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From the Ted Talk by John Maeda: My journey in design
Unscramble the Blue Letters
So, I was wnnoerdig, like, what is this thing in front of me, this computer thing? It didn't make any sense. So, I began to make things again. This is another series of objects made of old computers from my basement. I made — I took my old Macintoshes and made different objects out of them from Tokyo. I began to be very disinterested in computers themselves, so I began to make paintings out of polpmlitas. I made this series of works. They're pgtianins I made and put a PalmPilot in the middle as a kind of dalsipy that's sort of thinking, I'm abstract art. What am I? I'm aarbcstt. And so it keeps thinking out loud of its own abstraction.
Open Cloze
So, I was _________, like, what is this thing in front of me, this computer thing? It didn't make any sense. So, I began to make things again. This is another series of objects made of old computers from my basement. I made — I took my old Macintoshes and made different objects out of them from Tokyo. I began to be very disinterested in computers themselves, so I began to make paintings out of __________. I made this series of works. They're _________ I made and put a PalmPilot in the middle as a kind of _______ that's sort of thinking, I'm abstract art. What am I? I'm ________. And so it keeps thinking out loud of its own abstraction.
Solution
- paintings
- abstract
- palmpilots
- wondering
- display
Original Text
So, I was wondering, like, what is this thing in front of me, this computer thing? It didn't make any sense. So, I began to make things again. This is another series of objects made of old computers from my basement. I made — I took my old Macintoshes and made different objects out of them from Tokyo. I began to be very disinterested in computers themselves, so I began to make paintings out of PalmPilots. I made this series of works. They're paintings I made and put a PalmPilot in the middle as a kind of display that's sort of thinking, I'm abstract art. What am I? I'm abstract. And so it keeps thinking out loud of its own abstraction.
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