Aaron Koblin: Artfully visualizing our humanity

[shab04]

you are a genius. i cant believe it.

[aurorabarajas]

I loved this presentation =)

[wraeki]

bit of 'tall poppy syndrome' exhibited in the negative comments I think

[m0stlyharmless42]

*cough*video games *caugh caugh*

[cj50ae]

That music was absolutely horrifying. That is the stuff of nightmares right there.

[HelloKellen]

he visited art center, my school, and gave us a lecture on visual data. I remember him saying "I feel like this is a good practice for TED". Im glad he did so well!

[p3destrian]

genius



[Arykermanchi]

I think at least music is meant to be composed individually.

[Tolstoievsky]

i noticed this "borg" paradigm has been growing lately, as illustrated but not limited to numerous TEd talks of late. curious to see where it will go next

[PoRtEr3196wk]

its napoleon dynamite!!

[ivandj0rdjevic]

@ 06/07/2011 26 people either don't understand this, or don't understand that they don't understand (later is most scary if they are people of any power)

[kinglynx]

that is sooooooooooooooooooooooo sick

[corylphotography]

Wow... this is really cool.

[dryan22]

It's incredible the amount of pollution we're putting up into the air. Airplanes are the worst.

[Winstons01001010]

It'd be incredibly useful to have links to the various projects he refers to as annotations throughout the video.

Inspiring work, thinkers like Aaron make me hopeful and really excited about where we're headed next.

[anmiasm]

RIP Johnny

[vulpescana]

Need translate on other languages =/

[BigKittenNet]

Pure awesomeness. This video shows the potential of data mining. We're officially the civilization of data now... just don't get buried in it, too much is never good :)

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

The sheep was not the first animal to be cloned.

[ransomdave]

Tina eat the food! gah!

[Northwichita]

I have never stopped listening to a talk, nows the time ( at 10:40 ) .

[skarules111]

that daisy, daisy song shall haunt me in my nightmares.

[abcg1]

respect for johnny cash project :) so awesome.. :)

[squirreljester2]

The guy at 9:58 says noooch like Jay.

[raver2be]

The Bicycle Built for 2,000 is actually a mind control audio file. Don't listen to it!

[Drumguy008]

14:07

I live in hemet and I've never seen him lol

[mvanroy]

We have a visual representation that none of us are as dumb as all of us.

[LiveToThink]

The TED stage is to be respected and putting this youthful imitator on cheapens it.

[griskrossaren]

720 much?  -_______-

[DandelionDarkAngel]

i saw the johnny cash video like 3 days ago on youtube and it is indeed the most awesome thing i have ever seen!!!

[KaylinJH]

dah-tah dah-tah

[NegativeNick]

I was in Amsterdam last new years day. what a crazy place.

[supermaucat]

What a humungous waste of time and energy.

[wulf8121]

This has a lot of promise.

[goog2k]

Interesting & amusing experiments.

So what?

Did we learn anything new or inspiring?

[Tolstoievsky]

@goog2k should have we? i think the idea of experimenting is you don't know what the conclusion is before-hand

[goog2k]

@Tolstoievsky I guess you're confirming my question.

I wasn't challenging the effort. I said it was interesting and amusing.

I just didn't hear anything significant that was discovered.

Maybe you can enlighten me.

[profetas]

Nice but useless Interfaces

[arcitejack]

yawn



[LikeEminem]

Amazing.

[LedOutMan]

I would count that song as a pretty big failure.

[ShalloeThought]

Biebers Grown

[SEThatered]

Just think how much fuel all those planes burned! O_O

[AlgeKalipso]

People actually go to Mechanical Turk to get money. It is kind of unpleasant and not really nice to be paid so little for so much work. It may seem funny from the outside, but an important fraction of the collaborators actually were in the middle of gathering enough money to eat. I've used it before, and the wage I gave was about 3 dollars an hour, and I felt pretty guilt (I actually anticipated it to be about 10 $ the hour, but the questions required more time to be answered than I though)

[CreelmanKid]

This guy was involved with The Johnny Cash project AND The Wilderness Downtown!?

Those are both amazing projects. So awesome.

[xjustamem0ryx]

airplane sperm!

[3LARI]

Not getting a standing ovation at TED is like the audience collectively spitting in your face.

[LimmingKenny]

@3LARI

That's exactly what I thought when he looked back to see if anyone was standing up

[kwraikarn]

@3LARI He talks SO fast and there's so much information, it feels like the audience didn't have time to react to anything - or even applaud! I think they were exhausted at the end.

[Vortex42]

Brilliant talk. Just brilliant!

[morthim]

the wisdom of crowds? this proves it wrong.

[Gesmehod]

@morthim I'm not sure if the internet counts lol

[SarahChambersAudios]

Wow, wow and double WOW! Amazing work, well done.

[4relevants]

digi traash

[ODeathKing]

So it was this guy! I saw this like a while ago. StubbledUpon this. :D

[DurexDurpaneu2]

Trippy

[dookiecheez]

haha...florida never looked more appropriate as Americas wang.

[id104335409]

But this beats everything!

[id104335409]

Art is always pointless.

[WhatAxBrit]

@id104335409 your comment is pointless, stfu.

[Sibleeful]

is it weird that i'm 13 and i find ted talks fascinating?

[clothearednincompoop]

@Sibleeful

No it's promising. Keep watching...

[DoRayMeFa]

@Sibleeful You're *exceptional* to like TED talks at age 13, not weird.

Copernicus, da Vinci, and Einstein were all weird to a lot of people

Don't let anyone else's concept of weirdness affect what you pursue!

Check back with us in 25 years and let us know what you've accomplished, OK?

[mazdaplz]

@DoRayMeFa

stop feeding the teenage attention seeker, you will introduce him into a cycle where he seeks validation.

plain ignore him

[Sibleeful]

@mazdaplz i'm sorry, i wasn't aware that i couldn't ask questions.

most people my age don't even know what ted talks is and probably couldn't care less.

i'm interested in these kinds of things and because of that, i'm an outcast.

so i was just wondering if because i enjoy these types of things is the reason why i'm considered the weird one.

sorry i had to spell it out for you, jeez.

[Sibleeful]

@mazdaplz and by the way, if you MUST know, i'm a girl.

[Sibleeful]

@DoRayMeFa will do! haha :D

[MELANIE1001]

That Johnny Cash video is honestly amazing art...I enjoyed that a lot

[mazdaplz]

if you didn't find this talk innovative enough, i encourage you to watch:

Doug Fields - The other brain. it barely has any views, and is an astounding ted talk

[doford]

The first 6 mins is good

[doford]

This is amazing!

[axelasdf]

Anyone notice the Batman Johnny Cash?, at 13:37, no less

[lovingboarding]

Please turn down the volume in the beginning, TED. Thank you.

[ThePureAura]

what's an interface?

[Jinmane]

@ThePureAura Haven't watched the video yet, but generally an interface is the part of something that you interact with, as opposed to its inner workings.

[TheRadyo]

@ThePureAura

Interact with (another system, person, organization, etc.)

Connect with (another computer or piece of equipment) by an interface

....Google dictionary

[1RadicalOne]

Judging from this rendition of "Daisy Bell", Eric Whitacre was lucky not to get 50000 recordings of people burping into the microphone...

[Jotto999]

I'm not a Cash fan, but that is freaking cool!

[mjwinger1]

One of the best TED talks i've seen.

[LunarFuror]

I imagine thats what the song would sound like if zombies sang it

[Shaunt1]

Interesting stuff, the project with the $100 bill is similar to something I did back in middle school.

[trippellol]

@Shaunt1 I'd like to see that project =)

[Shaunt1]

@trippellol I only contributed one part, but they put it on the wall in the library I don't know if it's still up but the school is in Las Vegas and called "Faith Lutheran".

[poopdude]

Awesome!

[kablamo9999]

Amazing stuff!

[shyic]

I really liked the idea of collaborative art, like drawing individual frames without knowing the big picture.

However, the first two visualizations of flight patterns and sms messages were boring and predictable. What do we learn? Nothing really.

[Ralv988]

honestly I'm not a great designer i preffer more devepoling but the work in this video is just great.

[Pianofy]

Some of the projects were okay, or seen before. But the Johny Cash music video is pretty Cash.

All in all a video worth sharing :)

[BrotherBloat]

absolutely awesome!

[bloodylaugh]

That Johny cash music video,, was EPIC

[kid29a]

I've seen almost the same talk long ago!

[199385369]

@kid29a congratulations!

[cmd2tuts]

@kid29a Yes, wasnt it about a gentleman gathering data about his family and doing much the same thing?

[eschersky]

@kid29a I would really like to know what's the talk you're talking about, do you remember any names or references?

[MaloEdu]

This guy is genius!

[raymondkhoury]

this guy is just showing off. When I was at MIT, when I was at UCLA, I met a music video director. Bla Bla Bla, worst and most useless TED talks I've seen yet

[valken666]

@raymondkhoury you're jealous

[D5932]

lol 10:40 was creepy as hell

[MrCattlehunter]

We humans are very visual creatures. I really hope that clever people like this man do more work converting complex information into easily understandable visuals, and make it easily available to the public.

[HamOnCan]

@MrCattlehunter though surely this is more true of men than women?

[HamOnCan]

@MrCattlehunter though surely this is more true of men than women?

[13igAdam2040]

That was shockingly interesting.

[valken666]

pretty

[MagnusMistro]

I love TED. But not in THAT way.

[THECOMMENTER10000]

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[ScientistAtheist]

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