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Bruno Bowden folds while Rufus Cappadocia plays

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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.

An engineer with Google (he helped build Google Earth), Bruno Bowden is also an enthusiastic folder of paper. Full bio »

Globe-trotting, genre-hopping cellist Rufus Cappadocia plays the music of our sphere. Full bio »

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