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From the Ted Talk by Lonneke Gordijn: Nature, art and magical blocks of flying concrete

Unscramble the Blue Letters


(vedio) Ralph Nauta: OK, this is a test one.

Lonneke Gordijn: There they were, drones, one by one, appearing in the sky. Slowly starting to swarm. We were oisvrenbg it. We were feeling it. And we felt nothing. Nothing.

(Laughter)

No emotional response. We remained blanco. What? On a computer, it looked great. But this swarm looked way too technical. And we had to go back and let nature be our teacher because we were fighting the ntruae of our technology. Well, in a creative process, you try, you fail, you sartt over again. You change direction. Like eoiultvon and like murmuration. And you're not in control, but you have to pave the road in this cntsoant and dynamic relationship with whatever that happens. You know when it's right, when you feel it. You feel when the connection is made. So in 2018, we filalny took our artwork to bnnurig Man.

Open Cloze


(_____) Ralph Nauta: OK, this is a test one.

Lonneke Gordijn: There they were, drones, one by one, appearing in the sky. Slowly starting to swarm. We were _________ it. We were feeling it. And we felt nothing. Nothing.

(Laughter)

No emotional response. We remained blanco. What? On a computer, it looked great. But this swarm looked way too technical. And we had to go back and let nature be our teacher because we were fighting the ______ of our technology. Well, in a creative process, you try, you fail, you _____ over again. You change direction. Like _________ and like murmuration. And you're not in control, but you have to pave the road in this ________ and dynamic relationship with whatever that happens. You know when it's right, when you feel it. You feel when the connection is made. So in 2018, we _______ took our artwork to _______ Man.

Solution


  1. start
  2. constant
  3. nature
  4. evolution
  5. finally
  6. video
  7. burning
  8. observing

Original Text


(Video) Ralph Nauta: OK, this is a test one.

Lonneke Gordijn: There they were, drones, one by one, appearing in the sky. Slowly starting to swarm. We were observing it. We were feeling it. And we felt nothing. Nothing.

(Laughter)

No emotional response. We remained blanco. What? On a computer, it looked great. But this swarm looked way too technical. And we had to go back and let nature be our teacher because we were fighting the nature of our technology. Well, in a creative process, you try, you fail, you start over again. You change direction. Like evolution and like murmuration. And you're not in control, but you have to pave the road in this constant and dynamic relationship with whatever that happens. You know when it's right, when you feel it. You feel when the connection is made. So in 2018, we finally took our artwork to Burning Man.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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Important Words


  1. appearing
  2. artwork
  3. blanco
  4. burning
  5. change
  6. computer
  7. connection
  8. constant
  9. control
  10. creative
  11. direction
  12. drones
  13. dynamic
  14. emotional
  15. evolution
  16. fail
  17. feel
  18. feeling
  19. felt
  20. fighting
  21. finally
  22. great
  23. laughter
  24. lonneke
  25. looked
  26. man
  27. murmuration
  28. nature
  29. observing
  30. pave
  31. process
  32. ralph
  33. relationship
  34. remained
  35. response
  36. road
  37. sky
  38. slowly
  39. start
  40. starting
  41. swarm
  42. teacher
  43. technical
  44. technology
  45. test
  46. video