时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2008


英语课

A: All right, it’s time to meet our featured guest this morning. He's called the Picasso of Legos.  I say, more like a Norman Rockwelth of Legos coz' look how literal 1 all these representations 2 are. We are gonna have the fun now with Nathan Sawaya. He is here. He was a lawyer. He decided 3 to get into art, sculpture, then moved to the wonderful land of Legos. He has joined us today. You have your book "The Art of the Brick" which is taking your walk all over the country. You have families flooding the museums (Exactly!) because you’re using Legos.


 


B: I’m using Lego. I’m using something that every child's played with. And yet I’m using it in a different way. I’m using it as fine art.


 


A: Absolutely, now a very interesting back story here. You’re a lawyer, (Sure) you are totally in a way just as I was. (Right) You are in the Wall Street world, (Exactly) and one day you think to yourself?


 


B: Lego. Lego is the answer. You know, I wanted to explore my creativity and that's what I do at the end of the day. After the law firm,  I come home and be creative. And soon I was making a whole career out of being creative, and I left the law firm behind. And now I have a whole museum exhibit, that's touring the US.


 


A: Say, now I get the artistic 4 part. You know, you had something else , another appetite, another need of passion to feed. (Sure) Where does the Lego come in?


 


B: Well, I’d always been a kid who played with Lego growing up. I had been an art kid, and I played with Lego, so eventually I merged 5 the two. I wanted to find a way I could use that passion of Lego and make it into an art.


 


A: Did you know you had the talent?


 


B: Well, I...


 


A: Coz' you know, this is not the playing with Lego, this is a real deal.


 


B: I had a Lego, a Lego CD growing up. My parents were very accommodating 6. They had given me this entire Lego city in our living room. So I used that as a starting point. And now I move those Legos into a whole new world.


 


A: Amazing. You tour around the country, how long will a work like the note?, which is...this is actually a female's face, right?


 


B: Yes, a female's face with a musical note on.


 


A: How long did you spend?


 


B: For depends on, you know, how inspired I am. And this piece exactly came off of a project where I was once saw a friend singing and really inspired me to really capture her singing in a Lego format 7, the music coming through her. So this took, you know, actually came off very quickly because I was just immediately inspired to creating this.


 


A: Meaning what?


 


B: Couple of days.


A: Couple of days. (Couple of days.) And the results, tens of thousands of dollars this go for. (Exactly.) Certainly respected as are....You get hook-up with Lego, by the way? (Lego, er) Are you and Lego.. they are hooking 8 you up coz' this is a studio...


 


B: I'd love to buy my bricks but we have a good relationship.(Really?) Yes, I do get the E-mails from Lego employees saying how they love my work, they are amazed that I can take their toy product and creat art.


 


A: So you have all of these different forms of men (Sure.), this room was very cleverly suggested as the White Castle as what happened when you eat White Castle. There were dozens of...


 


B: Nice. No, and not exactly. But these pieces are, you know, transition 9 pieces, you see these people, these figures going through trasition met more offices if you will...


 


A: All individual pieces that you then glued together, (Exactly) from a little one to an angular one, making all round shapes out of lots of square pieces.


 


B: Exactly, that’s the magic of the Lego. These three pieces right here are actually at the Standford Museum right now as part of the tour. And some of these pieces behind this are actually gonna be part of a new tour that will be starting out this summer.


 


A: And how do you keep? You want the kids to come but you don't want them to do what I wanna do right now is just pull the head off this and start to make different pieces. How do you do that , you know, you just keep them away but you feel the temptation when you watch audiences coz' everybody wants to play with.


 


B: It is! It’s something that we've all played with. So they want to ,you know, go up and touch them , and feel them, and play with them just like.... But in a museum setting, there’s some .....


 


A: Some to call, (Exactly) all right, that's why they don't let me in. You know, Nathan made a great point, he said, you know, people don't have big pieces of marbles in their homes. But Legos everybodys have makes it approachable (Exactly.) takes this to a new dimension. (And you can relate to it) You have little ones for us here.


 


B: I did. I took some time and made some gifts for everyone.


 


A: And these are nice representations of what each of us means.


 


B: Exactly. Exactly. Robern, for you, basketball.


 


Oh~! The Lego basketball.


 


A: That's gorgeous 10. Thank you very much!


 


Dian, for you, tulips to celebrate Spring.


 


Oh, how lovely! Thank you!


 


Sam, you have the wonderful weather symbols you can use over and over again.


 


Now I have to steal the ones off the map that you made. (Exactly) Thank you!


 


And Chris, (that's nice!) Yes, you like that?


 


That's great!


 



1 literal
adj.照字面的,原义的,逐字的
  • This word should not be taken in its literal sense.这个词不能按本义去理解。
  • He made a literal interpretation.他逐字解释。
2 representations
n.陈述,投诉,抗议;表现( representation的名词复数 );陈述;表现…的事物;有代理人
  • Naturally, we tend to use old representations in our new environments. 同样很自然的,在新的环境里,我们习惯于采用旧的表达方式。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
  • They made representations to the college cook about the bad food. 他们向学校厨师抗议伙食太差。 来自辞典例句
3 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
4 artistic
adj.艺术(家)的,美术(家)的;善于艺术创作的
  • The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
  • These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。
5 merged
(使)混合( merge的过去式和过去分词 ); 相融; 融入; 渐渐消失在某物中
  • Turf wars are inevitable when two departments are merged. 两个部门合并时总免不了争争权限。
  • The small shops were merged into a large market. 那些小商店合并成为一个大商场。
6 accommodating
adj.乐于助人的
  • The warder was always accommodating in allowing visitors in. 牢房看守总是很通融,允许探访者进去。
  • The man was accommodating enough to lend me a dollar. 那个人很慷慨地借给我一块钱。
7 format
n.设计,版式;[计算机]格式,DOS命令:格式化(磁盘),用于空盘或使用过的磁盘建立新空盘来存储数据;v.使格式化,设计,安排
  • Please format this floppy disc.请将这张软盘格式化。
  • The format of the figure is very tasteful.该图表的格式很雅致。
8 hooking
钩住,吊住,挂住( hook的现在分词 ); 弯成钩形; 钓(鱼); 打曲线球,踢弧线球
  • Gel formation requires hooking various chains together. 凝胶的形成需要把不同的链钩链在一起。
  • Companies send him all over the world hooking up these complex systems. 公司派他到世界各地去连接这些复杂的系统。
9 transition
n.转变,变迁,过渡
  • Adolescence is the period of transition between childhood and adulthood.青春期是童年与成年之间的过渡时期。
  • They all support a peaceful transition.他们全部都支持和平过渡。
10 gorgeous
adj.华丽的,灿烂的,美丽的,宜人的,棒的
  • The gorgeous costume added to the brilliance of the dance.华丽的服装使舞蹈更加光彩夺目。
  • What a gorgeous day it is today!今天天气多好啊!
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