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Raghava KK: My 5 lives as an artist
Raghava KK：一位艺术家的五种生活
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拥有讨人喜爱的真诚和弱点，Raghava KK讲述了一段多姿多彩的经历：艺术怎样改变了他的生活，这些生活经历又是怎样重新塑造他成为一个艺术家——从漫画家到油画家，从媒体宠儿到社会弃儿，从儿子到父亲。
Raghava KK - Artist
Raghava KK's paintings and drawings use cartoonish shapes and colors to examine the body, society, our world. Full bio
Raghava KK's paintings and drawings use cartoonish shapes and colors to examine the body, society, our world. Full bio
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I think it was in my second grade that I was caught
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大概是在我小学二年级的时候
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drawing the bust of a nude by Michelangelo.
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有一次在课上临描米开朗基罗的作品半身裸像被发现了。
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I was sent straight away to my school principal,
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我被直接叫去了校长室，
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and my school principal, a sweet nun,
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我的校长是个慈祥的修女。
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looked at my book with disgust,
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她对我的画册显然很反感，
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flipped through the pages, saw all the nudes --
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一页一页翻过去，看到了那些裸体画像——
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you know, I'd been seeing my mother draw nudes and I'd copy her --
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其实，你知道的，我只是模仿我妈妈画那些——
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and the nun slapped me on my face and said,
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那个修女打了我一耳光，说：
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"Sweet Jesus, this kid has already begun."
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“上帝呀，这孩子已经开始变坏了。”
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I had no clue what she was talking about,
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我当时根本不知道她在说什么，
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but it was convincing enough for me never to draw again
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我也直到九年级（中国的初三），
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until the ninth grade.
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才又一次说服自己去画画。
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Thanks to a really boring lecture,
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这得感谢一次无聊的课程，
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I started caricaturing my teachers in school.
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我开始画学校老师的漫画肖像。
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And, you know, I got a lot of popularity.
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你知道的，因为这个我变得更受欢迎了。
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I don't play sports. I'm really bad at sports.
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我不怎么运动。我特别不擅长体育。
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I don't have the fanciest gadgets at home.
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我家里也没有那些时髦先进的电子产品。
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I'm not on top of the class.
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我也不是班上的前几名。
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So for me, cartooning gave me a sense of identity.
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对我来说，卡通画给了我强烈的认同感。
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I got popular, but I was scared I'd get caught again.
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我受大家欢迎，但也害怕再被老师抓到。
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So what I did was I quickly put together
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所以我就很快地
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a collage of all the teachers I had drawn,
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把所有老师们的漫画像都画到一起，
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glorified my school principal, put him right on top,
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美化了一下校长（把他放在最顶端），
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and gifted it to him.
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然后把漫画送给了他。
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He had a good laugh at the other teachers
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他看了其他老师的漫画像笑了很久，
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and put it up on the notice board.
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把这漫画放在了告示板上。
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(Laughter)
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（笑声）
01:29
This is a part of that.
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这是其中一部分。
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And I became a school hero.
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然后我成了学校的英雄。
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All my seniors knew me. I felt really special.
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所有的学长都认识我。我觉得自己很特别。
01:36
I have to tell you a little bit about my family.
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我得告诉你们一些我家人的事情。
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That's my mother. I love her to bits.
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这是我妈妈。我爱她的全部。
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She's the one who taught me how to draw and, more importantly, how to love.
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她告诉我怎样绘画，更重要的是，怎么去爱。
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She's a bit of a hippie.
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她有点嬉皮。
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She said, "Don't say that," but I'm saying it anyway.
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她总叫我别说，哈哈我还是要这么说。
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The rest of my family are boring academics,
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我的其他家人都是挺无聊的学术型，
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busy collecting Ivy League decals for our classic Ambassador car.
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他们为了拥有经典的大使牌汽车而忙于考取常青藤盟校。
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My father's a little different.
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我爸爸有点不同。
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My father believed in a holistic approach to living,
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他觉得人应该更全面、整体地看待生活，
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and, you know, every time he taught us,
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他每次教导我们的时候，
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he'd say, "I hate these books,
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都说：“我讨厌那些书，
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because these books are hijacked by Industrial Revolution."
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他们都被工业革命控制束缚住了！”
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While he still held that worldview, I was 16,
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当他还享有那个世界观的时候，我十六岁。
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I got the best lawyer in town,
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我请求镇上最好的律师作证，
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my older brother Karthik,
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我哥哥Karthik和我，
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and I sat him down, and I said, "Pa,
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让我爸爸坐下，然后我说：“爸爸，
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from today onwards I've decided
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从今以后我决定了，
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I'm going to be disciplined,
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我要守规矩，
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I'm going to be curious,
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我要保持好奇心，
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I'm going to learn something new every day,
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我每天都要学些新的东西，
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I'm going to be very hard working,
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我会很努力，
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and I'm not going to depend on you
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而且我不会依赖你了，
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emotionally or financially."
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精神上，经济上。”
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And he was very impressed. He was all tearing up. Ready to hug me.
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他听了之后很感动，泪流满面，还准备拥抱我。
02:35
And I said, "Hold that thought."
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然后我说：“等一下，
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I said, "Can I quit school then?"
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那我能退学了吗？”
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But, to cut a long story short,
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后来，长话短说，
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I quit school to pursue a career as a cartoonist.
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我退学了，专职画卡通画。
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I must have done about 30,000 caricatures.
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我大概花了三万幅卡通画。
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I would do birthday parties, weddings, divorces,
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我会为生日会、结婚、离婚画画，
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anything for anyone who wanted to use my services.
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会为任何人、任何事情画。
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But, most importantly, while I was traveling,
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但最重要的是，当我在旅行的时候，
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I taught children cartooning,
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我教孩子们画卡通画，
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and in exchange, I learned how to be spontaneous.
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同样地，我也变得更自然纯真，
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And mad and crazy and fun.
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痴迷，疯狂和有趣。
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When I started teaching them, I said let me start doing this professionally.
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当我开始教他们的时候，我说：“这就是我的职业了。”
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When I was 18 I started my own school.
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十八岁的时候我开办了自己的学校。
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However, an 18 year-old trying to start a school
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但是，一个十八岁的人要想办学校，
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is not easy unless you have a big patron
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不是件容易的事情，除非你拉到一大笔赞助，
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or a big supporter.
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或者有个很厉害的支持者。
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So I was flipping through the pages of the Times of India
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所以我翻了翻印度时报，
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when I saw that the Prime Minister of India
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发现印度总理那时候
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was visiting my home town, Bangalore.
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正好在我的家乡，班加罗尔访问。
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And, you know, just like how
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就像所有这里（美国）的卡通画家
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every cartoonist knows Bush here,
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都知道布什总统一样，
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and if you had to meet Bush,
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如果你能见到布什，
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it would be the funnest thing because
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那将会是最有趣的事情，
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his face was a cartoonist's delight.
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因为他的脸就是卡通画家的最爱。
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I had to meet my Prime Minister.
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我必须去见我们的总理！
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I went to the place where
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我去了
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his helicopter was about to land.
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他的直升飞机要着陆的地方。
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I saw layers of security.
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我看见一排一排的警戒、保镖。
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I caricatured my way through three layers
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我用漫画生动地画了三排警卫们，
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by just impressing the guards,
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他们看了之后特别喜欢，
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but I got stuck. I got stuck at the third.
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但我还是卡在了第三排。
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And what happened was, to my luck,
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幸运地是，
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I saw a nuclear scientist
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我看见了一个原子科学家，
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at whose party I had done cartoons.
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我曾经在他的派对上画过卡通画。
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I ran up to him, and said, "Hello, sir. How do you do?"
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我跑过去和他说：“你好先生。最近怎么样？”
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He said, "What are you doing here, Raghava?"
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他说：“你来这里做什么呀，Raghava？”
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I said, "I'm here to meet the Prime Minister."
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我说：“我是来见总理的。”
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He said, "Oh, so am I."
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他说：“哦，我也是。”
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I hopped into his car, and off we went
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我跳上了他的车，
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through the remaining layers of security.
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然后我们顺利通过了剩下的所有安保警戒。
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(Applause)
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（掌声）
04:11
Thank you.
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谢谢。
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I sat him down, I caricatured him,
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我让总理坐下，给他画了漫画肖像。
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and since then I've caricatured hundreds of celebrities.
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从那以后我画了成百上千的名人。
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This is one I remember fondly.
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这一幅我记得很清楚。
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Salman Rushdie was pissed-off I think
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Salman Rshdie肯定气死了。
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because I altered the map of New York, if you notice.
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不知道你有没有注意，我把纽约的地图做了些改动。
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(Laughter)
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（笑声）
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Anyway, the next slide I'm about to show you --
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下一张幻灯片——
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(Laughter)
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（笑声）
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Should I just turn that off?
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我是不是应该把它关掉？
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The next slide I'm about to show you,
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下一张幻灯片
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is a little more serious.
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是稍微严肃一些的。
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I was hesitant to include this in my presentation
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我一开始有些犹豫到底应不应该把它放在演讲里。
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because this cartoon was published
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因为这幅卡通画
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soon after 9/11.
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是在911后不久面世的。
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What was, for me, a very naive observation,
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这对我来说，其实是一个很天真的视角，
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turned out to be a disaster.
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但它最后变成了一个灾难。
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That evening, I came home to hundreds of hate mails,
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那天晚上，我收到了上百封愤怒的邮件。
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hundreds of people telling me how they
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几百个人都在告诉我
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could have lived another day without seeing this.
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他们没法忍受这幅画。
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I was also asked to leave the organization,
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我被要求退出一个组织，
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a cartoonists' organization in America,
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一个美国的卡通画家组织，
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that for me was my lifeline.
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它就像我的生命。
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That's when I realized, you know, cartoons are really powerful,
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那时候我才明白，卡通画的力量是多么强大，
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art comes with responsibility.
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艺术是伴着责任而来的。
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Anyway, what I did was I decided
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后来，我决定
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that I need to take a break.
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给自己放个假。
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I quit my job at the papers, I closed my school,
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我辞去了报社的工作，关掉了学校，
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and I wrapped up my pencils and my brushes and inks,
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把画笔和墨水收好，
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and I decided to go traveling.
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我决定去旅行。
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When I went traveling, I remember,
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我记得，在旅行的途中，
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I met this fabulous old man,
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我碰到了一位伟大的老人，
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who I met when I was caricaturing,
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我是在画画的时候碰见他的。
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who turned out to be an artist, in Italy.
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原来他是个意大利的画家。
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He invited me to his studio. He said, "Come and visit."
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他邀请我去他的画室，说：“过来看看吧。”
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When I went, I saw the ghastliest thing ever.
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我在那里看到了我见过最恐怖的东西。
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I saw this dead, naked effigy of himself
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我看到一个他自己的、死去的裸体雕像
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hanging from the ceiling.
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挂在天花板上。
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I said, "Oh, my God. What is that?"
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我说：“天哪，那是什么？”
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And I asked him, and he said,
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我问了他，他说：
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"Oh, that thing? In the night, I die.
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“哦，那个东西？夜晚，我死了。
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In the morning, I am born again."
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早晨，我会复活过来。”
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I thought he was koo koo,
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我觉得他有点诡异，
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but something about that really stuck.
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但那个雕像一直留存在我脑海里，
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I loved it. I thought there was something really beautiful about that.
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我喜欢它。我觉得它有一种不同寻常的美。
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So I said, "I am dead, so I need to be born again."
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所以我对自己说：“我死了。所以我得重生。”
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So, I wanted to be a painter like him,
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所以我立下志愿，要成为他那样的画家。
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except, I don't know how to paint.
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不过，我还不知道怎么画油画。
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So, I tried going to the art store.
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我去了艺术品商店。
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You know, there are a hundred types of brushes.
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那里有上百种画笔。
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Forget it, they will confuse you
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即使你知道如何绘画，忘了吧，那些画笔也会使你措手不及，
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even if you know how to draw.
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那些画笔也会使你措手不及。
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So I decided, I'm going to learn to paint by myself.
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所以我决定了，我要自己学习油画。
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I'm going to show you a very quick clip
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我会播放一个很短的片段，
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to show you how I painted and a little bit
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是关于我如何绘画的，
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about my city, Bangalore.
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你还会了解一些我住的地方，班加罗尔。
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(Music)
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（音乐）
06:57
They had to be larger than life.
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这些画作比生活中的都要大。
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Everything had to be larger. The next painting was even bigger.
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所有的东西都得画得很大。下一幅画更大。
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And even bigger.
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更大。
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And for me it was, I had to dance while I painted.
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所以我作画的时候不得不跳起舞来。
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It was so exciting.
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我非常兴奋。
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Except, I even started painting dancers.
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除此之外，我还开始画舞蹈家。
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Here for example is a Flamenco dancer,
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比方说这个，这是个弗拉门戈舞者。
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except there was one problem.
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但是有一个问题。
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I didn't know the dance form, so I started following them,
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我不会跳这种舞，所以我开始跟他们学。
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and I made some money,
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我
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sold my paintings and would rush off
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卖了我的画赚了些钱，
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to France or Spain and work with them.
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然后就冲到法国和西班牙去和他们一起工作。
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That's Pepe Linares, the renowned Flamenco singer.
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这是个有名的弗拉门戈歌手舞者Pepe Linares。
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But I had one problem, my paintings never danced.
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但我有个问题，那就是我的画不能跳舞。
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As much energy as I put into them
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不管我花了多少精力，
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while making them, they never danced.
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他们都无法跳舞。
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So I decided -- I had this crazy epiphany at two in the morning.
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所以我决定——那是个凌晨两点的疯狂想法——
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I called my friends, painted on their bodies,
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我找来了我的朋友，在她们身上作画。
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and had them dance in front of a painting.
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然后让她们在一幅画前面跳舞。
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And, all of a sudden, my paintings came alive.
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突然之间，我的画活动起来了。
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And then I was fortunate enough
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非常幸运的是，
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to actually perform this in California with Velocity Circus.
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我真的就和Velocity马戏团在加利福尼亚表演了这个节目。
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And I sat like you guys there in the audience.
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我当时就像你们一样坐在观众席，
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And I saw my work come alive.
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然后看着我的画被赋予生命。
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You know, normally you work in isolation,
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通常，我们都是一个人创作，
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and you show at a gallery,
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把作品在画廊展出，
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but here, the work was coming alive,
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但这一次，我的画被赋予生命，
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and it had some other artists working with me.
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而且还有其他艺术家和我一起。
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The collaborative effort was fabulous.
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合作的成果真是好极了。
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I said, I'm going to collaborate with anybody and everybody I meet.
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我对自己说，我得和见到的每个人合作。
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I started doing fashion.
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于是我开始设计服装。
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This is a fashion show we held in London.
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这是我们在伦敦的一个时装秀。
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The best collaboration, of course, is with children.
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最好的合作当然是和孩子们一起。
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They are ruthless, they are honest,
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他们是硬心肠的，诚实的，
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but they're full of energy and fun.
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但同时又总是充满活力和童趣。
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This is a work, a library I designed for the Robin Hood Foundation.
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这是我为Robin Hood基金会设计的图书馆。
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And I must say, I spent time in the Bronx
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我必须得说，我花了很多时间
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working with these kids.
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在Bronx区和孩子们一起工作。
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And, in exchange for me working with them,
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这换来的是，
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they taught me how to be cool.
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他们告诉我了怎样变得更酷。
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I don't think I've succeeded, but they've taught me.
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我不觉得自己成功了。但他们告诉我：
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They said, "Stop saying sorry. Say, my bad."
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“别总说‘抱歉’，说‘我的错’（更口语化的说法）。”
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(Laughter)
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（笑声）
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Then I said, all this is good,
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然后我又对自己说：“我做的这些都好极了。
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but I want to paint like a real painter.
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但我要像一个真正的画家一样画油画。”
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American education is so expensive.
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美国的教育太贵了。
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I was in India, and I was walking down the streets,
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我走在印度街头，
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and I saw a billboard painter.
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看到了一个画广告牌的画家。
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And these guys paint humongous paintings,
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这些人都是创作巨幅绘画的，
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and they look really good.
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它们看起来非常漂亮。
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And I wondered how they did it from so close.
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我很好奇他们是怎么站在如此近的地方完成作品的。
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So, one day I had the opportunity to meet one of these guys,
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所以，当我终于有一天碰到一个画家的时候，
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and I said, "How do you paint like that? Who taught you?"
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我问他：“你是怎么做到的？谁教你的？”
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And he said, "Oh, it's very easy. I can teach you,
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他说：“哦那很简单。我教你。
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but we're leaving the city,
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但我们正要离开这座城市，
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because billboard painters are a dying,
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因为广告牌画家
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extinct bunch of artists,
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并不常见，他们大多都没了饭碗。
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because digital printing has totally replaced them and hijacked them."
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因为数码印刷彻底替代了他们。”
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I said, in exchange for education in how to paint,
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我说：“作为对你教我画画的回报，
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I will support them, and I started a company.
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我会支持你们。”于是我开了一家公司。
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And since then, I've been painting all over the place.
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从那以后，我到哪里都会画画。
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This is a painting I did of my wife in my apartment.
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这是我为太太在我的公寓里画的。
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This is another painting.
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这是另一幅。
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And, in fact, I started painting on anything,
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我开始尝试在任何材料上作画，
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and started sending them around town.
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并把它们送到镇上的各个角落。
09:45
Since I mentioned my wife, the most important collaboration
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对了，说起我的太太，Netra，
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has been with her, Netra.
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我和她的合作是最重要的。
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Netra and I met when she was 18.
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Netra是在她十八岁的时候遇见我的，
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I must have been 19 and a half then,
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我那时候十九岁半吧。
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and it was love at first sight.
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我们俩是一见钟情。
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I lived in India. She lived in America.
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我住在印度。她住在美国。
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She'd come every two months to visit me,
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她每两个月来看我一次。
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and then I said I'm the man,
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后来我对她说：“我是男人
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I'm the man, and I have to reciprocate.
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我是真正的男人，我得付出同等的爱。
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I have to travel seven oceans, and I have to come and see you.
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我得穿过七片海域，去见你。”
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I did that twice, and I went broke.
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我只坚持了两次就破产了。
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So then I said, "Nets, what do I do?"
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于是我对她说：“Nets，我该怎么办？”
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She said, "Why don't you send me your paintings?
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她说：“为什么不把你的画寄给我？
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My dad knows a bunch of rich guys.
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我爸爸认识一些有钱人。
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We'll try and con them into buying it,
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我们可以试着说服他们去买。
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and then..."
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然后……”
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But it turned out, after I sent the works to her,
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但是最后，我把画寄给她之后，
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that her dad's friends,
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发现她父亲的朋友们，
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like most of you, are geeks.
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就像在座的大多数一样，都是电脑狂人。
10:34
I'm joking.
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开玩笑的。
10:36
(Laughter)
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（笑声）
10:40
No, they were really big geeks,
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他们真的是电脑狂人，
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and they didn't know much about art.
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他们不怎么懂艺术。
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So Netra was stuck with 30 paintings of mine.
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这样Netra那里就积压了我的30幅画。
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So what we did was we rented a little van
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我们就租了一辆小货车，
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and we drove all over the east coast trying to sell it.
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跑遍整个东海岸想卖掉它。
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She contacted anyone and everyone
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她联系了所有
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who was willing to buy my work.
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愿意买我画的人。
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She made enough money, she sold off the whole collection
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她卖掉了所有的画，赚了足够多的钱，
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and made enough money to move me for four years
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那些钱足够让我搬过去住四年，
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with lawyers, a company, everything,
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还有律师费，公司，所有的东西。
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and she became my manager.
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她成了我的经理人。
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That's us in New York.
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这是我们在纽约。
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Notice one thing,
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注意，
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we're equal here.
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我们在这里是平等的。
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Something happened along the line.
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这里却有所变化。
11:18
(Laughter)
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（笑声）
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But this brought me -- with Netra managing my career --
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但有了Netra的帮助，
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it brought me a lot of success.
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我获得了巨大的成功。
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I was really happy. I thought of myself as a bit of a rockstar.
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我非常开心，觉得自己像个摇滚明星了。
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I loved the attention.
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我喜欢被大家关注。
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This is all the press we got, and we said,
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这些都是媒体的报道，我们就说：
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it's time to celebrate.
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“庆祝吧！”
11:36
And I said that the best way to celebrate is to marry Netra.
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我想最好的方式就是把Netra娶回家。
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I said, "Let's get married."
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我对她说：“我们结婚吧。”
11:41
And I said, "Not just married. Let's invite everyone who's helped us,
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我还说：“不仅是结婚登记，我们得把所有帮助过我们的人都请来，
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all the people who bought our work."
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所有买过我们作品的人。”
11:47
And you won't believe it, we put together a list of 7,000 people,
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你一定不会相信，
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who had made a difference -- a ridiculous list,
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我们列了一个7000人的重要客人名单，这真是不可思议，
11:53
but I was determined to bring them to India, so --
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但我决心要把他们都带到印度，当然
11:55
a lot of them were in India.
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很多人当时就在印度。
11:57
150 artists volunteered to help me with my wedding.
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150个艺术家自愿帮我们办婚礼。
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We had fashion designers, installation artists,
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他们中有时装设计师，装置艺术家，
12:05
models, we had makeup artists, jewelry designers,
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模特，化妆师，珠宝设计师，
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all kinds of people working with me
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各种各样的人。
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to make my wedding an art installation.
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他们都把我的婚礼变成了一个艺术装置。
12:13
And I had a special installation in tribute to my in-laws.
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我还有一个献给Netra父母的特别礼物。
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I had the vegetable carvers work on that for me.
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还有一个蔬菜雕刻家帮我做了这个。
12:21
But all this excitement led
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媒体报道了所有这一切激动人心的
12:23
to the press writing about us.
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婚事。
12:25
We were in the papers, we're still in the news three years later,
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我们上了报纸，三年之后还有关于此报道。
12:28
but, unfortunately, something tragic happened right after.
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但不幸地是，悲剧随后便发生了。
12:33
My mother fell very ill.
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我母亲病得很重。
12:35
I love my mother
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我爱她。
12:37
and I was told all of a sudden that she was going to die.
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有一天突然有人和我说她快去世了。
12:40
And they said you have to say bye to her,
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他们和我说你必须得和她告别。
12:42
you have to do what you have to do.
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你必须得这么做。
12:44
And I was devastated.
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我伤心欲绝。
12:46
I had shows booked up for another year.
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我的画展已经有预约到第二年，
12:48
I was on a high.
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我正处于事业的顶峰。
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And I couldn't. I could not.
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但我不能开画展。我真的不行。
12:52
My life was not exuberant.
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我没那精力了。
12:54
I could not live this larger than life person.
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我没法继续实现伟大的梦想了。
12:57
I started exploring the darker abscesses of the human mind.
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我开始探索人性的黑暗一面。
13:01
Of course, my work turned ugly,
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当然了，我的画不那么鲜艳漂亮了，
13:04
but another thing happened.
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而且，
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I lost all my audiences.
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我失去了客户。
13:09
The Bollywood stars who I would party with
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那些以前常和我去参加聚会的
13:12
and buy my work disappeared.
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宝莱坞演员也不见了。
13:15
The collectors, the friends, the press,
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收藏家，朋友，媒体，
13:17
everyone said, "Nice, but thank you."
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所有人都和我说：“挺好的，但是……谢谢。”
13:20
"No thank you," was more like it.
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“不，谢谢”可能更能表达他们的意思。
13:22
But I wanted people to actually
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但我更想
13:24
feel my work from their gut,
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让人们从内心真正理解我的作品。
13:26
because I was painting it from my gut.
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因为我就是用心绘画的。
13:28
If they wanted beauty,
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如果他们想要美丽，
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I said, this is the beauty I'm willing to give you. It's politicized.
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我会说，这就是我想给你们的美丽。是带政治色彩的。
13:33
Of course, none of them liked it.
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当然，没有人喜欢。
13:35
My works also turned autobiographical.
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我的作品也开始倾向自传性质。
13:39
At this point, something else happened.
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那个时候，还有件事情也发生了。
13:42
A very, very dear friend of mine
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那就是我非常，非常，非常好的朋友
13:44
came out of the closet,
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出柜了，
13:46
and in India at that time, it was illegal to be gay,
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而那时候在印度，同性恋是违法的。
13:49
and it's disgusting to see how people respond to a gay person.
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你无法想象人们怎么对待一个同性恋。
13:53
I was very upset.
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我很愤怒。
13:55
I remember the time when my mother used to dress me up
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我想起我妈妈曾经
13:58
as a little girl -- that's me there --
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把我打扮成一个小女孩——那就是我——
14:01
because she wanted a girl, and she has only boys.
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因为她想要一个女孩，但家里只有男孩子。
14:04
(Laughter)
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（笑声）
14:11
Anyway, I don't know what my friends are going to say after this talk.
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我不知道我的朋友们看完这个演讲之后会说什么。
14:15
It's a secret.
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这是个秘密。
14:17
So, after this, my works turned a little violent.
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总之，这之后我的作品变得有点暴力。
14:23
I talked about this masculinity that one need not perform.
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我说到阳刚之气是人需要而不是表现出来的。
14:27
And I talked about the weakness of male sexuality.
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我还提到男性的性弱点。
14:30
This time, not only did my collectors disappear,
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这一次，不仅我的收藏家消失了，
14:33
the political activists decided to ban me
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连那些政治活动家也决定封杀我，
14:37
and to threaten me
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恐吓我，
14:39
and to forbid me from showing.
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禁止我办任何展览。
14:41
It turned nasty, and I'm a bit of a chicken.
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这糟透了。我也有点畏缩。
14:43
I can't deal with any threat. This was a big threat.
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我害怕任何形式的威胁恐吓。那很严重。
14:46
So, I decided it was time
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当时我想，
14:49
to end and go back home.
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是时候卷铺盖回家了。
14:52
This time I said let's try something different.
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这一次我得尝试些不同的东西。
14:54
I need to be reborn again.
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我得重生。
14:56
And I thought the best way, as most of you know who have children,
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我觉得最好的方式，你们中有孩子的人应该明白，
14:59
the best way to have a new lease on life,
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就是给自己一个新机会——
15:01
is to have a child.
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有一个孩子。
15:03
I decided to have a child,
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我决定要个孩子。
15:05
and before I did that, I quickly studied what can go wrong.
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在那之前我很快地想了想可能犯的错误。
15:08
How can a family get dysfunctional?
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一个家庭是怎样出乱子的？
15:11
And Rudra was born.
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后来Rudra就出生了。
15:13
That's my little son.
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这就是我可爱的儿子。
15:15
And two magical things happened after he was born.
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他出生之后，两个奇迹发生了。
15:17
My mother miraculously recovered
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第一，我母亲在经历一系列重大手术之后，
15:19
after a serious operation,
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奇迹般地康复了。
15:22
and this man was elected president of this country.
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然后这个人当选了美国总统。
15:26
You know I sat at home and I watched.
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我当时是在家看选举结果的。
15:28
I teared up and I said that's where I want to be.
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我流泪了，我想这就是我要去的地方。
15:31
So Netra and I wound up our life,
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所以Netra和我准备开始一段新生活，
15:34
closed up everything we had,
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我们停下了以前做的所有事情，
15:36
and we decided to move to New York.
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搬到了纽约。
15:38
And this was just eight months ago.
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那仅仅是八个月前的事。
15:40
I moved back to New York, my work has changed.
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我搬到了纽约，画的风格也变了。
15:42
Everything about my work has become more whimsical.
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我的作品变得更加异想天开。
15:46
This one is called "What the Fuck Was I Thinking?"
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这幅叫做“我到底在想些什么？”
15:49
It talks about mental incest.
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它是关于心理上的乱伦的。
15:52
You know, I may appear to be a very nice, clean, sweet boy.
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你可能觉得我看上去像个善良，干净，可爱的小男孩。
15:56
But I'm not. I'm capable of thinking anything.
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但我不是。我什么都能想得出来。
15:59
But I'm very civil in my action, I assure you.
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但我保证我的行为还是很文明的。
16:02
(Laughter)
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（笑声）
16:05
These are just different cartoons.
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这只是不同的漫画。
16:07
And, before I go, I want to tell you a little story.
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在我离开之前，我想告诉大家一个小故事。
16:10
I was talking to mother and father this morning,
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我今天早上和我爸妈聊了会儿天。
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and my dad said, "I know you have so much you want to say,
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我爸说：“我知道你有好多东西要说，
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but you have to talk about your work with children."
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但你一定得说说和孩子们工作的经历。”
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So I said, okay.
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我说好。
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I work with children all over the world,
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我和世界各地的孩子们工作。
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and that's an entirely different talk,
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那就是个完全不同的演讲了。
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but I want to leave you with one story
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但我想在离开前说一个故事，
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that really, really inspired me.
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一个真正激励我的故事。
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I met Belinda when she was 16.
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我认识Belinda的时候她16岁，
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I was 17.
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我17岁。
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I was in Australia,
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我当时在澳大利亚。
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and Belinda had cancer,
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Belinda得了癌症，
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and I was told she's not going to live very long.
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别人说她不久就会离开人世了。
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They, in fact, told me three weeks.
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其实他们告诉我她只剩三个礼拜。
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I walk into her room, and there was a shy girl,
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我走进了她的房间，她是个很内向的女孩。
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and she was bald, and she was trying to hide her baldness.
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她没有头发，她自己想极力掩饰这一点。
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I whipped out my pen, and I started drawing on her head
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我拿出我的笔，开始在她的头上画画。
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and I drew a crown for her.
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我给她画了一个皇冠。
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And then, we started talking, and we spent a lovely time --
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后来我们就开始聊天了。那非常愉快。
16:58
I told her how I ended up in Australia,
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我告诉她我怎么会来澳大利亚的，
17:00
how I backpacked and who I conned, and how I got a ticket,
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我怎么收拾行装的，怎么骗人的，又是怎么拿到机票的，
17:03
and all the stories.
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所有那些故事。
17:05
And I drew it out for her.
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后来我给她画了幅画。
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And then I left.
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然后我走了。
17:10
Belinda died
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Belinda离开了人世。
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and within a few days of her death,
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之后没几天，
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they published a book for her,
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有人帮她出版了一本书。
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and she used my cartoon on the cover.
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她用我的卡通画做了封面，
17:22
And she wrote a little note, she said,
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她还写了一小段话：
17:24
"Hey Rags, thank you for the magic carpet ride around the world."
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你好Rags，谢谢你和你的神奇魔毯带我环游世界。
17:27
For me, my art is my magic carpet ride.
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对我来说，艺术就是我的神奇魔毯。
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I hope you will join me in this magic carpet ride,
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我希望你也能踩上这块神奇魔毯，
17:33
and touch children and be honest.
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触动感染孩子们，做个真诚的人。
17:35
Thank you so much.
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非常感谢。
17:37
(Applause)
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Raghava KK - ArtistRaghava KK's paintings and drawings use cartoonish shapes and colors to examine the body, society, our world.
Why you should listen
Raghava KK began his career in art as a newspaper cartoonist, and the cartoonist’s bold line -- and dead-on eye for truth -- still powers his art. His work spans painting, sculpture, installation, film and iPad art, always linked by his challenging opinions on identity, conformity, gender, celebrity, ceremony. (He even views his lavish Indian wedding as a piece of performance art.)
His early work as a painter made a complete break with his cartoon career -- he painted watercolors on canvas using only his hands and feet. Since then, his work has grown to knit together aesthetics from both worlds, as collage and complication play against flat color and precise lines. He shows in galleries and performance spaces around the world and often collaborates with other artists, most recently with musicians Paul Simon and Erykah Badu. In 2011, he launched his children's iPad book, Pop-it, shaking up the concept of an ideal family. He is currently working on a project that promises to shake up everything! From news to education.
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