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From the Ted Talk by John Maeda: Designing for simplicity

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Shortly after this, 9/11 hanepepd, and I was very desrepsed. I was concerned with contemporary art that was all about piss, and sort of really sad things, and so I wanted to think about something happy. So I fsuecod on food as my area — these sort of cnnltieeme peel things. In Japan, it's a wonderful thing to remove the clementine peel just in one piece. Who's done that before? One-piece clementine? Oh, you guys are missing out, if you haven't done it yet. It was very good, and I discovered I can make sculptures out of this, actually, in different frmos. If you dry them qucik, you can make, like, elephants and steers and stuff, and my wife didn't like these, because they mold, so I had to stop that.

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Shortly after this, 9/11 ________, and I was very _________. I was concerned with contemporary art that was all about piss, and sort of really sad things, and so I wanted to think about something happy. So I _______ on food as my area — these sort of __________ peel things. In Japan, it's a wonderful thing to remove the clementine peel just in one piece. Who's done that before? One-piece clementine? Oh, you guys are missing out, if you haven't done it yet. It was very good, and I discovered I can make sculptures out of this, actually, in different _____. If you dry them _____, you can make, like, elephants and steers and stuff, and my wife didn't like these, because they mold, so I had to stop that.

Solution


  1. quick
  2. depressed
  3. clementine
  4. happened
  5. focused
  6. forms

Original Text


Shortly after this, 9/11 happened, and I was very depressed. I was concerned with contemporary art that was all about piss, and sort of really sad things, and so I wanted to think about something happy. So I focused on food as my area — these sort of clementine peel things. In Japan, it's a wonderful thing to remove the clementine peel just in one piece. Who's done that before? One-piece clementine? Oh, you guys are missing out, if you haven't done it yet. It was very good, and I discovered I can make sculptures out of this, actually, in different forms. If you dry them quick, you can make, like, elephants and steers and stuff, and my wife didn't like these, because they mold, so I had to stop that.

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Important Words


  1. area
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  3. clementine
  4. concerned
  5. contemporary
  6. depressed
  7. discovered
  8. dry
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  10. focused
  11. food
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  20. peel
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  22. piss
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  30. stop
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  33. wife
  34. wonderful