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The art of creating creatures
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Artist Theo Jansen demonstrates the amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures he builds from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His creatures are desi...
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"What I Want"
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Nora York gives a stunning performance of her song "What I Want," with Jamie Lawrence (keyboards), Steve Tarshis (guitar) and Arthur Kell (bass).
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All roads lead to Rome Antics
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
David Macaulay relives the winding and sometimes surreal journey toward the completion of Rome Antics, his illustrated homage to the historic city.
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Toys that make worlds
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than his previous maste...
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A surprising look at celebrity
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
By making photographs that seem to show our favorite celebs (Diana, Elton John) doing what we really, secretly, want to see them doing, Alison Jac...
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A lyrical view of life on Earth
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
In this stunning slideshow, celebrated nature photographer Frans Lanting presents The LIFE Project, a poetic collection of photographs that tell t...
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Art with wire, thread, sugar, chocolate
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Vik Muniz makes art from pretty much anything, be it shredded paper, wire, clouds or diamonds. Here he describes the thinking behind his work and ...
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The truly soft side of software
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Engineer and artist Golan Levin pushes the boundaries of what’s possible with audiovisuals and technology. In an amazing TED display, he shows two...
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A performance merging dance and biology
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Two Pilobolus dancers perform "Symbiosis." Does it trace the birth of a relationship? Or the co-evolution of symbiotic species? Music: "God Music,"...
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Is 4 a.m. the new midnight?
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o’clock in t...
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Documenting our endangered cultures
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Photographer Phil Borges shows rarely seen images of people from the mountains of Dharamsala, India, and the jungles of the Ecuadorean Amazon. In ...
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Yes, design can make you happy
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy — and no...
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Dazzling set by 11-year-old violinist
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Violinist Sirena Huang gives a technically brilliant and emotionally nuanced performance. In a charming interlude, the 11-year-old praises the tim...
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Magical improv from 14-year-old pianist
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Pianist and composer Jennifer Lin gives a magical performance, talks about the process of creativity and improvises a moving solo piece based on a...
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Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Blaise Aguera y Arcas leads a dazzling demo of Photosynth, software that could transform the way we look at digital images. Using still photos cul...
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Hip-hop dance and a little magic
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
Kenichi Ebina moves his body in a manner that appears to defy the limits imposed by the human skeleton. He combines breakdancing and hip-hop with m...
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Building the Ground Zero viewing platform
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
In this emotionally charged conversation with journalist Kurt Andersen, designer David Rockwell discusses the process of building a viewing platfo...
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Rethinking the music video
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
What would a music video look like if it were directed by the music, purely as an expression of a great song, rather than driven by a filmmaker’s ...
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Simplicity patterns
Channel: TED
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Date: June 24, 2008
The MIT Media Lab’s John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring ...
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