ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mick Ebeling - Entrepreneur
Mick Ebeling founded the Not Impossible Foundation, a nonprofit that develops creative solutions to real-world problems.

Why you should listen

Raised in a family of entrepreneurs and philanthropists, Mick Ebeling is founder of the Not Impossible Foundation, an organization comprised of thinkers, dreamers, and doers, with a mission to take ideas that once seemed impossible to possible, when the right people are connected and empowered. 

After befriending ALS patient and renowned street artist Tempt, he and a team of programmers, hackers, artists and inventors developed the EyeWriter -- a low-cost eye-tracking device that allows artists with the nerve disease ALS to draw using only their eyes. Through his latest initiative, Project Daniel, he helped create a 3D-printed prosthetic lab in Sudan. His new book is Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done.

He is also the founder of The Ebeling Group, an international production company and creative think tank, representing some of the world's leading design and directing collectives.

He says: "If not now, then when? If not me, then who?" 

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TEDActive 2011

Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist

Mick Ebeling: Izum, ki je osvobodil ujetega umetnika

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Amiotrofična lateralna skleroza (ALS) je bolezen živčevja, zaradi katere je umetnik grafitov TEMPT ostal paraliziran od nog do glave, sporazumeva se lahko le z mežikanjem. V tem izjemnem govoru na TEDActive podjetnik Mick Ebeling predstavi odprtokoden izum, ki ga je ustvaril s skupino sodelavcev, da omogoči umetniku -- in ostalim v njegovem položaju -- nov način ustvarjanja.
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I have had the distinctizrazit blessingblagoslov in my life
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V življenju sem imel izjemno srečo
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to have workeddelal on a bunchkup of amazingneverjetno projectsprojektov.
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sodelovati pri vrsti izjemnih projektov.
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But the coolestkul I ever workeddelal on
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A meni najljubši
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was around this guy.
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je bil namenjen temu fantu.
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This guy'sfant je nameime is TEMPTNAPELJALA.
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Ime mu je TEMPT.
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TEMPTNAPELJALA was one of the foremostpredvsem graffitigrafiti artistsumetniki in the 80s.
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Bil je en najpomembnejših grafitarjev v osemdesetih letih.
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And he cameprišel up home from a runteči one day
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Nekega dne je po teku prišel domov
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and said, "DadOče, my legsnog are tinglingmravljinčenje."
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in rekel, "Oče, v nogah me ščemi."
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And that was the onsetpojav of ALSALS.
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To je bil začetek bolezni živčevja ALS.
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So TEMPTNAPELJALA is now completelypopolnoma paralyzedparaliziran.
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Danes je TEMPT v celoti paraliziran.
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He only has use of his eyesoči.
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Uporablja lahko le oči.
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I was exposedizpostavljeni to him.
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Name je naredil velik vtis.
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I have a companypodjetje that does designoblikovanje and animationanimacija,
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Moje podjetje se ukvarja z oblikovanjem in animacijo,
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so obviouslyočitno graffitigrafiti is definitelydefinitivno an intricatezapletena partdel
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zato so grafiti gotovo zapleten del tega,
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of what we admireobčuduj and respectspoštovanje in the artumetnost worldsvet.
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kar v umetnosti občudujemo in cenimo.
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And so we decidedodločil that we were going to sponsorsponzor
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Zato smo se odločili finančno podpreti
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TonyTony, TEMPTNAPELJALA, and his causevzrok.
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Tonyja oz. TEMPTa in njegov položaj.
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So I wentšla and metsrečal with his brotherbrat and fatherOče
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Srečal sem se z njegovim bratom in očetom
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and said, "We're going to give you this moneydenar.
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in rekel, "Dali vam bomo denar.
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What are you going to do with it?"
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Kaj boste naredili z njim?"
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And his brotherbrat said, "I just want to be ablesposoben to talk to TonyTony again.
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Njegov brat je rekel, "Želim si le pogovora s Tonyjem.
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I just want to be ablesposoben to communicatekomunicirajo with him
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Želim si, da bi se lahko sporazumeval z njim
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and him to be ablesposoben to communicatekomunicirajo with me."
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in on z mano."
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And I said, "Wait a seconddrugič, isn't that -- I've seenvidel StephenStephen HawkingHawking --
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Rekel sem, "Saj obstajajo naprave za paralizirane ljudi
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don't all paralyzedparaliziran people have the abilitysposobnost to communicatekomunicirajo
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-- kot Stephen Hawking --
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viapreko these devicesnaprave?"
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ki jim omogočajo sporazumevanje."
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And he said, "No, unlessrazen you're in the upperzgornji echelonEchelon and
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Rekel je, "Ne, če niste med privilegiranimi,
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you've got really amazingneverjetno insurancezavarovanje,
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če nimate izjemnega zavarovanja,
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you can't actuallydejansko do that.
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te možnosti ni.
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These devicesnaprave aren'tne accessibledostopen to people."
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Take naprave niso dostopne vsem."
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And I said, "Well, how do you actuallydejansko communicatekomunicirajo?"
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Vprašal sem, "Kako se torej sporazumevate?"
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Has everyonevsi seenvidel the moviefilm "The DivingPotapljanje BellBell and the ButterflyMetulj?"
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Poznate film "Skafander in Metulj"?
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That's how they communicatekomunicirajo --
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Tako se sporazumevajo --
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so runteči theirnjihovi fingerprst alongskupaj.
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s prstom sledijo črkam.
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I said, "That's archaicarhaično. How can that be?"
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Rekel sem, "Kako je možno, da ni boljšega načina?"
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So I showedpokazala up with the desireželja to just writepiši a checkpreveri,
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Najprej sem želel zgolj napisati ček,
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and insteadnamesto tega, I wrotenapisal a checkpreveri
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na koncu pa se mi ni niti sanjalo,
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that I had no freakingfreaking ideaideja how I was going to cashdenar.
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kako ga bom poplačal.
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I committedstorjeno to his brotherbrat and his fatherOče right then and there --
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Takrat sem se zavezal njegovemu bratu in očetu
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I'm like, "All right, here'sTukaj je the dealobravnava:
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in rekel, "Dobro, stvar je taka:
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Tony'sTony's going to speakgovoriti, we're going to get him a machinestroj,
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Tony bo spregovoril, dobil bo napravo
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and we're going to figureštevilka out a way for him to do his artumetnost again.
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in našli bomo način, da bo lahko zopet ustvarjal.
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Because it's a travestyparodija that someonenekdo who still has all of that in him
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Ker je absurd, da nekdo, ki je še vedno tako nadarjen,
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isn't ablesposoben to communicatekomunicirajo it."
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tega ne more izraziti."
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So I spokegovoril at a conferencekonferenca a couplepar monthsmesecev after that.
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Čez nekaj mesecev sem sodeloval na konferenci.
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I metsrečal these guys calledpozval GRLGRL,
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Spoznal sem fante iz GRL,
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GraffitiGrafiti ResearchRaziskave LabLaboratorij,
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Laboratorija za raziskovanje grafitov.
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and they have a technologytehnologijo
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Njihova tehnologija jim omogoča
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that allowsdovoljuje them to projectprojekt a lightsvetloba ontona any surfacepovršina
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projiciranje svetlobe na kakršnokoli površino
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and then, with a laserlaser pointerkazalec, drawpripravi on it,
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in risanje po njej z laserskim kazalcem
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and it just registersregistri the negativenegativno spaceprostor.
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kar izstopa kot negativ.
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So they go around and do artumetnost installationsnaprave like this.
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Tako ustvarjajo take umetniške projekcije.
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All the things that go up there, they said there's a life cyclecikel.
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Za vse stvari, ki se narišejo, pravijo, da prikazujejo življenjski krog.
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First it startsse začne with the sexualspolno organsorganov,
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Začelo se je s spolnimi organi,
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then it startsse začne with cusscuss wordsbesede,
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nadaljevalo s kletvicami,
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then it was BushBush slandersslanders
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nato z žalitvami Busha
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and then people actuallydejansko got to artumetnost.
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in končno je nastala umetnost.
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But there was always a life cyclecikel to theirnjihovi presentationspredstavitve.
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A vedno je bil prisoten življenjski krog.
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So I wentšla home and was havingimeti dinnervečerja with my wifežena
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Doma sem med večerjo
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and was tellingpovedal her about this,
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ženi pripovedoval o tem
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and we were like, "Well wait a seconddrugič. If we know that this technologytehnologijo existsobstaja
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in mislila sva si, "Če torej vemo, da obstaja taka tehnologija,
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where you can use your eyesoči to controlnadzor things,
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da lahko preko oči upravljaš s stvarmi,
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why don't we figureštevilka out a way for TEMPTNAPELJALA to controlnadzor a laserlaser
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bi torej tudi TEMPT lahko upravljal z laserjem
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and he could do grafgraf again? Well that would be awesomesuper."
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in ponovno ustvarjal grafite - to bi bilo super."
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So that startedzačel the journeypotovanje.
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S tem se je torej začela pot.
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And about two yearslet laterpozneje, about a yearleto laterpozneje,
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Po letu ali dveh,
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after a bunchkup of organizationorganizacija
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po neprestanem sestavljanju
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and a bunchkup of movingpremikanje things around,
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in upravljanju s stvarmi
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we'dBili bi accomplisheddoseženo a couplepar things.
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smo dosegli par ciljev.
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One, we battereduničen down the doorsvrata of the insurancezavarovanje companiespodjetja,
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Prvič, vdrli smo v zavarovalnice
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and we actuallydejansko got TEMPTNAPELJALA a machinestroj
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in TEMPTu priskrbeli napravo
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that let him communicatekomunicirajo -- a StephenStephen HawkingHawking machinestroj.
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za sporazumevanje -- tako, kot jo uporablja Stephen Hawking.
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(ApplauseAplavz)
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(Aplavz)
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WhichKi was awesomesuper.
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Bilo je krasno.
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And he's seriouslyresno one of the funniestsmešno -- I call him YodaYoda,
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Res je izjemno zabaven -- pravim mu Yoda,
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because you talk to the guy, you get an emailE-naslov from him,
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saj si v sporočilih ali pogovorih z njim mislim,
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and you're like, "I'm not worthyvreden. This guy'sfant je so amazingneverjetno."
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"Tega nisem vreden. Ta fant je res izjemen."
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The other thing we did
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Drugič,
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is we flewpoletel sevensedem programmersprogramerji from all over the worldsvet --
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v naši hiši smo zbrali sedem programerjev
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literallydobesedno everyvsak cornerkotiček of the worldsvet --
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z vseh koncev sveta --
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into our househiša.
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dobesedno.
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My wifežena and kidsotroci and I movedpreselil to our back garagegaraža,
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Z ženo in otroki smo se preselili v garažo,
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and these hackershekerji and programmersprogramerji
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ti hekerji, programerji,
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and conspiracyzarote theoriststeoretiki and anarchistsanarhisti tookvzel over our househiša.
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teoretiki zarote in anarhisti pa so zavzeli našo hišo.
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A lot of our friendsprijatelji thought we were absolutelyabsolutno stupidneumno to do that
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Naši prijatelji so mislili, da se nam je zmešalo
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and that we were going to come back
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in da bodo ob naši vrnitvi v hišo
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and all the picturesslike on the wallzid would be removedodstraniti and grafgraf on the wallsstene.
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namesto slik stene krasili grafiti.
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But for over two weekstednih,
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A programirali smo
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we programmedprogramirano,
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več kot dva tedna,
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we wentšla to the VeniceBenetke boardwalkRiva,
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šli smo se sprehajat po plaži Venice,
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my kidsotroci got involvedvključeni,
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sodelovali so moji otroci
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my dogpes got involvedvključeni,
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in moj pes
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and we createdustvarjeno this.
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in nastalo je to.
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This is calledpozval the EyeWriterEyeWriter,
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Imenuje se EyeWriter,
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and you can see the descriptionopis.
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zraven je tudi opis.
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This is a cheappoceni pairpar of sunglassessončna očala
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Uporabili smo poceni sončna očala,
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that we boughtkupil at the VeniceBenetke BeachBeach boardwalkRiva,
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ki smo jih kupili ob sprehajališču plaže Venice,
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some copperbaker wirežica
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bakreno žico
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and some stuffstvari from Home DepotSkladišče and RadioRadio ShackLope.
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in nekaj stvari iz trgovin za dom, delavnico in elektroniko.
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We tookvzel a PSPS3 camerakamera, hackedkramp it openodprto,
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Kamero za Play Station 3 smo razdrli,
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mountedvgrajena it to an LED lightsvetloba,
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nanjo pritrdili LED luč,
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and now there's a devicenaprave that is freeprost --
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nastala pa je brezplačna naprava --
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you buildzgraditi this yourselfsami, we publishobjaviti the codeKoda for freeprost,
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lahko jo sami sestavite, program je brezplačen,
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you downloadprenesi the softwareprogramsko opremo for freeprost.
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programsko opremo si naložite brezplačno.
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And now we'vesmo createdustvarjeno a devicenaprave
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Ta naprava torej
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that has absolutelyabsolutno no limitationsomejitve.
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nima omejitev.
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There's no insurancezavarovanje companypodjetje that can say "No."
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Nobena zavarovalnica vas ne more zavrniti.
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There's no hospitalbolnišnica that can say "No."
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Nobena bolnišnica vas ne more zavrniti.
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AnybodyVsakdo who'skdo je paralyzedparaliziran now has accessdostop
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Kdorkoli je paraliziran, lahko zdaj
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to actuallydejansko drawpripravi or communicatekomunicirajo usinguporabo only theirnjihovi eyesoči.
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dobesedno riše in se sporazumeva le preko oči.
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Thank you.
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Hvala lepa.
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Thank you guys very much. That was awesomesuper.
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Najlepša hvala. To je super.
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So at the endkonec of the two weekstednih,
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Po dveh tednih
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we wentšla back to TEMPT'sJe NAPELJALA roomsoba.
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smo se vrnili k TEMPTu.
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I love this pictureslika, because this is someonenekdo else'sdrugače roomsoba
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Ta slika mi je všeč, ker prikazuje njegovo sobo
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and that's his roomsoba.
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iz neke druge.
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So there's all this hustlehudle and bustlevrveža going on for the bigvelik unveilingodkritje.
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Vidimo ves ta vrvež pred velikim razkritjem.
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And after over a yearleto of planningnačrtovanje,
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In po dobrem letu načrtovanja,
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two weekstednih of programmingprogramiranje,
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dveh tednih programiranja,
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carb-festCarb-fest and all-nightvso noč sessionsseje,
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ogromno ogljikovih hidratih in neskončnih urah bedenja,
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TonyTony drewnarisal again for the first time in sevensedem yearslet.
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je Tony risal prvič po sedmih letih.
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And this is an amazingneverjetno pictureslika,
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To je čudovita slika,
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because this is his life supportpodporo systemsistem,
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ki prikazuje napravo, ki ga ohranja pri življenju
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and he's looking over his life supportpodporo systemsistem.
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in njega, kako gleda preko nje.
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We kickedudaril his bedpostelja so that he could see out.
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Njegovo posteljo smo prestavili, da je lahko gledal ven.
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And we setnastavite up a projectorprojektor
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Projektor smo usmerili
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on a wallzid out in the parkingparkiranje lot outsidezunaj of his hospitalbolnišnica.
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na steno zgradbe na parkirišču pred bolnišnico.
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And he drewnarisal again for the first time,
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Prvič je spet risal
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in frontspredaj of his familydružina and friendsprijatelji --
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pred njegovo družino in prijatelji,
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and you can only imaginezamislite
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in le zamišljate si lahko,
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what the feelingobčutek in the parkingparkiranje lot was.
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kakšno je bilo vzdušje na parkirišču.
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The funnysmešno thing was, we had to breakodmor into the parkingparkiranje lot too,
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Morali smo pravzaprav vdreti na parkirišče,
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so we totallypopolnoma feltčutil like we were legitzakonit in the wholeceloto grafgraf scenescene too.
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tako smo čutili, da smo del celotne grafične scene.
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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So at the endkonec of this, he sentposlano us an emailE-naslov,
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Po tem nam je poslal sporočilo
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and this is what the emailE-naslov said:
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in napisal:
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"That was the first time I've drawnpripravljen anything for sevensedem yearslet.
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"Tokrat sem risal prvič po sedmih letih.
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I feel like I had been heldpotekala underwaterpod vodo,
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Bilo je, kot da sem bil ujet pod vodo,
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and someonenekdo finallykončno reacheddosegel down
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nato pa je končno nekdo segel vanjo
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and pulledpotegnil my headglava up so I could breathedihajte."
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in me potegnil ven, da sem zadihal."
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Isn't that awesomesuper?
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Ali ni to krasno?
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(ApplauseAplavz)
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(Aplavz)
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So that's kindvrste of our battleBitka cryjokati.
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To je nekako postal naš slogan.
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That's what keepsohranja us going and keepsohranja us developingrazvoj.
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To nas motivira, da nadaljujemo in se razvijamo.
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And we'vesmo got suchtako a long way to go with this.
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Dolga pot je še pred nami.
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This is an amazingneverjetno devicenaprave,
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To je izjemen pripomoček,
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but it's the equivalentenakovredno of an EtchRezati A SketchSkica.
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a je podoben napravi Etch A Sketch.
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And someonenekdo who has that kindvrste of artisticumetniško potentialpotencial deserveszasluži so much more.
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In nekdo s takim umetniškim darom si zasluži še veliko več.
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So we're in the processproces of tryingposkušam to figureštevilka out
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Trenutno se torej ukvarjamo s tem, kako naj ustvarimo
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how to make it better, fasterhitreje, strongermočnejši.
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boljšo, hitrejšo, zmogljivejšo različico.
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SinceOd that time, we'vesmo had all kindsvrste of acknowledgmentpotrditev.
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Od tedaj smo prejeli veliko priznanj.
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We'veSmo wonzmagal a bunchkup of awardsnagrade.
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Osvojili smo veliko nagrad.
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RememberNe pozabite, it's freeprost; nonenič of us are makingizdelavo any moneydenar on this thing.
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In stvar je brezplačna, nihče od nas ni z njo zaslužil nič.
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It's all comingprihajajo out of our ownlastno pocketsžepi.
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Vse smo financirali sami.
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So the awardsnagrade were like, "Oh, this is fantasticfantastično."
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Zato smo prepričljivo osvojili nagrade.
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ArmstrongArmstrong TwitteredPiskal about us,
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Armstrong je o nas pisal na Twitterju,
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and then in DecemberDecembra, Time magazinerevija honoredpočaščen us
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decembra pa nas je časnik Time uvrstil
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as one of the topna vrh 50 inventionsizumi of 2010, whichki was really coolkul.
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med najboljših 50 izumov leta 2010, kar je res super.
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The coolestkul thing about this --
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Najboljše pri tem pa je --
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and this is what's completingdokončanje the wholeceloto circlekrog --
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kar pravzaprav sklene celoten krog --
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is that in AprilAprila of this yearleto,
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da bo aprila letos
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at the GeffenGeffen MOCAMOCA in downtowndowntown LosLos AngelesAngeles,
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v losangeleškem Muzeju sodobne umetnosti
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there's going to be an exhibitionrazstava calledpozval "ArtArt of the StreetsUlicah."
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na ogled razstava "Ulična umetnost".
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And "ArtArt of the StreetsUlicah" is going to have
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Razstava bo gostila
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prettylepa much the bad-assesslab-riti of the streetulica artumetnost scenescene --
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najboljše umetnike uličnega ustvarjanja --
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BanksyBanksy, ShepardShepard FaireyFairey, KAWSKAWS --
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Banksy, Shepard Fairey, CAWs --
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all of these guys will be there.
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vsi ti fantje bodo tam.
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TEMPT'sJe NAPELJALA going to be in the showshow,
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Sodeloval pa bo tudi TEMPT,
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whichki is prettylepa awesomesuper.
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kar je res izjemno.
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So basicallyv bistvu this is my pointtočka:
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Bistvo tega je torej:
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If you see something that's not possiblemogoče,
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ko vidite, da je nekaj nemogoče,
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make it possiblemogoče.
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naredite, da bo.
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Everything in this roomsoba wasn'tni bilo possiblemogoče --
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Vse v tej sobi --
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this stagestopnja, this computerračunalnik, this micmikrofon, the EyeWriterEyeWriter --
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ta oder, računalnik, mikrofon, EyeWriter --
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wasn'tni bilo possiblemogoče at one pointtočka.
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nekoč v preteklosti ni bilo mogoče.
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Make it possiblemogoče, everyonevsi in this roomsoba.
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Naredite stvari mogoče -- vsi.
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I'm not a programmerprogramer,
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Nisem programer,
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never doneKončano anything with ocularočesni recognitionpriznanje technologytehnologijo,
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nikoli se nisem ukvarjal s tehnologijo očesnega prepoznavanja,
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but I just recognizedpriznana something and associatedpovezan myselfjaz with amazingneverjetno people
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a nečesa sem se domislil in povezal z izjemnimi ljudmi,
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so that we could make something happense zgodi.
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da smo to lahko omogočili.
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And this is the questionvprašanje I want everyonevsi to askvprašajte yourselfsami
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Želim, da se vsi vprašate
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everyvsak singlesamski day
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vsak dan posebej,
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when you come up with something you feel that needspotrebe to be doneKončano:
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ko naletite na nekaj, za kar menite, da je potrebno narediti.
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if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?
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Kdaj, če ne zdaj? In kdo, če ne jaz?
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Thank you guys.
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Hvala vam.
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Translated by Lenka Tušar
Reviewed by Tilen Pigac - EFZG

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Mick Ebeling - Entrepreneur
Mick Ebeling founded the Not Impossible Foundation, a nonprofit that develops creative solutions to real-world problems.

Why you should listen

Raised in a family of entrepreneurs and philanthropists, Mick Ebeling is founder of the Not Impossible Foundation, an organization comprised of thinkers, dreamers, and doers, with a mission to take ideas that once seemed impossible to possible, when the right people are connected and empowered. 

After befriending ALS patient and renowned street artist Tempt, he and a team of programmers, hackers, artists and inventors developed the EyeWriter -- a low-cost eye-tracking device that allows artists with the nerve disease ALS to draw using only their eyes. Through his latest initiative, Project Daniel, he helped create a 3D-printed prosthetic lab in Sudan. His new book is Not Impossible: The Art and Joy of Doing What Couldn't Be Done.

He is also the founder of The Ebeling Group, an international production company and creative think tank, representing some of the world's leading design and directing collectives.

He says: "If not now, then when? If not me, then who?" 

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