Nature, Art and Magical Blocks of Flying Concrete | Lonneke Gordijn | TED

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  • Our bodies instinctually respond to the movements and rhythms of nature, like the uplifting feeling you get when walking in a forest. Can art evoke the same emotions? Experiential artist Lonneke Gordijn takes us through her studio's stunning, nature-inspired work -- flowering lights, murmurating drones -- and reveals a mysterious piece hiding in the shadows of the TED Theater that just might change your relationship with concrete.
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  • @Aquillyne
    @Aquillyne ปีที่แล้ว +19

    For anyone wondering about the block: it’s fabric made to look like concrete, surrounding a light framework, hiding essentially one or more helium balloons. At the start, it was pinned to the ground. On cue, it was allowed to float up. The helium amount has been calibrated to achieve a certain floating height. The holes in the concrete are for blowing air/helium out of the device, achieving propulsion and/or height adjustment. It’s a great effect.

    • @Yash_Tomar
      @Yash_Tomar 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wow!!

  • @user-hujuser1
    @user-hujuser1 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Lamps inspired by flowers are beautiful! I was smiling. Drones murmuration above BM Playa wow! I was crying. A concrete above audience! It moves in my conscious deep…

    • @ometofu
      @ometofu ปีที่แล้ว

      Styrofoam painted

    • @zensational.
      @zensational. ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@ometofusource info?

  • @jamesjones2212
    @jamesjones2212 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Glad to put a face to seeing this at burning man it was by far one of the most moving things I had ever seen. It really captured the awe of the moment. Everyone stood still and was just mesmerized so great!

  • @MrFaradayMaxwell
    @MrFaradayMaxwell ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Would like to see more talks like this on TED. Creativity, people building things and showing their potential. By the way, this lady has a beautiful mind.

  • @nothingmuch67
    @nothingmuch67 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I got goosebumps watching this. This is totally mind blowing!

    • @amanatali9401
      @amanatali9401 ปีที่แล้ว

      If the same thing happens in India by any baba it will be called As chamatkar😂😂

  • @ElliotTheGreatCoding
    @ElliotTheGreatCoding ปีที่แล้ว +8

    this has to be the best ted talk ever!!!!!!

  • @aohamer
    @aohamer ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Wow 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 She wasn't about to give up that patent secret of how that thing is floating 😂 Magic! So cool ✨️

    • @roadykev420
      @roadykev420 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      illusion, hologram

    • @dominicmcg2368
      @dominicmcg2368 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@roadykev420not an illusion, matte painted canvas over balsa frame, helium balloons and small fans pointing out holes. Still very cool effect though

    • @EddieAdolf
      @EddieAdolf ปีที่แล้ว

      Just a ridgid balloon drone, you could even hear them in there, likely they're fixed to a thin rod frame. The sides could be thin carbon fiber, possibly even cardboard. Then painted to look like concrete. The holes in the side of the block are likely used for infrared positioning to avoid drift.

  • @HinnerkHesse
    @HinnerkHesse ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Damn.. that was one of the most inspiring Teds for me

  • @welcome.421
    @welcome.421 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom🌸

  • @recks1151
    @recks1151 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    incredible 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 a true visionary artist

  • @vawcreations5887
    @vawcreations5887 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    THAT WAS DRILLING THROUGH MY BRAINS
    THANK YOU MAM

  • @mchennes
    @mchennes ปีที่แล้ว

    Watching this amazing TED talk I remember the movie Ratatouille, where a rat strives for more than just eating scraps of food. In the children's film there is a dialogue between two sibling rats in which it says: "You can't change nature." Whereupon the brother says: "Change is nature!"

  • @MaybeYoureRight-1234
    @MaybeYoureRight-1234 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    🌍
    When I think of the world I want to see in the future for my daughters--and the children across the world--I’m reminded that there is so much more we need to do to take care of the one planet we've got, and it’s up to all of us to demand and lead that change!
    Thank you 😅

  • @Mememelahhh
    @Mememelahhh ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing! You got me hooked at the first 20 seconds!

  • @jimmymaley422
    @jimmymaley422 ปีที่แล้ว

    the drones were phenomenal this year above Black Rock City

  • @synthclub
    @synthclub ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What she is hypothesizing is the computability of everything and everything bumping into everything and everyone

  • @faridunniyozmamadov9399
    @faridunniyozmamadov9399 ปีที่แล้ว

    Outstanding 👏👏👏

  • @shcade8926
    @shcade8926 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is so cool! Awesome and mind boggling

  • @360_KnowledgeLab
    @360_KnowledgeLab ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mind blowing
    I am just amazed 😮

  • @ronnielazaro9137
    @ronnielazaro9137 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you! Inspiring. 😊

  • @bouleereveld
    @bouleereveld ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing!🎉

  • @ministerofjoy
    @ministerofjoy ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you🎉

  • @MellamaronNelson
    @MellamaronNelson ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Precioso TED , bravo🎉

  • @mrdoob
    @mrdoob ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I think the concrete block is just some helium balloons with little fans hidden in the black holes that move it around. The outside is made out of fabric with a concrete texture/look.

    • @trueastronawt
      @trueastronawt ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Thought the same thing, but their website says it uses "mixed media with concrete, robotics, tracking system", and if it's actually concrete it's almost impossible for helium to hold it up. The block is apparently 4x2x2m, and 16m3 of helium can hold up about 16kg of material, which isn't even close to enough if the hull is actually made of concrete, not matter how thin it is. So either they're lying about it being concrete or it's not helium.

    • @mrdoob
      @mrdoob ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@trueastronawt Nah, it's not concrete. I saw them in NYC bouncing between them in a very balloon-like way. Yes, the show in NYC had tracking so coordinating them.

    • @trueastronawt
      @trueastronawt ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@mrdoob Ah, alright, I just assumed they wouldn't lie about the basics. But in that I assume the same thing, probably a hollow structure filled with helium for an equilibrium. I also think they used magnetic switchable devices beneath the stage to release the block, first on one site, then on the other. You can even see it pivot a bit on the left site like its locked on place there when it starts to float.

    • @Bretro
      @Bretro ปีที่แล้ว +4

      You can always just coat a surface with a very thin layer of concrete for texture. Therefore, as an object it is "technically" made with concrete (partially). Just like something that is gold plated can still be considered (at least partially) a “gold” object.

    • @mrdoob
      @mrdoob ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@BretroI guess that's fair, albeit slightly misleading.

  • @markhancher5686
    @markhancher5686 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    She said it herself ,its an illusion ..foam model or balloon ,its how it affects you when looking at it if your able to imagine what a real concrete block would do / hence the ART ?

  • @verybang
    @verybang ปีที่แล้ว

    That block of concrete looks dangerous. But the people who created it are beautiful. The earth is beautiful.

  • @Moved2NewPh0ne
    @Moved2NewPh0ne ปีที่แล้ว

    This is very interesting 🤔😊and super creative!

  • @eddyherrera3207
    @eddyherrera3207 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What is the change? She said it so much but was very vague.

  • @toni4729
    @toni4729 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I wonder what the birds would have thought if they'd seen it.

  • @_Sonia.S
    @_Sonia.S ปีที่แล้ว

    Lovely video! I’ve always wanted one of those carts. Would be so handy to have one for my art supplies and one for my makeup.🙏🏼🫶🏼

  • @SIRCAM73
    @SIRCAM73 ปีที่แล้ว

    Augmented reality, at large scale.

  • @Ovaflo
    @Ovaflo ปีที่แล้ว +1

    'Project bluebeam' Thats what the floating block remind me of.

  • @BrandonD24
    @BrandonD24 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's definitely not a balloon with a weighted track mechanism. There, for sure, isn't a motor that allows them move these weights which enable them too shift the weights, thus giving them the ability to shift the pitch, tilt and momentum.

  • @我从海上来-u7k
    @我从海上来-u7k ปีที่แล้ว

    人类一直尝试去控制各种事物,但我们也是大自然的一部分,不需要害怕,放弃去控制,因为我们自己本也会变化,我们在漂流着。

  • @salmababyz5469
    @salmababyz5469 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am speechless

  • @DBHMedia
    @DBHMedia ปีที่แล้ว

    Technology that built the Pyramids? Or light-weight frame with thin layer of concrete with helium and fans?

  • @jameyairmail
    @jameyairmail ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing words

  • @jasonbenbow8312
    @jasonbenbow8312 ปีที่แล้ว

    Anyone know the piece of music playing at 8mins in?

  • @TiffyRemembersYou-zf5dr
    @TiffyRemembersYou-zf5dr ปีที่แล้ว +1

    “When I look at flowers … I don’t see objects … I see faces.”
    Asian Flowers?

  • @HaloFan117_
    @HaloFan117_ ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I cant believe the block feel on her!

  • @MuhammadQosim
    @MuhammadQosim ปีที่แล้ว

    That is where art people talking are different with the technical one.

  • @muhtadaali8847
    @muhtadaali8847 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    can some one please explain how that block is moving?

  • @kinngrimm
    @kinngrimm ปีที่แล้ว

    US policy makers may wanna think about this lesson: "you are not in control, just go with it"
    could avoid a war

  • @keletsontusa755
    @keletsontusa755 ปีที่แล้ว

    wow!!😍👌

  • @haihoang-xw9pk
    @haihoang-xw9pk ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great

  • @GraczPierwszy
    @GraczPierwszy ปีที่แล้ว

    żeby uwierzyć w to, musiałbym zobaczyć na własne oczy,
    ale jest to możliwe,
    z odpowiednią wiedzą można takie coś zrobić bez najmniejszego problemu

  • @Essuolagde
    @Essuolagde ปีที่แล้ว

    Firstly, I do not know how I pressed the play button. But all I do know is that I am not in control...

  • @mmalt9291
    @mmalt9291 ปีที่แล้ว

    We already have a nature

  • @jimmymaley422
    @jimmymaley422 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stonehenge was built this way

  • @user-hujuser1
    @user-hujuser1 ปีที่แล้ว

    I want TedxART

  • @MaybeYoureRight-1234
    @MaybeYoureRight-1234 ปีที่แล้ว

    🌍
    We must demand more from our government, return to the Paris Agreement, and work to lead the world in reducing the pollution that continues to cause climate change. And science is telling us to go much further - we must continue to accelerate progress on bold new green initiatives that make our economy a clean energy innovator!
    Thank you 😅

  • @MaybeYoureRight-1234
    @MaybeYoureRight-1234 ปีที่แล้ว

    🌏
    Today, we’re reminded more than ever of the role we play-and the responsibility of our government--to ensure that we do not pass a world beyond repair on to our children. And that starts by not denying the evidence presented by scientists and climate activists around climate change.
    Thank you 😅

  • @josephgaribaldi4340
    @josephgaribaldi4340 ปีที่แล้ว

    "Type-A People"! she (the host) said this with no hesitation or question!
    And yet if you look at her you notice her body deteriorating.

  • @Pinapplekun
    @Pinapplekun ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh look an illusion

  • @jackblacksash
    @jackblacksash ปีที่แล้ว

    Chris Angel is trying desperately to get hold of Lonneke Gordijn.

  • @davidhadley6164
    @davidhadley6164 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome work! Totally memorizing. Like a moth to a bulb and very interesting. One thing though! Saying people (primates or mammals) are not capable of bird "mumuration" is a mistake. If you watch chimpanzee camps move through the jungle and communicate with shoulder taps and visual cues it's kind of the same thing. A large group of animals moving together, with no clear leader. But all looking out for danger as one bigger organization.

    • @garynicholson7550
      @garynicholson7550 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chimpanzee and all other ape groups definitely have a clear leadership structure and if the leader begins to show weakness he will very soon be replaced and discarded.

  • @DemianPhotos
    @DemianPhotos ปีที่แล้ว

    Project blue beam test ?

  • @Indian1947-o1z
    @Indian1947-o1z ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Im confused how its floating, can anyone please explain

    • @njdotson
      @njdotson ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you not hear her? It's magic

    • @Aquillyne
      @Aquillyne ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s not concrete and it’s full of helium.

  • @VLOGALAMDANTUTORIAL
    @VLOGALAMDANTUTORIAL ปีที่แล้ว

    I like

  • @mr_xoxo69
    @mr_xoxo69 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting 🤔

  • @GT-mw3in
    @GT-mw3in ปีที่แล้ว

    Super nova vision

  • @narrativegatherer3128
    @narrativegatherer3128 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ayo! How many bots have invaded the comments here?
    TED gotta take some action ngl.

  • @77.o_o.77
    @77.o_o.77 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    How much does it take to steal and lie to make a series about you xD Elizabeth Holmes won a golden ticket to prison. The question is where is the Ted talks video with this amazing character?

  • @griggiorouge
    @griggiorouge ปีที่แล้ว

    Wooaaah duuuuudee.

  • @sadeghfazeli
    @sadeghfazeli ปีที่แล้ว

    👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

  • @philipaghatise5500
    @philipaghatise5500 ปีที่แล้ว

    How can I get this?

  • @jeremytipton6076
    @jeremytipton6076 ปีที่แล้ว

    So I should build a home that knows how to dance.

  • @mrtienphysics666
    @mrtienphysics666 ปีที่แล้ว

    Resistance is Futile

  • @themanwnoname3454
    @themanwnoname3454 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    2023(Gregorian) “Respect and dignity.” Furthermore:

  • @epistemologicalnihilist5746
    @epistemologicalnihilist5746 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is how the Egyptians did it

  • @JB-yo1fo
    @JB-yo1fo ปีที่แล้ว

    we will never be as smart as the aliens

  • @DrDante2478
    @DrDante2478 ปีที่แล้ว

    World can’t be static…

  • @vvs1855
    @vvs1855 ปีที่แล้ว

    Project blue beam

  • @CharemTheShadox
    @CharemTheShadox ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Wow, the amount of weird philosophy-quoting bots here... What's the point of them, though?

    • @teraless5741
      @teraless5741 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It’s about designing with emotional connection in mind basically

  • @bromokunto
    @bromokunto ปีที่แล้ว

    Religious people knows best when it comes to the statement: We are not in control our life..

  • @MaybeYoureRight-1234
    @MaybeYoureRight-1234 ปีที่แล้ว

    🌏
    The first Earth Day helped transform the ways we interact with the world around us, and it changed how we viewed our impact on the natural world--inspiring the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and landmark legislation that protected the air we breathe, the water we drank, and the animals that lived alongside us.
    Thank you 😅

  • @lovefilmmakingify
    @lovefilmmakingify ปีที่แล้ว

    The same idea that is reiterated from ancient knowledge such as impermanence of Buddhism by using art and technology.

  • @abe4524
    @abe4524 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sur la vignette je pensais qu'on allait lâcher un bloc de pierre enorme sur cette pauvre femme😢😂

  • @ml3141
    @ml3141 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is obviously not real concrete.
    It has to be something way lighter that is painted to look like concrete.

  • @WilliamOrion1
    @WilliamOrion1 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful
    Seest thou not that Allah sends down rain from the sky, and leads it through springs in the earth? Then He causes to grow, therewith, produce of various colours: then it withers; thou wilt see it grow yellow; then He makes it dry up and crumble away. Truly, in this, is a Message of remembrance to men of understanding.
    QUR'AN / Surat Al-Zumar/ 21

  • @justnormal4626
    @justnormal4626 ปีที่แล้ว

    Does Ted respond?

    • @Scartegy
      @Scartegy ปีที่แล้ว

      Been a Ted watcher for 6 years
      Nope

  • @veikholouvemai7863
    @veikholouvemai7863 ปีที่แล้ว

    What is the whole point here? Be creative in communicating using the technology, mimicking the nature ?

  • @SmudgetheGreat
    @SmudgetheGreat ปีที่แล้ว

    X Man member must be in the room

  • @LieveLeysen-Discover-
    @LieveLeysen-Discover- ปีที่แล้ว

    ✨💖✨😃🤩✨

  • @LouiseSnouck
    @LouiseSnouck ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow!!

  • @toni4729
    @toni4729 ปีที่แล้ว

    How would you like to be under that illusion? That magnificent murmuration of lights; what was it? Real, or an illusion?

  • @jawi499
    @jawi499 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Is that really concrete? What safety inspector would ever allow this to be hung over an a audience? Risky to innocent people.

    • @erichighsmith7299
      @erichighsmith7299 ปีที่แล้ว

      Makes me think it is obviously not concrete. OSHA would never approve haha. It looks like concrete. Does it have the mass of a concrete block that big? Probably not.

  • @observer7418
    @observer7418 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Seems pretty obvious that it is not actually concrete. Are these people that dumb to think it was? Am I missing something here? I cannot suspend my disbelief on a dime like that.

  • @buddyroach
    @buddyroach ปีที่แล้ว

    I dont get it.

  • @jackthefukarupper876
    @jackthefukarupper876 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ted can't half talk can't he 😁🤍

  • @mubasyirat5694
    @mubasyirat5694 ปีที่แล้ว

    The messengers of Allah always bring warnings and glad tidings from Allah. Listen to this, Muhammad Qasim is Imam Mahdi and he brings a message from Allah that Abolishing shirk is the key to success and his characteristics as Al-Mahdi matched many hadiths.

  • @jawi499
    @jawi499 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ah, to have money and time,and no job to do art. Some people are lucky.

  • @Anondot404
    @Anondot404 ปีที่แล้ว

    Stole the idea from Kubrick?

  • @deepseadarew6012
    @deepseadarew6012 ปีที่แล้ว

    TED never fails to disappoint. Standing in front of the rich to tell them maybe we don't respond to Climate Change because our buildings don't move. LMAO.

  • @KenLit
    @KenLit ปีที่แล้ว

    Naturally You had som good s... ense, naturally! ;)

  • @wyldcactus
    @wyldcactus ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So much bullshit just to sell the holograms

  • @herbsandflowers8152
    @herbsandflowers8152 ปีที่แล้ว

    Weird

  • @uniklakshay
    @uniklakshay ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I want to make your video in hindi language are you satisfied❤❤❤

  • @MaybeYoureRight-1234
    @MaybeYoureRight-1234 ปีที่แล้ว

    🌍👉🏿
    Climate change is here and it is real, and global warming will not wait for geopolitics to cool down ⤵️
    Thank you 😅

  • @yorkshirelad3133
    @yorkshirelad3133 ปีที่แล้ว

    i remember a similar feeing at a coldplay concert when the lights went out and everybody's wristbands were twinkling like stars, it felt like i was floating in space, truly magical, just sad this lady is blinded by the climate change agenda, swapped my like for a dislike now