David Gallo - Underwater Astonishment

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_gallo_shows_underwater_astonishments.html

I wonder...if an organism that is highly specific to its location goes to another location, it dies. Should that be the same with our architecture? Animals adapt to their surroundings, sure, but if you were to bring up a creature from the deep ocean and put it into shallow water, it would die by reasons solely involving its physiology. Should our architecture also be purely local, an architecture that is adapted to our surroundings - and would "die" if put anywhere else?

More later - Karl is here, studio is starting.


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The creatures in the video are all highly tuned to their surroundings. In the beginning of the clip we are presented with bioluminescent fish. They look beautiful, but they are used for practical purposes - to avoid being eaten, to hypnotise, different patterns, glowing eyes, patterns to attract, repel, confuse and ultimately survive.