{"id":3146,"date":"2011-06-14T06:14:56","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T20:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2011-06-12T19:39:12","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T09:39:12","slug":"ted-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=3146","title":{"rendered":"Ted Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a Ted talk in which the words &#8220;precious&#8221;, &#8220;jewellery&#8221;, &#8220;beads&#8221;, &#8220;intricate&#8221;, &#8220;texture&#8221; and &#8220;seeds&#8221; are all used. Sounds like jewellery, yes? Nope&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2011\/Blank\/ThomasHeatherwick_2011-320k.mp4&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/ThomasHeatherwick-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=1147&amp;lang=&amp;introDuration=15330&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=830&amp;adKeys=talk=thomas_heatherwick;year=2011;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=inspired_by_nature;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;theme=the_creative_spark;event=TED2011;tag=Arts;tag=Design;tag=architecture;tag=creativity;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"446\" height=\"326\" src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" pluginspace=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talk\/stream\/2011\/Blank\/ThomasHeatherwick_2011-320k.mp4&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/ThomasHeatherwick-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=1147&amp;lang=&amp;introDuration=15330&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=830&amp;adKeys=talk=thomas_heatherwick;year=2011;theme=tales_of_invention;theme=inspired_by_nature;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;theme=the_creative_spark;event=TED2011;tag=Arts;tag=Design;tag=architecture;tag=creativity;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>In this piece, Thomas Heatherwick of <a title=\"Heatherwick Studio dot com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherwick.com\" target=\"_blank\">Heatherwick Studio<\/a> is talking about various art, architectural and engineering projects. Turns out that one project he <a title=\"Bleigiessen, Wellcome Stust, London via the Heatherwick website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherwick.com\/bleigiessen\/\" target=\"_blank\">displayed<\/a> in the talk even used a jewellery technique to inform the design of a 15 tonne installation.<\/p>\n<p>From Heatherwick Studio&#8217;s description:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following extensive experimentation, pouring molten metal into water  was found to create extraordinary and complex forms in a fraction of a  second. No two experiments produced the same result. Over four hundred  of these were produced before a five centimetre piece was created and  selected as it was felt it would work well with the building and is the  basis of the final thirty metre project.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Peter Johns over at <a title=\"links to the post on Butterpaper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.butterpaper.com\/cms\/resources\/1909\/heatherwick-studio\" target=\"_blank\">Butterpaper<\/a> for the heads up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An architect who thinks more like a jewellist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,112,107,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-dialogue","category-jewellery","category-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3151,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}