Isaac Mizrahi: Talks that are in fashion

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6 talks (Curated by Isaac Mizrahi)

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Maira Kalman, the illustrated woman
17:30
"She's one of my favorite artists and I love getting this view to her inner-creativity."

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Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown-ups. She is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off-kilter in person as she is on paper.

TED2007, Filmed Mar 2007, Posted Oct 2007

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2.

Tavi Gevinson: A teen just trying to figure it out
07:30
"She's the new generation and she doesn't make me feel like the old generation."

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Fifteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson had a hard time finding strong female, teenage role models -- so she built a space where they could find each other. At TEDxTeen, she illustrates how the conversations on sites like Rookie, her wildly popular web magazine for and by teen girls, are putting a new, unapologetically uncertain and richly complex face on modern feminism. (Filmed at TEDxTeen.)

TEDxTeen, Filmed Mar 2012, Posted May 2012

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3.

Robert Hammond: Building a park in the sky
05:41
"I love the High Line and I can't believe it really exists."

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New York was planning to tear down the High Line, an abandoned elevated railroad in Manhattan, when Robert Hammond and a few friends suggested: Why not make it a park? He shares how it happened in this tale of local cultural activism.

TED2011, Filmed Mar 2011, Posted Jun 2011

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4.

Handspring Puppet Co.: The genius puppetry behind War Horse
18:11
"I grew up making puppets, so this really resonates for me."

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"Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones build to the story of their latest astonishment: the wonderfully life-like Joey, the War Horse, who trots (and gallops) convincingly onto the TED stage.

TED2011, Filmed Mar 2011, Posted Mar 2011

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5.

Eric Sanderson pictures New York -- before the City
16:09
"I'm from New York and I'm obsessed with its history and preservation."

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400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Eric Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery.

TEDGlobal 2009, Filmed Jul 2009, Posted Oct 2009

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6.

Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong
17:51
"Anyone who is smart enough to know they're wrong is okay in my book."

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Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility.

TED2011, Filmed Mar 2011, Posted Apr 2011

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Total run time 1:22:52

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