Sketches of a TED event, by a storyboard artist
Nesta Morgan is a storyboard artist. And while in the audience at a TED Salon in London in May, she found herself so inspired by several spe...
3 thoroughly slamming spoken word performances
It’s hard to get one’s brain started on a Monday (especially if you stayed up to watch Curiosity last night). To get synapses firing, here a...
The unusual musical stylings of Mark Applebaum: 5 examples
Composer Mark Applebaum is bored by the standard rules of music. In a madcap talk given at TEDxStanford, the associate professor of composit...
TED Prize baton pass: How one man’s passion created a musical ripple effect
In 1975, economist and musician José Abreu founded El Sistema (“The System”), a classical music education plan for kids in Venezuela. Over t...
A song and dance pick-me-up
Young musicians Yaruu Egshiglen get an A+ for their singing, dancing and costuming during this performance at TEDxUlaanbaatarChange 2012, he...
A movie trailer for awe
. “Performance philosopher” Jason Silva creates brightly colored, fast-moving films about ideas. At TEDGlobal 2012, Silva delved...
6 stunning photos from Giles Duley
When Giles Duley left behind life as a music and fashion photographer and began criss-crossing the globe, photographing forgotten people ...
Architectural forms as complex as snowflakes? Here’s what they look like up close
Architect Michael Hansmeyer is not one for the T-square. As he explains in a fascinating talk from TEDGlobal, this “computational” designer ...
A new kind of creature … brought to life
. At TED2007, artist Theo Jansen shared his work creating a new form of life — which can actually survive on its own — from plas...