Balloon art of the day: TEDxSapporo in Sapporo, Japan celebrated the fourth birthday of the TEDx program this year in style: with balloons! (Art by Naoko Ishiyama.)
For those of you who speak Japanese, they included this note:
今週はTEDx誕生から４年目にあたります。
今日までに 6,417 のTEDxイベントが世界149カ国 1,777都市で開催されました。現在は25,000以上のTEDxトークがYouTubeに投稿されており、計８千万回以上再生されました。
TEDxSapporo はさらなる成長を続けるコミュニティの一部であることを大変嬉しく思います。
バルーンアートby: Naoko Ishiyamaさん
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African thumb piano jam: Hiroyuki
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