Random Talks

Imagine running ninety meters on a single breath. Daunting but conceivable, right? But . . . underwater? You’d have to be a fish, a mermaid or Ai Futa

Sasha Leahovcenco is a photographer. His commitment to the art of photography is the result of his life, of things he’s seen and heard, of place

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-shakesp… Shakespeare sometimes gets a bad rap in high schools for his complex plots and antiquat

Ayako Suwa is intent on spreading a new concept of food that evades labels such as gourmet and nutritional. She believes that to eat is to live, but w

Naomi Kawase’s loving but unblinking cinematic gaze turns ordinary lives and mundane moments into mesmerizing dramas. At the 1997 Cannes International

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/gyotaku-the… How did fishermen record their trophy catches before the invention of photography? In 1

Yuji Hirayama is a bona fide rock star—the kind with grit on his hands, open air all around, and no net below. A competition climber who’s scaled peak

iew full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-hidden-… When you think of natural history museums, you might picture exhibits filled with ancien

Bruce Huebner’s shakuhachi sound is unbounded by musical convention, flowing from freeform to jazz to Japanese traditional music to Celtic to Western

Katsumi Sakakura expresses his art through a combination of elements characteristic of traditional Japanese culture—movement, rhythm and spirit.

Why did an Irish economist working for the EU in Tokyo end up making a powerful and incisive film about suicide in Japan? Simple: a friend and neighbo

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-to-mak… Did you ever notice how many jokes start with “Did you ever notice?” And what’s the dea

Amin Bahari is an unpublished Sudanese comic artist-turned-animator and film director. Amin is currently a trainee in Emergency Medicine and animates

Renée Byer has the rare inner lens needed to produce photos with profound emotional resonance and sensitivity. That talent has brought her countless h

Among the great poets of literary history, certain names like Homer, Shakespeare and Whitman are instantly recognizable. However, there’s an early 20t

Imamaru Hayashiya – Paper Cutting Artist A paper-cutting entertainer in the vaudeville tradition, Imamaru Hayashiya is also a paper-cutting arti