adjTED | Taking imagination seriously
北京联盟_本文原题：TED | Taking imagination seriously
TED演讲推送
Ideas worth spreading
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TED Conferences LLC is a media organization that posts talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".
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本期演讲的主题关于想象力 。 Janet Echelman是一名艺术家 ， 而真正让她蜕变成艺术家的还是一次机缘巧合 ， 在一次展览前 ， 当她的画作丢失以后 ， 她开始寻找一种非传统的新艺术材料 ， 这让她成就了更为伟大的艺术造诣 。 艺术源于生活 ， 而想象力与创造力正是连接生活与艺术的桥梁 。
Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing -- which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity.
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重点单词
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permanent adj. 永久的 ， 永恒的
billowing adj. 巨浪的 ， 汹涌的；翻滚的
voluptuous adj. 动感十足的
hoist v. 升起 ， 吊起
mesmerized adj. 着迷的
durable adj. 耐用的 ， 持久的
idiosyncratic adj. 特质的；特殊的
delicate adj. 微妙的；精美的
ephemeral adj. 短暂的
ultraviolet adj. 紫外的；紫外线的
gracefully adv. 优雅地；温文地
aeronautical adj. 航空的；航空学的
anonymous adj. 匿名的 ， 无名的
hemisphere n. 半球
attorney n. 律师；代理人；检察官
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This story is about taking imagination seriously. Fourteen years ago, I first encountered this ordinary material, fishnet, used the same way for centuries. Today, I'm using it to create permanent, billowing, voluptuous forms the scale of hard-edged buildings in cities around the world. I was an unlikely person to be doing this. I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.
这个故事 ， 是想告诉大家要珍惜想象力 ， 14年前 ， 我第一次接触到这个普通的材料 ， 渔网 ， 几百年来人们一直用它捕鱼 ， 今天 ， 我用它来创造永久的 ， 随风飘逸的 ， 动感十足的 ， 如坚固建筑物大小的雕塑 ， 竖立在世界各地的城市中 ， 我本来不太可能做出这样的成就 ， 我从未学习过雕塑 ， 工程设计或者建筑 ， 事实上 ， 大学毕业后 ， 我申请了七所艺术学院 ， 而无一例外地都遭到了拒绝 。
I went off on my own to become an artist, and I painted for 10 years, when I was offered a Fulbright to India. Promising to give exhibitions of paintings, I shipped my paints and arrived in Mahabalipuram. The deadline for the show arrived -- my paints didn't. I had to do something. This fishing village was famous for sculpture. So I tried bronze casting. But to make large forms was too heavy and expensive. I went for a walk on the beach, watching the fishermen bundle their nets into mounds on the sand. I'd seen it every day, but this time I saw it differently -- a new approach to sculpture, a way to make volumetric form without heavy solid materials.
