So, today’s a TED day with the release of so many Ted2012 talks!
A speaker by the name of Colin Robertson was speaking on crowdsourcing solar to the TED audience, when his nightmare began: his MAC froze. His spinning beach ball of death then led to a psychedelic carnival of crazy proportions. Spinning umbrellas, rainbow-wigged party cannon wielders, dancing anonymous, and bouncing beach balls. But no presentation and one confused speaker. Though the crowd seemed to get into the unexpected revelry, even if it had little to do with solar (and a whole lot to do with crowdsourcing fun).
And all of this hilarity was courtesy of the much-beloved Improv Everywhere team who descended on TED (in collaboration) in a different response to our universal hatred for computer crashes. When you can take someone’s mind off of a computer crash, then you know that you’ve done some good. Even if it was staged. Or not, because even the Improv Everywhere volunteers had no clue of what was going to happen. It’s the TED/Improv Everywhere fun house version, Something Unexpected Comes To TED.
They succeed once again in making sure that we learn balance, even in serious endeavors.
