3hgOL6o&w=525]
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/20527833 w=525&h=294] Astronaut Cady Coleman, who’s on a six-month tour on the International Space Station, recorded this talk last week to address the opening session of TED2011. Join her on a tour of the space station … with a view. TED’s Film + Video director Jason Wishnow, who directed and edited this short film […]
The TED2011 house band, the Berklee City Music All-Stars, opens Session 2. Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, founders of Handspring Puppet Company, bring a pioneering hyena puppet to stage. The Handspring Puppeteers bring a life-size horse puppet on stage, which is part of their latest production, “War Horse.” “Gamestorming” author Sunni Brown says, “The doodle […]
It’s time for TED! Photo: TED / Robert Leslie Astronaut Cady Coleman talks to the audience newly assembled in Long Beach, Palm Springs and all over the world, from her home in zero-gravity on the International Space Station. Watch her talk. Then Gregory Groover Jr., from TED2011’s house band, the Berklee City Music All-Stars, played […]