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From the Ted Talk by Christopher C. Deam: The Airstream, restyled

Unscramble the Blue Letters


What I came up with was a series of second skins that blaslaciy float over the aluminum shell. And what I was trying to do there was direct your eye in the space, so that you would perceive the gemteory in a different way, and that the casework wouldn't break up the space. They also gave us a way to run power and rewire the trailer without tearing out the skin, so they fncutoin as an electrical chase. That's the trailer, pretty much finished.

That trailer led to another commission, to participate in wahts called tyoko Designers Block. Its a week of furniture diesgn events in Tokyo, in October. Teruo Kurosaki, who owns a furniture company called Idee, he asked me to ship him two trailers to Tokyo. He said one he would like to make a real trailer, fuinnionctg, and we would sell that one. tirlear number two, you have a blank slate, you can to anything you want.

Open Cloze


What I came up with was a series of second skins that _________ float over the aluminum shell. And what I was trying to do there was direct your eye in the space, so that you would perceive the ________ in a different way, and that the casework wouldn't break up the space. They also gave us a way to run power and rewire the trailer without tearing out the skin, so they ________ as an electrical chase. That's the trailer, pretty much finished.

That trailer led to another commission, to participate in _____ called _____ Designers Block. Its a week of furniture ______ events in Tokyo, in October. Teruo Kurosaki, who owns a furniture company called Idee, he asked me to ship him two trailers to Tokyo. He said one he would like to make a real trailer, ___________, and we would sell that one. _______ number two, you have a blank slate, you can to anything you want.

Solution


  1. trailer
  2. basically
  3. geometry
  4. functioning
  5. whats
  6. design
  7. tokyo
  8. function

Original Text


What I came up with was a series of second skins that basically float over the aluminum shell. And what I was trying to do there was direct your eye in the space, so that you would perceive the geometry in a different way, and that the casework wouldn't break up the space. They also gave us a way to run power and rewire the trailer without tearing out the skin, so they function as an electrical chase. That's the trailer, pretty much finished.

That trailer led to another commission, to participate in whats called Tokyo Designers Block. Its a week of furniture design events in Tokyo, in October. Teruo Kurosaki, who owns a furniture company called Idee, he asked me to ship him two trailers to Tokyo. He said one he would like to make a real trailer, functioning, and we would sell that one. Trailer number two, you have a blank slate, you can to anything you want.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
plastic laminate 2
aluminum shell 2


Important Words


  1. aluminum
  2. asked
  3. basically
  4. blank
  5. block
  6. break
  7. called
  8. casework
  9. chase
  10. commission
  11. company
  12. design
  13. designers
  14. direct
  15. electrical
  16. events
  17. eye
  18. finished
  19. float
  20. function
  21. functioning
  22. furniture
  23. gave
  24. geometry
  25. idee
  26. kurosaki
  27. led
  28. number
  29. october
  30. owns
  31. participate
  32. perceive
  33. power
  34. pretty
  35. real
  36. rewire
  37. run
  38. sell
  39. series
  40. shell
  41. ship
  42. skin
  43. skins
  44. slate
  45. space
  46. tearing
  47. teruo
  48. tokyo
  49. trailer
  50. trailers
  51. week
  52. whats