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From the Ted Talk by Aaron Koblin: Visualizing ourselves ... with crowd-sourced data

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So I teamed up with my good friend rricado Cabello, also known as Mr. doob, who's a much better programmer than I am, and he made this anzaimg Flash drawing tool. As you know, an animation is a series of images. So what we did was cross-cut a bunch of archival footage of jnnhoy Cash, and at eight famres a second, we allowed individuals to draw a single frame that would get woven into this dynamically changing music vdieo. So I don't have time to play the entire thing for you, but I want to show you two short clips. One is the beginning of the miusc video. And that's going to be followed by a short clip of plepoe who have already contributed to the project talking about it briefly.

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So I teamed up with my good friend _______ Cabello, also known as Mr. doob, who's a much better programmer than I am, and he made this _______ Flash drawing tool. As you know, an animation is a series of images. So what we did was cross-cut a bunch of archival footage of ______ Cash, and at eight ______ a second, we allowed individuals to draw a single frame that would get woven into this dynamically changing music _____. So I don't have time to play the entire thing for you, but I want to show you two short clips. One is the beginning of the _____ video. And that's going to be followed by a short clip of ______ who have already contributed to the project talking about it briefly.

Solution

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  2. people
  3. video
  4. ricardo
  5. frames
  6. johnny
  7. music

Original Text

So I teamed up with my good friend Ricardo Cabello, also known as Mr. doob, who's a much better programmer than I am, and he made this amazing Flash drawing tool. As you know, an animation is a series of images. So what we did was cross-cut a bunch of archival footage of Johnny Cash, and at eight frames a second, we allowed individuals to draw a single frame that would get woven into this dynamically changing music video. So I don't have time to play the entire thing for you, but I want to show you two short clips. One is the beginning of the music video. And that's going to be followed by a short clip of people who have already contributed to the project talking about it briefly.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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