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1、www.XiYuS锡育软件So Im going to talk today about collecting stories in someunconventional ways.今天，我要跟大家聊一聊有关故事的收集 通过一些与众不同的方式。00:15This is a picture of me from a very awkward stage in my life.这是我还很笨拙的时候画的一幅画。00:21You might enjoy the awkwardly tight,cut-off pajamabottoms with balloons.大家可以欣赏一下我那条气球图案的短腿儿

2、紧身睡裤。00:25Anyway,it was a time when I was mainly interested incollecting imaginary stories.好吧，那个时候我主要感兴趣于 收集虚构的充满想象力的故事。00:30So this is a picture of me holding one of the first watercolorpaintings I ever made.恩，这张照片是我 举着我的第一幅水彩画。00:34And recently Ive been much more interested in collectingstories fr

3、om reality-so,real stories.最近，我愈发热衷于收集故事 从现实生活当中就是，真实的故事。00:38And specifically Im interested in collecting my own stories,stories from the Internet,and then recently,stories from life,which is kind of a new area of work that Ive been doingrecently.并且，我特别热衷于收集我自己的故事，互联网上的故事，以及最近的，生活当中的故事，这也是近期我正在从事的一

4、个对我来说全新的工作领域。00:43So Ill be talking about each of those today.那么，今天我将它们逐一地介绍给大家。00:54So,first of all-my own stories.These are two of mysketchbooks.首先，说说我自己的故事。这是2本我的随笔集。00:56unconventional:adj.非常规的;非传统的;不依惯例的 awkwardly:adv.笨拙地;无技巧地 cut-off:n.截止;定点;界限/adj.毛边短裤的 balloons:n.汽球(balloon的复数形式);轻气球/v.乘气球上升

5、;如气球般膨胀(balloon的三单形式)first of all:adv.首先I have many of these books,and Ive been keeping them forabout the last eight or nine years.像这样的随笔集我有好多好多本，我是从最近八九年间开始保存它们的。00:59They accompany me wherever I go in my life,and I fill themwith all sorts of things,records of my lived experiences.无论我去哪我都会随身带着它们，并随

6、时记录些什么，写一些我生活的经历。01:03So watercolor paintings,drawings of what I see,deadflowers,dead insects,pasted ticket-stubs,rusting coins,business cards,writings.水彩画，一些我随手画下的看到的事物，干花，昆虫尸体，地铁票，生锈的硬币，名片，随笔。01:09And in these books you can find these short little glimpses ofmoments and experiences and people that

7、 I meet.在这些本子里面大家可以找到我的那些零碎的 时刻、感受以及我遇到的人。01:20And,you know,after keeping these books for a number ofyears,I started to become very interested in collecting notonly my own personal artifacts,but also the artifacts of otherpeople.恩，大家可想而知，保存这些随笔集有些年头以后，我开始痴迷于收集 不仅仅是我自己的人生经历，还包括其他人的人生经历。01:26So I star

8、ted collecting found objects.所以，我又开始收集偶然遇到的东西。01:35This is a photograph I found lying in a gutter in New YorkCity about ten years ago.这是我在纽约的一个排水沟旁拾到的一张照片 大约是十年前了。01:37drawings:n.图纸;图示;提用,金融提款(drawing的复数)pasted:adj.膏的(胶的;浆糊的)rusting:n.生锈;锈蚀/adj.生锈的/v.生锈(rust的ing形式)writings:n.作品,篇章(writing的复数形式)glimp

9、ses:n.一瞥,一看/vi.瞥见/vt.瞥见 artifacts:n.史前古器物;人工产品 gutter:n.排水沟;槽;贫民区/vi.流;形成沟/vt.开沟于;弄熄/adj.贫贱的;粗俗的;耸人听闻的On the front you can see the tattered black-and-white photoof a womans face,and on the back it says,To Judy,the girlwith the Bill Bailey voice,在这张残破的黑白照片上我们可以看到一个女人的头像，在这张照片背后写着，“给亲爱的朱迪，一个声线酷似比尔贝尔丽的

10、女孩，”01:41Have fun in whatever you do.无论你做什么都开心快乐。”01:48And I really loved this idea of the partial glimpse intosomebodys life,as opposed to knowing the whole story;justknowing a little bit of the story and then letting your ownmind fill in the rest.我切切实实地爱上了这个了解他人生活的片段的主意，而不需要了解整个的故事，知道它的一小部分就好 剩下的部

11、分我们可以尽情想象。01:50And that idea of a partial glimpse is something that willcome back in a lot of the work Ill be showing later today.这个收集生活中的小故事的想法 让我产生了要做点什么的想法，过一会儿我会详细地讲这里面的故事。01:58So around this time I was studying computer science atPrinceton University,and I noticed that it was suddenly同时，那段时间我在布

12、林斯顿大学主修计算机科学专业，并且，突然间我意识到它是可以实现的 收集人们生活中的小故事，不仅是在街角，而是要TED演讲者：Jonathan Harris|乔纳森.哈里斯演讲标题：The art of collecting stories|故事收藏的艺术内容概要：Artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris makes online art that captures theworld.s expression-and gives us a glimpse of the soul of the Internet.在2007年12月的EG（Enter

13、tainment Gathering 娱乐信息收集）会议上，艺术家乔纳森.哈里斯为大家阐述他近期正在进行的有关收集故事项目:他自己的故事，陌生人的故事，以及包括他“我们感觉好”在内的通过互联网收集的故事。Princeton University,and I noticed that it was suddenlypossible to collect these sorts of personal artifacts,not justfrom street corners,but also from the Internet.集人们生活中的小故事，不仅是在街角，而是要通过互联网。02:03An

14、d that suddenly,people en masse were leaving scores andscores of digital footprints online that told stories of theirprivate lives.与此同时，忽然间涌现出大量的人 开始通过互联网来记录他们自己的生活，留下足迹。02:14tattered:adj.破烂的,衣衫褴褛的/v.变破烂(tatter的过去分词)black-and-white:adj.印刷的;黑白混合的;用笔写的 Bailey:n.城壁,外栅;城堡外庭 opposed:adj.相反的;敌对的/v.反对(oppo

15、se的过去分词);使对立 fill in:填写;填充;替代 masse:n.(撞球)挫杆;立杆击球 footprints:n.足迹;脚印(footprint的复数);足印Blog posts,photographs,thoughts,feelings,opinions,all ofthese things were being expressed by people online,andleaving behind trails.发博客、照片、想法、感受、观点，这一切对上网的人来说都是公开的，并且是有迹可循的。02:22So I started to write computer progra

16、ms that study very,verylarge sets of these online footprints.从这一点出发，我开始编写出一套计算机程序 用它来筛选大量的相关信息，网民的足迹。02:30One such project is about a year-and-a-half old.这个项目持续了足足有一年半的时间。02:35Its called We Feel Fine.它叫做“我们感觉好”的。02:37This is a project that scans the worlds newly-posted blogentries every two or three

17、 minutes,searching foroccurrences of the phrases I feel and I am feeling.Andwhen it finds one of those phrases,it grabs the full sentenceup to the period and also tries to identify demographicinformation about the author.这个项目追踪浏览全球所有新近发布的博客 每隔2-3分钟检查一次，搜索一些特定的词组“我感觉”和“现在，我觉得”以及在哪里发现的这些短句，并把这一整句记录下来

18、接着会尝试收集分析出一些有关该作者的个人信息。02:39So,their gender,their age,their geographic location andwhat the weather conditions were like when they wrote thatsentence.例如他们的性别、年龄以及他们的地理位置 还有当他们写下这些语句时的天气情况。02:54expressed:v.表达(express的过去式和过去分词);(用符号等)表示;榨;(如在说话,写作或绘画中)表达(自己)的意见 trails:n.山径;踪迹(trail的复数);游径/vt.拖尾(trail的

19、第三人称单数)/vi.拖曳(trail的第三人称单数)entries:n.进入;(词典所列的)词目(entry的复数形式)occurrences:n.发生;出现;事件;发现 grabs:n.链钩(grab的复数)/v.抓取;捕获(grab的第三人称单数)demographic:adj.人口统计学的;人口学的 gender:n.性;性别;性交/vt.生(过去式gendered,过去分词gendered,现在分词gendering,第三人称单数genders,形容词genderless)geographic:adj.地理的;地理学的It collects about 20,000 such sen

20、tences a day and its beenrunning for about a year-and-a-half,having collected overten-and-a-half million feelings now.这套程序每天可以收集到20万句左右的句子 并持续这样进行了一年半的时间，至今它已经收集到了超过一千五十万条有关“我感觉”的句子。03:00This is,then,how theyre presented.然后，我把它这样展示出来。03:07These dots here represent some of the English-speakingworlds

21、feelings from the last few hours.这里出现的每个点代表着一个说英语国家的人的前几个小时的感受。03:09Each dot being a single sentence,stated by a single blogger.每个点都是单独的一句话，来自单独的博客使用者。03:15And the color of each dot corresponds to the type of feelinginside,so the bright ones are happy,and the dark ones aresad.并且，这些点的颜色也代表了不同类型的感受，这些

22、明亮颜色的点代表了喜悦，相反灰暗的颜色的点代表悲伤。03:18And the diameter of each dot corresponds to the length ofthe sentence inside.这些点的直径也代表了 它里面句子的长度情况。03:24So the small ones are short,and the bigger ones are longer.所以，我们看到这个小一点的点里面的句子很短，这个大一点的点里面的句子长些。03:28I feel fine with the body Im in,therell be no easy excusefor why

23、 I still feel uncomfortable being close to myboyfriend,“我感觉的的身材很好，很难弄明白 为什么我男朋友靠近我的时候我还会觉得不自在，”03:31from a twenty-two-year-old in Japan.一个22岁的日本人写道。03:37I got this on some trading locally,but really dont feel likescrewing with wiring and crap.“我从附近的贸易市场买来这个，但我真不喜欢自己动手安装。”03:39stated:adj.规定的;阐明的;定期的/

24、v.规定(state的过去分词);陈述;阐明 corresponds:vi.符合,一致;相应;通信 excuse for:借口;原谅 screwing:n.螺丝接合;车削螺纹/v.拧紧(screw的ing形式);用螺钉固定 wiring:n.电接线,架线;线路;金属线缝术/v.装电线(wire的现在分词)Also,some of the feelings contain photographs in the blogposts,and when that happens,these montage compositionsare automatically created,which cons

25、ist of the sentence andimages being combined.同时，也有些人在博客上贴出了照片来表达他们的感受，当它出现的时候，系统会自动收集合成，把照片和句子一起加入进来。03:43And any of these can be opened up to reveal the sentenceinside.这些照片放大的同时也会调出它们相对一应的句子。03:54I feel good.“我觉得很好。”03:58I feel rough now,and I probably gained 100,000 pounds,but it was worth it.“我觉得

26、很艰难，我可能胖了100，000磅，但这一切都是值得的。”04:03I love how they were able to preserve most in everythingthat makes you feel close to nature-butterflies,man-madeforests,limestone caves and hey,even a huge python.“我喜欢他们为保护这一切所做的事情 这让我觉得亲近自然蝴蝶，人造森林，石灰岩洞，嘿，甚至这儿还有只大蟒蛇。”04:10So the next movement is called mobs.接下来，这个部分

27、让我们加快速度动起来。04:20This provides a slightly more statistical look at things.我们略带着统计学的思路看收集到的这些东西。04:22montage:n.蒙太奇(电影的基本结构手段和叙事方式);混合画,拼集的照片 compositions:n.组成成分;作品辑;艺术作品(composition的复数形式)automatically:adv.自动地;机械地;无意识地/adj.不经思索的 consist of:由组成;由构成;包括preserve:vt.保存;保护;维持;腌;禁猎/n.保护区;禁猎地;加工成的食品 butterflie

28、s:n.蝴蝶(butterfly的复数)man-made:adj.人造的;人工的;合成的 limestone:n.岩石灰岩 python:n.巨蟒;大蟒 mobs:abbr.多弹头轰炸系统(MultipleOrbitBombardmentSystem)statistical:adj.统计的;统计学的This is showing the worlds most common feelings overallright now,dominated by better,then bad,then good,thenguilty,and so on.它展现了最近全球最普遍的感受，有很好、坏、不错以及

29、罪恶等等。04:24Weather causes the feelings to assume the physical traits ofthe weather they represent.So the sunny ones swirl around,the cloudy ones float along,the rainy ones fall down,and thesnowy ones flutter to the ground.如果把这些感受表述成物理特性 例如用来代表天气。代表晴朗的盘旋在这儿，代表多云的漂浮在这儿，代表阴雨的下不停下落，那些代表下雪的漂浮在地面上。04:30You

30、 can also stop a raindrop and open the feeling inside.我们可以停住下落的雨滴看看它里面的感受。04:40Finally,location causes the feelings to move to their spots ona world map,giving you a sense of their geographicdistribution.最终，这些感受会移动到它所属的地点 表述在地图上，给我们一个在地理范围角度上的感受。04:46www.XiYuS锡育软件So Ill show you now some of my favor

31、ite montages from WeFeel Fine.下面，我来给大家展示一下在“我感觉好”项目里面我最喜欢的部分。04:51These are the images that are automatically constructed.它们是一些自动合并在一起的图片。04:54I feel like Im diagonally parked in a parallel universe.“我觉得我存在在一个倾斜的宇宙。”04:56dominated:adj.占主导地位的;强势的;占统治地位的;数受控的/v.控制,支配;处于支配地位(dominate的过去式)traits:n.特性,特质

32、,性格(trait的复数)swirl:n.漩涡;打旋;涡状形/vi.盘绕;打旋;眩晕;大口喝酒/vt.使成漩涡 cloudy:adj.多云的;阴天的;愁容满面的 snowy:adj.下雪的,多雪的;被雪覆盖的;洁白无瑕的 flutter:vi.飘动;鼓翼;烦扰/vt.拍;使焦急;使飘动/n.摆动;鼓翼;烦扰 raindrop:n.雨滴;雨点 montages:n.蒙太奇(电影的基本结构手段和叙事方式);混合画,拼集的照片 constructed:vt.构造,建造;创立,构筑;搭建(construct的过去分词)diagonally:adv.对角地;斜对地 parked:adj.已泊车的/v.停

33、车(park的过去分词)(Laughter)Ive kissed numerous other boys and it hasnt feltgood,the kisses felt messy and wrong,but kissing Lucas feelsbeautiful and almost spiritual.（笑声）“我与其他许多男孩接吻，但这感觉并不怎么好，这些吻让我觉得肮脏并且是不对的，但与卢卡斯接吻的感觉很美好，甚至是精神上的。”04:59I can feel my cancer grow.“我能感受到我的癌症在蔓延。”05:12I feel pretty.“我觉得漂亮。”0

34、5:15I feel skinny,but Im not.我觉得骨感，但我并没有。05:18Im twenty-three,and a recovering meth and heroinaddict,and feel absolutely blessed to still be alive.“我23岁，刚刚从对兴奋剂和海洛因的沉迷中解脱出来，我真的对我依然活着心怀感激。”05:21I cant wait to see them racing for the first time at Daytonanext month,because I feel the need for speed.“我

35、迫不及待地想看他们下个月在带托纳的赛车比赛啦！因为我觉得我需要一点速度的刺激。”05:26(Laughter)I feel sassy.（笑声）“我觉得我很蛮横。”05:31I feel so sexy in this new wig.“我觉得我戴着这顶新假发真性感。”05:35As you can see,We Feel Fine collects very,very small-scalepersonal stories.正如大家所看到的，“我们感觉好”这个项目收集人们生活中非常小非常细微的故事。05:38messy:adj.凌乱的,散乱的;肮脏的,污秽的;麻烦的 twenty-three

36、:num.二十三 recovering:n.恢复;再生;补偿/v.恢复;再生(recover的现在分词形式)meth:n.甲安菲他明(一种兴奋剂)heroin:n.药毒物海洛因,吗啡 addict:n.有瘾的人;入迷的人/vt.使沉溺;使上瘾 blessed:adj.幸福的;受祝福的;神圣的/v.祝福(bless的过去分词)sassy:adj.无礼的;时髦的;活泼的;厚脸皮的 As you can see:正如你所看到的;你是知道的 small-scale:adj.小规模的Sometimes stories as short as two or three words.有些只有两三句左右的长短

37、。05:42So,really even challenging the notion of what can beconsidered a story.并且，我开始调整这个观念 我们到底是如何定义一个故事的。05:44And recently,Ive become interested in diving much moredeeply into a single story.最近，我开始热衷于深度地挖掘那些单独的故事。05:48And thats led me to doing some work with the physicalworld,not with the Internet,a

38、nd only using the Internet atthe very last moment as a presentation medium.并且它也指引我在这个现实世界当中做些事情，不仅局限在网络上面，仅把网络作为最终的展示平台之一。05:52So these are some newer projects that actually arent evenlaunched publicly yet.所以，这里是一些更新的项目 实际上，它们还没有公开展示过。06:00The first such one is called The Whale Hunt.首先，介绍一个名为“捕杀鲸鱼”的

39、项目。06:03Last May I spent nine days living up in Barrow,Alaska,thenorthernmost settlement in the United States,with a familyof Inupiat Eskimos,documenting their annual spring whalehunt.去年5月，我在阿拉斯加的Barrow生活了9天，它是美国最北边儿的殖民地，住在一个爱斯基摩人家里，记录他们每年春天的捕鲸活动。06:05This is the whaling camp here,were about six mil

40、es fromshore,camping on five-and-a-half feet of thick,frozen packice.这是捕鲸的营地，我们距离海岸大概6英里的距离，扎营在大约有5尺半厚的冰面上。06:15Barrow:n.搬运架,手推车;弃矿;古坟 northernmost:adj.最北的 documenting:n.文件编制 whaling:n.捕鲸;捕鲸业;一阵痛打/v.捕鲸;鞭打(whale的ing形式)camping:n.露营;野营/v.露营;扎营;临时安顿(camp的ing形式)And that water that you see there is the op

41、en lead,andthrough that lead,Bowhead whales migrate north eachspringtime.前面，能看到水流的是一条水道，春天的时候，露脊鲸会通过这样的水道向北方迁徙。06:21And the Eskimo community basically camps out on the edgeof the ice here,waits for a whale to come close enough toattack,and when it does,it throws a harpoon at it,and thenhauls the wha

42、le up under the ice,and cuts it up.爱斯基摩人的团体主要集中在冰的边缘这里扎营，等待鲸鱼足够靠近时再捕杀它，他们会向鲸鱼投掷一个鱼叉，然后将它拽起来 直至冰面上，再将他分割开。06:27And that would provide the communitys food supply for along time.一条鲸鱼可以作为食物供给这样一个团体相当长的一段时间。06:37So I went up there and I lived with these guys out in theirwhaling camp here,and photographed

43、 the entireexperience,beginning with the taxi ride to Newark airport inNew York,and ending with the butchering of the secondwhale,seven-and-a-half days later.所以，我去到那里并和这些人生活在一起 在捕鲸营地露营，拍摄这整个经历，从纽约搭计程车到纽瓦克机场，7天后，目睹了这一刻捕杀鲸鱼的过程，06:39I photographed that entire experience at five-minuteintervals.在这整个过程中，

44、我每隔5分钟拍一张照片。06:51Bowhead:n.一种头口特大的鲸鱼 migrate:vi.移动;随季节而移居;移往/vt.使移居;使移植 springtime:n.春天;春季;初期camps:n.露营,营地;野营房(camp复数)/v.露营,扎营(camp的第三人称单数)on the edge of:adv.几乎;濒于;在边缘waits:计等待/等候 harpoon:vt.用鱼叉叉;用鱼叉捕获/n.鱼叉 hauls:n.运输量;拖的东西;捕获数(haul的复数)/v.拖曳;费力地到达某地;改变方向(haul的三单形式)photographed:v.拍照(photograph的过去式)/a

45、dj.拍摄的 butchering:v.屠宰;残杀;弄糟(butcher的现在分词)/n.屠宰加工业 intervals:n.间隔;声音程(interval的复数)So every five minutes,I took a photograph.每隔5分钟，拍一张相片。06:54When I was awake,with the camera around my neck;when Iwas sleeping,with a tripod and a timer.只要我是清醒的，就把相机挂在脖子上；在我睡觉的时候，就把相机固定在三角架上，通过计时器拍照。06:56And then in mom

46、ents of high adrenaline,like whensomething exciting was happening,I would up thatphotographic frequency to as many as thirty-sevenphotographs in five minutes.让人肾上腺素升高的时刻降临，如同于一些让人兴奋的事情正在发生，我拍照片的频率高达 37张每5分钟。07:00So what this created was a photographic heartbeat that spedup and slowed down,more or le

47、ss matching the changingpace of my own heartbeat.这是我创作出的一个图片心跳 它时而加速时而减速，或多或少反映着 我内心不平静的心率跳动。07:08That was the first concept here.这是第一个项目。07:15The second concept was to use this experience to think aboutthe fundamental components of any story.第二个项目的概念是运用这样的经历来思考 任何一个故事的必要元素。07:17What are the things

48、that make up a story?是什么组成了一个故事？07:21So,stories have characters.Stories have concepts.我们都知道，故事要有人物，还需要观点。07:23Stories take place in a certain area.They have contexts.故事也需要在特定的地方发生。它要有发生的情景。07:26tripod:n.摄三脚架;三脚桌 adrenaline:n.生化肾上腺素 photographic:adj.摄影的;逼真的;(尤指记忆)详细准确的heartbeat:n.心跳;情感 sped:v.加速;飞驰(s

49、peed的过去分词)slowed:adj.慢的;减速的;迟钝的/vi.变慢;变萧条/vt.放慢;阻碍/adv.慢慢地;迟缓地 more or less:或多或少 concepts:n.概念,观念;思想(concept复数形式)contexts:n.环境,计上下文(context复数)They have colors.What do they look like?它也要有自身的色彩。它看起来怎样？07:28They have time.When did it take place?Dates,when did itoccur?它也有时间。什么时候发生？发生的日期、时间？07:30And in t

50、he case of the whale hunt,also this idea of anexcitement level.在“捕杀鲸鱼”的项目里，一样体现出之一令人兴奋的想法。07:33The thing about stories,though,in most of the existing关于故事的事情，存在于绝大多数媒介当中的 如我们熟悉的小说，广播，照片，电影，甚至The thing about stories,though,in most of the existingmediums that were accustomed to-things like novels,radio