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The Encyclopedia of Invisibility — A Home for Lost Stories | Tavares Strachan | TED

Conceptual artist Tavares Strachan creates the kinds of projects that make you stop in your tracks, like a 4.5-ton block of Arctic ice he brought back to his birthplace in the Bahamas or a gold, Egyptian-inspired sculpture he launched into orbit around the Earth. If you love watching TED Talks like this one, become a…

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42 Comments

42 Comments

  1. Korede Othniel Kugbiyi

    October 5, 2023 at 9:50 am

    Great talk

  2. Wagwanbennydj

    October 5, 2023 at 9:59 am

    Legends never die!

  3. 🔴 LISA LIVE

    October 5, 2023 at 10:11 am

    6:17:59 Can we all appreciate how much effort he puts in her videos💕

  4. Xikang Wang (Kangxi)

    October 5, 2023 at 10:12 am

    really great and touching

  5. Degen Psychonaut Tribe

    October 5, 2023 at 10:22 am

    Im im awe of the accomplishment, and how one spark can grow into something incredible.

  6. Sarah😻

    October 5, 2023 at 10:44 am

    Very interesting, and amazing concept ❤

  7. Angela Lovell

    October 5, 2023 at 10:48 am

    This is fantastic, obviously. I hope many people are inspired by this fine artist and human being. And I know it’s TED, so there’s going to be an element of the, um, formal, but this audience absolutely missed the boat on a few points that should have drawn whoops, cheers and a standing ovation. That audience shot tiwards the end was grim.

  8. Ru.bee62

    October 5, 2023 at 11:14 am

    Inspiring!

  9. DY

    October 5, 2023 at 11:17 am

    🥰🥰🥰👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

  10. scivolanto

    October 5, 2023 at 11:28 am

    I know so many stories that get erased by our current Western civilization as not appropriate according to the standards of our times. Sometimes it’s so painful to think about it that I wish I would just disappear too…

    • manganess512

      October 5, 2023 at 11:40 am

      Are you ok?

    • Sónia

      October 5, 2023 at 12:57 pm

      I think I understand your frustration.

    • Civil Savant

      October 5, 2023 at 1:17 pm

      The only people with any voice or visibility are the rich. Nobody who actually matters ever gets recorded or remembered. This is one of the problems of our modern age that we have to fix, so please don’t disappear, stand up taller and shout for it.

    • Naya

      October 5, 2023 at 7:44 pm

      That’s not right at all. Everyone should get a chance to be heard and seen. This too shall pass.

    • Tim Truett

      October 6, 2023 at 9:03 pm

      “If you want to be remembered, write something worth reading, or do something worth writing about.”. Ben Franklin

    • scivolanto

      October 7, 2023 at 12:33 am

      @Tim Truett You misunderstand the issue. Stories are told and written, and people who find them show interest in them, but then the authors and “publishers” get harrassed and their writing, audio or video get destroyed, so that their stories soon fall into oblivion. It’s never been easier than in the digital age I’m afraid. Modern autodafés don’t make any smoke. Some whole subcultures are erased this way, and nobody cares.

    • Civil Savant

      October 7, 2023 at 10:49 am

      @Tim Truett Franklin had no concept of what it means to be poor. He was born privileged and had tremendous opportunities handed to him through his entire life. Like all his kind, he had no understanding of why more people don’t do more worth-while things. It’s not so easy to write or do something writing-worthy without things like housing, schooling, etc. If everyone could be as privileged as him, we would live in a world of remembered heroes instead of anonymous slaves.

  11. rudyinvegas

    October 5, 2023 at 11:36 am

    Standing Ovation from here in my computer chair, WOW. Phenomenal!

  12. Jonah Maddox

    October 5, 2023 at 12:10 pm

    Tell your story

  13. Saran Bhatia

    October 5, 2023 at 12:14 pm

    Great talk!

  14. Shadowgolem

    October 5, 2023 at 12:22 pm

    I would love to read this but have not been able to find a digital copy and do not have access to a physical one.

  15. Njul

    October 5, 2023 at 12:28 pm

    9:15 so you just generate space debris / junk just because your felt like sending a dead body there?
    How inconsiderate is that?
    Quite pathetic.

  16. Civil Savant

    October 5, 2023 at 1:14 pm

    Wow. Robert Smalls looks like a beachball but he sounds like a badass. This encyclopedia needs to be in public libraries! Who’s ready to start petitions with me?

  17. Wendy Almaliotis

    October 5, 2023 at 1:16 pm

    Awesome work! Thank you!

  18. Nauce_key_randomized

    October 5, 2023 at 2:27 pm

    great 😊

  19. ronold cross

    October 5, 2023 at 4:18 pm

    How much real knowledge is lost due to the narrow mindedness of the researcher and the storyteller.
    For example, in the Southwest, there has been a great mystery about the pueblo people and the Anasazi. But nobody bothered to ask the Navajo (Denali).

  20. Kevin Parker

    October 5, 2023 at 4:49 pm

    I am now rather conflicted watching this excellent TED content following the suppression of Coleman Hughes

  21. ghanditw

    October 5, 2023 at 5:04 pm

    i have the ashes of a old m8 in my garden he has had legendary adventures since he died and bits of his ashes are spread all around the world. he loved motorbikes so i get my mates to take a tube of his ashes when they on a run. but his resting place is in the center of my shooting range so he also gets shot at every day.

  22. Jamie Kyle

    October 5, 2023 at 5:25 pm

    It’s no longer a story that the world is experiencing a global economic downturn, I’m so happy that I’ve been receiving $64,000 from my $15,000 investment every 14 days.

    • Ferdousi Begum

      October 5, 2023 at 5:42 pm

      When I first met with Mrs Deborah about crypto trading I took the opportunity regardless the risks but now I am happy that I took the step to success by trading with Tina Marie Super. You know Ignorance can be the worst thing and mistake that most people always do .

    • Charles Stephen

      October 5, 2023 at 5:44 pm

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    • leo jane

      October 5, 2023 at 5:46 pm

      The contact info In the comment section is correct she’s mostly available on what’sAPK

    • Bernardo Teixido

      October 5, 2023 at 5:50 pm

      This is the kind of information that we don’t get from most Youtubers I will get in touch with her right now

    • Carlos Guillen

      October 5, 2023 at 5:51 pm

      Am happy for your achievement in such short period of time, trading with her. She must be a very sincere woman❤️

  23. macbook air

    October 5, 2023 at 6:04 pm

    he speaks soooo slooooow

  24. Peter Penalosa

    October 5, 2023 at 8:54 pm

    Too much stars wars and fast 2 furious
    More of westworld, mass effect, matrix, Naruto, Dune, some Gundam
    None of the mindless franchises that keeps on going
    Deus ex Mankind divided
    God bless America movie

  25. AaronGrooves

    October 5, 2023 at 10:45 pm

    Very cool!

  26. Solofo Rakotosoa

    October 6, 2023 at 4:16 am

    It’s not easy to have this done. Proud of you MAN. Keep up good work.

  27. Tim Truett

    October 6, 2023 at 8:43 pm

    I don’t know what the speaker means when he talks about Matthew Henson’s story being lost to history. I read about Matthew Henson in school when was 12 years old in 1972 in Virginia. What the speaker interprets as being lost to history, I interpret as his own ignorance.

  28. Average White Guy

    October 7, 2023 at 6:11 am

    “I started hearing whispers”….aannndd I’m done. Ffs TED your talks really cannot get anyworse. Just stop seriously. 🤣🤦🏻‍♂🤷🏻‍♂🙄

  29. Lenny Yanez

    October 7, 2023 at 7:01 am

    proud of your hard work! Shine light on all these lost stories on history

  30. Kerry-Ann Henry

    October 9, 2023 at 8:28 am

    Incredible artist!! WOW. Thank you for this!!

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