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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 _____ 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.
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- times
- power
- giant
- behavior
- canyon
- 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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