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Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture
Willard Wigan: Zadržte dych a obdivujte mikrosochy
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Willard Wigan hovorí o tom, ako mu jeho zložité a osamelé detstvo pomohlo odhaliť jedinečnú schopnosť vytvárať umenie, ktoré je také malé, že nie je viditeľné voľným okom. Obrázky jeho diel spod mikroskopu sa nedajú nazvať inak ako fascinujúce.
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
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There's an old saying, "Just because you can't see something,
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Hovorí sa, že ak niečo nevidíte,
00:15
doesn't mean it's not there."
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ešte to neznamená, že to tam nie je.
00:18
My work is -- it's a reflection of myself.
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Moja práca je obrazom mňa samého.
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What I wanted to do is to
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Chcel som
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show the world that the little things
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ukázať svetu, že malé veci
00:34
can be the biggest things.
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môžu byť tými najväčšími.
00:37
We all seem to think that,
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Zdá sa, že všetci si myslíme,
00:40
you know, if we look down on the ground, there's nothing there.
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napríklad keď sa pozrieme na zem, že tam nič nie je.
00:46
And we use the word "nothing."
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A používame slovo "nič".
00:49
Nothing doesn't exist, because there is always something.
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Ale nič neexistuje. Pretože všade je niečo.
00:52
My mother told me that, when I was a child,
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Keď som bola malý, moja mama ma naučila,
00:54
that I should always respect the little things.
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že si vždy mám vážiť malé veci.
00:59
What made me do this work? I shall go into my story.
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Prečo som sa na to dal? Poviem vám môj príbeh.
01:03
This all started when I was age five.
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Všetko začalo, keď som mal päť rokov.
01:07
What made me do it? At school, I will admit this:
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V škole, to pripúšťam,
01:10
academically, I couldn't express myself.
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som sa akademicky nevedel vyjadriť.
01:13
So I was, more or less, classed as "nothing."
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Takže som bol viacmenej považovaný za "nič."
01:18
My world was seen as less.
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Môj svet bol považovaný za menejcenný.
01:23
So I decided I didn't really want to be a part of that world.
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Preto som sa rozhodol, že nechcem byť súčasťou takého sveta.
01:27
I thought, I need to retreat
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Povedal som si, že by som sa mal
01:31
into something else.
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venovať niečomu inému.
01:33
So when my mother used to take me to school,
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A tak, keď ma moja mama odviedla do školy
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she thought I was at school,
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a myslela si, že som tam,
01:38
and I used to do a U-turn, when her back was turned,
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hneď, ako sme sa rozlúčili, ja som sa otočil
01:41
and run off and hide in the shed at the back of the garden.
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a utekal som sa skryť do šopy na záhrade.
01:45
Now, the one time I was in the shed,
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Raz som bol v šope,
01:50
and my mother suspected something,
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a moja mama niečo tušila
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thinking I was at school.
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a myslela si, že som v škole.
01:55
My mother was like the woman in Tom and Jerry.
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Moja mama bola ako žena z Toma a Jerryho,
01:59
So you'd just see her feet.
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z ktorej je vždy vidieť iba nohy.
02:02
(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
02:06
So I was hiding in the shed, like that.
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Skrýval som sa teda v šope
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And all of a sudden ...
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a zrazu...
02:15
And then I saw her legs.
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uvidel som jej nohy.
02:19
And then she said -- grabbed me like that, because my mother was quite big --
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Takto ma schmatla, pretože bola dosť veľká,
02:22
and she lifted me up and she says,
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zdvihla ma a hovorí:
02:25
"How come you're not at school?"
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"Ako to, že nie si v škole?"
02:27
I told her I couldn't face it because the way
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Povedal som jej, že som to už nemohol vydržať,
02:30
the teacher was treating me, ridiculing me,
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kvôli učiteľovi, ktorý ma zhadzoval
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and using me as an example of failure.
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a dával ma ostatným za odstrašujúci príklad.
02:36
So I told her.
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To som jej povedal.
02:38
At that age, obviously, I couldn't express it that way,
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Samozrejme, v tom veku som to takto nevedel vyjadriť,
02:42
but I told her I didn't feel right.
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ale povedal som jej, že mi nebolo dobre.
02:45
And then she just said, "You're going back to school tomorrow."
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A ona na to: "Zajtra ideš do školy."
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And walked off. And I didn't expect that,
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A odišla. A to som nečakal.
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because I expected one of these ...
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Pretože som očakával jednu z tých...
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But I didn't get it.
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Ale nedostal som.
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So I'm sitting there thinking.
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Tak tam sedím a rozmýšlam.
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And as I looked down on the ground,
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A ako tak pozerám na zem,
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I noticed there was some ants running around.
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všimol som si mravce, ako pobehujú.
03:05
And I went into this little fantasy world.
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A v mojom malom fantazijnom svete
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And I thought,
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som si pomyslel:
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"These ants, are they looking for the queen ant?
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"Hľadajú tieto mravce svojú kráľovnú?
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Or do they need somewhere to live?"
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Alebo nemajú kde bývať?"
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So I thought "Perhaps,
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Napadlo mi,
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if I made these ants some apartments,
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"Ak by som im spravil nejaké bývanie,
03:22
they'll move in."
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možno by sa nasťahovali."
03:26
(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
03:30
So I did.
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Tak som to urobil.
03:32
And how I set about that, I got some splinters of wood.
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Zohnal som nejaké triesky
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And I sliced the little splinters of wood with a broken shard of glass,
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a tie som narezal kúskom skla.
03:38
constructed this little apartment.
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A postavil som im malý príbytok.
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Well it looked like a little shanty shed when I'd finished.
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Keď bol hotový, vyzeral ako chatrč.
03:47
But I thought, perhaps the ant won't know, it'll probably move in.
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Ale ja som si pomyslel, možno si to mravce nevšimnú a nasťahujú sa.
03:49
And so they did.
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A oni sa nasťahovali.
03:51
That was a bit crude, at the time. And I made all these little apartments
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Vtedy to bolo dosť neotesané. Robil som malé príbytky,
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and little merry-go-rounds, seesaws and swings, little ladders.
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malé kolotoče, šmykľavky a hojdačky a rebríky.
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And then I encouraged the ants to come 'round by putting sugar and things like that.
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Mravcom som dal cukor, aby som ich posmelil.
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And then I sat down and all the ants came along.
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Potom som si sadol a mravce prišli.
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And all I could hear was "Is this for us?"
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Hovorili si: "To je pre nás?"
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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And I say, "Yes, they're all for you."
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Povedal som: "Áno, to je pre vás."
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And they moved in, and decided not to pay me any rent.
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Nasťahovali sa a rozhodli sa, že nebudú platiť nájomné.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
04:22
And from there I was watching this little world.
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A tak som sledoval môj malý svet.
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It became part of me.
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Stal sa mojou súčasťou.
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When I discovered that I had this gift,
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Keď som zistil, že mám tento dar,
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I wanted to experiment with this world
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chcel som experimentovať so svetom,
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that we can't see.
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ktorý nie je vidieť.
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So I realized that there was more to life
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Uvedomil som si, že život je viac,
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than just everything that we see around us that's huge.
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než len veľké veci, ktoré okolo seba vidíme,
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So I started to educate myself on this molecular level.
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Začal som sa vzdelávať na molekulárnej úrovni.
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And as I got older, I continued. I showed my mother.
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Pokračoval som aj keď som bol starší. Ukázal som to aj mojej mame.
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My mother told me to take it smaller.
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Povedala mi, aby som to ešte zmenšil.
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Now I shall show you something here.
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A teraz by som vám chcel niečo ukázať.
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And I'll explain.
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A vysvetliť.
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As you can see,
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Ako vidíte,
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that's a pinhead.
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toto je špendlíková hlavička.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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(Applause)
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(Potlesk)
05:25
Now that is called the Huf Haus.
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Toto je Huf Haus.
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The gentleman who commissioned me to do this
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Pán, ktorý ma poveril, aby som ho vytvoril
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was a gentleman called Peter Huf.
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sa volá Peter Huf.
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And he says to me "Willard, can you put my house on a pinhead?"
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Povedal mi, "Willard, vedel by si dať môj dom na špendlíkovú hlavičku?"
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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So I say, "How are you going to fit in there?"
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Povedal som, "Ako sa tam potom zmestíš?"
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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And then he said to me,
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On nato
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"I don't believe you can do it. Can you really do it?"
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"Neverím, že to dokážeš. Naozaj by si to zvládol?"
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And I says, "Well, try me."
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Ja nato, "Vyskúšaj 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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On povedal, "Ale ja neverím, že to dokážeš." Povedal som: "OK."
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So, to cut a long story short,
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Aby som to skrátil,
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I went home, went underneath the microscope,
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šiel som domov, pod mikroskopom
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and I crushed up a piece of glass,
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som rozbil kúsok skla
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crushed it up.
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na menšie kúsky.
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And underneath the microscope
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Pod mikroskopom
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there were splinters of glass.
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som mal črepiny.
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Some of them were quite jagged.
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Niektoré z nich mali dosť ostré hrany.
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So I was crushing up these pieces of glass,
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Tie som ešte viac rozdrvil
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which, as you can see,
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a z nich je, ako vidíte,
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that's the actual frame of the house.
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konštrukcia domu.
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And the actual roof is made up of a fiber,
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Strecha je z vláken,
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which I found in my sister's old teddy bear.
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ktoré pochádzajú z plyšového medvedíka mojej sestry.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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So I got the teddy bear and I said,
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Zobral som medvedíka a vravím mu,
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"Do you mind if I pull out one of your fibers?"
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"Bude ti vadiť, ak ti vytrhnem pár chlpov?"
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So I did.
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A tak som ich vytrhol.
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And I looked at it beneath the microscope. And some of it was flat.
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Pozrel som si ich cez mikroskop. Niektoré boli hladké.
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So I decided to slice these up
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Rozhodol som sa, že ich narežem
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with the tool that I make
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nástrojom, ktorý som si vyrobil tak,
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by -- I sharpen the end of a needle into a blade.
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že som zbrúsil koniec ihly do čepele.
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And then I actually
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Potom som
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slow down my whole nervous system.
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spomalil môj nervový systém
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And then I work between my heartbeat,
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a pracoval som pomedzi údery srdca.
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I have one-and-a-half seconds
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Na každý pohyb
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to actually move.
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som mal jeden a pol sekundy.
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And at the same time I have to watch I don't inhale
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Zároveň som si musel dávať pozor, aby som
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my own work, at the same time.
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moje dielo nevdýchol.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
07:19
(Applause)
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(Potlesk)
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Because that has happened to me.
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Pretože aj to sa mi stalo.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
07:31
So what I did, like I said, come back to the glass.
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Vrátim sa späť ku sklu.
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I found these little bits of glass.
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Našiel som kúsky skla,
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And I had to make them square.
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ktoré som potreboval upraviť do štvorca.
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So I'm thinking "How can I do this?"
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Rozmýšlal som ako to urobiť.
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So what I did, I got an oilstone. Broke the edge of an oilstone off.
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Vzal som brúsny kameň a odlomil z neho kúsok.
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And what I did, I took pieces of glass. And I started to rub them.
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Zobral som kúsky skla a začal som ich šúchať.
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I used a little tweezer which I made from a hair clip.
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Použil som malú pinzetu vyrobenú zo sponky.
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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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Po krajoch pinzety som dal gumu, aby sa sklo nepolámalo.
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And then I started rubbing, very very gently,
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Veľmi, veľmi jemne som šúchal,
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till some of the edges were quite square. And then I constructed it.
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až kým okraje neboli dosť rovné. Potom som ich zložil.
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And how I constructed it,
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Staval som ich tak,
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is by making grooves in the top of the pinhead.
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že som na vrch špendlíkovej hlavičky urobil drážky
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And then pushing the glass in with its own friction.
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a potom som do nich zatlačil sklo.
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And as I was doing it, what happened?
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Ako som to robil, čo sa nestalo?
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The instrument that I used turned into a catapult.
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Moje náradie sa premenilo na katapult
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And it went like this ...
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a urobilo....
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And then that was it.
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A bolo.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
08:28
Gone.
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Preč.
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So I'm thinking, "Mr. Huf isn't going to be very happy
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Tak si hovorím: "Pán Huf nebude veľmi rád,
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when I told him his house has gone to another,
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keď mu poviem, že jeho dom sa odporúčal
08:35
into the atmosphere somewhere."
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niekam do atmosféry.
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So to cut the story short,
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Aby som to skrátil,
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I decided that I had to go back and do it.
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rozhodol som sa, že začnem odznova.
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So I found some more. And I decided to, sort of,
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Našiel som ďalšie sklo. Rozhodol som
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construct it very, very slowly,
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sa postupovať veľmi pomaly,
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holding my breath, working between my heartbeat,
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so zadržaným dychom, pomedzi údery srdca,
08:50
and making sure everything is leveled.
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všetko vyrovnané.
08:52
Because it's such a small sculpture,
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Pretože pri takej malej sochy
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nothing can go wrong.
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nesmiete spraviť žiadnu chybu.
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And I decided to build it up.
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Rozhodol som sa, že dom ešte vylepším.
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Then I used fibers out of my jumper,
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So svetra som si vytiahol pár vláken,
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which I held and stretched.
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tie som natiahol
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And made the beams going around the house.
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a sú z nich trámy okolo domu.
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And the actual windows and the balcony
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Okná a balkón
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had to be sort of constructed.
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som tiež musel vyrobiť.
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I used a money spider's web
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Niektoré časti som pripevnil
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to actually attach certain things,
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pomocou pavúčej siete.
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which sent me insane.
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Bolo to na zbláznenie.
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But I managed to do it.
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Ale podarilo sa a dokončil som to.
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And when I finished it, I came back the next day.
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Na druhý deň
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I noticed that the house was occupied.
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som si všimol, že dom je obývaný.
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Have we ever heard of a dust mite?
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Počuli ste už o roztočoch?
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Darren dust mite and his family moved in.
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Roztoč Darren s rodinou sa nasťahovali do domu.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
09:37
So basically I'd completed the house.
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Dom bol hotový.
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And there you are.
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Nech sa páči.
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(Applause)
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(Potlesk)
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
09:55
Right. As you can see,
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Ako vidíte.
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Bart Simpson is having a little argument.
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Bart Simpson sa háda.
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I think they're arguing about the space on the pin.
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Myslím, že sa hádajú o miesto na špendlíku.
10:04
There's not enough room for the two of them.
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Nie je tam dosť miesta pre oboch.
10:07
So I didn't think he was going to throw Bart off.
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Ale nemyslím si, že by Barta zhodil.
10:09
I think he was just warning him actually.
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Skôr ho chcel iba varovať.
10:11
But this one was made out of a nylon tag
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Toto som vyrobil z nylonového štítku
10:15
out of my shirt.
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z mojej košele.
10:17
What I did, I plucked the tag out
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Vytrhol som štítok
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and put it underneath the microscope.
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a dal ho pod mikroskop.
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I used the needle which has got a slight blade on the end.
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Použil som ihlu s čepieľkou na konci.
10:26
Can anybody see the blade on the end of that needle?
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Vidíte tú čepeľ?
10:28
Audience: No.
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Publikum: Nie.
10:30
WW: So what I did is the same process where I
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WW: Postupoval som rovnako,
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just kind of hold my breath
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zadržal som dych
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and just work away very, very slowly,
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a veľmi, veľmi pomaly som
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manipulating the plastic, cutting it, because it behaves different.
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plast orezával. Pretože vždy,
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Whenever you work on that level, things behave different.
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keď pracujete na tejto úrovni, veci sa správajú inak.
10:47
Because it's on this molecular level things change
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Na molekulárnej úrovni majú iné vlastnosti
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and they act different.
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a správajú sa inak.
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And sometimes they turn into little catapults and things go up in the air.
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Niekedy sa premenia na malé katapulty a veci lietajú vzduchom.
10:54
And, you know, all different things happen.
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A stávajú sa aj iné veci.
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But I had to make a little barrier, going around it, out of cellophane,
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Dookola som musel spraviť malú bariéru z celofánu,
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to stop it moving.
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aby sa socha nehýbala.
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Then static electricity set in.
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Vtedy začala pôsobiť statická elektrina.
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And it went ...
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Socha spravila...
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And I'm trying to remove it. And the static is interfering with everything.
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Chcel som ju odtrhnúť. A statika do všetkého zasahovala.
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So there is sweat dripping off my head,
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Z čela mi kvapkal pot.
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because I have to carve Homer Simpson like that, in that position.
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Homera Simpsona som musel vyrezať v tejto polohe.
11:17
And after I've cut out the shape,
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Potom, čo som vyrezal tvar,
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then I have to make sure that there is room for Bart's neck.
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musel som dať pozor, aby bolo dosť miesta na Bartov krk.
11:23
So after I've done the same thing,
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Spravil som to isté
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then I have to paint it.
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a potom,
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And after I've actually sculpted them,
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keď som ich vyrezal,
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I have to paint them.
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som ich musel namaľovať.
11:31
I experimented with a --
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Skúšal som...
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I found a dead fly.
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Našiel som mŕtvu muchu.
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And I plucked the hair off the fly's head.
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Z hlavy som jej vytrhol chlp.
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Decided to make a paintbrush.
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A spravil z neho štetec.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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But I would never do it to a living fly.
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Ale nikdy by som to neurobil živej muche.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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Because I've heard a fly in pain.
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Pretože viem ako kričia muchy, ktoré trpia.
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And they go "Meow! Ow!"
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Kričia "Auuuu! Au!"
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Even though they get on our nerves,
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Aj keď nám idú na nervy,
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I would never kill an insect
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nikdy by som nezabil hmyz,
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because, "All creatures great and small" --
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pretože v jednom hymne sa spieva,
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there is a hymn that says that.
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"Všetky tvory, malé aj veľké"
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So what I decided to do
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A tak som sa rozhodol,
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is to pluck fine hair out of my face.
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že si vytrhnem chlp z tváre.
12:18
And I looked at it underneath the microscope.
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Pozrel som naň pod mikroskopom.
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That was the paintbrush.
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To bol môj štetec.
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And whilst I'm painting I have to be very careful,
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Pri maľovaní som musel byť veľmi opatrný.
12:26
because the paint starts to turn into little blobs.
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Pretože z farby sa robili bublinky
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And it starts to dry very quickly.
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a veľmi rýchlo schla.
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So I have to be very quick.
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Musel som maľovať veľmi rýchlo.
12:36
If I'm not, it will end up looking
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Ak nie, dopadlo by to inak,
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not like what it's supposed to look like.
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ako by malo.
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It could end up looking like Humpty Dumpty or somebody else.
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Vyzeralo by to ako kraslica, alebo niečo podobné.
12:46
So I have to be very very careful.
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Čiže som musel byť veľmi opatrný.
12:48
This one took me approximately,
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Toto dielo mi trvalo približne
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I would say, six to seven weeks.
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šesť až sedem týždňov.
12:55
My work, rough estimate,
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Moja práca trvá, odhadom,
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sometimes five, six to seven weeks;
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niekedy päť, šesť až sedem týždňov.
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you can't always anticipate.
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Nedá sa to vždy presne odhadnúť.
13:04
(Applause)
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(Potlesk)
13:11
As you can see,
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Ako vidíte,
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that's Charlton Heston brought down to size.
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toto je zmenšenina Charltona Hestona.
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(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
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He says to me, "Willard" --
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Hovorí, "Willard" -
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You can see him saying, "Why me?"
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Vidíte ako hovorí, "Prečo ja?"
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I says, "I enjoyed your film. That's why."
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Vravím mu, "Páčil sa mi tvoj film. Preto."
13:30
As you can see, there's an aphid fly there.
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Ako vidíte, máme tu vošku.
13:34
That's just to show the scale
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To je na ilustráciu mierky
13:36
and the actual size of the sculpture.
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a skutočnej veľkosti sochy.
13:39
I would say it probably measures ...
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Povedal by som, že meria
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a quarter of a millimeter.
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asi štvrť milimetra.
13:46
In America they say a period stop.
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Ak by ste
13:48
So say if you cut a period stop in half,
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rozdelili bodku za vetou na polovicu,
13:51
a full stop, that's about the size of the whole thing.
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dostanete asi takú veľkosť.
13:55
It's made -- the chariot is made of gold.
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Koč je vyrobený zo zlata.
13:59
And Charlton Heston is made of a floating fiber,
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Charlton Heston je z vlákna,
14:03
which I took out of the air.
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ktoré som chytil vo vzduchu.
14:05
When the sunlight comes through the window you see these little fibers.
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Keď cez okno zasvieti slnko, vo vzduchu je vidno malé vlákenká.
14:08
And what I normally do is walk 'round a room --
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Chodím po miestnosti
14:11
(Laughter) --
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(Smiech)
14:15
trying to find one. And then I put it underneath the microscope.
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a hľadám ich. Potom ich dám pod mikroskop.
14:18
I remember one time I was doing it, and the window was open.
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Raz som to robil pri otvorenom okne
14:21
And there was a lady standing by the bus stop.
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a vonku na zastávke stála jedna pani.
14:23
And she saw me walking around like this.
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Videla ma, ako takto chodím...
14:25
(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
14:28
And then she looked at me.
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Pozrela na mňa.
14:30
And then I went ...
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Ja som spravil...
14:35
And then she went, "Hmm, OK, he's not mad."
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A ona, "Hm, OK, nie je to blázon."
14:38
Yeah, to actually do this thing --
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Čiže táto vec,
14:41
the actual chariot is made of gold.
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tento koč je zo zlata.
14:44
I had a 24-karat gold ring.
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Mal som 24-karátový prsteň.
14:46
And I cut off a little flake of gold.
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Odrezal som z neho malú šupinku.
14:48
And I bent it 'round,
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Tú som rezal a ohýbal
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and made it into the chariot.
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až z nej bol koč.
14:52
And the horse is made from nylon.
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Kôň je z nylonu.
14:54
And the spider's web is for the reins on the horse.
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Na opraty som použil pavúčiu sieť.
14:57
To get the symmetrical shape of the horse
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Vytvoriť symetrický tvar koňa
14:59
was very difficult,
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bolo veľmi náročné,
15:01
because I had to get the horse to rear up
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pretože som chcel koňa postavil na zadné,
15:03
and look as though it was in some kind of action.
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aby vyzeral, že je v pohybe.
15:05
When I did this one,
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Keď som túto sochu spravil,
15:07
a gentleman seen it and said to me,
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videl ju jeden pán a povedal mi,
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"There's no way you can do this, you must have used some kind of machine.
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"To ste nemohli spraviť vy, museli ste použiť nejaký stroj.
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There's no way a man can do that.
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Nie je možné, aby človek spravil niečo také.
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It must be a machine."
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To musí byť robené na stroji."
15:16
So I says, "OK then, if you say it's a machine ..."
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Tak mu hovorím, "OK, ak si to myslíte, že to robil stroj..."
15:20
(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
15:26
(Applause)
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(Potlesk)
15:32
That one took me approximately six weeks.
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Toto mi trvalo asi šesť týždňov.
15:40
(Applause)
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(Potlesk)
15:46
The most famous statue in the world.
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Najslávnejšia socha na svete.
15:49
This one, I would say,
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Toto bola
15:51
was a serious challenge.
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skutočná výzva.
15:54
(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
16:05
Because I had to put the torch on the top.
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Navrch som musel dať pochodeň.
16:08
That one is, more or less, the same type of process.
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V podstate ide o ten istý proces.
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The bottom of it is carved from a grain of sand,
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Spodok je vytesaný zo zrnka piesku,
16:18
because I wanted to get a bit of the stone effect.
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pretože som chcel dosiahnuť kamenný efekt.
16:20
I used a microscopic shard of diamond
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Na vytvorenie základne som použil
16:23
to actually carve the actual base.
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mikroskopický črep z diamantu.
16:25
Well, I can look at this one and I can be very proud of this,
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Keď hľadím na túto sochu, som veľmi hrdý.
16:29
because that statue has always sort of
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Pretože pre mňa vždy bola
16:31
kept an image in my head of, you know,
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obrazom začiatku pre ľudí,
16:33
the beginning of people coming to America.
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ktorí prichádzajú do Ameriky.
16:37
So it's sort of Ellis Island, and seeing America for the first time.
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Ellis Island a prvý pohľad na Ameriku.
16:41
And that's the first thing they saw.
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Prvá vec, ktorú vidia.
16:43
So I wanted to have that little image.
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Chcel som mať tento obraz.
16:45
And this is it.
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A tu je.
16:50
(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
16:57
And we all know that is the Hulk.
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Všetci poznáme Hulka.
17:00
I wanted to create movement in the eye of a needle.
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Chcel som vytvoriť pohyb v oku ihly.
17:03
Because we know we see needles,
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Ihlu totiž vidíme,
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but people aren't familiar with the eye of a needle
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ale ľudia nepoznajú oko ihly,
17:07
apart from putting a thread through it.
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inak ako na navliekanie nite.
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So I broke the needle.
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Zlomil som ihlu
17:11
And made a needle look like
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a naaranžoval ju tak,
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the Hulk's broken it.
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akoby ju zlomil Hulk.
17:16
It's -- I had to make little holes
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Do ihly som musel urobiť malé dierky,
17:17
in the base of the needle, to shove his feet in.
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do ktorých som zastrčil jeho nohy.
17:19
So most of my work, I don't use glue.
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Pri väčšine prác nepoužívam lepidlo.
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They go in with their own friction.
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Diely držia vlastným trením.
17:24
And that's how I managed to do it.
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Takto som to urobil.
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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Ako vidíte, pozerá sa a na tvári má grimasu.
17:28
And his mouth must be probably about
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Ústa merajú asi
17:32
three microns.
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tri mikróny.
17:35
So the eyes are probably about one micron or something.
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Oči majú približne jeden mikrón.
17:41
That ship there,
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Táto loď
17:45
that's made from 24-karat gold.
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je z 24-karátového zlata.
17:47
And I normally rig it with the web of a money spider.
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Normálne by som lanovie urobil z pavúčej siete,
17:51
But I had to rig it with strands of glue.
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ale tu som použil pramienky lepidla.
17:54
Because the web of the spider, it was sending me insane,
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Pretože z pavučiny som sa mohol zblázniť.
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because I couldn't get the web to move off.
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Nevedel som ju odtrhnúť.
18:00
And that's 24-karat gold. And it's constructed. I built it.
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Toto je 24-karátové zlato. Poskladal som, postavil,
18:03
Constructed each plank of gold.
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zložil som každú jednu zlatú doštičku.
18:07
And the whole thing is sort of symmetrical.
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Celá vec je symetrická.
18:10
The flag had to be made out of little strands of gold.
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Vlajky si vyrobené zo zlatých vlákien.
18:13
It's almost like doing a surgical operation to get this thing right.
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Je to takmer ako chirurgická operácia.
18:21
(Applause)
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(Potlesk)
18:27
As you can see, dressage.
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Ako vidíte, drezúra koní.
18:31
(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
18:33
It's something I wanted to do just to show how I could get the symmetrical shape.
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Toto som vytvoril, len aby som ukázal, že viem spraviť symetrické tvary.
18:36
The actual rigging on the reins on the horse
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Uzda na koni
18:39
are made from the same sort of thing.
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je spravená z toho istého materiálu.
18:41
And that was done with a particle from my shirt.
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A toto som spravil z čiastočiek z mojej košele.
18:46
And the pinhead I've made green around there
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Hlavičku som zafarbil na zeleno tak,
18:50
by scraping the particles off a green shirt
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že som zo zelenej košele oškrabal čiastočky
18:53
and then pressed onto the needle.
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a tie som pritlačil na ihlu.
18:55
It's very painstaking work,
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Je to piplavá robota,
18:57
but the best things come in small packages.
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ale dobrého veľa nebýva.
19:00
(Laughter)
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(Smiech)
19:02
Bruno Giussani: Willard Wigan!
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Bruno Giussani: Willard Wigan!
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(Applause)
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(Potlesk)
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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