Updated: new deadline! [ted id=1429] Inspired by today’s TEDTalk from Eduardo Paes, the mayor of Rio? Share your own idea for leading your city into the future, and apply for a $10,000 award to help make it happen! If you have a bold, creative project for your city, apply for one of ten (10) $10,000 […]
Our photographer James Duncan Davidson shares this beautiful video: If you’ve been following along my blog, you’ve seen a lot of mentions of scouting locations and a lot of photo for a project I’ve been working on. This short video is the next evolution of that project. It’s not done yet, but this is a […]
Watch “The power of x” — the astonishing, shot-in-one-take opening film for TEDxSummit — and then see how it was made. This film and photographic experiment set out to prove The Power of X by attempting an Ideas Worth Doing for TEDxSUMMIT. The project fused architecture, dance, math and magic into a bespoke18-meter high triangular […]
TEDxSummit, 16 April – 20 April, 2012. Doha, Qatar. Photo: Kris Krüg During the opening session of the second day of TEDxSummit workshops, TEDxAmsterdam’s Irene Rompa gave a talk on how to make a TEDx (or any!) event more sustainable. This is what we learned: 1. Baby steps are okay. Sustainability often feels like too […]
What’s happening in this picture above? Ask Mohammed Abu Zeinab, a TEDx speaker and member of the onsite documentary crew WTYSL: As I walked in, I saw a crowd had gathered, with Lara, our own TEDx Director, even standing on a coffee table to see the center of everyone’s attention, the real show. I knew […]
Have 10 minutes to spare? Want to spend them on something inspiring? How about something jaw-dropping? Our new “Surprise Me” feature delivers. Just tell us how much time you have (15 minutes? 40?) and what you’re in the mood to watch (Something funny? Fascinating? Persuasive?) and we’ll generate a custom playlist that matches the moment. […]
This year’s TED Prize is the first ever given to an idea: The City 2.0. And instead of giving the $100,000 prize to one big idea, it’s divided in 10 blocks of $10,000 each, to help seed 10 projects in cities around the world. Onstage right now at TEDxSummit, five TEDx organizers are sharing their […]
Our photographer Kris Krüg goes by KK — and outside the TEDxSummit amphitheatre last night, he couldn’t resist a chance to ask TEDTalks star Raghava KK: What does your KK stand for? Watch his charming answer … Video: Kris Krüg
Teacher Diana Laufenberg is onstage right now, sharing her stories of failure and success. So she asked us to share this message with her students: Ms. Laufenberg reminds her students at Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia: Be kind to the substitute teacher and make sure to read and reflect on the City on a Hill. […]
Lucy McRae (watch her TED Talk) is a “body architect” – an artist who straddles the worlds of fashion, technology and the body. Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, her work invents and builds structures on the skin that reshape the human silhouette, creating provocative and often grotesquely beautiful imagery. Tell us about your […]
Just projected at TEDxChange — this wonderful preview: Children are saving lives in the slums of Kolkata. Filmed over the course of several years, “The Revolutionary Optimists” follows Amlan Ganguly and three of the children he works with on an intimate journey through adolescence, as they fight for the better future he encourages them to […]
Tricia Walker shares a snapshot of this sketchbook page inspired by Chip Kidd’s TEDTalk: Check out more graphic note-taking from TED and TEDx events on our Pinterest board “Speak Now” — and if you’ve got your own great notes from watching a TEDTalk, share them in the comments below!
TED Prize winner Sylvia Earle inspired all of us to care deeply about the ocean and to think deeply about how we can protect it. But the ocean is vast and the challenges are numerous. Where do we begin to understand the complex beauty that is the ocean? One great place to start: The new […]
Yesterday’s featured TED video comes from a new TED-Ed partnership with the marine biologist Tierney Thys — whose passion (aside from swimming with the giant Mola mola fish) is sharing new ideas in science using amazing film and images from underwater expeditions. The first product of the Stories from the Sea series is “The secret […]
[ted id=154] In 2007, at TEDGlobal in Arusha, Tanzania, Euvin Naidoo gave an opening talk about investing in African countries — laying out 10 markets and metrics to watch as African nations gained capacity. Today, in a follow-up post, investor Ryan Hoover looks at these 10 metrics that Naidoo laid out — and charts how […]
[ted id=1382] As may or may not have been clear from reading the internet today: it’s April Fool’s Day. At TED, it came a bit early: At TED2012 Charlie Todd staged a beautifully colorful prank. An actor (Eugene Cordero) played a speaker who had a technical difficulty with his talk, and then another, and then another, […]