ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rives - Performance poet, multimedia artist
Performance artist and storyteller Rives has been called "the first 2.0 poet," using images, video and technology to bring his words to life.

Why you should listen

Part poet, part storyteller, part philosopher, Rives is the co-host of TEDActive as well as a frequent TED speaker. On stage, his poems burst in many directions, exposing multiple layers and unexpected treats: childhood memories, grown-up humor, notions of love and lust, of what is lost forever and of what's still out there waiting to unfold. Chimborazo.

A regular on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Rives also starred alongside model Bar Refaeli in the 2008 Bravo special Ironic Iconic America, touring the United States on a "roller coaster ride through the eye-popping panorama of American pop culture." Flat pages can't contain his storytelling, even when paper is his medium. The pop-up books he creates for children unfold with surprise: The Christmas Pop-Up Present expands to reveal moving parts, hidden areas and miniature booklets inside. 

His latest project—the Museum of Four in the Morning—is an ode to a time that may well be part of a global conspiracy. In a good way.  

More profile about the speaker
Rives | Speaker | TED.com
TED2008

Rives: A story of mixed emoticons

Rives erzählt eine Geschichte buchstäblich gemischter Gefühle

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Rives -- Star der Sendung "Ironic Iconic America" -- erzählt ein kurzes, bittersüßes, typographisches Märchen
- Performance poet, multimedia artist
Performance artist and storyteller Rives has been called "the first 2.0 poet," using images, video and technology to bring his words to life. Full bio

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This meansmeint, "I'm smilinglächelnd."
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Dies zeigt Ich lächle.
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So does that.
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So wie das.
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This meansmeint "mouseMaus."
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Dies heißt Maus.
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"CatKatze."
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Katz.
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Here we have a storyGeschichte.
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Wir seh'n eine Geschichte.
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The startAnfang of the storyGeschichte, where this meansmeint guy,
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Den Anfang der Story, dies hier meint
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and that is a ponytailPferdeschwanz on a passer-byPassant.
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und dies eine Passantin mit Pferdeschwanz ist.
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Here'sHier ist where it happensdas passiert.
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Das zeigt, wo es passsiert,
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These are when.
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und wann es passiert.
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This is a cassetteKassette tapeBand the girlMädchen putslegt into her cassette-tapeKassette playerSpieler.
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Dies ist eine Kassete, die das Mädchen in ihren Kassentenspieler gibt.
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She wearsträgt it everyjeden day.
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Sie trägt ihn jeden Tag mit sich.
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It's not consideredberücksichtigt vintageJahrgang --
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Dies ist nicht altmodisch zu betrachten --
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she just likesLikes certainsicher musicMusik- to soundklingen a certainsicher way.
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sie will nur bestimmte Musik auf eine bestimmte Art und Weise klingen lassen
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Look at her postureHaltung; it's remarkablebemerkenswert.
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Schau ihre Haltung an, sie ist bemerkenswert.
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That's because she dancesTänze.
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Dies ist so, weil sie tanzt.
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Now he, the guy, takes all of this in, figuringaufstellend,
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Nun saugt der Junge all die in sich ein
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"HonestlyEhrlich gesagt, geezGeez, what are my chancesChancen?"
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sich vorstellend: "Mal ehrlich, wie stehen meine Chancen?"
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(LaughterLachen)
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(Lachen)
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And he could say, "Oh my God!"
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Und er könnte sagen, "Oh mein Gott!"
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or "I heartHerz you!"
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oder "I 'Herz' dich"
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"I'm laughingLachen out loudlaut."
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Ich lache Laut.
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"I want to give you a hugUmarmung."
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Ich will dich umarmen.
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But he comeskommt up with that, you know.
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Aber er hat diese idee.
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He tellserzählt her, "I'd like to hand-paintHand-malen your portraitPorträt on a coffeeKaffee mugBecher."
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Er sagt ihr, "Ich würde gerne dein Bildnis mit der Hand auf einen Kaffeebecher malen"
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(LaughterLachen)
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(Lachen)
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Put a crabKrabbe insideinnen it.
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Einen Krebs hinein geben.
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AddHinzufügen some waterWasser.
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Wasser dazu tun.
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SevenSieben differentanders saltsSalze.
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und sieben verschiedene Salze.
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He meansmeint he's got this suddenplötzlich notionBegriff to standStand on drytrocken landLand,
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Er denkt, er hat diese plötzliche Lust, auf trockenem Land zu stehen,
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but just panhandlePanhandle at the oceanOzean.
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aber nur am Ozean zu betteln.
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He sayssagt, "You look like a mermaidMeerjungfrau, but you walkgehen like a waltzWalzer."
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Er sagt, "Du schaust aus wie eine Meerjungfrau, aber du läufst wie ein Walzer"
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And the girlMädchen goesgeht, "Wha'WHA "?"
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Das Mädchen reagiert mit "Was??"
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So, the guy repliesAntworten, "Yeah, I know, I know.
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Also antwortet der Junge, "Ja, ich weiß, ich weiß.
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I think my heartbeatHerzschlag mightMacht be the MorseMorse codeCode for inappropriateunangemessen.
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Ich denke mein Herzschlag könnte 'unangemessen' in Morse sagen.
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At leastam wenigsten, that's how it seemsscheint.
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Zumindest scheint es so.
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I'm like a juniorJunior varsityVarsity cheerleaderCheerleader sometimesmanchmal --
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Ich bin manchmal wie ein junior Schulteam Cheerleader --
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for swearingVereidigung, awkwardumständlich silencesStille, and very simpleeinfach rhymeReim schemesSysteme.
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zum fluchen, für peinliches Schweigen, und sehr einfache Rhytmen.
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Right now, talkingim Gespräch to you, I'm not even really a guy.
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Gerade jetzt, zu dir redend, bin ich nicht mal richtig ein Junge.
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I'm a monkeyAffe --
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Ich bin ein Affe,
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(LaughterLachen) --
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(Lachen)
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blowingweht kissesKüsse
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der Küsse zuwirft
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at a butterflySchmetterling.
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einem Schmetterling.
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But I'm still suggestingschlägt vor you and I should meetTreffen.
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Aber ich finde immer noch, Du und ich sollten uns treffen.
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First, soonbald, and then a lot.
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Erstmal bald und dann ganz oft.
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I'm thinkingDenken the southwestSüdwesten cornerEcke of 5thth and 42ndnd at noonMittag tomorrowMorgen,
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Ich denke an der Südwest-Ecke von 5ter und 42ter morgen Mittag,
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but I'll staybleibe untilbis you showShow up, ponytailPferdeschwanz or not.
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aber ich warte sowieso bis Du kommst, Pferdeschwanz oder nicht.
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HellHölle, ponytailPferdeschwanz aloneallein.
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Zur Hölle, nur der Pferdeschwanz.
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I don't know what elsesonst to tell you.
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Ich weiß nicht, was ich Dir noch sagen soll.
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I got a pencilBleistift you can borrowleihen.
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Ich hab nen Bleistift, den kannst Du leihen.
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You can put it in your phoneTelefon."
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Du kannst
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But the girlMädchen does not budgeBudge, does not smileLächeln, does not frowndie Stirn runzeln.
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Aber das Mädchen rührt sich nicht, lächelt nicht, runzelt auch nicht die Stirn.
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She just sayssagt, "No thank you."
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Sie sagt nur, "Nein, danke."
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You know?
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Weißt du?
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[ "i don't need 2 writeschreiben it down." ]
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Das muss ich nicht aufschreiben. (Applaus)
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(ApplauseApplaus)
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Translated by Daniel Thiem
Reviewed by Matthias Daues

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Rives - Performance poet, multimedia artist
Performance artist and storyteller Rives has been called "the first 2.0 poet," using images, video and technology to bring his words to life.

Why you should listen

Part poet, part storyteller, part philosopher, Rives is the co-host of TEDActive as well as a frequent TED speaker. On stage, his poems burst in many directions, exposing multiple layers and unexpected treats: childhood memories, grown-up humor, notions of love and lust, of what is lost forever and of what's still out there waiting to unfold. Chimborazo.

A regular on HBO's Def Poetry Jam, Rives also starred alongside model Bar Refaeli in the 2008 Bravo special Ironic Iconic America, touring the United States on a "roller coaster ride through the eye-popping panorama of American pop culture." Flat pages can't contain his storytelling, even when paper is his medium. The pop-up books he creates for children unfold with surprise: The Christmas Pop-Up Present expands to reveal moving parts, hidden areas and miniature booklets inside. 

His latest project—the Museum of Four in the Morning—is an ode to a time that may well be part of a global conspiracy. In a good way.  

More profile about the speaker
Rives | Speaker | TED.com

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