Li Hongbo | Out Of Paper
Adults CreativityThe former book editor whose fascination with one material has gone to artistic extremes.
Assumptions
Adults CreativityEyes are great for watching videos and whatnot, but can we really trust them?
The Amazing Origami House: This Home Unfolds Eight Ways
Adults CreativityIt all started with Lapland. When David ben Grunberg was an architecture student, he was given the assignment to design a pre-fab home that could work in wildly different temperature extremes.
Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
Adults CreativityArtist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on screen -- that put a playful spin on ordinary objects and interactions.
Keith Barry: Brain magic
Adults CreativityKeith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.
Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other
Adults CreativityThe suits, numbers and colors in a deck of cards correspond to the seasons, moon cycles and calendar. Marco Tempest straps on augmented reality goggles and does a card trick like you've never seen before, weaving a lyrical tale as he deals. (This version fixes a glitch in the original performance, but is otherwise exactly as seen live by the TEDGlobal audience, including the dazzling augmented reality effects.)
The first airline safety video I've wanted to watch to the end...
Adults CreativityAir New Zealand partnered with WETA Workshop on a brand new Hobbit inspired Safety Video. It features cameo appearances including Sir Peter Jackson. Visit http://www.airnzcode.com/hobbitmovie to Find and Unlock the Elvish Code for your chance to win one of six double passes to the World Premiere Screening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey in New Zealand on the 28th of November 2012
Halloween Scare/Prank! Head Drop Illusion
Adults CreativityMagician Rich Ferguson doing a Halloween head drop trick on the streets of his home town San Luis Obispo. During the day, this is a great illusion, but during night and in a more vulnerable setting, this freaks people out BIG TIME!
Japanese Crystal Ball Performer (Contact Juggling)
Adults CreativityThis guy was hanging out in Yoyogi park in Harajuku, Tokyo, on a Sunday afternoon. He has clearly practiced a lot! I loved the music he played during his performance. My friends and I were completely mesmerized. He has a very expressive face too, with a charming smile... it really sells the show in the end. Made me feel like a little kid.
Need Your Heart Dubstep
Adults CreativityMarquese "Nonstop" Scott once again demonstrates his grace and insane body control, dancing to a remix of Need Your Heart.
Did He Just Play A Trance Song On A Guitar?
Adults Creativitywho says you need a computer to make trance?