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

Why you should listen

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

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

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

More profile about the speaker
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TED2006

Rives: A mockingbird remix of TED2006

Rives: Rives oponašalsko remiksa TED2006

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Rives povzame nepozabne trenutke konference TED2006 v fantastični uspavanki ptice oponašalke s svobodnim verzom in rimami.
- Performance poet, multimedia artist
Performance artist and storyteller Rives has been called "the first 2.0 poet," using images, video and technology to bring his words to life. Full bio

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MockingbirdsMockingbirds are badassnevaren.
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Ptice oponašalke so frajerke.
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They are.
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Res so.
Oponašalci - Mimus polyglottos -
so MC-ji živalskega kraljestva.
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MockingbirdsMockingbirds -- that's MimusMimus polyglottospolyglottos --
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are the emceesemcees of the animalživali kingdomkraljestvo.
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Poslušajo in oponašajo
in remiksajo, kar jim je všeč.
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They listen and mimicposnema and remixremix what they like.
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They rockrock the micmikrofon outsidezunaj my windowokno everyvsak morningjutro.
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Vsako jutro nastopajo pred mojim oknom.
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I can hearslišite them singpoje the soundszvoki of the caravto alarmsalarmi
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Slišim jih peti zvoke avtomobilskih
alarmov, kot da so pesmi pomladi.
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like they were songspesmi of springspomladi.
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Če lahko vi izgovorite,
lahko oponašalec to zavrešči.
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I mean, if you can talk it, a mockingbirdMockingbird can squawkJadati it.
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So checkpreveri it, I'm gonna to catchulov mockingbirdsmockingbirds.
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Zato poglejte, ulovil bom oponašalce.
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I'm going to trappast mockingbirdsmockingbirds all acrossčez the nationnarod
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Ujel bom oponašalce po vsej državi
in jih nežno vstavil v steklenice,
da bodo kot molotovke z oponašalci.
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and put them gentlynežno into masonMason jarskozarci like mockingbirdMockingbird MolotovMolotov cocktailskoktajli.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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Yeah. And as I drivepogon throughskozi a neighborhoodsoseska,
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Ja. In ko se bom peljal
po soseski, recimo,
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say, where people got-a-lottagot a lotta, I'll take a mockingbirdMockingbird I caughtujet
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kjer imajo ljudje veliko, bom vzel
oponašalca, ujetega v soseski,
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in a neighborhoodsoseska where folksljudje ain'tni got nadaNada and just let it go, you know.
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kjer ljudje nimajo nič,
in ga bom kar spustil, veste.
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Up goesgre the birdptica, out come the wordsbesede, "JuanitoJuanito, JuanitoJuanito,
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Ptič bo vzletel in zaklical:
"Juanito, Juanito,
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venteVente a comerprišlec mimi hijohijo!"
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pridi in pojej mojega sina!"
Oh, postal bom Johnny Appleseed zvoka.
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Oh, I'm going to be the JohnnyJohnny AppleseedAppleseed of soundzvok.
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01:11
(LaughterSmeh)
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(smeh)
Križaril bom po naključnih ulicah
s Cadillacom kabrioletom
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CruisingKrižarjenje randomnaključen citymesto streetsulice, rockingzibanje a drop-toppadec top CadillacCadillac
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z veliko zadnjo klopjo naloženo
s 13 rjavimi papirnatimi Walmart vrečami
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with a bigvelik backseatzadaj, packingpakiranje like 13 brownrjav paperpapir WalmartWalmart bagsvrečke
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fullpolno of loadednaložen mockingbirdsmockingbirds, and I'll get everybodyvsi.
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polnimi nabitih oponašalcev
in dobil bom vsakega.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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I'll get the nitwitBudala on the networkomrežje newsnovice sayinggovoriti,
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Dobil bom bedaka s poročil, ki pravi:
"Kmalu se vrnemo z več o krizi."
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"We'llBomo be back in a momenttrenutek with more on the crisiskriza."
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Dobil bom kretena, ki v baru
sprašuje po znamki leda.
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I'll get some assholekreten at a wateringzalivanje holeluknjo askingsprašujem what brandznamka the iceled is.
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Dobil bom gospo v pralnici,
ki vedno ve, kaj pomeni biti prijazen.
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I'll get that ladygospa at the laundromatpralnica who always seemsZdi se to know what beingbiti nicelepo is.
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I'll get your postmanpoštar makingizdelavo dinnervečerja plansnačrtov.
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Dobil bom vašega poštarja,
ko načrtuje večerjo.
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I'll get the last time you liedlagal.
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Izvedel bom, kdaj ste se nazadnje zlagali.
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I'll get, "BabyOtroka, just give me the frickin'Presneto " TVTV guidevodnik."
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Dobil bom: "Srce, daj mi
prekleti TV spored."
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I'll get a lonelyosamljen, little sentencestavek with realresnično errornapaka in it,
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Dobil bom osamljen,
kratek stavek s pravo napako:
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"Yeah, I guessugibati I could come insideznotraj, but only for a minuteminuto."
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"Ja, verjetno lahko vstopim,
a samo za minuto."
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(smeh)
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I'll get an ESLZOI classrazred in ChinatownChinatown learningučenje "It's RainingDeževalo, It's PouringLije."
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Dobil bom tečajnike angleščine, ki se
v kitajski četrti učijo: "Dežuje, lije."
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I'll put a mockingbirdMockingbird on a late-nightpozno zvečer trainvlak just to get an oldstar man snoringsmrčanje.
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Oponašalca bom dal na pozni vlak,
samo da bom dobil starca, ki smrči.
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I'll get your ex-loverex-lover tellingpovedal someonenekdo elsedrugače, "Good morningjutro."
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Dobil bom vašega bivšega ljubimca,
ko nekomu drugemu reče: "Dobro jutro."
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I'll get everyone'svsakogar good morningszjutraj.
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Dobil bom dobra jutra vseh.
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I don't carenego how you make 'em"em.
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Ni mi mar, kako jih izgovorite.
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AlohaAloha. KonichiwaKonichiwa. ShalomShalom. Ah-SalamAh-Salam AlaikumAleyküm.
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Aloha. Konichiwa. Šalom. Salam alejkum.
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EverybodyVsi meanssredstva everybodyvsi, meanssredstva everybodyvsi here.
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Vsak pomeni vsak, pomeni vsak tukaj.
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And so maybe I'll buildzgraditi a gildedpozlačeni cagekletka.
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In tako bom mogoče naredil zlato kletko.
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I'll lineline the bottomspodaj with oldstar notebookzvezek pagesstrani.
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Dno bom obložil
s stranmi iz stare beležke.
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InsideZnotraj it, I will placemesto a mockingbirdMockingbird for --
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V njo bom dal oponašalca za -
kratka razlaga, hipijevske starše.
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shortkratek explanationrazlago, hippiehipik parentsstarši.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(smeh)
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What does a violinviolina have to do with technologytehnologijo?
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Kaj ima violina s tehnologijo?
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Where in the worldsvet is this worldsvet headingnaslov?
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Kam za vraga gre ta svet?
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On one endkonec, goldzlato barspalice --
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Na eni strani zlate palice -
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on the other, an entirecelotno planetplanet.
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na drugi strani, cel planet.
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We are 12 billionmilijardo lightsvetloba yearslet from the edgerob.
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Smo 12 milijard svetlobnih let
od roba. To je ugibanje.
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That's a guessugibati.
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SpaceProstor is lengthdolžina and breadthširina continuednadaljevano indefinitelyza nedoločen čas,
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Prostor je dolžina in širina,
ki se nadaljuje v neskončnost,
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but you cannotne morem buykupiti a ticketvozovnico to travelpotovanje commerciallykomercialno to spaceprostor in AmericaAmerika
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a v Ameriki ni moč kupiti vozovnice
za komercialni let v vesolje,
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because countriesdržave are beginningzačetek to eatjesti like us, livev živo like us and dieumreti like us.
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ker države pričenjajo jesti kot mi,
živeti kot mi in umirati kot mi.
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You mightmorda wannaželim avertPreprečite your gazepogled, because that
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Mogoče bolje, da se ozrete stran, ker je
to pupek, ki si bo pravkar regeneriral ud,
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is a newtpupka about to regenerateregenerirati its limbokončina,
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in rokovanje razširi več bacilov
kot poljubljanje.
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and shakingtresenje handsroke spreadsrazširi more germsklic than kissingpoljubljanje.
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There's about 10 millionmilijonov phageTipizirani perna jobdelo.
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Obstaja okrog 10 mio fagov za vsako delo.
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It's a very strangečudno worldsvet insideznotraj a nanotubenanocevk.
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V nanocevkah je zelo čuden svet.
Ženske lahko govorijo, črnci smučajo,
belci gradijo močne zgradbe,
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WomenŽenske can talk; blackčrna menmoški skismučanje; whitebela menmoški buildzgraditi strongmočno buildingszgradbe;
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we buildzgraditi strongmočno sunssonce.
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gradimo močna sonca.
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The surfacepovršina of the EarthZemlja is absolutelyabsolutno riddledposejana with holesluknje,
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Površina Zemlje je popolnoma
posejana z luknjami
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and here we are, right in the middlesredi.
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in mi smo tukaj, točno na sredini.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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Glas življenja nas kliče,
da pridemo in se učimo.
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It is the voiceglas of life that callsklice us to come and learnučiti se.
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When all the little mockingbirdsmockingbirds flyletenje away,
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Ko vsi mali oponašalci odletijo,
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they're going to soundzvok like the last fourštiri daysdnevi.
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bodo zveneli kot zadnji štirje dnevi.
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I will get uptownstanuje gurusguruje, downtowndowntown teachersučitelji,
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Dobil bom guruje iz sosesk,
učitelje iz centra,
revne umetnike in dilerje, filipinske
pridigarje in puhalnike listja, natakarje,
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broke-asszlomil rit artistsumetniki and dealerstrgovci, and Filipinofilipinščina preacherspridigarji, leaflist blowerspuhalniki,
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bartendersbarmanov, boob-jobjoškarske zaposlitve doctorszdravniki, hooliganshuligani, garbagesmeti menmoški,
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povečevalce jošk, huligane, smetarje,
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your locallokalno CongressmenKongresniki in the spotlightobsevati z reflektorsko lučjo, guys in the overheadz vrha helicoptershelikopterji.
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vaše kongresnike pod reflektorji,
fante v helikopterjih.
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EverybodyVsi getsdobi heardslišal.
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Vsi bodo slišani.
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EverybodyVsi getsdobi this one, honestpošten mockingbirdMockingbird as a witnesspriča.
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Vsak bo dobil enega
iskrenega oponašalca kot pričo.
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And I'm on this.
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In delam na tem. Delam na tem,
dokler se ne razširi s klepetalnicami
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I'm on this 'tiltil the wholeceloto thing spreadsrazširi,
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in posnemovalci in
mamami, ki dajejo otroke spat
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with chatklepet roomssobe and copycatscopycats and momsmame maybe tuckingtucking kidsotroci into bedpostelja
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singingpetje, "HushTišina, little babyotroka, don't say a wordbeseda.
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pojoč: "Pst, ljubo dete, niti besede,
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Wait for the man with the mockingbirdMockingbird."
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na moža z oponašalcem počakaj."
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(smeh)
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Yeah. And then come the newsnovice crewsposadke, and
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Ja. In potem pridejo novinarji
in intervjuji ljudi z ulice
in pisma urednikom.
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the man-in-the-streetčlovek-in-the-street interviewsintervjuji, and the lettersčrke to the editorurednik.
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Vsi sprašujejo, kdo je odgovoren
za to po celem mestu,
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EverybodyVsi askingsprašujem, just who is responsibleodgovoren for this citywidemestnemu prebivalstvu,
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po vsej državi razširjeno kakofonijo
oponašalcev in nekdo bo končno namignil
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nationwidena nacionalni ravni mockingbirdMockingbird cacophonytrušča, and somebodynekdo finallykončno is going to tipnasvet
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the CityMesto CouncilSvet of MontereyMonterey, CaliforniaCalifornia off to me,
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Mestnemu svetu Montereyja
v Kaliforniji, da sem to jaz
in ponudili mi bodo ključ mestnih vrat.
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and they'lloni bodo offerponudbe me a keyključ to the citymesto.
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Pozlačen, prevelik ključ mestnih vrat
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A gold-platedpozlačeno, oversizedprevelik keyključ to the citymesto
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in to je vse, kar potrebujem,
ker če ga dobim, bom lahko odklenil zrak.
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and that is all I need, 'causeker if I get that, I can unlockodklepanje the airzrak.
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I'll listen for what's missingpogrešam, and I'll put it there.
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Poslušal bom, kaj manjka, in tisto dodal.
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Thank you, TEDTED.
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Hvala, TED.
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ChrisChris AndersonAnderson: WowWow.
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Chris Anderson: Uau.
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Translated by Matej Divjak
Reviewed by Nika Kotnik

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

Why you should listen

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

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

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

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