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How to Unleash Your Inner Maximalist Through Costume | Machine Dazzle | TED

Tapping into the transformational power of costume, concept artist Machine Dazzle takes us on a maximalist journey through art, history and fashion. From a jaw-droppingly intricate ’60s bouffant ensemble to a 24-hour show of extravagant outfits, Dazzle shares pieces that channel unrealized dreams, urging us all to fully embrace the beautiful complexity of being ourselves.…

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Tapping into the transformational power of costume, concept artist Machine Dazzle takes us on a maximalist journey through art, history and fashion. From a jaw-droppingly intricate ’60s bouffant ensemble to a 24-hour show of extravagant outfits, Dazzle shares pieces that channel unrealized dreams, urging us all to fully embrace the beautiful complexity of being ourselves.

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  1. Pepe of Kek

    July 3, 2023 at 8:46 am

    Morans.
    You’ve tipped your hand, but you forgot to seize the bang stocks first. It’s too late now, nobody will comply, and the counter-reaction will be severe.

    It was always about the children.

  2. Zero Cartwright

    July 3, 2023 at 8:55 am

    🎉 I want to create your objects of desire be that which stands as a voice for those who don’t.

    I stand between both. A real divine androgynous mercurial Hermes myself. I’ll never ever change.

    My ideal gender identity is Ranma backwards but I’m a girl. A woman.

    Why? Because women subsume themselves under men far too often and men do little to protect women in society when it really matters. Thanks for your piece of art ❤

    • Zero Cartwright

      July 3, 2023 at 2:17 pm

      @Anonymous Gamer what is wrong with you? Do you need help? I’m talking about my own thing.

    • Anonymous Gamer

      July 3, 2023 at 2:39 pm

      @Zero Cartwright ​ oh, I’m genuinely terribly sorry. There’s a lot of other hateful comments under this video and I misunderstood your statement as a sarcastic take on the subject matter. That’s honestly very cool of you and, again, apologies for getting the entirely wrong idea

    • Zero Cartwright

      July 3, 2023 at 2:44 pm

      @Anonymous Gamer well I’m not so sure but in the spirit of what actually is genuine i hope you were able to profit off of the fortune of my corpse… enjoy your day ♡

  3. Zero Cartwright

    July 3, 2023 at 8:58 am

    I’m all about min maxing… it’s how you defeat all the weapons in FF7 and one shot Sephiroth at the end of the game.

    • wojoness

      July 3, 2023 at 12:11 pm

      Oh lord. Maxing is rough. You gotta hit the crashed gelnika and morph all the enemies into sources. Unless you’re just duping, I guess.

  4. Peter Weller

    July 3, 2023 at 9:01 am

    Not a hater just cannot be bothered sort of Meh

    • oceandizzle7

      July 3, 2023 at 9:17 am

      😂 yet you still comment? 😂

  5. E. Yassine

    July 3, 2023 at 9:19 am

    What was the point of this talk again?

    • Anonymous Gamer

      July 3, 2023 at 11:21 am

      face your fears, learn a little about the genuine artistic movement of maximalism, be expressive? I think it’s a good message.

    • E. Yassine

      July 3, 2023 at 12:26 pm

      @Anonymous Gamer if you say so, I guess..

  6. Rashida Reeves

    July 3, 2023 at 9:39 am

    The comments… 🧐🤔 I mean he was obnoxious but the comments were no better. Calm down. You’re going to be okay. Smh. 🤦🏾‍♀️

  7. Wavewatcher

    July 3, 2023 at 9:41 am

    Oh yeah because that’s all we need in today’s society: maximalism.
    We need more and more of things. We need to exaggerate, to be over the top, to be obsessed with our looks and how the world sees us.
    Yes yes.
    I’m sorry but this speaker has some villanesque ideas.

    • Anonymous Gamer

      July 3, 2023 at 12:23 pm

      @Internet Hobo oh, apologies

    • Anonymous Gamer

      July 3, 2023 at 12:24 pm

      @Wavewatcher also nice of you to not reply to either of our arguments that kind of dismantle your whole point, yet chip in on a misunderstanding.

    • Internet Hobo

      July 3, 2023 at 12:42 pm

      @Wavewatcher It’s an honest mistake 🤷‍♂

      What’s concerning is you entirely ignoring their point just to be rude and engage in bad faith. It show’s your arrogance and poor comprehension skills. 😅

    • Internet Hobo

      July 3, 2023 at 12:43 pm

      @Anonymous Gamer All’s good, I knew you meant well 😊

    • Anonymous Gamer

      July 3, 2023 at 1:15 pm

      @Internet Hobo ♡♡♡

  8. Mandy Kujawska

    July 3, 2023 at 9:52 am

    Un-subscribed

    People should find this the most terrifying. He’s talking about Marxism. Millions upon millions have died in the name of Marxism through history.

    They won’t rest till all “cis” people are eradicated. If you think you are exempt because you support them, think again. They want a utopia where only trans exist. As he said “his higher self, something other”. If anything they will enslave you. It might not be here now, but it’s not far away. Don’t believe me, just research all Marxist countries in history.

    He used key words such as “German, civil war, death, slavery, post revolutionary, post-apocalyptic, gospel, and much much more. Just go back and listen. If you want to know someone’s true intentions just listen to the words and phrases they use.

    • Internet Hobo

      July 3, 2023 at 11:36 am

      Wow, look at all those terrible words/phrases you quoted! Now if I remove all context, like you did to the speaker, you support all those terrible things! Wow, you’re such a “””Marxist”””.

      Also trans rights are human rights; wanting to control trans people is abusive and amoral. There are good and bad individuals and behaviors; stop being such an ideologue✌

  9. Austin Denotter

    July 3, 2023 at 10:35 am

    You’re going off the rails Ted

    • Anonymous Gamer

      July 3, 2023 at 11:25 am

      It’s just art, ik art can be a little out there sometimes but I don’t think this is anything that’s against TED’s mission

    • Clara Irving-Mayes

      July 3, 2023 at 7:10 pm

      The rails are holding you back, my friend.

    • QuinAiden

      July 3, 2023 at 8:34 pm

      @Clara Irving-Mayes even better.

  10. S V

    July 3, 2023 at 10:35 am

    Marginalized????? You control the government, the laws, the schools, the medical boards, and have a strangle hold on the culture our children are being exposed to. You can piss off with your crybaby routine and LEAVE OUR KIDS ALONE!!!!

    • Internet Hobo

      July 3, 2023 at 12:14 pm

      Ah yes, all those books Republicans banned, child labor laws they are removing, and the American classic of continuing child (straight) marriages, has everything to do with queer people 🙃

      Non-queer people don’t control most of society, just a statistical fact. If queer people controlled medicine they’d make transitioning free, (maybe like Canada) but people struggle to afford it. Stop listening to culture war BS and falling for “every queer’s after your kids” nonsense; A they generally aren’t, B you’ve been distracted from provable harm because of myopic assumptions about LITERALLY ALL queer people.

  11. Daniel

    July 3, 2023 at 10:37 am

    Gross 🤢

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    July 3, 2023 at 10:58 am

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  13. Reid Dickson

    July 3, 2023 at 11:21 am

    To those of you arguing that TED is “too woke now”: TED has been hosting LGBT speakers on social issues relevant to the times for over a decade. They’ve been hosting speakers on “woke” issues longer than most of your accounts have existed on YouTube. If you think TED is “too woke” now, that’s because you’ve changed. TED has stayed consistent on hosting these speakers over the years — you just didn’t care much before a bunch of conservative politicians and media figures started using “anti-woke” as a tool to advance their own interests by dividing us.

    Agree or disagree with Machine Dazzle’s opinions all you want, but come on, show some basic decency and respect. Don’t be some mindless drone who’s drip-fed hateful nonsense and regurgitates it throughout the world. You’re all better than that.

    • airwriq

      July 3, 2023 at 3:19 pm

      Bravo

  14. Estudio Personal

    July 3, 2023 at 11:43 am

    Need a minimalist society(wich is imposible under capitalism) in order for our specie to survive in the long run so those conspicuos ignorant consumers like this guy are parte of the problem

    • Internet Hobo

      July 3, 2023 at 11:55 am

      Maximalism isn’t the opposite of minimalism. This is about a type of art, not hedonistic capitalism

    • Estudio Personal

      July 3, 2023 at 12:03 pm

      @Internet Hobo Good to know, not native english, must say tho, the need some people have for expression/identifying with clothes, art, decoration..etc is a creation of consumer culture.
      I couldnt stand more than 40 secs of this video so…my bad

    • Internet Hobo

      July 3, 2023 at 12:56 pm

      @Estudio Personal Fair that it lost your interest: attention spans are weird and taste is subjective 😅

      Video titles/headlines can lead anyone to assume, and maybe they chose the word “maximalism” partially because it sounds shocking to promote. Parts of his clothes are recycled and he uses art to show history too 🤷‍♂🤷‍♂

  15. Avery Milieu

    July 3, 2023 at 12:13 pm

    Loved this! Thank you!
    I’m not on the extreme end of the scale, but I do (or did) practice and express elements of this in my millinery work…
    I found the presentation fascinating and enjoyable. Inspiring.
    Thank you again!

  16. xXREAL_ _GAMERXx

    July 3, 2023 at 12:17 pm

    if you are mad at drag queens you are mad at sassy clowns. imagine having a fear of sassy clowns to the point it drives you to political action lmao

    • Internet Hobo

      July 3, 2023 at 12:29 pm

      True lol! I’d rather sassy clowns entertain my kids than Catholic priests any day 😅

  17. Derrick Wynne

    July 3, 2023 at 12:41 pm

    The level of self importance is almost pitiful.

  18. Mike Ybanez

    July 3, 2023 at 1:37 pm

    I do enjoy hearing how he conceptualizes things. What I get from this is that everyone has an opinion on how we live and perceive things in our own personal lives. Just because the contrary is what works for you doesn’t mean it works for everyone; we are all at the mercy of the general consciousness but it is on to deviate from that. Everything has become so black and white and sometimes we forget that humans are complex and multi layered beings, and putting each other in a box and ostracizing what doesn’t fit I your box is being blind to how dynamic human existence is.

  19. Toni

    July 3, 2023 at 1:48 pm

    My first opinion is that you appear to be an emotional wreck. Sorry but that what you look and sound like. That’s my immediate first impression of you.

    • Internet Hobo

      July 3, 2023 at 2:28 pm

      Well, what they said was reasonable, so maybe judging others by they look can a be stupid, emotional way to create negative assumptions for people who severely lack patience and/or the basic will to understand? 🤔

  20. kero kop

    July 3, 2023 at 3:04 pm

    Ted talk make a space for psychic patient , Cool

  21. Dmitriy Papushin

    July 3, 2023 at 3:24 pm

    🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤮

  22. Justin Campos

    July 3, 2023 at 4:06 pm

    Use me as a “cringe” button

  23. Tom Payne

    July 3, 2023 at 4:09 pm

    Everything that’s wrong with manliness and masculinity. This is not fashion — it is silliness and lunacy. What a waste of time. I remember when TED talks used to be worthwhile and informative.

  24. Giovanni

    July 3, 2023 at 4:29 pm

    Just came to drop the dislike

  25. QuinAiden

    July 3, 2023 at 6:54 pm

    Yeah. Like Adolf Hitler costume right?

  26. Marcus Eli Ravage

    July 3, 2023 at 8:29 pm

    As a jewish man, I am happy to have contributed to the freedom of expression. Its so fortunate that we are past the days of Nazis that we can have *all these great things!*

  27. Daniel Carter

    July 3, 2023 at 8:46 pm

    Why are so many people censored on TED Talks? I’ve seen some talks posted in other YT channels that were originally recorded as TED Talks, but they were not permitted to be posted on the TED or TEDx channels. One talk seemed to be a legitimately questionable talk, that I could see why it was removed. But not so of the other talks. It seems that TED/TEDx will allow all sorts of wildly speculative talks that are thought provoking, so I don’t see the reason why so many of these were removed or banned. I thought that TED was about ideas. Sadly, it seems that they are basing their decisions too often on politics or character assassinations as purveyed by wide swaths of the media. That’s a very sad commentary on this channel – a channel that was about ideas, ideas that provoked thought and discussion.

  28. beef yogurt

    July 3, 2023 at 11:12 pm

    I’m only a Bitcoin maximalist

  29. YDKY

    July 4, 2023 at 7:46 am

    The phobia is real, shame on all of you downvoting this video because of your prejudice! Open your mind! Learn to be tolerable! Respect others!!!

    • Boundedgod

      July 4, 2023 at 1:05 pm

      No

  30. Vel'Koz Gaming

    July 4, 2023 at 3:57 pm

    “watch out, the stand user could be anyone”
    The Stand User:

    • Hung Nguyen

      July 5, 2023 at 10:26 am

      lol

  31. GT

    July 5, 2023 at 8:10 am

    Good bye Ted
    Unsubscribing

  32. 托馬斯

    July 5, 2023 at 11:03 am

    Bye TED!

  33. Karan Shah

    July 5, 2023 at 12:48 pm

    00:00:00 Introduction of Machine Dazzle
    00:00:16 Growing up in middle America
    00:01:18 Moving to New York and taking risks
    00:01:37 Commissioned by Guggenheim Works in Process
    00:01:53 Creating a show about Machine Dazzle’s mother
    00:02:23 Releasing the first dance track from the show
    00:02:34 Creating the opening outfit
    00:03:08 Adding the swing coat to the outfit
    00:03:35 Becoming a higher version of oneself
    00:03:54 Realizing all of Machine Dazzle’s dreams
    00:04:04 Collaboration with Taylor Mack
    00:04:24 Creating a 24-hour show about the history of popular music
    00:04:42 Creating conceptually adjacent costumes for each decade
    00:05:12 Costume inspired by plastic grand opening flags at a laundromat
    00:06:39 Costume change inspired by apple pie and the steam engine
    00:08:02 Costume inspired by hot dogs and barbed wire to represent the Civil War
    00:09:05 Costume inspired by the typewriter and dynamite for the Reconstruction era
    00:09:42 Costume inspired by the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s
    00:10:28 Image of Machine Dazzle at the Easter Bonnet Parade in New York City
    00:10:54 Overcoming fears and taking risks
    00:11:52 Participating in the pride march
    00:12:12 Transformation as an honest action
    00:12:25 Becoming other to avoid labels
    00:12:43 Being more for yourself and others
    00:12:54 The power of make believe
    00:13:09 Desiring to be a myth
    00:13:31 Reflecting and finding liberation
    00:13:46 Embracing brokenness and gratitude
    00:13:57 Shifting perceptions
    00:14:02 Rejecting objectification
    00:14:10 Rising like a phoenix

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