ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Bruno Bowden - Engineer and origamist
An engineer with Google (he helped build Google Earth), Bruno Bowden is also an enthusiastic folder of paper.

Why you should listen

Bruno Bowden was part of the team at Keyhole, the company that built EarthViewer -- a groundbreaking (and addictive) piece of software that lets you fly smoothly over an image of the globe assembled from satellite photos, and then zoom in on your own house. When Google bought Keyhole, Bowden helped turn the software into the indispensable Google Earth. Recently, he's moved over to the Google Gadgets side, helping to build more gotta-have-it technology.

He is also an enthusiastic student of the new origami, as practiced by masters such as Robert Lang.

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Rufus Cappadocia - Cellist
Globe-trotting, genre-hopping cellist Rufus Cappadocia plays the music of our sphere.

Why you should listen

Rufus Cappadocia uses his cello to play the music he hears around the world, filtered through the music in his head. A dedicated musicologist, he has played and studied deeply in many genres, from Haitian voodoo music to Indian ghazal, from Celtic to Balkan. The rich, jazz-inflected sound he pulls from his instrument (which he started playing at age 3) is a passionate through-line in all his work.

Cappadocia writes, records, and plays live, both solo and in several groups -- including Bethany & Rufus (Bethany is Bethany Yarrow, the daughter of Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary) and the Vodou Jazz Ensemble.

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TED2008

Bruno Bowden + Rufus Cappadocia: Watch me fold origami (blindfolded)

Bruno Bowden faltet, während Rufus Cappadocia spielt

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Nach Robert Langs Vortrag über Origami auf TED2008 trat Bruno Bowden mit einer Herausforderung auf die Bühne -- er würde eine von Langs verblüffend komplexen Origami-Figuren falten, mit verbundenen Augen, in unter 2 Minuten. Er wird von dem Cellisten Rufus Cappadocia begleitet.
- Engineer and origamist
An engineer with Google (he helped build Google Earth), Bruno Bowden is also an enthusiastic folder of paper. Full bio - Cellist
Globe-trotting, genre-hopping cellist Rufus Cappadocia plays the music of our sphere. Full bio

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Hallo zusammen.
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And so the two of us are here to give you an exampleBeispiel of creationSchaffung.
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Wir zwei sind also hier, um Ihnen ein Beispiel von Schöpfung vorzuführen.
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And I'm going to be foldingFaltung one of RobertRobert Lang'sLangs modelsModelle.
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Und ich werde eins von Robert Langs Modellen falten.
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And this is the pieceStück of paperPapier- it will be madegemacht from,
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Und dies ist das Stück Papier, aus dem es gemacht sein wird,
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and you can see all of the foldsFalten that are needederforderlich for it.
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und Sie können auch alle Falze sehen, die dafür benötigt sind.
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And RufusRufus is going to be doing some improvisationImprovisation
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Und Rufus wird auf seinem maßgefertigten fünf-saitigen elektrischen Cello
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on his custombenutzerdefinierte, five-string5-Saiter electricelektrisch celloCello,
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ein bisschen improvisieren.
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and it's very excitingaufregend to listen to him.
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Und es ist sehr aufregend, ihm zuzuhören.
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Are you readybereit to go? OK.
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Bereit? Okay!
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Just to make it a little bitBit more excitingaufregend.
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Um es noch ein bisschen aufregender zu machen.
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All right. Take it away, RufusRufus.
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Alles klar. Los geht's, Rufus.
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(MusicMusik)
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All right. There you go.
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Alles klar. Und fertig.
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Translated by J. Henning Buchholz
Reviewed by Judith Matz

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Bruno Bowden - Engineer and origamist
An engineer with Google (he helped build Google Earth), Bruno Bowden is also an enthusiastic folder of paper.

Why you should listen

Bruno Bowden was part of the team at Keyhole, the company that built EarthViewer -- a groundbreaking (and addictive) piece of software that lets you fly smoothly over an image of the globe assembled from satellite photos, and then zoom in on your own house. When Google bought Keyhole, Bowden helped turn the software into the indispensable Google Earth. Recently, he's moved over to the Google Gadgets side, helping to build more gotta-have-it technology.

He is also an enthusiastic student of the new origami, as practiced by masters such as Robert Lang.

More profile about the speaker
Bruno Bowden | Speaker | TED.com
Rufus Cappadocia - Cellist
Globe-trotting, genre-hopping cellist Rufus Cappadocia plays the music of our sphere.

Why you should listen

Rufus Cappadocia uses his cello to play the music he hears around the world, filtered through the music in his head. A dedicated musicologist, he has played and studied deeply in many genres, from Haitian voodoo music to Indian ghazal, from Celtic to Balkan. The rich, jazz-inflected sound he pulls from his instrument (which he started playing at age 3) is a passionate through-line in all his work.

Cappadocia writes, records, and plays live, both solo and in several groups -- including Bethany & Rufus (Bethany is Bethany Yarrow, the daughter of Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary) and the Vodou Jazz Ensemble.

More profile about the speaker
Rufus Cappadocia | Speaker | TED.com