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After Robert Lang's talk on origami at TED2008, Bruno Bowden stepped onstage with a challenge -- he would fold one of Lang's astonishingly complicated origami figures, blindfolded, in under 2 minutes. He's accompanied by the cellist Rufus Cappadocia.
About Bruno Bowden
An engineer with Google (he helped build Google Earth), Bruno Bowden is also an enthusiastic folder of paper. Full bio and more links »
About Rufus Cappadocia
Globe-trotting, genre-hopping cellist Rufus Cappadocia plays the music of our sphere. Full bio and more links »
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