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From the Ted Talk by Aparna Rao: Art that craves your attention

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Okay, this is the last work. It's cellad the Framerunners. It comes out of the idea of a window. This is an actual wdnoiw in our studio, and as you can see, it's made up of three different tksnhescies of wooden sections. So we used the same window vloabarcuy to construct our own frame or grid that's suspended in the room and that can be viewed from two sides. This grid is inhabited by a tribe of small figures. They're also made up of three different sizes, as if to suggest a kind of pvrepectsie or landscape on the single plain. Each of these figures can also run backward and forward in the track and hide behind two acednajt tracks. So in contrast to this very tight grid, we wanted to give these figures a very comical and slapstick-like quality, as if a puppeteer has taken them and phslalciyy aeimatnd them down the path. So we like the idea of these figures sort of spipnikg along like they're oblivious and carefree and happy-go-lucky and content, until they sort of snese a movement from the veewir and they will hide behind the fastest wall. So to us, this work also presents its own contradiction. These figures are sort of entrapped within this very sntorg grid, which is like a prison, but also a fortress, because it allows them to be oblivious and nviae and carefree and quite oiilvuobs of the external world. So all these real life qualities that I talk about are sort of translated to a very specific technical ciaounifortgn, and we were very lucky to collaborate with ETH Zurich to develop the first prototype. So you see they extracted the motion cogs from our animations and created a wiggle that integrated the head-bobbing movement and the back-and-forth movement. So it's really quite small. You can see it can fit into the palm of my hand. So imagine our eemietncxt when we saw it really working in the stduio, and here it is.

Open Cloze


Okay, this is the last work. It's ______ the Framerunners. It comes out of the idea of a window. This is an actual ______ in our studio, and as you can see, it's made up of three different ___________ of wooden sections. So we used the same window __________ to construct our own frame or grid that's suspended in the room and that can be viewed from two sides. This grid is inhabited by a tribe of small figures. They're also made up of three different sizes, as if to suggest a kind of ___________ or landscape on the single plain. Each of these figures can also run backward and forward in the track and hide behind two ________ tracks. So in contrast to this very tight grid, we wanted to give these figures a very comical and slapstick-like quality, as if a puppeteer has taken them and __________ ________ them down the path. So we like the idea of these figures sort of ________ along like they're oblivious and carefree and happy-go-lucky and content, until they sort of _____ a movement from the ______ and they will hide behind the fastest wall. So to us, this work also presents its own contradiction. These figures are sort of entrapped within this very ______ grid, which is like a prison, but also a fortress, because it allows them to be oblivious and _____ and carefree and quite _________ of the external world. So all these real life qualities that I talk about are sort of translated to a very specific technical _____________, and we were very lucky to collaborate with ETH Zurich to develop the first prototype. So you see they extracted the motion cogs from our animations and created a wiggle that integrated the head-bobbing movement and the back-and-forth movement. So it's really quite small. You can see it can fit into the palm of my hand. So imagine our __________ when we saw it really working in the ______, and here it is.

Solution


  1. strong
  2. oblivious
  3. excitement
  4. called
  5. studio
  6. naive
  7. window
  8. adjacent
  9. viewer
  10. thicknesses
  11. physically
  12. sense
  13. configuration
  14. perspective
  15. vocabulary
  16. skipping
  17. animated

Original Text


Okay, this is the last work. It's called the Framerunners. It comes out of the idea of a window. This is an actual window in our studio, and as you can see, it's made up of three different thicknesses of wooden sections. So we used the same window vocabulary to construct our own frame or grid that's suspended in the room and that can be viewed from two sides. This grid is inhabited by a tribe of small figures. They're also made up of three different sizes, as if to suggest a kind of perspective or landscape on the single plain. Each of these figures can also run backward and forward in the track and hide behind two adjacent tracks. So in contrast to this very tight grid, we wanted to give these figures a very comical and slapstick-like quality, as if a puppeteer has taken them and physically animated them down the path. So we like the idea of these figures sort of skipping along like they're oblivious and carefree and happy-go-lucky and content, until they sort of sense a movement from the viewer and they will hide behind the fastest wall. So to us, this work also presents its own contradiction. These figures are sort of entrapped within this very strong grid, which is like a prison, but also a fortress, because it allows them to be oblivious and naive and carefree and quite oblivious of the external world. So all these real life qualities that I talk about are sort of translated to a very specific technical configuration, and we were very lucky to collaborate with ETH Zurich to develop the first prototype. So you see they extracted the motion cogs from our animations and created a wiggle that integrated the head-bobbing movement and the back-and-forth movement. So it's really quite small. You can see it can fit into the palm of my hand. So imagine our excitement when we saw it really working in the studio, and here it is.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. actual
  2. adjacent
  3. animated
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  5. called
  6. carefree
  7. cogs
  8. collaborate
  9. comical
  10. configuration
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  12. content
  13. contradiction
  14. contrast
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  16. develop
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  19. excitement
  20. external
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  22. fastest
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  24. fit
  25. fortress
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  27. framerunners
  28. give
  29. grid
  30. hand
  31. hide
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  33. imagine
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  35. integrated
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  38. life
  39. lucky
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  44. palm
  45. path
  46. perspective
  47. physically
  48. plain
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  50. prison
  51. prototype
  52. puppeteer
  53. qualities
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  57. run
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  59. sense
  60. sides
  61. single
  62. sizes
  63. skipping
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  66. specific
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  68. studio
  69. suggest
  70. suspended
  71. talk
  72. technical
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  75. track
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  77. translated
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  90. zurich