The Wisdom of TED in Kinetic Typography

What cross-disciplinary self-actualization has to do with motion graphics remix.

Starting tomorrow, we’ll be reporting live from TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder. Last week, we warmed up with 5 must-read books by some of this year’s TED speakers. Today, we’re revisiting a Brain Pickings remix culture original, part of the TEDify project, celebrating what we most love about TED: The incredible cross-pollination of ideas across different disciplines that radically alters how we see the world and what we make of our role in it.

Previously on TEDify: The secret of happiness, as articulated by a collage of TED perspectives.

For complete coverage of this year’s event, keep an eye on the Twitter feed and swing by here starting tomorrow for exclusive soundbites and photos.

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Make Love, Not Porn: Technology’s Hardcore Impact on How We Act

Last month, TED made a bold first move into publishing with the launch of TEDBooks — a revolutionary model for adapting the most compelling TED talks into low-priced ebooks under Amazon’s new Kindle Singles imprint for short nonfiction. Today, we’re thrilled for the release of Make Love Not Porn: Technology’s hardcore impact on human behavior — the excellent new TEDBook by our friend Cindy Gallop, whose project of the same name tackles one of the most underaddressed yet important facets of contemporary culture.

Sample the book with Cindy’s fantastic 2009 TED talk:

Coupling TED’s unshakable curatorial vetting with the radically low price point, we hope Make Love Not Porn will serve as a potent conversation starter for wrapping our collective mind around an issue we have failed to address intelligently, even though it permeates nearly every aspect of our lives, from our media habits to our private selves to our public personas.

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TEDxAustin Title Sequence

This past weekend, we had the pleasure of attending TEDxAustin — an absolute pinnacle of thoughtful cultural curation and remarkable production value. We were particularly taken with the event’s opening sequence, directed by Garrett Johnston, a.k.a. One Year Study, in collaboration with one of our favorite tastemakers, Public School. Enjoy — we certainly did.

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