Hillel Cooperman: Legos for grownups

http://www.ted.com Lego blocks: playtime mainstay for industrious kids, obsession for many (ahem!) mature adults. Hillel Cooperman takes us on a trip through the beloved bricks' colorful, sometimes oddball grownup subculture, featuring CAD, open-source robotics and a little adult behavior.

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. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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• Cooperman
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• culture
• robotics
• CAD
• open
• source
• children
• adult
• hobby

[McSnookerman]

how is this an idea worth spreading?

[primate924]

+ for swearing durring your ted talk

[darkmyro]

@McSnookerman if nothing else then to promote creativity if nothing else

[juliacotic]

Fantastic video

[andreeaweed]

the Lego is the treasure..this is grate, i love this

[abitofneither]

Paid for by Lego. Lego Lego Lego.

[andyrooney12]

@McSnookerman

You really don't know? The Lego phenomena has created an outlet for all sorts of creative people in the arts. If you study the history of art you'll see all sorts of eras that involve expression in a unique form with some unique medias, pigments, & surfaces. Some artists today are utilizing the latest technology (like those people who use computer software to make Lego masterpieces) while other artists use the simple Lego shapes to produce massive intricately designed sculptures.

[sdrawkcabnipyt]

WAIT WAIT WAIT... don't you need a point.. to do a TED talk?

This guy told us he went to buy his kid lego's, and instead bought himself some..

Then he bought 150lbs. of them.. then he sorted them.. and then he realized he's obsessed.

The end. But dont worry he made a TED logo out of Lego's...

Next week I will be speaking on Toilet Paper, and how I just realized I use it.

[TheFriedOnions]

@McSnookerman How isn't this an idea worth spreading? Lego is an excellent building tool, and excessive amount of fun and a great way of being creative.

Hell, I would even go as far as to say that Lego can be art.