10 books inspired by paintings
Tracy Chevalier, the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999), first saw the Johannes Vermeer painting that inspired her novel when she wa...
Colleen Flanigan crowdsourced her haircut at TEDGlobal
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqsHPeFZlbA&w=530&h=298] . Colleen Flanigan, the coral reef sculptor and TED Senior Fellow, ...
Icebergs with personality and self-assembling toys: The NY Times covers 2 TED Fellows
The New York Times doubled-down today on articles about TED Fellows, running stories on Camille Seaman’s portraits of icebergs as well as on...
Young musicians who’ve shared a stage with their idols
When 21-year-old guitar whiz Usman Riaz was growing up in Pakistan, he often found himself entranced by videos of Preston Reed, one of the p...
Public Sphere: Opening animation from TEDGlobal 2012 Session 12
Mission: Radical spreading from a uniform block to a more freeform organic experimental shape. Director’s statement: “I wanted t...
Public Sphere: Session 12 at TEDGlobal2012
Click to watch the session-opening animation. We end TEDGlobal2012 with a session that steps back and asks, “How do we, as a society, ...
A note of the east sounds in Edinburgh: Hannah Brock at TEDGlobal 2012
The daughter of a Chinese mother and British father, Hannah Brock started playing the drums at her school in Beijing at the age of 3. By 4, ...
Lucky us: Sarah Slean at TEDGlobal 2012
Sarah Slean has made eight albums, the latest of which is a double album, Land & Sea, featuring original scores composed for a 21-piece ...
Reframing: Opening animations from TEDGlobal 2012 Session 10
Brief: Radical Openness through open source motion graphics. Welcome to be re-used and remixed. Director’s statement: “Motion gr...