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From the Ted Talk by Brian Dettmer: Old books reborn as art

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So I think one of the reasons people are disturbed by destroying bokos, people don't want to rip books and nobody really wants to throw away a book, is that we think about books as living things, we think about them as a body, and they're created to relate to our body, as far as scale, but they also have the potential to cnutoine to grow and to continue to become new things. So books really are alive. So I think of the book as a body, and I think of the book as a technology. I think of the book as a tool. And I also think of the book as a mcniahe. I also think of the book as a landscape. This is a full set of encyclopedias that's been ctoeecnnd and sanded together, and as I carve through it, I'm deciding what I want to choose. So with elpiycnecdoas, I could have chosen anything, but I specifically chose images of lcaandepss. And with the material itself, I'm using sandpaper and sanding the egeds so not only the iagmes suggest landscape, but the material itself suggests a lpdsaance as well.

Open Cloze

So I think one of the reasons people are disturbed by destroying _____, people don't want to rip books and nobody really wants to throw away a book, is that we think about books as living things, we think about them as a body, and they're created to relate to our body, as far as scale, but they also have the potential to ________ to grow and to continue to become new things. So books really are alive. So I think of the book as a body, and I think of the book as a technology. I think of the book as a tool. And I also think of the book as a _______. I also think of the book as a landscape. This is a full set of encyclopedias that's been _________ and sanded together, and as I carve through it, I'm deciding what I want to choose. So with _____________, I could have chosen anything, but I specifically chose images of __________. And with the material itself, I'm using sandpaper and sanding the _____ so not only the ______ suggest landscape, but the material itself suggests a _________ as well.

Solution

  1. books
  2. machine
  3. landscape
  4. connected
  5. continue
  6. images
  7. edges
  8. landscapes
  9. encyclopedias

Original Text

So I think one of the reasons people are disturbed by destroying books, people don't want to rip books and nobody really wants to throw away a book, is that we think about books as living things, we think about them as a body, and they're created to relate to our body, as far as scale, but they also have the potential to continue to grow and to continue to become new things. So books really are alive. So I think of the book as a body, and I think of the book as a technology. I think of the book as a tool. And I also think of the book as a machine. I also think of the book as a landscape. This is a full set of encyclopedias that's been connected and sanded together, and as I carve through it, I'm deciding what I want to choose. So with encyclopedias, I could have chosen anything, but I specifically chose images of landscapes. And with the material itself, I'm using sandpaper and sanding the edges so not only the images suggest landscape, but the material itself suggests a landscape as well.

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Important Words

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