TedxSydney ‘Tasty Video Bits’ wrap
Saturday saw more than 2200 people descend on the Sydney Opera House for the fourth TedxSydney.
The annual ideas conference saw a number of speakers, from Australia and around the world, take the stage to share with the audience a range of ideas that included everything from independence for West Papua, making solar power profitable, the digitisation of state archives to ways of combatting the ageing process.
Throughout the day TedxSydney also featured a number of short ‘Tasty Video Bits’, created by many of Australia’s leading agencies and production houses.
Below are some of the various videos featured at the 2013 TedxSydney:
It’s amazing how something like TED which has historically been about showing the world what interesting things interesting people are doing has essentially now become one massive beat off for those in the ad industry with over inflated images of themselves.
These are fantastic – are they saved anywhere specifically on TED??
Actually, I take that back… Probably a little unfair.
Correct link to AEON: http://thedmci.com.au/AEON-TEDxSydney
@KA I don’t think you are being unfair. Unfortunately something like TED is exactly what the advertising industry is always looking for to push products. They see an opportunity.
Hopefully the organisers of TED will not let advertising revenue dictate how TED is run or start bowing to advertisers demands.
It would be a huge blow to TEDs credibility if talks were vetted, pulled or censored because they might loose advertising revenue.
@KA
These short artistic videos are interstitual content between talks and performances. As wondrous, fun and stimulating as they are, the focus of the day at TEDxSydney as always is on incredible talks by deep subject matter experts. To quote TED founder Chris Anderson the key criteria for TED (and TEDx) talks is : ”Truth, curiosity, diversity, no selling, no corporate bullshit, no bandwagoning, no platforms, just the pursuit of interest, wherever it lies …”
i think those tuning in or in the audience this year will attest the fact that this is what was delivered.
For the full line up see here: http://www.tedxsydney.com/site/speakers.cfm
KA, I agree entirely.
It horrifies me that the TED has been corrupted by commercial interests like this.
I respect the creative thinking, but not the branding – which to me is that “selling, corporate bullshit and bandwagoning” that TED is specifically NOT supposed to be about.
I don’t know what the TEDx Sydney guys were thinking.
The Ideas one is brilliant 🙂