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JR appears on Charlie Rose, talks about his artistic process

Most of JR’s projects — including his Instagram essay of Kim Il Sung’s 100th birthday celebration in North Korea last year — beg...

Aug 5, 2013
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Seeing faces in the clouds, thanks to facial recognition software
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Seeing faces in the clouds, thanks to facial recognition software

In his TED Talk, Gavin Pretor-Pinney urges us to look to the skies and appreciate the incredible shapes — a heart, fish or a hand wavi...

Jul 29, 2013
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One Million Bones on the National Mall, all countable in this gigapixel image
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One Million Bones on the National Mall, all countable in this gigapixel image

In the image above, one million handmade bones — made by schoolchildren and artists around the world — have been methodically la...

Jun 27, 2013
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JR and Liu Bolin join forces to make the TED dream team
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JR and Liu Bolin join forces to make the TED dream team

The image above is classic Liu Bolin — the artist painted exactingly to blend in with the scene behind him. (Watch his talk from TED20...

Jun 26, 2013
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Gallery: Chasing storms with Camille Seaman
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Gallery: Chasing storms with Camille Seaman

A Shinnecock Indian, Camille Seaman has spent her career as a photographer illustrating the interconnectedness of all life. When she was a c...

Jun 21, 2013
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A portrait of you from a single hair: The work of Heather Dewey-Hagborg
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A portrait of you from a single hair: The work of Heather Dewey-Hagborg

The video “DNA Portrait,” above, is a lovely short documentary shot by TED’s own Kari Mulholland. It features the work of ...

Jun 20, 2013
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TED Fellow Naomi Natale lays One Million Bones on the National Mall
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TED Fellow Naomi Natale lays One Million Bones on the National Mall

This weekend, thousands gathered in Washington, DC, to help lay one million handmade representations of human bones — 1,018,260 bones,...

Jun 9, 2013
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Crowdsourcing limitations: How you can become a part of Phil Hansen’s latest art piece
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Crowdsourcing limitations: How you can become a part of Phil Hansen’s latest art piece

As an artist, I’m always interested in looking at the defining moments in our lives, understanding how these moments affect us and finding d...

May 21, 2013
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Fuel cell symphonies and art from gift bag wrappers: The Reimagine Project launches with the TEDActive 2013 artists-in-residence

Soft-spoken and self-effacing, Andy Cavatorta performed with punk bands in the early 1990s, has worked with Bjork and is a graduate of MIT’s...

May 20, 2013
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