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  • a fusion of science and art...why not! i like this guy!

  • @iLOVENATURE2011 try Theo Jansen with his fusion of science, art and nature

  • i noticed one thing missing.... a way for it to get off the ground

    08:43

  • "and uh, so that's pretty much it, ok thank you"

  • Wow, that's so cool!

    And the huge ball at 10:00 looks like an alien space ship. Maybe their technology works this way as well..

  • Oh course he's nervous. Any minute now someone will acuse him of witchcraft

  • reminds me of family guy, with 'joyce kinney' and the other news anchor says "wow you sound crazy nervous"

  • this guy is amazing...

  • this is cool... but you have too much time on your hands

  • FUCKING MAGNETS! HOW DO THEY WORK?!

  • @527rubbertoe you can't explain that.

  • I'M NOT EASILY IMPRESSED. BUT.... WOW!

  • I'd lose the flying Hippie ball, other than that, good stuff.

  • Great video and work.. I like this artist too, nice and low tech, creating beautiful 3d drawings in wire:

    ralfw is the youtube name.  ralfwesterhof.nl

    Also amazing!!!

  • It's very dangerous, let's manipulate it a bit... oops....

  • I just got mind fucked...no BS, MIND FUCKED! Am I the only person who is just getting a high off this stuff?! This shit is like snorting a megaton of cocaine in 1 millisecond. Fuck this is beautiful. Brilliant people are coming together to create the FUTURE. I study science as much as I can & I am usually fairly up to date on what's going on but I never get tired of feeling amazed @ what's coming up next. That giant flying ball, I had a dream like that once & it's going to be REAL. FUCKING COOL!

  • @andyrooney12 ah? is only a nervous guy talking about some thing

  • @89gerardo

    Not everyone is a brilliant orator. He may come across as nervous but that doesn't mean anything...you have to pay attention to the INFORMATION that he's giving us and the contents of his lecture are brilliant!

  • @andyrooney12 As long as you allow some of us to keep thinking - you haven`t seen nothin`yet!

  • летающие шарики - это круто :)

  • make the flying orb look like the moon and descend upon a big city,,,,,,,,,,,,,,:P

  • that is no sculpture, it moves. It's now an moving object.

  • This reminds me of Chris Farley's skit in SNL

  • No one can defy gravity. It is the force the lets you stand on your own to feet.

    Director: I would like to suggest that you learn more about the world around you and the English language. 

  • That flying orb thing is scary as fuck

  • I just DO NOT want to allow junk/garbage ADVERTISERS to EVER have access to some of these technologies. PEACE!

  • SEG is Anti Gravity. Maybe if physicists would learn outside of the texts and go with people like Dan Winter that have an actual realization of gravitation being caused by fractal charge collapse (Implosion), they might eventually realize that gravity is centripetal force, anti would most likely be centrifugal force.

  • freetime. he has lots of it.

  • Once again: it's not called "gravity defying", it's called M-A-G-N-E-T-I-S-M.

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  • @DreamsCatcher101 ...yes it is. Its magnetism.

  • @TheDoingYourMom1 I know, thats why i deleted that reply. I replied on the first device which is just about balance.

  • @DreamsCatcher101 Yeah, I saw that after I commented. No problem :)

  • Wow. Are all his sculptures some form of magnetism? Totally awesome.

  • dont get me wrong, the guy is a genius, however, that last project puts him a hairs breadth from becoming a Bond villain!!!!!

  • @SamuraiMongoose Tom "Art ball" Shannon. Pledges to kill Bond with a twenty tonne flying disco ball. While Bond has a romantic affair with Ms. Alota Back.

  • Rise and shine, mister freeman, rise and shine.

  • The diamond bottomed lake, could this not be used if the polar ice caps melt, as we are told they will?

  • the last one is mind blowing.

  • I could see terrorists taking that floating ball out in a matter of hours.

  • this guy is amazing!!

  • Those guys, never know how to end a speech. Thank you for time, again, My name is blah blah blah, I hope you enjoyed the presentation. (end) not o.k...thank u (vanish)

  • slow your breathing dude,nice and deep,dont rush.try to relax.

  • OMG that amazing

    its awesome dude,,

  • I admire the guy tremendously, but the "floating globe airship" looks absolutely horrid. If ever built, the idea will be hijacked by the media industry and be another Orwellian version of a just another damnable advertising medium... Floating billboards - instead of round, box-like. Just awful. Is that what the world needs more of??

  • the ball seems like it could easily fall into wrong hands. I could see it being used for espionage or advertising. What we really need is a floating nike shwish lighting up the night.

  • this is something terrorist will look for

  • Didn't they have one of those things in A Clockwork Orange? :)

  • ah ah ah ah ah ah ... nice sculptures but very hard to listening

  • beatiful and great ideas, what an imagination !

  • 6: 43 how the f did he do that?

  • The flying ship would become a weapon in no time flat. But it is freakin awsome!

  • it is pretty nice.. but meh, not my thing

  • wow :) the magnetic sculpture was awesome

  • that flying ball that changescolour was kool it would be lethal if used in war

  • in war is ussless

    because you can see it very far, is too big, and seems to be slow... not efective..

  • but it can camuflage

  • but the radar....? or the electromagnetic radiations?  or ..... i dont know... it would be created if were efective xd

  • @Danielsh23

    What if images of worship were displayed to immitate the coming of whomever? Scientology propaganda anyone?

  • great work! magnetic sculpture are amazing, really liked this guys touchable ones

    ive got a gravitron,but hopefully we'll have more exciting stuff in the future if people like this guy keep pushing the envelope!

  • Why is everyone fighting?

    This is a man's ideas and artistic nature.

    Why must so many of you put him down for it?

    I, for one, think this man is a genius, and I am amazingly impressed and in awe at his creations/ creations to be.

  • he is amazing. genius material.

  • lol.. ait geene goes over a city.. falls.. and destroys it lol..

  • The cityscape at 10:20 ish reminds me of Pink Floyd's Animals.

  • @ guitarguy93 thats my all time favorite album, EVER! I dont think i have heard anything come close to the genius of 'Animals'

  • if he were interested in livers I'd say he's not normal; interest in genitalia whether female or male would indicate sexuality, which if you don't experience would mean YOU are not normal.

    -hero

  • yeah he sounded very nervous he could have presented it better, he reminded me of Larry David tho

  • that's really fantastic. Holy hell though military would want their hands on it, with invisibility capabilities etc.

  • I think we're all ready for anti-gravity that's more than a conference room demonstration.  There's a link on my page to a preview of Keshes' book.

    Click on "moontrip" w w w . keshespace . com

  • How could this Air Genie have a I million Kilowatts generator on board, and be completely silent and NON POLLUTING? Please explain that one.

  • antigravity! a cat with a buttersandwich on it in the center!

  • so he wants to really make a UFO

  • wow amazing

  • UFOs anybody?

  • He sounds incredibly nervous.

  • @ArgueExplain

    He was; classic stage fright symptoms. He has since learned about beta-blockers. Now he is much more himself on stage, for example in the pendulum interview he appears quite comfortable.

  • @ArgueExplain He has Parkinson...

  • @ArgueExplain you just explained my arguement (amazingly lame pun)

  • @ArgueExplain Maybe he does too much cocaine.

  • @ArgueExplain many artists are shy in nature and express themselves with their creations instead.

  • @ArgueExplain Dispite that, the sculpture is amazing!

  • @ArgueExplain he has parkinsons

  • @ArgueExplain he has parkinsons

  • @ArgueExplain well i believe he is selling idea of the sphere in order to get funding!!!!

  • @ArgueExplain

    Yup, I remember trying to stop the waver in my voice.

  • @ArgueExplain Makes me wanna buy him a couple shots of whisky man.

  • OH SHIT NOT NATUR!

  • why arent we using magnetic field? why drive a car and polllute the enviroment??? This technology should have been implemented long time ago. Its the elites intrest to dominate the world and the people. its the legislature and laws which don't serve citiznes but only the rich and priveledge. america its time to wake up. you had a good number of years with history to be proud of until CIA and private intrest sold the world into submission war and injustice

  • Amazing Man !!! very creative

  • In-cred-i-ble.

    This guy is one of the doers that propel us into the future :)

  • The last idea seems interesting and cool.

    But It seems something people like bradbury, postman, huxley and others warned or would warn about. I dont think they should actually make it.

  • Yeah, I imediately had this vision of an "invisible" blue ball in the sky that suddenly turns into a giant eye right over an unobidient citizen..

    Still, if the army does not think of the posibilities, it can be a really cool thing

  • Amzing man!

  • Brilliant =]

  • Maybe the flying shere could be called "Furthur III" and be crewed by the Next-Gen Merry Pranksters...

  • that last idea about the floating sphere thing is weird..

    floating island would be cool.

  • He seems nervous. He shouldn't feel that way. This wasn't a waste of time. Very interesting.

  • I wonder if he has stage fright.

  • I was proud of myself when I painted my new apartment; I thought that was some 'hard work' and I 'did something.'

    Now, after watching this guy, I feel like crap.

    5 stars.

  • @papasitoman hahahahahaha nice....

  • This guy is a genuis!

  • Awesome.

  • he sounds nervous.

  • yeah by the way his channel looks i think he is probably just going around calling people names i already blocked him lol

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  • wow anyone know if there is any pieces in the western US?

  • not to be rude but WHAT THE HELL DID I DO? or are u just clicking around calling people names?

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  • He is not a very good public speaker but I loved the sculpture, especially the first. xXx

  • i believe he was good cos he had his time he is OOOLDDD....lol

  • the Air Genie will NEVER be used for commercial purposes...it's for all of us artists.

    NEWSFLASH: the Air Genie has just been renamed the Citibank Genie....oh, well........

  • i want that silver surfer looking thingy, its awsome

  • that guy sounds like hes about to pass out

  • A million kilowatts to power that sphere? Obviously math isn't his strong suit ...

  • Obviously you don't know anything about energy

  • so what is the correct answer?

  • I don't know the correct answer, but I do know that one million kilowatts is one gigawatt, which is about one quarter of the energy consumption of New York state. If your balloon is eating up that much electricity, you've got some serious problems. Plus there's no way it's going to be powered by anything "green" or "renewable", as he claimed.

    Even one thousand kilowatts (ie a megawatt) would be crazy. He's at least a few orders of magnitude off in his calculations.

  • if enough people were watching it COULD be justified the question then becomes how many =P

  • Its funny how it starts off reasonable, then he just goes on a rant about a travelling sphere full of musicians who go to rave parties. The sculptures were interesting though. He talks too fast, nervously.

  • I think who have associated many positive virtues with the word art when anything that even a single person finds creative, communicating in a intellectual or emotional way...etc is really art. There's nothing great about the word art or being an artist, I don't know how we ended up there. People who flip hamburgers at mcdonlands are cooks too, you know, it still means nothing.

    There's good and shitty art though. We can judge that to some extent by examining the intellectual and creative effort

  • Art is art, and these days anything is art. But it doesn't mean it's really good. To me, a painting of a person is more of art than someone putting paint on their breasts and pushing them against a canvas (a woman does this, and then she paints random things like bees around the two circles which I could easily have done using anything round like a rubber ball) I measure art depending on how much talent is needed to create it, or how much creativity was needed. And on how good it looks.

  • Just love the way this guy is extremely nervous! Yet has brilliant concepts and ideas. Wish I had his brain. Unfortunately I'm just lil' ol' me.

  • Cool, interesting,

  • will you morons just shut up. It's cool art.

  • And to all you stupidass shit-talkers on here, why don't you become an artist, make some artistic things or other scientifically intriguing objects, make a video of it, post it here and if it's as nice as this guy's art, I'll shut the fuck up. Hey, how about, even if it's half as nice, I'll shut up. Can't do it? No, because you're some random faggot shit-talking other people on a video, that's why.

  • Because we think modern art, especially impressionism and abstract *shudders*, is complete bullshit. Telling us to shut up has a name... oh, what do we call it... ah, yes, fascism! Fucking fascist...

  • Once again, I'm willing to bet all I'd have to do to be considered an "artist" is to drop a crucifix in a jar, piss on it, and then mix it with a little blood. Ah yes, I do believe that's called Piss Christ (another "artistic" piece).

    Ever since a soup can became art, all the rules went out the window. Smearing shit on a canvas, no matter how much the artist in question lacks any talent, is now considered art.

    If these pieces were smaller and used as paper weights, they'd no longer be art...

  • hulu(d0t)com/watch/51154/dilbe­rt-art

    It says it all...

  • Now, I have no real background in art. It just seems to me that the concept of "rules" in relation to art is kind of contrary to the whole concept.

    Just wondering if art has a set definition.

  • Yes I have a problem with that as well. I'm in advanced art classes in my school, and they always tell me all these rules I gotta follow. Then if a painting doesn't seem to follow the rules, they stretch the rules so it does. Like my teacher said every painting has to have one object stand out. I beg to differ with that. Plenty of paintings which have about the same sized objects in them. Art is art, it should float. Unless you're not doing it from the heart, which is the only time I sketch.

  • Yes. but what are you saying with your art? Art is about and has always been about communication.

  • i'm pretty certain that no artist is obligated to explain nor comment on their own art, simply for the sake of the viewer.

  • That's what makes it art. It is thought provoking.

  • Nor is any viewer obligated to acquiesce that what an "artist" has created is actually art.

  • sabertooth1980: I think he is trying to show how important and intricate gravity and the physiology of the earth and the moon as well as the ratios and symmetry involved with round objects rellating back to mathematics..... all of these examples are anomalies of astronomy as well as chemistry..... very interesting with the "orb" looking ship... wonder if he will be using a type of new gravity propulsion of some kind to power it... excellent work tho, magnets are crazy

  • I would argue on chemistry... I just think it is awesome.

  • The majority of you assholes should die right now just for being absolutely fucking retarded. This is one artist and he showed some pretty interesting ideas and concepts. No it doesn't solve the world's problems. No they probably don't have a lot of useful practical application (neither does the Mona Lisa), but artistically it's interesting to look at and aesthetically it looks very pretty.

  • So violent. No one here is "fucking retarded" We just have different opinions from yours, and you feel threatened by that.

    Sure, some people could express their opinions better, but so could you.

  • So fucking bullshit, how many amount of energy does that super magnetic sucks???

    No good for men 4 now baby

  • Magnets don't "suck" energy. He clearly said that it was a permanent magnet. That means it requires NO energy to create its magnetic field. That's what makes it "permanent."

  • scholzie,

    We are running out of landfills to dump these and other "permanent" art works, Can you provide us your location and detail address of your home place?

    Earth.

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  • I see how people like you need to lie to make others seem narrow minded. I never said anything of the sort in your "quote". You made it up to make me look bad. Frankly, I've never written a comment with such horrible grammar and poor word choices.

    You have no idea what you are talking about. It doesn't take a lot of energy to make an extremely strong neodymium magnet. They are made of elements found in rocks and are non-toxic.

    Get a life. Go eat something gluten free.

  • suck in energy of waste of resources of life, time, inspiration.... that shit bitch

  • Absolutely amazing concepts! I could actually see this in the future as a usable and beautiful thing, but at the same time it seems so unfeasible because we are lacking good utility in many aspects of the world. Overall, breathtaking to imagine!

  • The ridiculous level of nervousness in his voice makes me feel weird

  • Mr. Shannon has many intriguing novel ideas--how original for a change!

    Really interesting Art and Science, not the same old boring stuff. It takes courage and commitment to follow your own path and then put it out there in public. Bravo!

  • magnetic trains, new technologies etc can be inspired by this. You people write as if artists were nothing more than trash men. You're a damned fool if you think that way.

  • Beside entertaining the corporate psychopath CEOs, can anybody tell me how this "art" can save the environmental destruction we are facing?

  • Your comment doesn't belong here seyoumeye. But one day you'll sit back and realize that your "save the environment" movement only alive because governments, companies and some individuals realized that it is the next best thing to make more money out of. So find the appropriate video for your "the end is near" comment and post it there. Thank you

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  • seyoumeye Go find yourself a tree hugger buddy to chat with, I am not interested of your views. Trying to insult me over the internet while you're half a world away will only makes me laugh at you more.

  • Shihtzu1968

    Stop blaming governments & its puppet greedy psychopath members whom are engaged in profiting out of the environment destruction. It is time we take all "responsibilities" of our actions and reflect upon how OUR life-style is affecting the health of our planet- art and entertainment industries are here to destruct us from what is really happening around us- I know some of you are enclosed forever to live in big cities where Nature is merely a patch of green grass- Think!

  • Blame? There was no blame, try understanding what you read. Maybe you should "think" before writing.

  • wait... the art industry is to blame? ....

  • ...and who do you think is funding and advertising the (anti greener) Art industry - that is devouring the mind of the youth in exchange of wealth accumulation and prosperity while the planet is left to bleed to death?

    Obviously the many parasites behind such ART industry are too busy producing SHIT to let their busy consumer EAT SHIT!

  • We could drop some of the heavier pieces on top of baby seals, shortening their suffering a bit... or distract Al Gore for a while, and not have to hear anymore about it (at least here in the states) ^.^

    OH, or get enough of the junk together in one container, and just keep shifting said container under the current hole in the ozone layer, reflecting both heat off of us and letting any extraterrestrials that might happen by know that we are the leaders of making shit that we call art. Woot!

  • Gotta think proactively when dealing with stuff like this(watch?v=ej2WPWfhqco)! Also catch the full episode, which is probably online. ;P

  • Truthiness231 you are kinda a dick

  • For making jokes? K... right back at ya...

  • Another good use of the sphere from the end is to perform a live "The day the earth stood still" :P

  • hes an artist not a speaker.....

    some of us only have one talent

    lol

  • No one cares. Tell all your friends to stop commenting on TEDTalks with your asinine "He's not a great public speaker" bullshit.

    You twat.

  • Some would say your capitalisation of every word is annoying.

  • His name is Tom Shannon, He did a TEDtalk. You made a negative comment about him. You've never done a TEDtalk. So who wins the little competition emerging here? Certainly not you

  • Are You People INSANE? Im In NO WAY Selling This Man Short Of His Genius. I'm Just Stating MY Opinion On This Public Forum. Truth Is, It Probably Would Take Me Years To Create One Of His Sculptures. BUT, If This Was Called, TEDsculptures... I Wouldnt Have Commented On His Speaking Skills. But Its Not... Its Called TEDtalk.

  • Why are you capitalizing the first Letter Of Every Word?

  • Why Do You Have To Type With Fucking CApital Letters At The start of every WORD?!!?!

  • I can do that.... but I don't want to.

    :P

  • he wanted to, thats why you are watching him, and not hes watching you...

  • I bet that they already have that technology, and the shadow government is using this to make people think they are alien craft! ufos