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Video tweet: Massimo Banzi quoted at TEDGlobal 2012
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Video tweet: Massimo Banzi quoted at TEDGlobal 2012

In this taste of TEDGlobal, Massimo Banzi, the inventor of Arduino, offers an inspiring word on open-source creativity: “You don&#8217...

Jun 27, 2012
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Shades of Openness: Session 5 at TEDGlobal2012
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Shades of Openness: Session 5 at TEDGlobal2012

Click to watch this session’s opening animation Too often, we view “openness” as an unmitigated Good Thing. Yet, as we&#82...

Jun 27, 2012
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Showing the global wingspan of Rachmaninoff: Natasha Paremski at TEDGlobal 2012
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Showing the global wingspan of Rachmaninoff: Natasha Paremski at TEDGlobal 2012

Natasha Paremski started taking piano lessons at the age of 4. Having moved from her native Russia to the United States in 1995, she made he...

Jun 27, 2012
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Sharp-dressing piano-playing man: Jonathan Batiste at TEDGlobal 2012
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Sharp-dressing piano-playing man: Jonathan Batiste at TEDGlobal 2012

Jonathan Batiste is back onstage to open the second day of TEDGlobal with a doctored burst of Chopin’s “Funeral March” on ...

Jun 27, 2012
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Globality: Watch the session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 4
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Globality: Watch the session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 4

Brief: Extreme sharing by being visually extremely explosive. Director’s statement: “I set out to illustrate the growing ideas b...

Jun 27, 2012
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Building Blocks: Session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 3
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Building Blocks: Session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 3

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai5eSpiQHU4&w=560&h=315%5D Mission statement: Ideas are born in different shapes, colors a...

Jun 26, 2012
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Making space within and without: Antony Gormley at TEDGlobal2012
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Making space within and without: Antony Gormley at TEDGlobal2012

Born in London in 1950, Antony Gormley is one of Britain’s most treasured artists. Winner of the Turner Prize, the South Bank Prize, t...

Jun 26, 2012
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Tinker Make Do: Session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 2
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Tinker Make Do: Session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 2

Mission: Revealing new worlds and new perspectives through a multi-dimensional world. Director’s note: “Surreal imagery and ques...

Jun 26, 2012
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Critical Crossroads: Session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 1
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Critical Crossroads: Session title animation for TEDGlobal 2012 Session 1

Mission: Take chances, be brave, move ahead past the crossroads and achieve wisdom. From the director: “Crossroads are thresholds of e...

Jun 26, 2012
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