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Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture
Willard Wigan: Țineți-vă răsuflarea pentru micro-sculptură
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Williard Wigan povesteste cum copilaria sa grea ca un copil singuratic l-a facut sa descopere talentul sau unic care consta in a crea arta asa de minisclula incat nu poate fi vazuta cu ochiul liber. Prezentarea sa de sculpturi vazute printr-un microscop poate fi descrisa doar ca fiind socanta.
Willard Wigan - Micro-sculptor
Willard Wigan sculpts figures small enough to fit on the head of a pin. To create these microscopic masterpieces, he works diligently through the stillest hours of the night, between his own heartbeats. Full bio
Willard Wigan sculpts figures small enough to fit on the head of a pin. To create these microscopic masterpieces, he works diligently through the stillest hours of the night, between his own heartbeats. Full bio
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
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There's an old saying, "Just because you can't see something,
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Un proverb vechi spune că "Doar pentru ca nu poți să vezi ceva cu ochiul liber,
00:15
doesn't mean it's not there."
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nu înseamnă că nu există."
00:18
My work is -- it's a reflection of myself.
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Munca mea este o reflexie a cine sunt.
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What I wanted to do is to
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Ceea ce am vrut să fac este
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show the world that the little things
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să arăt lumii că lucrurile mici
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can be the biggest things.
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pot să fie cele mai mari.
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We all seem to think that,
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Se pare că noi toți gândim că,
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you know, if we look down on the ground, there's nothing there.
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dacă ne uitam în jos pe pământ, nu e nimic acolo.
00:46
And we use the word "nothing."
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Și folosim cuvântul "nimic".
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Nothing doesn't exist, because there is always something.
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Nimic nu există. Pentru că exista întotdeauna ceva.
00:52
My mother told me that, when I was a child,
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Mama mea mi-a spus, cand am fost mic,
00:54
that I should always respect the little things.
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ca întotdeauna ar trebui să respect lucrurile mici.
00:59
What made me do this work? I shall go into my story.
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Ce m-a impulsionat să fac această muncă? Ar trebui să încep povestea mea.
01:03
This all started when I was age five.
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Totul a început când aveam 5 ani.
01:07
What made me do it? At school, I will admit this:
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Ce m-a făcut sa fac asta? La școală, o să mărturisesc asta,
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academically, I couldn't express myself.
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nu am putut să mă exprim din punct de vedere academic.
01:13
So I was, more or less, classed as "nothing."
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Așa că am fost, mai mult sau mai puțin, clasificat ca și "nimic".
01:18
My world was seen as less.
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Lumea mea a fost văzută ca și "mai puțin".
01:23
So I decided I didn't really want to be a part of that world.
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Așa că am decis că nu vreau cu adevărat sa fiu o parte a acelei lumi.
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I thought, I need to retreat
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M-am gândit că am nevoie să mă retrag
01:31
into something else.
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în ceva diferit.
01:33
So when my mother used to take me to school,
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Așa că, atunci când mama mă ducea la școală,
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she thought I was at school,
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ea credea ca eram la școală,
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and I used to do a U-turn, when her back was turned,
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dar eu eram obișnuit să fac o întoarcere de 180 de grade, când ea era întoarsă cu spatele,
01:41
and run off and hide in the shed at the back of the garden.
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și să fug să mă ascund în baraca din fundul grădinii.
01:45
Now, the one time I was in the shed,
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Odată, eram în șopron,
01:50
and my mother suspected something,
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și mama a suspectat ceva,
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thinking I was at school.
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crezând că eu eram la școală.
01:55
My mother was like the woman in Tom and Jerry.
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Mama mea era ca femeia din Tom și Jerry.
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So you'd just see her feet.
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Tot ce puteai sa vezi erau picioarele.
02:02
(Laughter)
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(Râsete)
02:06
So I was hiding in the shed, like that.
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Așa că eu eram ascuns în șopron.
02:10
And all of a sudden ...
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Și dintr-o dată ......
02:15
And then I saw her legs.
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Și atunci i-am văzut picioarele.
02:19
And then she said -- grabbed me like that, because my mother was quite big --
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Și atunci mi-a spus, m-a apucat chiar așa, pentru că mama mea era destul de mare,
02:22
and she lifted me up and she says,
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și m-a ridicat de la pământ și mi-a spus,
02:25
"How come you're not at school?"
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"Cum se face că nu ești la școală?"
02:27
I told her I couldn't face it because the way
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I-am spus că nu pot să înfrunt școala din cauza
02:30
the teacher was treating me, ridiculing me,
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felului în care învățătorul mă trata, făcând haz de mine,
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and using me as an example of failure.
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si folosindu-ma ca si un exemplu de esec.
02:36
So I told her.
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Asa i-am spus mamei.
02:38
At that age, obviously, I couldn't express it that way,
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La acea varsta, evident, nu am putut sa ma exprim in felul acela,
02:42
but I told her I didn't feel right.
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dar i-am spus ca nu m-am simtit ca si cum as apartine la scoala.
02:45
And then she just said, "You're going back to school tomorrow."
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Dupa aceea ea mi-a zis, "Maine te duci inapoi la scoala."
02:47
And walked off. And I didn't expect that,
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Si a plecat. Iar eu nu m-am asteptat la asta.
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because I expected one of these ...
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Pentru ca am asteptat una din astea .....
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But I didn't get it.
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dar nu a venit.
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So I'm sitting there thinking.
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Asa ca am stat acolo gandind.
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And as I looked down on the ground,
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Si cum m-am uitat in jos pe pamant
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I noticed there was some ants running around.
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am observat cateva furnici fugind incolo si incoace.
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And I went into this little fantasy world.
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Si m-am transpus in acea lume mica imaginara..
03:07
And I thought,
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Si m-am gandit,
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"These ants, are they looking for the queen ant?
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"Aceste furnici incearca sa geseasca regina furnica?
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Or do they need somewhere to live?"
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Sau au nevoie de un loc unde sa traiasca?"
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So I thought "Perhaps,
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Asa ca m-am gandit "Poate,
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if I made these ants some apartments,
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daca fac cateva apartamente pentru aceste furnici,
03:22
they'll move in."
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o sa se mute in ele."
03:26
(Laughter)
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(Ras)
03:30
So I did.
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Asa am si facut.
03:32
And how I set about that, I got some splinters of wood.
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Si cum am hotarat asta, am luat cateva aschii de lemn.
03:35
And I sliced the little splinters of wood with a broken shard of glass,
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Am transat micile aschii de lemn cu un ciob de sticla.
03:38
constructed this little apartment.
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Am construit acest mic apartament.
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Well it looked like a little shanty shed when I'd finished.
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De fapt arata ca si o mica cocioba cand am terminat.
03:47
But I thought, perhaps the ant won't know, it'll probably move in.
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Dar eu m-am gandit, poate ca furnicile nu or sa stie, si probabil or sa se mute.
03:49
And so they did.
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Si asa s-a si intamplat.
03:51
That was a bit crude, at the time. And I made all these little apartments
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A fost un pic cam neprelucrat, la vremea aceea. Si am facut toate aceste apartamente mici
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and little merry-go-rounds, seesaws and swings, little ladders.
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si calusei mici, balansoare si leagane, scari mici.
03:58
And then I encouraged the ants to come 'round by putting sugar and things like that.
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Am momit furnicile cu zahar si alte alea ca sa vina.
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And then I sat down and all the ants came along.
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Dupa aceea am sezut si toate furnicile au venit.
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And all I could hear was "Is this for us?"
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Si tot ce am putut sa aud a fost "E pentru noi?"
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(Laughter)
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(Ras)
04:13
And I say, "Yes, they're all for you."
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Si am zis, "Da, toate sunt pentru voi."
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And they moved in, and decided not to pay me any rent.
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Si furnicile s-au mutat si au decis sa nu-mi plateasca nici o chirie.
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(Laughter)
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(Ras)
04:22
And from there I was watching this little world.
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Si de acolo priveam aceasta lume mica.
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It became part of me.
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A devenit o parte din mine.
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When I discovered that I had this gift,
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Cand am descoperit ca am acest dar
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I wanted to experiment with this world
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am vrut sa experimentez cu lumea aceasta
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that we can't see.
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pe care nu putem sa o vedem.
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So I realized that there was more to life
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Asa ca am realizat ca viata este mai mult
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than just everything that we see around us that's huge.
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decat tot ceea ce vedem in jurul nostru si asta inseamna foarte mult.
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So I started to educate myself on this molecular level.
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Asa ca am inceput sa ma educ la acest nivel molecular.
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And as I got older, I continued. I showed my mother.
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Am continuat pe masura ce am crescut. I-am aratat mamei.
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My mother told me to take it smaller.
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Mama mi-a spus sa le micsorez si mai mult.
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Now I shall show you something here.
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Acum ar trebui sa va arat ceva.
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And I'll explain.
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Si o sa va explic.
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As you can see,
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Asa cum puteti sa vedeti,
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that's a pinhead.
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aceasta este o gamalie de ac.
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(Laughter)
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(Ras)
05:17
(Applause)
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(Aplauze)
05:25
Now that is called the Huf Haus.
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Acesta se numeste "Casa Huf".
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The gentleman who commissioned me to do this
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Domnul care m-a angajat sa fac asta
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was a gentleman called Peter Huf.
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a fost un domn pe nume Peter Huf.
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And he says to me "Willard, can you put my house on a pinhead?"
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El mi-a spus "Williard, poti sa pui casa mea pe o gamalie de ac?"
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(Laughter)
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(Ras)
05:43
So I say, "How are you going to fit in there?"
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Eu am raspuns, "Cum o sa incapi acolo?"
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(Laughter)
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(Ras)
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And then he said to me,
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Dupa aceea el mi-a spus,
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"I don't believe you can do it. Can you really do it?"
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"Nu cred ca poti sa faci asta. Chiar crezi ca poti sa o faci?"
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And I says, "Well, try me."
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Eu am raspuns, "Bine, incearca-ma."
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And then he said, "But I don't believe that you can do this." So I said, "OK."
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Dupa aceea el mi-a zis, "Dar nu cred ca poti sa faci asta.". Eu am zis, "Bine.".
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So, to cut a long story short,
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Asa ca, sa fac povestea scurta,
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I went home, went underneath the microscope,
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m-am dus acasa, m-am pus la microscop,
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and I crushed up a piece of glass,
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si am strivit o bucata de sticla,
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crushed it up.
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am zdrobit-o.
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And underneath the microscope
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Si sub microscop
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there were splinters of glass.
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erau aschii de sticla.
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Some of them were quite jagged.
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Cateva dintre ele erau destul de zimtate.
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So I was crushing up these pieces of glass,
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Asa ca am strivit aceste bucati de sticla.
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which, as you can see,
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Care, asa cum puteti sa vedeti,
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that's the actual frame of the house.
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compun scheletul casei.
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And the actual roof is made up of a fiber,
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Si acoperisul este facut dintr-o fibra.
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which I found in my sister's old teddy bear.
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Pe care am gasit-o in ursuletul cel vechi al surori mele.
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(Laughter)
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(Ras)
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So I got the teddy bear and I said,
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Am luat ursuletul si am zis,
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"Do you mind if I pull out one of your fibers?"
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"Te superi daca smulg una din fibrele tale?"
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So I did.
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Asa am si facut.
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And I looked at it beneath the microscope. And some of it was flat.
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Si m-am uitat la ea sub microscop.
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So I decided to slice these up
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Si am hotarat sa tai fasii
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with the tool that I make
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cu instrumentul pe care l-am facut
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by -- I sharpen the end of a needle into a blade.
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ascutind varful unui ac intr-o lama.
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And then I actually
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Si dupa aceea chiar
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slow down my whole nervous system.
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mi-am incetinit intregul sistem nervos.
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And then I work between my heartbeat,
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Si apoi lucrez intre bataile inimi mele.
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I have one-and-a-half seconds
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Am o secunda si jumatate
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to actually move.
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cand de fapt pot sa fac o miscare.
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And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale
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Si in acelasi timp trebuie sa fiu atent ca sa nu inhalez
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my own work, at the same time.
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munca mea, in acelasi timp.
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(Laughter)
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(Ras)
07:19
(Applause)
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(Aplauze)
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Because that has happened to me.
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Pentru ca asta mi s-a intamplat.
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(Laughter)
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(Ras)
07:31
So what I did, like I said, come back to the glass.
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Asa ca ceea ce am facut, asa cum am spus, venind inapoi la sticla.
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I found these little bits of glass.
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Am gasit aceste frimituri de sticla.
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And I had to make them square.
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Si a trebuit sa le fac patrate.
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So I'm thinking "How can I do this?"
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Asa ca ma gandesc "Cum pot sa fac asta?"
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So what I did, I got an oilstone. Broke the edge of an oilstone off.
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Asa ca am luat o piatra de ascutit unsa cu ulei. I-am spart marginea de tot.
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And what I did, I took pieces of glass. And I started to rub them.
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Si ce am facut, am luat bucatele de sticla. Si am inceput sa le frec.
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I used a little tweezer which I made from a hair clip.
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Am folosit o penseta mica pe care am facut-o dintr-o agrafa pentru par.
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And I built rubber around the end of the tweezer so it wouldn't crush the glass.
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Si am pus cauciuc in jurul capatului pensetei asa incat sa nu strivesca sticla.
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And then I started rubbing, very very gently,
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Si am inceput sa frec, foarte foarte usor,
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till some of the edges were quite square. And then I constructed it.
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pana cand cateva margini au devenit patrate. Si dupa acea am construit-o.
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And how I constructed it,
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Si cum am construit-o a fost
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is by making grooves in the top of the pinhead.
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facînd șențulețe pe vârful gămăliei.
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And then pushing the glass in with its own friction.
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Si dupa aceea împingînd sticla înăuntru folosind puterea ei de frecare.
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And as I was doing it, what happened?
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Si cum faceam asta, ce s-a intamplat?
08:16
The instrument that I used turned into a catapult.
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Instrumentul pe care il foloseam s-a transformat intr-o catapulta.
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And it went like this ...
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Si a facut asa ......
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And then that was it.
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Si dupa aceea asta a fost.
08:27
(Laughter)
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(Ras)
08:28
Gone.
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Pierdut.
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So I'm thinking, "Mr. Huf isn't going to be very happy
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Si m-a gandesc, "Domnul Huf nu o sa fie foarte fericit
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when I told him his house has gone to another,
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când il voi anuntaca i s-a dus casa la altcineva,
08:35
into the atmosphere somewhere."
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in atmosfera undeva."
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So to cut the story short,
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Ca sa scurtam povestea
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I decided that I had to go back and do it.
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am hotarat ca trebuie sa ma intorc si sa fac asta.
08:42
So I found some more. And I decided to, sort of,
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Asa ca am gasit ceva mai mult. Si am decis, intr-un fel,
08:45
construct it very, very slowly,
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sa o construiesc foarte foarte incet,
08:47
holding my breath, working between my heartbeat,
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tinandu-mi rasuflarea, lucrand intre bataile inimii mele,
08:50
and making sure everything is leveled.
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si asigurandu-ma ca totul este nivelat.
08:52
Because it's such a small sculpture,
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Din cauza ca este o scultptura asa de mica,
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nothing can go wrong.
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nimic nu se poate intampla gresit.
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And I decided to build it up.
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Si m-am hotărît sa o înalț.
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Then I used fibers out of my jumper,
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Atunci am folosit fibre din tricoul meu.
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which I held and stretched.
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Pe care l-am tinut si l-am intins.
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And made the beams going around the house.
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Si asa am facut grinzile care înconjoară casa.
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And the actual windows and the balcony
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Si ferestrele si balconul
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had to be sort of constructed.
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au trebuit sa fie intr-un fel asamblate.
09:12
I used a money spider's web
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Am folosit panza de paianjen
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to actually attach certain things,
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ca sa atasez cateva lucruri.
09:16
which sent me insane.
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Cea ce m-a facut aprope sa innebunesc.
09:18
But I managed to do it.
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Dar am reusit sa o fac.
09:21
And when I finished it, I came back the next day.
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Si dupa ce am terminat, am venit inapoi ziua urmatoare.
09:24
I noticed that the house was occupied.
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Am observat ca era ocupata casa .
09:28
Have we ever heard of a dust mite?
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Ati auzit vreodată de o gâză de praf?
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Darren dust mite and his family moved in.
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Darren, gâza de praf, si familia sa s-au mutat in casă.
09:34
(Laughter)
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(Ras)
09:37
So basically I'd completed the house.
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In principiu am terminat casa.
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And there you are.
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Si uite-o aici.
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(Applause)
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(Aplauze)
09:51
(Laughter)
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(Ras)
09:55
Right. As you can see,
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Corect. Asa cum puteți sa vedeți,
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Bart Simpson is having a little argument.
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Bart Simpson are o ceartă mică.
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I think they're arguing about the space on the pin.
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Cred ca se ceartă pe spatiul de pe gămălie.
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There's not enough room for the two of them.
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Nu e destul loc pentru amândoi.
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So I didn't think he was going to throw Bart off.
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Nu am crezut ca el o sa-l arunce pe Bart afară.
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I think he was just warning him actually.
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Cred ca de fapt numai l-a avertizat.
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But this one was made out of a nylon tag
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Dar acesta a fost făcut dintr-o eticheta de nailon
10:15
out of my shirt.
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din cămașa mea.
10:17
What I did, I plucked the tag out
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Ce am facut a fost sa smulg eticheta
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and put it underneath the microscope.
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si sa o pun sub microscop.
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I used the needle which has got a slight blade on the end.
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Am folosit acel ac care are ca o usoara lama la capat.
10:26
Can anybody see the blade on the end of that needle?
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Toată lumea poate sa vadă lama de la capătul acului?
10:28
Audience: No.
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Audienta: Nu.
10:30
WW: So what I did is the same process where I
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WW: Cea ce am urmat este același proces unde
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just kind of hold my breath
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într-un fel mi-am ținut resuflarea
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and just work away very, very slowly,
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si am lucrat continuu si foarte foarte incet,
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manipulating the plastic, cutting it, because it behaves different.
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manipulând plasticul, tăindu-l. Pentru ca se comporta diferit.
10:44
Whenever you work on that level, things behave different.
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Când lucrezi la acel nivel, lucrurile se comporta diferit.
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Because it's on this molecular level things change
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Pentru ca este acest nivel molecular, lucrurile se schimbă
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and they act different.
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si se comportă diferit.
10:51
And sometimes they turn into little catapults and things go up in the air.
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Și câteodată se transformă în catapulte mici și sar în aer.
10:54
And, you know, all different things happen.
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Și, știți, tot felul de lucruri se pot întâmpla.
10:57
But I had to make a little barrier, going around it, out of cellophane,
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Dar a trebuit sa fac o bariera mică, de jur împrejur, din celofan
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to stop it moving.
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ca sa il fac sa nu se mai miște.
11:02
Then static electricity set in.
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Atunci a început electricitatea statica.
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And it went ...
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Si s-a dus .....
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And I'm trying to remove it. And the static is interfering with everything.
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Si eu incerc sa-l înlătur. Si electricitatea statica interferează cu tot.
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So there is sweat dripping off my head,
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Transpirația curge de pe capul meu.
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because I have to carve Homer Simpson like that, in that position.
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Pentru ca trebuie sa cioplesc Homer Simpson exact asa, din pozitia aceea.
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And after I've cut out the shape,
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Si dupa ce am taiat forma,
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then I have to make sure that there is room for Bart's neck.
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dupa aceea trebuie sa ma asigur ca am spațiu destul pentru gatul lui Bart.
11:23
So after I've done the same thing,
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Dupa ce am facut acelasi lucru,
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then I have to paint it.
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apoi trebuie sa-l pictez.
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And after I've actually sculpted them,
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Dupa ce i-am sculptat
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I have to paint them.
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trebuie sa-i pictez.
11:31
I experimented with a --
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Am experimentat cu ---
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I found a dead fly.
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Am gasit o musca moarta.
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And I plucked the hair off the fly's head.
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Si am smuls parul din capul mustei.
11:38
Decided to make a paintbrush.
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Am decis sa-l fac o pensula.
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(Laughter)
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(Ras)
11:46
But I would never do it to a living fly.
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Dar nu as face asta niciodata cu o muscă care traiește.
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(Laughter)
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(Ras)
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Because I've heard a fly in pain.
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Pentru ca am auzit o musca ranită.
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And they go "Meow! Ow!"
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Ele fac "Ooooow! Ow!"
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Even though they get on our nerves,
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Chiar daca ele ne enervează
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I would never kill an insect
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nu as omorâ niciodată o insectă
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because, "All creatures great and small" --
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pentru ca, "Toate creaturile mari si mici" ----
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there is a hymn that says that.
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Este un imn care spune asta.
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So what I decided to do
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Asa ca ce am decis sa fac
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is to pluck fine hair out of my face.
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este sa smulg par delicat de pe fata mea.
12:18
And I looked at it underneath the microscope.
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Si m-am uitat la el sub microscop.
12:22
That was the paintbrush.
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Acesta a fost pensula.
12:24
And whilst I'm painting I have to be very careful,
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Si in timp ce pictez trebuie sa fiu foarte atent.
12:26
because the paint starts to turn into little blobs.
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Pentru ca vopseaua începe sa se schimbe in mici pete.
12:29
And it starts to dry very quickly.
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Si incepe sa se usuce foarte repede.
12:33
So I have to be very quick.
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Asa ca trebuie sa fiu foarte iute.
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If I'm not, it will end up looking
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Daca nu sunt, o sa sfârșească arătând
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not like what it's supposed to look like.
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nu ca ceea ce ar fi trebuit sa arate.
12:41
It could end up looking like Humpty Dumpty or somebody else.
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Ar putea sa sfarseasca aratand ca si Humpty Dumpty sau altcineva.
12:46
So I have to be very very careful.
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Asa ca trebuie sa fiu foarte grijuliu.
12:48
This one took me approximately,
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Aceasta mi-a luat cu aproximatie,
12:52
I would say, six to seven weeks.
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as spune, sase-șapte saptămâni.
12:55
My work, rough estimate,
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Munca mea, estimand cu aproximatie,
12:57
sometimes five, six to seven weeks;
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poate sa ia cinci, sase, pana la sapte saptamini.
13:00
you can't always anticipate.
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Nu poti intotdeauna sa anticipezi.
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(Applause)
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(Aplauze)
13:11
As you can see,
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Asa cum puteti sa vedeti,
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that's Charlton Heston brought down to size.
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acesta este Charlton Heston micsorat.
13:15
(Laughter)
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13:22
He says to me, "Willard" --
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El imi spune, "Williard" --
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You can see him saying, "Why me?"
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Puteti sa-l vedeti zicand, "de ce eu?"
13:28
I says, "I enjoyed your film. That's why."
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Eu zic, "Mi-a placut filmul tau. De aia."
13:30
As you can see, there's an aphid fly there.
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Asa cum puteti sa vedeti, este o musca acolo.
13:34
That's just to show the scale
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Asta numai ca sa arat proporția
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and the actual size of the sculpture.
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si marimea sculpturi cu adevarat.
13:39
I would say it probably measures ...
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As spune ca probabil masoara .....
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a quarter of a millimeter.
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un sfert the milimetru.
13:46
In America they say a period stop.
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In America se spune un punct.
13:48
So say if you cut a period stop in half,
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Sa spunem ca daca tai un punct in doua,
13:51
a full stop, that's about the size of the whole thing.
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un intreg punct, asta e marimea intregii scupturi.
13:55
It's made -- the chariot is made of gold.
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E facută -- caleașca e facuta din aur.
13:59
And Charlton Heston is made of a floating fiber,
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Si Charlton Heston e facut dintr-o firbra plutitoare.
14:03
which I took out of the air.
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Pe care am luat-o din aer.
14:05
When the sunlight comes through the window you see these little fibers.
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Cand lumina soarelui vine prin fereastra vezi aceste fibre mici.
14:08
And what I normally do is walk 'round a room --
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Si ceea ce eu fac normal este sa ma plimb prin camera
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(Laughter) --
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(Ras)
14:15
trying to find one. And then I put it underneath the microscope.
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incercand sa gasesc una din ele. Dupa aceea am pus-o sub microscop.
14:18
I remember one time I was doing it, and the window was open.
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Imi amintesc cum odata faceam asta, si fereastra era deschisa.
14:21
And there was a lady standing by the bus stop.
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Si era o doamna care statea in statia de autobuz.
14:23
And she saw me walking around like this.
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Si m-a vazut pasind asa.
14:25
(Laughter)
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14:28
And then she looked at me.
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Si apoi s-a uitat la mine.
14:30
And then I went ...
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Si atunci eu am facut asa .....
14:35
And then she went, "Hmm, OK, he's not mad."
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Si atunci ea si-a zis "Hmm, OK nu e nebun."
14:38
Yeah, to actually do this thing --
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Mda, ca intradevar sa faci acest lucru --
14:41
the actual chariot is made of gold.
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caleasca e facuta intradevar din aur.
14:44
I had a 24-karat gold ring.
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Am avut un inel de aur de 24 de carate.
14:46
And I cut off a little flake of gold.
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Si am taiat din el un mic fulg de aur.
14:48
And I bent it 'round,
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Si l-am taiat, l-am curbat,
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and made it into the chariot.
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si l-am transformat intr-o caleașcă.
14:52
And the horse is made from nylon.
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Si calul e facut din plastic.
14:54
And the spider's web is for the reins on the horse.
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Si panza de paianjen este pentru haturile calului.
14:57
To get the symmetrical shape of the horse
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Sa obtin forma simetrica a calului
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was very difficult,
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a fost foarte greu.
15:01
because I had to get the horse to rear up
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Pentru ca s-a ciopartit. A trebuit sa-l fac pe cal sa ridice picioarele din fata
15:03
and look as though it was in some kind of action.
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si sa arate ca si cum era intru-un fel de actiune.
15:05
When I did this one,
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Cand am facut-o pe asta,
15:07
a gentleman seen it and said to me,
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un domn a vazut-o si mi-a spus,
15:09
"There's no way you can do this, you must have used some kind of machine.
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"E imposibil sa poti sa faci asta, cu siguranta a trebuit sa folosesti un fel de masinarie.
15:12
There's no way a man can do that.
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E imposibil pentru o fiinta umana sa faca asta.
15:14
It must be a machine."
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Trebuie sa fie facuta de o masinarie."
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So I says, "OK then, if you say it's a machine ..."
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Eu am zis, "Bine atunci, daca tu zici e o masinarie ...."
15:20
(Laughter)
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(Ras)
15:26
(Applause)
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(Aplauze)
15:32
That one took me approximately six weeks.
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Aceea mi-a luat sase saptamani cu aproximatie.
15:40
(Applause)
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(Aplauze)
15:46
The most famous statue in the world.
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Cea mai faimoasa statuie din lume.
15:49
This one, I would say,
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Aceasta, as spune,
15:51
was a serious challenge.
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a fost o incercare serioasa.
15:54
(Laughter)
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16:05
Because I had to put the torch on the top.
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Pentru ca a trebuit sa pun torța in vârf.
16:08
That one is, more or less, the same type of process.
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Aceasta este, mai mult sau mai putin, acelasi tip de proces.
16:12
The bottom of it is carved from a grain of sand,
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Baza ei este sculptata dintr-o grăunță de nisip.
16:18
because I wanted to get a bit of the stone effect.
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Pentru ca am vrut s-o fac sa arate un pic ca si piatra
16:20
I used a microscopic shard of diamond
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am folosit un ciob microscopic de diamant
16:23
to actually carve the actual base.
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ca sa sculptez de fapt baza.
16:25
Well, I can look at this one and I can be very proud of this,
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Pot sa ma uit la acesta si pot sa fiu foarte mandru de ea.
16:29
because that statue has always sort of
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Pentru ca acea statuie a adus intotdeauna
16:31
kept an image in my head of, you know,
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o imagine in mintea mea, cand
16:33
the beginning of people coming to America.
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oamenii au inceput sa vina in America.
16:37
So it's sort of Ellis Island, and seeing America for the first time.
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E ca si insula Ellis, si vazand America pentru prima data.
16:41
And that's the first thing they saw.
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Si acesta este primul lucru pe care l-au vazut.
16:43
So I wanted to have that little image.
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Am vrut sa am acea imagine mica.
16:45
And this is it.
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Si asta e.
16:50
(Laughter)
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16:57
And we all know that is the Hulk.
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Si noi toti stim ca acela este Hulk.
17:00
I wanted to create movement in the eye of a needle.
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Am vrut sa creez miscare in urechea acului.
17:03
Because we know we see needles,
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Pentru ca noi stim ca vedem ace.
17:05
but people aren't familiar with the eye of a needle
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Dar oamenii nu sunt familiari cu urechea acului
17:07
apart from putting a thread through it.
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in afara de a pune un fir prin ea.
17:09
So I broke the needle.
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Asa ca am despicat acul.
17:11
And made a needle look like
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Si am facut un ac sa arate in asa fel
17:14
the Hulk's broken it.
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incât Hulk l-a despicat.
17:16
It's -- I had to make little holes
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Este --- A trebuit sa fac gauri mici
17:17
in the base of the needle, to shove his feet in.
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in baza acului, ca sa infund picioarele sale in ele.
17:19
So most of my work, I don't use glue.
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In majoritatea lucrarilor mele nu folosesc lipici.
17:22
They go in with their own friction.
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Ele se asambleaza numai prin frictiune.
17:24
And that's how I managed to do it.
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Si asa am reusit sa fac asta.
17:26
As you can see, he's looking at the moment. He's got a little grimace on his face.
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Asa cum puteti sa vedeti, el se uita in acest moment. Are o mica grimasa pe fata.
17:28
And his mouth must be probably about
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Si gura sa trebuie sa fie probabil
17:32
three microns.
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de marimea a trei microni.
17:35
So the eyes are probably about one micron or something.
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Ochii sunt probail de marimea unui micron sau asa ceva.
17:41
That ship there,
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Corabia aceea de acolo
17:45
that's made from 24-karat gold.
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este facuta din aur de 24 de carate.
17:47
And I normally rig it with the web of a money spider.
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Si de obicei folosesc pânză de paianjen pentru echipament.
17:51
But I had to rig it with strands of glue.
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Dar a trebuit sa il fac cu suvite de lipici.
17:54
Because the web of the spider, it was sending me insane,
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Pentru ca panza de paianjen m-a inebunit.
17:57
because I couldn't get the web to move off.
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Pentru ca nu am putut sa fac panza de paianjen sa se clinteasca.
18:00
And that's 24-karat gold. And it's constructed. I built it.
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Si acesta este aur de 24 de carate. Si este construit. Eu l-am construit.
18:03
Constructed each plank of gold.
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Am construit fiecare platforma de aur.
18:07
And the whole thing is sort of symmetrical.
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Si intregul obiect este intr-un fel simetric.
18:10
The flag had to be made out of little strands of gold.
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Pavajul este facut din mici suvite de aur.
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It's almost like doing a surgical operation to get this thing right.
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Sa faci acest lucru bine, este aproape la fel cu a executa o operatie chirurgicala.
18:21
(Applause)
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(Aplauze)
18:27
As you can see, dressage.
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Asa cun puteti sa vedeti, dresura.
18:31
(Laughter)
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(Ras)
18:33
It's something I wanted to do just to show how I could get the symmetrical shape.
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Este ceva ce am vrut sa fac ca sa arat cum am obtinut forma simetrica.
18:36
The actual rigging on the reins on the horse
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Echipamentul de pe frâiele calului
18:39
are made from the same sort of thing.
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este facut cam din acelasi lucru.
18:41
And that was done with a particle from my shirt.
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Si acela a fost facut dintr-o particula din camasa mea.
18:46
And the pinhead I've made green around there
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Si gamalia am facut-o verde acolo in jur
18:50
by scraping the particles off a green shirt
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razuind particule dintr-o camasa verde
18:53
and then pressed onto the needle.
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si presandu-le pe ac.
18:55
It's very painstaking work,
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Este o munca foarte dureroasa
18:57
but the best things come in small packages.
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dar cele mai bune lucruri vin in pachete mici.
19:00
(Laughter)
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19:02
Bruno Giussani: Willard Wigan!
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Bruno Giussani: Willard Wigan!
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(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Willard Wigan - Micro-sculptorWillard Wigan sculpts figures small enough to fit on the head of a pin. To create these microscopic masterpieces, he works diligently through the stillest hours of the night, between his own heartbeats.
Why you should listen
Willard Wigan has immortalized the Obama family in the eye of a needle and Muhammad Ali on the head of a match. In producing sculptures so incredibly small, he works under a microscope and employs ingenious tools, such as a fly's hair or an ex-girlfriend's eyelash for paintbrushes.
This passion for the diminutive stems from feelings of insignificance in Wigan's childhood. He was severely dyslexic but undiagnosed, and his teachers' harsh words drove him to hide in a nearby shed where he made shoes and hats for his friends, the ants. Today, his art has earned him national honors and critical acclaim, proving that some treasures can't be seen with the naked eye.
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