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For our latest mission, a presenter at the conference has his talk interrupted by the Mac spinning wait cursor, commonly known as the “Spinning Beach Ball of Death.” As he stands awkwardly and waits, things get weird. Enjoy the video first and then go behind the scenes with our report below.RehearsalFor the uninitiated, TED is an annual conference in Long Beach, California that focuses on “Ideas Worth Spreading.” I gave a talk at a TEDx event last year that was. For the conference this year, the TED curators approached me about staging something unexpected to surprise their audience. We had previously staged a, but I wanted to do something new and different for TED.
I came up with the idea to have a fake speaker give a talk and make it seem like his big moment in the spotlight had been ruined by a computer crash. Apple users love to hate the notorious Spinning Beach Ball of Death. I started with that image and set out to heighten it to absurdity.Agent Cordero takes the stageEugene Cordero played the fake speaker, “Colin Robertson.” You might remember Agent Cordero as the. He was introduced like a normal TED speaker, and took the stage in front of 1500 people at the Long Beach Performing Arts Center.Colin Robertson was introduced as “a futurist whose start-up has discovered how crowdsourcing solar panel technology innovations can lead us to a new paradigm for health care reform.” So, basically nonsense, but nonsense that sounds interesting and innovative at first glance. Agent Cordero only got a few sentences into his talk before the beach ball appeared.The beach ball spun for 20 seconds without anything else happening (even longer than the video shows.) We made it as awkward as possible, with Agent Cordero politely suggesting the tech person skip ahead past the crashed slide.
The crowd clearly felt bad for the poor guy.Eventually Mac system sounds started playing and soon error messages started popping up.The crowd started to catch on that something was not right as the error messages starting piling on top of each other. Errors from older Mac operating systems starting popping up, one accompanied by the classic “eep” sound.
Then two additional spinning beach balls appeared. At this point, performers secretly placed in the crowd popped open umbrellas that looked exactly like the spinning beach ball.The view from the balcony A restart screen appeared and the spinning beach balls started to grow as music began playing.Five performers walked on stage in black suits and rainbow wigs. They each fired a handheld cannon, sending rainbow streamers into the crowd.Performers hiding in the 2nd balcony tossed dozens of actual beach balls onto the crowd as rainbow colors were projected across the entire room.Eight performers dressed head-to-toe in full-body colored “morph suits” danced around the speaker.We worked with the TED in-house animator, Bob Bonniol, who created a spectacular animation for the stunt. TED had an enormous screen that sort of exploded out towards the audience. As the chaos reached its height, the screen saw huge spinning beach balls exploding to reveal hundreds of smaller ones.The performers left the stage and the umbrellas disappeared. The animation focused on one huge spinning beach ball that slowly shrank back to its original size.Agent Cordero found himself back where he started, alone on stage, now surrounded by a couple of dozen beach balls the TED crowd had tossed on stage during the excitement.He attempted to start his presentation again, and then glanced at the stage manager, “That’s my time? Thank you very much.” He took a bow and left the stage nonchalantly.
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The whole thing lasted less than four minutes. It was a quick explosion of color and fun. It was a thrill to get to do something at TED, and so much fun to be able to stage something with their awesome tech capabilities.
All of the performers besides Agent Cordero were TED attendees who signed up to take an Improv Everywhere workshop, not knowing what they were getting themselves into. Thanks to all of them for helping out, and thanks to TED for inviting us!Mission AccomplishedOTHER RESOURCES:If you’d like to hire us to stage a, please!– Our other:– Photographer made a video of the project using just his still images.
Hello, I am hoping you can help.I am getting the spinning wheel of death on most applications at the moment.I have read about the varios ways to trouble shoot but they do sound quite involved eg going to the utility monitor and have tried that but did not get very far with it as I dont understand the menus. I am worried I will cause more harm than good.My question is, do you think smeone with little technical knowledge has a chance of sorting this out? I will perservere if you think its possible. Or, is this quite a difficult issue to resolve?Many ThanksDD. Go to the Spotlight icon at the top right of your screen:2. Type activity monitor in the search field (where it says 'sandra' in the picture above)3.
The 'top hit' will be the Activity Monitor app. The Activity Monitor utility will appear.4. Read the following KB article to decipher its meaning:5. Reply with the numbers shown for 'page ins' and 'page outs' like you see in the following.Also, reply with the total amount of memory installed in your system - it is the number below the 'pie chart' in the above screenshot.Now that you are an Activity Monitor expert, you can use it to identify what specific processes are causing your system to become sluggish.
Referring to the KB article in Step 4 above, click the%CPU column heading to sort it by percent CPU load. If the numbers at the top of the column are zero or close to it, click the same column heading again to reverse the sort order. Higher numbers mean your CPU is working harder on that process than those with lower numbers.
Identify these processes and see if you can correlate your spinning 'wait cursor' appearance to them. Go to the Spotlight icon at the top right of your screen:2. Type activity monitor in the search field (where it says 'sandra' in the picture above)3. The 'top hit' will be the Activity Monitor app. The Activity Monitor utility will appear.4. Read the following KB article to decipher its meaning:5.
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Reply with the numbers shown for 'page ins' and 'page outs' like you see in the following.Also, reply with the total amount of memory installed in your system - it is the number below the 'pie chart' in the above screenshot.Now that you are an Activity Monitor expert, you can use it to identify what specific processes are causing your system to become sluggish. Referring to the KB article in Step 4 above, click the%CPU column heading to sort it by percent CPU load. If the numbers at the top of the column are zero or close to it, click the same column heading again to reverse the sort order. Higher numbers mean your CPU is working harder on that process than those with lower numbers. Identify these processes and see if you can correlate your spinning 'wait cursor' appearance to them. Good news so far, you have enough memory and there is nothing that appears to be bogging you down.Next, find your original system install DVD.
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Insert it then restart your computer using Restart. As soon as you hear the startup chime press and hold the D key on your keyboard.This will start Apple Hardware Test. Let it run all its tests to determine nothing is wrong with your hardware. If it reports anything other than 'no problems found' then quit Apple Hardware Test and restart the computer.This time press and hold the C key. This will cause the computer to start with your DVD instead of the internal hard disk. It will take longer than normal.When it finishes you will have the 'install Mac OS X' screen. Ignore it for now - select Utilities from the menu, and select Disk Utility.
When it starts you will see your internal hard disk on the left column (it's a grey box). Select it and then click the 'repair disk' button at the lower right. It will take only a few seconds. Then select the disk below and to the right of the first one - it is probably named 'Macintosh HD' and otherwise looks the same as the first. Click 'repair disk' again. This may take a few minutes.Record any problems it found - it will be red text followed by green text if anything was repaired.When you are finished you can quit Disk Utility and then Restart from the menu.
Restart your computer normally, eject the DVD and put it back in a safe place.Let me know what your results are. The fact the slowdowns occur on your account and not hers is a very helpful clue. Clearly there is a process running on yours that is taking too much of your system's resources.Diagnosing such things is time-consuming. I would use Activity Monitor to identify any obvious culprits:Identifying resource hogs and other tips:If nothing is immediately obvious, you could always simply create a new user account, configure all your preferences, copy all your documents (via the Shared user folder), establish that the new account works well, and eventually abandon the old one. You could then rename the new one with the same name you had been accustomed to using.It is sort of a drastic measure, just one to keep in back of your mind as an alternative should you decide such time-consuming troubleshooting isn't your idea of fun.
Simple would be making sure your system is up to date with Software Update.Also check your 'login items' in System Preferences Users & Groups. Select your account and then select 'login items'.
These are specific to your account and could explain the difference between yours and your daughter's.It is difficult to surmise what the problem could be since you originally said that the slowdowns occur on 'most applications'.Other than that you could re-read for a cursory review of what you may have already may have done. Perhaps something was overlooked.
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