Random Talks

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

Sh0h – Beatbox Artist Sh0h ignites audiences with just his body and a single microphone. A beatbox artist who won the Japan Beatbox Championship

VERBAL is a hiphop MC who has collaborated with a variety of musicians, including m-flo . He is a member of the famous rap group TERIYAKI BOYS® and ha

Ryogen – Guitarist Ryogen uses a single guitar for his live concerts and recordings, and yet his amazing technique makes it sound like multiple

Art majors everywhere, take heart: John Maeda is lobbying to ensure your future by fusing art and design with science and infusing technology with sou

Naohiko Umewaka’s family lineage in the art of Noh dates back six hundred years. His greatgrandfather, Umewaka Minoru, is credited with saving Noh the

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/corruption-… It’s hard to imagine Venice without the curious, banana-shaped gondolas that glide down

Sharing their appetite for unexpected collaborations Ballet Austin + DJ Spooky Now that’s what we call classically innovative.

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-pleasur… Humans are creatures of rhythm and repetition. From our breath to our gait: rhythm is c

Even standing in place, a juggler requires a preternatural sense of timing, touch, balance and position. Add acrobatics, mime and dance to the equatio

At the age of 60, Masako Wakamiya (also known as Ma-chan) decided that she would teach herself how to use a computer so that she could stay connected

BLACK – Yo-Yo Performer and Serial Dreamer BLACK is all about impossible dreams. After getting Gold Medal at the World Yo-Yo Contest in 2001 whi

Hans Aarsmans talk at TEDxAmsterdam was titled From pretty to ugly and back again; mysterious ways of beauty in photography and the audience judged it

Nobuho Nagasawa is a Japanese artist who studied in Berlin and Los Angeles and established a studio in New York in 2001. She is an interdisciplinary a

View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-is-thi… On first glance, the painting “Las Meninas” (“The Maids of Honor”) might not seem terri

A partner at renowned design firm IDEO and the co-leader of both IDEO’s Bay Area operation and its Asia initiative, Owen Rogers stands squarely at the