Miwa Matrayek's glorious visions

http://www.ted.com Using animation, projections and her own moving shadow, Miwa Matreyek performs a gorgeous, meditative piece about inner and outer discovery. Take a quiet 10 minutes and dive in. With music from Anna Oxygen, Mirah, Caroline Lufkin and Mileece.

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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[KGR89]

@kentrel2 pretentious? WTF? Its beautiful and creative. Pretention is nothing but a title individuals give artists whom they refuse to understand. Dislike it fine but calling it pretentious is going to far. A lot of work went into this.

[PisicutaSiMatei]

her name was wrote bad in the title: Matrayek instead of Matreyek ;)

[crudhousefull]

@Epicred1997 Were you stoned?

[morph628]

@KGR89 I cannot comment because your retort is senseless. Please, read my post again with an eye towards openness and humility.

[KGR89]

@morph628 It sound like ur sayin that Im pretendin 2 like this video which doesnt make sense. As I hav no significant net presence Its not as if Im tryin 2 score points with followrs. Anyway who made u the omnicient determiner of sincerity on the net? Sounds more like ur just bein a prick for the sake of bein a prick.

[bookofseraph]

This is so so magical! More please .... What an inspiration you are.

[Epicred1997]

The first time I saw this I was blown away and I was crying it was too beautiful

[Epicred1997]

@corkhead0 fuck you

[Epicred1997]

@tintiringa you suck she put all her effort in this beautiful piece and you dont appriciate her hard work? JERK

[morph628]

@sdrawkcabnipyt seems like you are hoping for a more naturalistic performance. Perhaps such a process would have changed certain qualities of the work- for better or worse-

[morph628]

@KGR89 Yes, pretention has to do with individuals and works that do not possess the qualities that they tout. But, with modern performace (and all art, really), the performer and the viewer must collaborate in an effort to construct meaning. If you are unwilling to collaborate as a viewer, as perhaps kentrel2 is, then you are not participating in the endeavor; you are only pretending to play the role as a viewer; you're full of pretention becasue you are pretending to be a participant.