If you are a fan of the ingenious, creative TED videos, you'll want to see this 2 hour recording of TED's first ever auditions for TED2012: Full Spectrum. Applicants were to make a one-minute video that describes their idea worth sharing with the world. This video highlights the top 17 speakers (out of over 500 applicants). The live show was held online on Tues, May 24, 2011 and is currently available for viewing.
These talks are very short (< 5 minutes) and less polished than the mainstream TED talks, but they each are thought-provoking.
FYI, start at the 14:20 mark for the Introductions, and 20:50 mark to start listening to the first speaker.
The speakers are:
- Dr. Jane Rigby and Dr. Amber Straughn - The Hubble and space telescopes
- James McBennett - Brick in building future cities
- Onyx Ashanti - Beat Jazz, a new form of music
- Beth Urech - Author of "Speaking Globally"
- Virgil Wong - Artistic, graphic display of health information
- Joe Sabia - Evolution of storytelling
- Lior Zoref - The Crowd Generation
- Flux Foundation - A nonprofit group building art and community
- Erik Wahl - Creativity
- Eric Singer - New digital musical instruments
- Jared Ficklin - Sound visualization
- Joshua Walters
- LeeAnn Renninger
- Cesar Kuriyama - One Second EveryDay project
- Kevin Carroll - A ball can change the world
- Chris Plough - Driving an ambulance across Gobi desert
- Tania Luna - Being a "surpriseologist"
- Reggie Watts - Comedian, artist