Our bodies instinctually respond to the movements and rhythms of nature, like the uplifting feeling you get when walking in a forest. Can art evoke the same emotions? Experiential artist Lonneke Gordijn takes us through her studio’s stunning, nature-inspired work — flowering lights, murmurating drones — and reveals a mysterious piece hiding in the shadows of the TED Theater that just might change your relationship with concrete.
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अब्दुल्ला 🇮🇳
June 7, 2023 at 1:23 pm
🌹
“The purer a heart is, the closer it will be to God.”
— Mahatma Gandhi 🇮🇳
अब्दुल्ला 🇮🇳
June 7, 2023 at 1:24 pm
🌹
“Where there is Love, there is Life.”
— Mahatma Gandhi 🇮🇳
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
June 7, 2023 at 1:30 pm
الزهور لغة يتداولها جميع البشر في العالم لا تحتاج لمترجم، جميع أزهار المستقبل هي في البذور التي تزرعها اليوم.
Marshall.Is.My.Dog15
June 7, 2023 at 1:30 pm
It’s definitely not a balloon with a weighted track mechanism. There, for sure, isn’t a motor that allows them move these weights which enable them too shift the weights, thus giving them the ability to shift the pitch, tilt and momentum.
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
June 7, 2023 at 1:30 pm
كم وردة حمراء، وفلّة بيضاء أذابت الفوارق، ومسحت الدّموع، وخفّفت من معاناة الآلام وقسوة الظّروف.
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
June 7, 2023 at 1:30 pm
تقول الوردة وتعبر لك عن مدى شوقي وحنيني، أنت أجمل من الأزهار وعيناك أنقى من ماء البحار، ولد حبنا مع نمو الأزهار، وكبر بعدد حبات الأمطار.
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
June 7, 2023 at 1:31 pm
جميع أزهار المستقبل هي في البذور التي تزرعها اليوم.
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
June 7, 2023 at 1:33 pm
كلّ يوم معك هو عمر كامل، كلّ يوم تهديني ورود كلامك، وهمس قلبك هو عيد لي ولقلبي، فلا تحبّني يوماً واحداً، بل أحبّني عمراً كاملاً، اعشقني واهديني العالم بكلمة واحدة، كلمة أحبّك.
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
June 7, 2023 at 1:33 pm
هل أهديك شعراً أم أهديك باقات من الورد، ولو أنّ الورد سيغار من جمالك، ويخجل أن ينظر إليك.
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
June 7, 2023 at 1:34 pm
تذكّر أنّ أجمل ما في الحياة هي الأشياء الأقلّ نفعاً كالطّواويس والورود.
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
June 7, 2023 at 1:34 pm
علّمتني الورود أن أكون كالتّربة الخصبة أعطي من يزرع ثمراً دون انتظار المقابل.
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
June 7, 2023 at 1:35 pm
🥀 امنح وردةً تمنح ابتسامةً وتسعد قلباً حزيناً.
阿卜杜·安拉٭٭٭⃝🇨🇳٭٭
June 7, 2023 at 1:37 pm
”لا يوجد في الهند سياسي شجاع بما فيه الكفاية لأن يحاول شرح أن الأبقار يمكن أكلها.“
— انديرا غاندي، إبنت مهاتما غاندي 🇮🇳
Recks
June 7, 2023 at 1:51 pm
incredible 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 a true visionary artist
VAW CREATIONS
June 7, 2023 at 2:06 pm
THAT WAS DRILLING THROUGH MY BRAINS
THANK YOU MAM
gowtham maganti
June 7, 2023 at 2:52 pm
Poor audience, must be scared for life for sure. ted is getting out of control .???
Siyabonga Alfred
June 7, 2023 at 3:27 pm
this has to be the best ted talk ever!!!!!!
Ja Wi
June 7, 2023 at 3:51 pm
Ah, to have money and time,and no job to do art. Some people are lucky.
Ja Wi
June 7, 2023 at 4:00 pm
Is that really concrete? What safety inspector would ever allow this to be hung over an a audience? Risky to innocent people.
Steven Brewer
June 7, 2023 at 4:52 pm
Climate change is the illusion.
Thinking humans can control it is delusion.
David Hadley
June 7, 2023 at 6:02 pm
Awesome work! Totally memorizing. Like a moth to a bulb and very interesting. One thing though! Saying people (primates or mammals) are not capable of bird “mumuration” is a mistake. If you watch chimpanzee camps move through the jungle and communicate with shoulder taps and visual cues it’s kind of the same thing. A large group of animals moving together, with no clear leader. But all looking out for danger as one bigger organization.
Gary Nicholson
June 10, 2023 at 3:04 am
Chimpanzee and all other ape groups definitely have a clear leadership structure and if the leader begins to show weakness he will very soon be replaced and discarded.
MikeOK
June 7, 2023 at 6:42 pm
This is obviously not real concrete.
It has to be something way lighter that is painted to look like concrete.
Breathing
June 7, 2023 at 8:10 pm
Damn.. that was one of the most inspiring Teds for me
SincerelyUnconscious
June 7, 2023 at 8:30 pm
Her suspense leading up to it flying was “static” as she would say.
M Malt
June 7, 2023 at 9:09 pm
We already have a nature
MERCURY with the Message
June 7, 2023 at 10:38 pm
give up control, how, drones & hologram fake alien invasion
mrdoob
June 7, 2023 at 10:39 pm
I think the concrete block is just some helium balloons with little fans hidden in the black holes that move it around. The outside is made out of fabric with a concrete texture/look.
astronawt
June 8, 2023 at 12:57 am
Thought the same thing, but their website says it uses “mixed media with concrete, robotics, tracking system”, and if it’s actually concrete it’s almost impossible for helium to hold it up. The block is apparently 4x2x2m, and 16m3 of helium can hold up about 16kg of material, which isn’t even close to enough if the hull is actually made of concrete, not matter how thin it is. So either they’re lying about it being concrete or it’s not helium.
mrdoob
June 8, 2023 at 1:27 am
@astronawt Nah, it’s not concrete. I saw them in NYC bouncing between them in a very balloon-like way. Yes, the show in NYC had tracking so coordinating them.
astronawt
June 8, 2023 at 1:54 am
@mrdoob Ah, alright, I just assumed they wouldn’t lie about the basics. But in that I assume the same thing, probably a hollow structure filled with helium for an equilibrium. I also think they used magnetic switchable devices beneath the stage to release the block, first on one site, then on the other. You can even see it pivot a bit on the left site like its locked on place there when it starts to float.
Duryadhan Sahu
June 7, 2023 at 11:25 pm
Mind blowing
I am just amazed 😮
Ovaflo
June 8, 2023 at 3:14 am
‘Project bluebeam’ Thats what the floating block remind me of.
Boudewijn Leereveld
June 8, 2023 at 3:37 am
Amazing!🎉
Louise Snouck
June 8, 2023 at 4:03 am
Wow!!
Herbsandflowers
June 8, 2023 at 4:31 am
Weird
Mr Xoxo69
June 8, 2023 at 7:11 am
Interesting 🤔
Sohail Akbar
June 8, 2023 at 7:27 am
So much bullshit just to sell the holograms
Nelson Hernandez Martin
June 8, 2023 at 8:01 am
Precioso TED , bravo🎉
Abe
June 8, 2023 at 10:31 am
Sur la vignette je pensais qu’on allait lâcher un bloc de pierre enorme sur cette pauvre femme😢😂
MysteMyst
June 9, 2023 at 12:04 am
And…
vishnu K
June 10, 2023 at 12:36 am
I got goosebumps watching this. This is totally mind blowing!
Lieve Leysen
June 10, 2023 at 4:04 am
✨💖✨😃🤩✨
Unik lakshay
June 10, 2023 at 6:34 am
I want to make your video in hindi language are you satisfied❤❤❤
andres martinez
June 10, 2023 at 8:56 pm
Wooaaah duuuuudee.
Raoul Tesla
June 10, 2023 at 9:29 pm
It was going so well. Burning Man? really? ALL that NorCal outdoor weed, LSD, shrooms, DMT, Barbitutates? So sad, another wasted process with drugs and a lot, A LOT of left garbage in the desert. But hey all the drones swarming Did Become weaponized by the U.S. Navy. So drugs and guns together again.
Square Dirigible with internal vents for thrust. That can be weaponized too. Programmer artist and guns together again. AWESOME.
Gabriel Borges
June 11, 2023 at 8:09 pm
Would like to see more talks like this on TED. Creativity, people building things and showing their potential. By the way, this lady has a beautiful mind.