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Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously

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Uploaded on Jun 8, 2011

http://www.ted.com Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing -- which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate.

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  • Abhijit Banerjee

    so, what have you given back to the Indian fishermen who actually seeded the idea with you ?

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  • Kevin507

    what about birds?:(

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  • 1prettyricky

    whats with all the thumbs down?

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  • DrOctopusBJJ

    Cool, but how about switching up mediums or at least materials every once in a while?

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  • IronCapo

    Does anyone know what the seven art schools were that rejected her?

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    in playlist OH!!!
  • anuka giggle

    wow, woderful

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  • VectorArrow

    When she said "And was rejected by all 7 (Art Schools)" at 0:45, the look on her face said "Can you believe they rejected me? Their loss."

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  • TheBluePepperoni

    Hey, everybody's entitled to their own delusions. And I would think that you, sir, are more arrogant than her and me. ;)

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  • Jinwoo Lee

    do realize that there is more radiating arrogance somewhere in your life than hers just looking this ignorant comment. Bravo for your self-delusion ;)

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  • Jinwoo Lee

    such a wonderful cynicism. Thanks for reminding me that not everyone enjoys what is given to be enjoyable and making me feel better. Fantastic reminder :)

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  • Pat Iku

    :')

    

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