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:

The First Taste:

This video looks at that moment when a child tries their first taste of….

Agency: Saatchi and Saatchi

Hank & The Pink Balloon:

A playful puppy discovers the fun of simple pleasures

Agency: The Projects

The A to Z of Unusual Animals:

The A to Z of Unusual Animals: the video chronicles the most unusual animals on the planet.

Agency: The Works

AEON:

An animation around the growth of a simple idea about shapes and creation into a seamless, animated world but still retained the simplicity of the original concept.

Agency: DMCI

In The Dumpling Shop:

If you want to, you can change the world. But you have to really want to. A look at the power that one person can wield.

Agency: Paper Moose

Fizz:

This creative video brings obesity to the front of mind with a playful statue.

Agency: e2

Inspire:

A look into the creative minds of Sydney and asks the question, what inspires us?

Agency: BMF

Lost In Translation:

Sometimes English can be a little restrictive. Other languages sometimes have words that we wish we had.  This video explains to us some of these words.

Agency: Hunting With Pixels

Strawberries:

A closer look at life and death. Everything depends on your perspective.

Agency: Paper Moose

Ideas Not Worth Spreading:

This video explores the many, many thoughts that run through all of our minds every day. Some thoughts are brilliant and some are definitely not worth spreading.

Agency: In The Thicket – sister company to The Jungle Boys

Too Much To Dream:

This experiment takes the writings of singles looking for love on online dating sites, and projects them onto the walls and buildings of the streets of Sydney.  The makers actually loaded a projector onto a vehicle right next to their camera to create this real world light and word production.

Agency: Churchward Melhuish

Water:

Look at each drop of water from a new perspective and you might see something unexpected

Agency: Paper Moose

Everything is Made Of Colour:

About solving conflicts and realising that everybody is free to express their nature.

Sydney Film School: Eleonora Mignoli

Nic Christensen

Nic Christensen worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2016, in roles including deputy editor and media & technology editor. He is former media writer for The Australian and has also worked as a reporter for The Daily Telegraph and senior producer for Radio 2GB.

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Comments: 8

KA 6 May 13

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.

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Shelley 6 May 13

These are fantastic – are they saved anywhere specifically on TED??

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KA 6 May 13

Actually, I take that back… Probably a little unfair.

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Nathan Drabsch 6 May 13

Correct link to AEON: http://thedmci.com.au/AEON-TEDxSydney

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Grant 6 May 13

@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.

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Fleur 6 May 13

@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

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Craig 8 May 13

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.

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Tom Dodson 13 May 13

The Ideas one is brilliant 🙂

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