6 excerpts from Korean novelist Young-ha Kim
Young-ha Kim has a simple message for us all: get out there and create some art. Are you getting tense, just from the suggestion? In today’s...
On musical creativity: A talk to watch as you discuss the Grammy winners
The 2013 Grammy Awards, which aired last night, offered up many a surprise with indie-tinged acts grabbing major awards over more establishe...
New playlists: “Maestros, if you please … !” and “Design of useful things”
TED playlists are collections of talks around a topic, built for you in a thoughtful sequence to illuminate ideas in context. This weekend, ...
Lift the ban on YouTube: Artists in Pakistan speak out
As a young musician in Pakistan, TED Fellow Usman Riaz learned to play in the percussive guitar style by watching YouTube videos of Kaki Kin...
An ode to 51 lost children: Fellows Friday with Bahia Shehab
On November 17, 2012, in a village in Assuit-Egypt, a train crashed into a school bus killing 51 children. These kinds of accidents have alw...
14 people who’ve timelapsed their lives, filming one second a day
As he approached his 30th birthday, artist Cesar Kuriyama noticed that time seemed to be evaporating. And thus, he began work on a project c...
The butterfly effect: Fellows Friday with Julie Freeman
Artist Julie Freeman uses data as a source material to make biologically inspired artworks — giving musicality to the movement of fish...
Daily rituals performed in a flood: A TED Fellow is crowdsourcing rituals for a unique performance
TED Fellow Lars Jan, the director of the multi-disciplinary art lab Early Morning Opera, is seeking everyday personal rituals from collabora...
Macy Gray creates TED playlist
Do you still know every word to Macy Gray’s lovesick ballad “I Try?” Us too. In fact, Gray’s chart-toppling album, On How Life Is, still sou...