Archive for the ‘TED’ Category
Devdutt Pattanaik @ TED: East vs. West
Some of this could be extended to include the Confucian-heritage cultures in the far East, I would think, including China. However, I would argue that there’s much more emphasis in those cultures on the collective understanding of Mr. Pattanaik’s “mythology of the infinite.” It’s not so much “the world” and/or “my world” (object meets subjective, the West meets India), but “the wolrd” and/or “OUR world.”
In any case, a thought-provoking TED video:
LINKS:
TED
Devdutt Pattanaik
Nick Veasey’s X-Ray Art
The ‘Energy’ of Interviews: Marc Pachter
I really enjoyed this lecture from Marc Pachter, former director of the National Museum of American History and the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. His “Living Self-Portraits” project is especially inspiring. Key quote from the presentation:
“It’s energy that creates extraordinary interviews and extraordinary lives — I’m convinced of it. And it has nothing to do with the energy of being young.”
For another take on Pachter’s work, check out this tongue-n-cheek phone call on the Colbert Report (scroll through to about 2:30 for the Pachter scene):
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LINKS:
National Portrait Gallery
Washington Post
