James Nachtwey is preparing to reveal his photographs, which highlight a shocking and under-reported global crisis. Over the past 18 months, the TED community have been working with James to gain access to locations he wished to photograph and to prepare spectacular plans for unveiling these pictures.

“I’m working on a story that the world needs to know about. I wish for you to help me break it, in a way that provides spectacular proof of the power of news photography in the digital age.”

He says to bloggers - “On October 3, the story breaks. You can help.” Bloggers can get links to the URL for the Oct 3rd unveiling of the photographs here.

What would a music video look like if it were purely directed by the music? Not driven by a concept, nor by a desire to build an image, but purely as an expression of a great song? Designer Jakob Trollback shares the results of his experiment in the form. The song is “Moonlight in Glory,” from David Byrne and Brian Eno’s classic album My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, remastered in 2006. Jakob Trollback is a designer and creative thinker and he’s also a DJ. His company is Trollback + Company. From the TED Conference 2008