Aparna Rao: High-tech art (with a sense of humor)

http://www.ted.com Artist and TED Fellow Aparna Rao re-imagines the familiar in surprising, often humorous ways. With her collaborator Soren Pors, Rao creates high-tech art installations -- a typewriter that sends emails, a camera that tracks you through the room only to make you invisible on screen -- that put a playful spin on ordinary objects and interactions.

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[littlebirdmjfan]

I want that teddy bear, really bad.

[ZeitOner]

Oh boo hoo her accent is annoying. Shut the fuck up. Its quite clear.

[Sesha Sayi Panangipalli]

pleasing Miss Rao, Great innovative way of presenting HITECH ART,Keep Your Innovative Spirits , To Keep This world TEDDYING Happily. Wish You Shall Have all the patience,thought & Finance& Help.

[Shaon Ghosh]

Ooooohhh little Timmy does not want to talk?? Did I hurt your sentiment sweetie? Okay... go back to your room and play with that little train Santa gave you...

[Shaon Ghosh]

What a cry baby. Do you stay with mommy?

[Shaon Ghosh]

A monkey argues better than you. You need to take lessons on debate. You are such an imbecile that you do not even realize that the link YOU sent me to read, where a Tiny section talks about Iranian Biriyanis, at the very top in the article SAYS that Biriyani was invented by Indians. Moron, can you even read and comprehend simple English? Do you understand flow of reason, arguments? When was the last time you shut your mouth and listened to your teacher? Now will be a good time

[Ko252]

Ahh, ad hominem-attack - The failing boy's argument. 1) I do not debate with retards, I correct. 2) I dont care what you say. 3) Stop talking about bananas, when the big boy talks about apples. Do you understand that? If you do, you know what an ignorant comment you made; twice. 4) Your descr. of Iranian biryani was way off. 5) Just for the fun, I think I will block you to hurt your ego/inhance your "small-dick-syndrome".

[Ko252]

And just to push your ego (or little-dick-syndrome), I block you as well.

[Ko252]

I dont debate asses, I just correct. And you are not any exception. The funny fact is, I never said that biriyani was invented by Indians; is it that hard to understand? Anywho, I do not have time to the time, nor the patience, to write back to an irrational retard like you, so I this is my last response. Further on, if you read the link, it clearly state that your description of Iranian biryani is wrong. So pls. stop flunking your classes and wasting your parents money, and educate yourself.

[Shaon Ghosh]

You not only lack debating skills but also lack intellectual faculty. Let me break it down to suite your IQ which probably is about the size of your shoe... I SPECIFICALLY said that there is something called the Persian biriyani and then there is Indian Biriyani. A dimwit like you completely ignored that statement..

en(dot)wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/­Biryani

The article clearly says at the top that Biriyani was invented in the kitchens of the Mughal emperors. Wiki your own arse with this.

[Ko252]

You are wrong. And just to wiki your ass, here is a link.

en.wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/Biry­ani#Iranian_beriani . Where is yours?

[Shaon Ghosh]

People should talk less and talk sense. Why bring all these culinary metaphors? If you indeed have to do, then do so with more information. Biriyani is not an Indian dish is a meaningless statement. The word biriyani is Persian, and there is dish called biriyani in Iran. And then there is a dish in India that is also called biriyani (probably importing the WORD biriyani from persian). But it looks nothing like Persian biriyani. Persian biriyani looks more like a sandwich. Check your sources.