Time to get blogging! Way to far behind with things though to be honest I’ve technically been working on this blog for....however long it’s been since my last one. But yes I have been trawling the TED website for good videos on creative subjects. Here are some links to some of what I deem the best ones. They’ve each got descriptions on their relevant pages but I’ve tried to give them some brief descriptions here. I need to hit my word quota some how.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/108
Sheer coolness. I think I understand it yet can’t explain it so just watch it.
Okay I watched it again just when I was getting ready to post this and as the on site description says it is better watched after you’ve seen a number of other videos from that year. Don’t feel that you need to to appreciate it but I certainly picked up on one or two references to other videos I've seen and at least one of them is on this list.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/172
A guy explaining why we’re attracted to simplicity and complexity.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/176
I found this one fairly boring till they got to the videos and demonstrations towards the end where they showed some impressive gliders and…we’ll say flying machines.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/148
Incidentally…I first watched this video at around 4am lol.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/146
This one has an actual direct link to our course. It’s about the game “Spore” and what the creator was aiming for the game to be.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/117
An excellent fiddler. I was going to put a bad joke about how I fiddle with things but it just sounded rude. The best bit is towards the end and if you follow links in her profile to her website you can find some clips of her music to listen too.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/109
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/110
She has an amazing voice. Not sure what she’s doing with her hands most of the time though. Actually she might be doing it to affect her voice. You might see why I’m thinking that when you watch it.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/103
A world famous and almost completely deaf percussionist explains her interactions with music.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/40
A nature photographer details the history of the Earth.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/87
Damn it why can’t I think of anything to say about this other than it’s funny. Oh and I tried the Google thing, it doesn’t work.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/60
An actress plays out some interviews she’d had with various people she had met travelling across America.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/26
This is the third link I’ve posted of this guy’s poetry. If he doesn’t class as creative I don’t know who is. I need to find out if he rehearses all of his stuff of whether he adlibs some of his performances…
Had a look at some of the information on him and it seems he does.
His name is Rives. Despite my extensive attempts…ok 10 minutes on Google I saw no indication of him having a last name (or first if “Rives” is the last).
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/179
His dancing puts even Michael Jackson to shame.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/82
I knew people had managed to link the human nerve system to a robotic arm and make it move. I had no idea that with today’s technology it was possible to achieve this, at least not within that size and weight limit.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/45
This girl was mentioned in the Ken Robinson talk, ((2:50 minutes in) “I mean Sirena last night was a marvel, wasn’t she, just seeing what she could do?”) and referenced in the talk by Rives at the top of this list.
She was 11 years old at the time of filming and already an extremely gifted violinist who has played with world famous orchestras.
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/43
This guy makes some excellent points on designing things. (A bit of a vague description but meh)
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/81
A cool song.
I’m going to continue looking through the vids, which are steadily increasing in number (167 last I checked). I’d like to encourage other people to look as well if you aren’t already. I'll keep posting links to all the videos that I like on my blog. If you find any that you think are good please post a comment with a link.
