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  • THE BITCH HUGS GLACIERS... 

  • this really shifts nothing

  • watching Raghava KK claiming to be an artist right after watching the Kate Hartman talk(where she claims to be a 'technologist') was refreshing. I didn't dislike her ideas, but I was amazed at the questions she was trying to raise and how she didn't come up with more relatable solutions... maybe she just needs some human perspective.(I acknowledge that ideas like the plant thing are useful and fun at the same time, and am sure there are similar ideas I haven't heard of from her)

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  • Arduino LilyPad! :-)

  • this women is a tad mental...

  • I swear she is from another universe, I SWEAR OR ALIEN or something like that.

  • Another crappy talk on the descent TED :/

  • @xxxisxxxisxxx

    i've been working on a piece that speaks of sex and desperation.

    i've been screwing on the tracks of abandoned train stations.

  • I am so glad I'm not her boyfriend.  I might have to pretend I found this stuff interesting. I can imagine no greater horror.

  • Wost TED talk ever?

    The answer is: YES!!!!!

  • apparently this video is very (un)popular with spiritless autistics, who have no sense of emotional connection with their environments.

    What are you all - heartless accountants?

  • @roidroid Just beacause we don't choose to anthropomorphise things (like, glaciers for example) that have no emotions or consciousness (at least, not in any relatable way) does not make us "Autistics" Matter of fact, that is insulting, both to autistics, the sufferers or a real disease, and to anyone who doesn't think hugging a glacier is a useful way to spend your life. (BTW, it isn't, and convincing someone to pay you for it doesn't change that)

  • @wendighoul Anthropomorphising things is an innate part of the human psyche, and is apparent everywhere you look in society. examples: every religion ever, naming your car, pareidolia, etcetc.

    The sheer levels of seething hatred that the fun & whimsical ideas in this youtube video has inspired in it's audience here, is quite quite sad. i mean holy shit people, what the fuck, shouldn't you all be busy burning down art gallerys, or beating your children, or whatever the fuck you people do

  • @roidroid Fair enough... ceratinly she doesn't deserve the amount of vitriol directed at her, but you aren't much better are you? Anthromorphising may be normal... but it doesn't mean you're abnormal if you don't, certainly not "autistic". And there is certainly a difference between saying something dumb and pointless is dumb and pointless, and burning down art gallery or beating children. Your insane anger does not diminish theirs, it just add to the total amount.

  • @wendighoul To actively defend things from attack is insane?

    Should we tolerate the intolerant?

    I'm here defending art's reason to exist, and you're trying to chide me for daring to raise my voice against such rabble.

  • 0:15

  • 0:15

  • I'm sorry but these devices do little to nothing to facilitate the way we interact with the world. If you want to have a conversation with yourself, you don't need a stupid looking hat to do it, just speak! if you want to listen to a glacier, you don't need megaphones or heat reflective strips of material to do it, just go and take it in! These inventions are a huge waste of resources and money.

  • "I want to better relate to walls..." Man, if I had a nickle for every time I've thought that!

  • @MrJemmyJoe yeah fuck architects, what do they know? all these years of studying light and space in their fancy-shmancy universities, what a waste of time. I could build a nice looking skyscraper in an afternoon, pff.

  • perfectly idiotic.

  • Yeah, she's nutty and quirky but mildly interesting for a couple of minutes. But why should we be forced to pay her salary? And to provide her with an office? That's just plain offensive. Can anybody defend such an utter waste of resources?

  • was this a stand up comedy show?

  • wow, you bunch of mother-fuckers. give it up for the pit of mindless vipers that is the ted comment section.

  • @ldlemos i totally agree. And am raging hard at the comments.

  • Gut listener = dressed up stethescope, nothing new there. The soil is drying out and triggering the signal so actually the plant does nothing, no new dynamic there either. She is entertaining though so I guess this falls into TED for that reason, that is if you find a pretentious twat heaping up bullshit entertaining.

  • I can't tell if this is a big joke or not.

  • I can't tell if this is a big joke or not.

  • I'm so glad this talk is pro-viking, you see so many anti-viking hate speeches these days...

  • I bet this is a Monty Python comeback :)

  • WTF?! This was a TED talk?

  • I don't see how this is an "Idea worth spreading". I.e comparing it to other great TED talks presentation! Here work is original, but ....

  • Is she serious, I'm even afraid to dislike incase I make a fool out of mysel .....

  • I was wearing the gut listener when it wasn't main stream.

  • The things people call "art" today... 

  • @salahhe heres a video for you watch?v=oiqS2f9tjeU

  • i would totally use that plant thing! lol

  • This is an example of why art is beautiful. This served no distinct measurable purpose, offered no linear progression towards some end goal, furthered no efforts in any discipline, but it still is something that everyone watching can appreciate.

  • WTF! Now standup comedy on TED? Stupid presentation.. it seems a waste of human resources funding such ideas. If her intent was not comedy, she is really crazy.

    Artist inventing wearable electronics does not seem like a good idea to spread. May be she should join the forces of Apple. Invent an iConnect device like in the Avataar to plug with the opposite sex?

  • at least she is not stalking those two flight of the conchord guys anymore....

  • @Crimsonphilosophy haha! that's exactly what i thought.

  • Finally. There's this glacier I know but I've never been able to them how I feel.

    But actions speak louder than words and now I can finally hug them. : )

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  • why r people laughing at her.....

    rude

  • @347bluearies oh come on, it's lovingly whimsical she knows that.

  • So I'm not sure if people commenting are really getting the satirical nature of her art...

  • @JohnfjRoi I get that good satire is supposed to be almost indistinguishable from the real thing, but this isn't crazy enough to scream "satire!" to me, and no part of the video's description hints at its supposedly intentionally humorous nature.

    Her website also doesn't give me that impression, though honestly I'm not interested enough in the possibility of this all being satirical that I'm going to comb through her work.

  • She is so out there, ready to be herself to the world. I love this presentation.

  • This girl is great, I would love to date her.

  • I gave up after the tried teaching me I have a body.

  • This is like modern art ....one is made to feel like the king in (king's new clothes story)

  • Kinda fun, but is she able to make money on this? She must have gotten her money for food and shelter through other means I think...

  • @a575981735977018 artists can sometimes get funding thru organizations that support her ideas and concepts. Private or public, depending on the project that she proposes. so while the public wont buy into her ideas, a private collector, or beneficiary might want to invest in furthering her ideas.

  • @leonaoona Actually I checked her web page, and she is assistant professor at some university. So she gets her money there...

  • "These are initial musings for this project. And, just as with the wall, how I wanted to be more wall-like, with this project I'd actually like to take more of a glacial phase, and so my intent is to, uhm, actually just take the next 10 years, uhm, and, uh, go on a series of collaborative projects where I work, you know, with people from different disciplines - artists, technologists, scientists - to kind of work in this project on how we can improve human-glacier relations."

    ...seriously?

  • Is this some kind of weird, elaborate, unfunny joke, or is she just crazy?

  • lol funny stuff

  • Holy Christ, this is silly.

  • Hello, I'm Kate Hartman. I haven't wasted my life at all!

    What an embarrassing girlfriend she'd be! "Hi, I'd like you to meet my girlfriend, Kate. She's a... retard."

  • @Rarae192 I'd totally have her as a girlfriend. "Hi, I'd like you to meet my girlfriend, Kate. She's actually funny. No, not just in the able-to-laugh-at-your-jokes way, but she's able to be funny all on her own. Yours?"

  • @Snagabott Well, why don't you give one of her hats a blowjob, you might score a date with her...

  • @Rarae192 Do you really think that would improve my chances in any statistically detectable way? To be honest I'm not sure I know how to pleasure a piece of cloth. In fact, how do I even know it's consenting? I wouldn't want her to think I was a rapist, you know....

  • @Snagabott Dude, if there's anything this zany bitch is trying to communicate with all of that crazy shit she's putting on, it's, "I need a fuckin' root! Badly." You need to send her a message back, and since she's fond of communicating through that head gear, you need to fuck that head gear. Trust me, if you've got anything in your pants to detect, no matter how statistically insignificant, I'm sure she'll have a hat to detect it. I know women, I almost had sex with one once.

  • @Rarae192 you sound a lot like a rapist.

  • I don't know why there's so many people trying to defend this drivel. Likely they're just self- satisfied contrarians. I'm all for the ideas of wearable technology, but a tea cozy for a stethoscope, or strapping a sheet of ply-wood to your back is not in any way "wearable technology." This was completely juvenile and in no way deserving of a platform like TED. What's next? Someone who draws pictures of clouds because that's a "symbolic representation of how we interact with clouds?" Nonsense!

  • @fiercefunky in the art business, we call this a "joke".

  • i couldn't tell if she was actually serious or just trying to be funny...either way fail in my opnion

  • 387 people "get" what shes saying 287 dont.

  • has she created anything useful?

  • @margittarget "has she created anything useful?" She is an artist. I hope that answers your question.

  • @gangliums Then I am an artist too..

    "Thank you everyone.."

  • we can search for fun/funny crap on youtube all day long, but we come to ted for something else : ted is getting worse.

  • i couldnt make it past the 3rd minute.

    this shit belongs in a preschool ... maybe.

  • @quosmo1 i'm glad you recognise that preschools are an important part of our society.

  • Fluffy phones sounds a good idea.

  • that was funny.

    

  • dumb

  • TED stands for technology entertainment and design. This topic does fall under all three of those keywords. I enjoyed it. So you guys stop griping

  • I'm in love with this girl... funny and smart :)

  • Oddly enough, it doesn't seem all that crazy.

  • It makes you look like a teletubby, you call that wearable?

    Also, I'm an etheric conciousness embedded in space and I find her generalisations offensive!

  • Man, she crazy...

  • Very funny ideas but I think TED should rather put forward more important ideas.

  • crazy or revolutionary. it depends on the audience.

  • I like this allot .... fun is good

  • An artist who does something complicated and useless, which has little to do with anything. Shes way too right lobed to be a useful teacher

  • An artist whos does something complicated and useless, which has little to do with anything. Shes way too right lobed to be a useful teacher

  • hahaha 2:36 face for the win!

  • She's so deeply into ways of communication which got her to that point!!

  • A talk to yourself hat .................. right

  • I don't mind her doing "bullshit" and giving a tedTalk. But she gets paid by a university to do this and teach this! That's a bigger bullshit.

  • @gunchibaiyya

    As a fiscal conservative I agree, to a point. Art has a reputation of inspiring and shaping technology. Much of the sci-fi fiction (literary art) of yesterday inspires the technological innovations of today. You never know how these sorts of artistic movements will shape the future of botany, political science, and fashion... just to name a few. Think bigger :-)

  • @nomorefood If you didn't notice, I started by saying that I don't mind her thinking and presenting stupid ideas. But to get paid for these stupid ideas, whereas many-many really wonderful ideas are being shot down quoting the lack of money... that's what I complain against. I don't understand why you would pay her to develop something "you never know" (quoting your own words) would be useful, while saying no to life-saving drug research saying "it's recession".

    Think useful :-)

  • There are people doing this bullshit for real, Google "electric foxy". Silliness.

  • who thinks these are really ideas which are 'worth sharing'?

  • Technically, she's a "Bullshit Artist".

  • aa hhhaaa good interval between classes......waiting for next science class..

  • Okay and what does she do for a living?

  • @DonDuracell  Her work has been exhibited internationally and featured by the New York Times, BBC, CBC, NPR, in books such as “Fashionable Technology” and “Art Science Now”. Her work is currently on view in the “Talk to Me” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

    OCAD University: Assistant Professor of Wearable & Mobile Technology, Director of the Social Body Lab, interim Director of the Digital Futures graduate program. Director of ITP Camp, a summer program at ITP/NYU.

    & you?

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  • Thats the weirdest tedtalk I've ever seen.....

  • This is a joke right? =S

  • People consider this crazy? I would say quirky if anything.

  • lmao my plant can call me

    

  • Perhaps a class action should be organised to get back our 9 mins and 6 seconds?

  • I just got a "gut listener". My guts said this is bullcrap.

  • "suck your own cock" hat is the best!

  • I get a sort of boxxy like vibe off her.

  • are we being punked... or something?

  • I Loved this talk. People like Kate offer a different, obscure outlook on life, that leads to innervation and new better ways of doing things. Go Kate!

  • Were the audience paid to applaud at the end?

  • How foolish! Was this presented in "TEDMad" or "TEDStupid" ?

  • @satyu131089 Save your hate. Watch a different video.

  • This talk has technology, entertainment and design. Genius !!

  • What a creative conceptual artist!!

  • I felt like a prick at the end for laughing cos I think she was actually really serious, I personally don't get it but maybe someday

  • Haha. I love her

  • I love how she's so tongue in cheek.

  • So many dislikes.

  • Frootloop

  • Kristen Schaal is that you?

  • Talk about second hand embarrassment.

  • Perhaps I neglect being critical of what is worthy or not worthy of a TedTalk, but I really enjoyed what she brought to the table. While the topic doesn't pertain to any great current event or alarming situation (save retreating glaciers) her art is a really great example of how we're taking advantage of and neglecting all of the resources and technology at our disposal. Personally, I want a wearable wall....

  • @StuartIsCheese I get the impression that a lot of people who watch this channel are very literal and don't really understand the point of art or novelty.

  • @celsius233 i would say that is somewhat correct, but its not that i dont understand it, its just that i watch TED to learn about facts, our world and get inside the head of a genius.

  • @oaaserud Why is it more important to learn about facts than it is to be introduced to new concepts and ways of looking at the world?

  • @celsius233 facts are something solid, useable.. our planet would be a much better place if we could grasp facts better.

  • @oaaserud facts is based on what we personally consider to be "truthful" --- few years ago, it was fact that the sun rotated around the earth...

  • @Crazee108 no that was not a fact. its a fact that people *thought* the sun flew around our planet, not that it really did.

    a fact is a theory that has been tested many thousand times to be true, and never failed and is considered to be 99.99% correct under any circumstances at the least. and a theory is a hypothesis still being tested, if it fails at some point its no longer a theory. and a hypothesis is the same as an idea.

  • @oaaserud I agree, but I also think the world would be a harsh and meaningless place if we stopped caring about imagination, creativity and fun.

  • @celsius233 the fact is that people need fun =) another fact is that more facts can be found trough imagination and fun.. i search, read and see other things that TED for that.. im not the one to say that this shouldnt be on ted, or that she is crazy.. its just not what I want to see when i see a TED video

  • What was the point of that?

  • Female Emo Phillips?

  • ME GUSTA

  • i like this

  • Stalker girl from Flight of the Conchords..amirite??

  • Definition of quirky

  • It was alright and interesting in its own way, but it never really went anywhere. She kept saying "I'm interested in the negative space around the object and how people are transformed by wearing it"...without ever telling us how people are transformed by wearing it. It was just a list of "these are things I've done and been interested in," which doesn't really seem to rise to the level of TED talk worthiness.

  • Way too much time on your hands

  • i hope this is all one big joke

  • does this "idea" really worth spreading? me think not...

  • Lol um... Ok.

  • shes weird

  • lol

    

  • I don't care what the haters say; this was cute!

  • Puddingheaded fruitcake, but at least she is having fun!

  • lol

    

  • I love U.S. we embrace all smart and crazy people!

  • What?

  • Definitely wacky, but she is thinking outside the box.

  • I bet her only redeeming quality is being freaky in bed.

  • 4:26 only thing semi entertaining.

  • *facepalm*

  • investing in weareble commuinication. done!

  • This really has the most to do with art, expression, and communication. I find it interesting and entertaining.

  • WHAT THE HELL AM I WATCHING!

  • This was very humorous, it's amazing to see all these uptight "if it's not practical it's crap" comments. Is this not Entertainment?

    Besides, it's fun to play around with the norms of social interaction.

  • What a load of shit indeed, waste of my time.

  • That was actually quite amusing. xD

  • Jebus christ, if the talk is not brilliant everybody complains. This stuff used to be only for a select few who paid for it. So stfu and be thankfull TED shares the vids.

  • I'm an artist and I find this ridiculous.

  • Your tax money at work.

  • The world is a better place, now that I know.

  • We don't have bodies we are bodies.