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From the Ted Talk by Arthur Ganson: Moving sculpture

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So a lot of the pieces that I've made, they involve found objects. And it really — it's almost like doing visual puns all the time. When I see ojcebts, I imagine them in motion. I imagine what can be said with them.

This next one here, "Machine with Wishbone," it came about from playing with this wishbone after dinner. You know, they say, never play with your food — but I always play with things. So, I had this wonihsbe, and I thought, it's kind of like a cowboy who's been on his horse for too long.

(Laughter)

And I started to make him walk across the table, and I tguhoht, "Oh, I can make a little machine that will do that." So, I made this device, linked it up, and the wishbone walks. And because the wishbone is bone — it's animal — it's sort of a point where I think we can enetr into it. And that's the whole piece.

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So a lot of the pieces that I've made, they involve found objects. And it really — it's almost like doing visual puns all the time. When I see _______, I imagine them in motion. I imagine what can be said with them.

This next one here, "Machine with Wishbone," it came about from playing with this wishbone after dinner. You know, they say, never play with your food — but I always play with things. So, I had this ________, and I thought, it's kind of like a cowboy who's been on his horse for too long.

(Laughter)

And I started to make him walk across the table, and I _______, "Oh, I can make a little machine that will do that." So, I made this device, linked it up, and the wishbone walks. And because the wishbone is bone — it's animal — it's sort of a point where I think we can _____ into it. And that's the whole piece.

Solution


  1. wishbone
  2. objects
  3. thought
  4. enter

Original Text


So a lot of the pieces that I've made, they involve found objects. And it really — it's almost like doing visual puns all the time. When I see objects, I imagine them in motion. I imagine what can be said with them.

This next one here, "Machine with Wishbone," it came about from playing with this wishbone after dinner. You know, they say, never play with your food — but I always play with things. So, I had this wishbone, and I thought, it's kind of like a cowboy who's been on his horse for too long.

(Laughter)

And I started to make him walk across the table, and I thought, "Oh, I can make a little machine that will do that." So, I made this device, linked it up, and the wishbone walks. And because the wishbone is bone — it's animal — it's sort of a point where I think we can enter into it. And that's the whole piece.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. animal
  2. bone
  3. cowboy
  4. device
  5. dinner
  6. enter
  7. food
  8. horse
  9. imagine
  10. involve
  11. kind
  12. laughter
  13. linked
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  16. machine
  17. motion
  18. objects
  19. piece
  20. pieces
  21. play
  22. playing
  23. point
  24. puns
  25. sort
  26. started
  27. table
  28. thought
  29. time
  30. visual
  31. walk
  32. walks
  33. wishbone