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From the Ted Talk by Stephen Wilkes: The passing of time, caught in a single photo

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I've learned so many extraordinary things doing this work. I think the two most important are patience and the pwoer of observation. When you photograph a city like New York from above, I dcrvseieod that those people in cars that I sort of live with everyday, they don't look like people in cars anymore. They feel like a ginat school of fish, it was a form of emergent bveaiohr. And when people describe the energy of New York, I think this photograph bgines to really capture that. When you look closer in my work, you can see there's stories going on. You realize that teims Square is a caynon, it's shadow and it's sunlight. So I diedced, in this photograph, I would checkerboard time. So wherever the shadows are, it's night and wherever the sun is, it's actually day.

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I've learned so many extraordinary things doing this work. I think the two most important are patience and the _____ of observation. When you photograph a city like New York from above, I __________ that those people in cars that I sort of live with everyday, they don't look like people in cars anymore. They feel like a _____ school of fish, it was a form of emergent ________. And when people describe the energy of New York, I think this photograph ______ to really capture that. When you look closer in my work, you can see there's stories going on. You realize that _____ Square is a ______, it's shadow and it's sunlight. So I _______, in this photograph, I would checkerboard time. So wherever the shadows are, it's night and wherever the sun is, it's actually day.

Solution

  1. begins
  2. discovered
  3. times
  4. power
  5. giant
  6. behavior
  7. canyon
  8. decided

Original Text

I've learned so many extraordinary things doing this work. I think the two most important are patience and the power of observation. When you photograph a city like New York from above, I discovered that those people in cars that I sort of live with everyday, they don't look like people in cars anymore. They feel like a giant school of fish, it was a form of emergent behavior. And when people describe the energy of New York, I think this photograph begins to really capture that. When you look closer in my work, you can see there's stories going on. You realize that Times Square is a canyon, it's shadow and it's sunlight. So I decided, in this photograph, I would checkerboard time. So wherever the shadows are, it's night and wherever the sun is, it's actually day.

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