Name: 【TED】亞當-薩維奇：我對物品的痴迷和它們講述的故事（亞當-薩維奇：我對物品的痴迷和它們講述的故事）。 (【TED】Adam Savage: My obsession with objects and the stories they tell (Adam Savage: My obsession with objects and the stories they tell))
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Duration: 15 min 39 s

About four years ago, the New Yorker published an article

譯者: zhang haohan 審譯者: Shirley Hsieh

基礎被動語態

about a cache of dodo bones that was found

大約在四年前，《紐約客》雜誌上發表了一篇文章

文章的內容是關於在馬里提斯島上的一個洞穴裡

Now, the island of Mauritius is a small island

and extinguished, all within about 150 years.

Everyone was very excited about this archaeological find,

也滅絕了，僅在短短一百五十年間

because it meant that they might finally be able

每個人對於這個考古發現都非常興奮

完整地拼湊出渡渡鳥的骨骼模型。

have dodo skeletons in their collection, nobody --

大家想想，儘管世界各地的博物館

not even the actual Natural History Museum

都收藏著渡渡鳥的骨骼模型，但是沒有人--

on the island of Mauritius -- has a skeleton that's made

包括在馬里提斯島上的自然歷史博物館也沒有

從同一隻渡渡鳥的身上收集組合出來

had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection

it was actually mummified, skin and all --

整隻渡渡鳥，包括皮膚和其他所有的部分都被風乾保存，

they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet

但館方為了節省空間，一時衝動下

然後把其他部分扔進火堆，燒為灰燼

they'll actually list these specimens, saying,

他們仍將渡渡鳥頭和腳的標本列入展品中，並指出

其他的部位在一場大火裡遺失了

The frontispiece of this article was this photo,

and I'm one of the people that thinks that Tina Brown

was great for bringing photos to the New Yorker,

我也和大家一樣認為蒂娜·布朗十分偉大

because this photo completely rocked my world.

她替《紐約客》雜誌拍攝了無數張的好照片

not just the beautiful photograph itself,

and the color, the shallow depth of field, the detail that's visible,

還有那色彩光影明暗的變換，以及那些看得到的細節

that the conservator used to put this skeleton together --

牠嘴邊的那一條鐵絲是以前管理員為了

這張照片本身就是一個完整的故事

I want to point out here at this point that

by objects and the stories that they tell,

and I found lots of reference material, lots of lovely pictures.

No dice: no dodo skeleton for me. But the damage had been done.

在此之中，我找到了很多相關的材料，很多很有意思的圖片

I had saved a few hundred photos of dodo skeletons

但是，完全沒有，沒有我想要的渡渡鳥的骨骼.逝者已矣

我在我的電腦裡的"創意計畫"的資料夾中

it's a repository for my brain, everything that I could possibly be interested in.

儲存了上百張的渡渡鳥骨骼模型照片

這是我所有感興趣東西的統一收藏處

there's a sluice of stuff moving into there,

everything from beautiful rings to cockpit photos.

The key that the Marquis du Lafayette sent to George Washington

無論是美麗的戒指還是戰鬥場的照片

to celebrate the storming of the Bastille.

The one on the top is the picture of the one I found on eBay;

the one on the bottom is the one I made for myself,

上面那一把的圖是我在eBay上找到的

because I couldn't afford the one on eBay.

Storm trooper costumes. Maps of Middle Earth --

that's one I hand-drew myself. There's the dodo skeleton folder.

星際大戰軍隊的衣服，這個中土的地圖﹣

是我自己畫的。這個是渡渡鳥骨骼模型的文件夾

And one day, a couple of weeks later, it might have been

maybe a year later, I was in the art store with my kids,

and I was buying some clay tools -- we were going to have a craft day.

或著大概有一年，有一天我跟孩子在美術用品店

I bought some Super Sculpeys, some armature wire, some various materials.

我們在買一些陶土用品--我們正準備來一個美勞日

And I looked down at this Sculpey, and I thought,

我買了一些很好的黏土，一些鐵絲和其他材料

yeah, maybe I could make my own dodo skull.

I should point out at this time -- I'm not a sculptor;

對，也許我可以自己做一個渡渡鳥的頭骨模型

但要先說明一點，我可不是雕刻家

You give me a drawing, you give me a prop to replicate,

you give me a crane, scaffolding, parts from "Star Wars" --

給我一幅畫或物品，我就可以複製出來

或著給我一個起重機，鷹架，一些星際大戰的東西

It's exactly how I made my living for 15 years.

不過，如果你給我類似這類的東西

it's a maquette for "Star Wars, Episode Two" --

this is something other people do -- dragons, soft things.

However, I felt like I had looked at enough photos of dodo skulls

這個龍還是其他黏土類的東西，是別人在行的

但是，我覺得我已經看了夠多的渡渡鳥頭骨的照片

understand the topology and perhaps replicate it --

能夠了解牠的結構並將牠複製出來

So, I started looking at the best photos I could find.

我的意思是，這應該不會那麼困難

所以，我開始尋找我所能找到最好的照片

and I found this lovely piece of reference.

it was clearly a woman's hand, hopefully a woman's hand.

Assuming it was roughly the size of my wife's hand,

這個圖明顯地是一個女人的手，希望是

I made some measurements of her thumb, and I scaled them out to the size of the skull.

假設這雙手和我妻子的大小一樣

I blew it up to the actual size, and I began using that,

我量了一下它的手指，由此計算出她骨骼的大小

along with all the other reference that I had, comparing it to it

然後把圖放大到實際大小，開始用它

【TED】亞當-薩維奇：我對物品的痴迷和它們講述的故事（亞當-薩維奇：我對物品的痴迷和它們講述的故事）。 (【TED】Adam Savage: My obsession with objects and the stories they tell (Adam Savage: My obsession with objects and the stories they tell))

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【TED】亞當-薩維奇：我對物品的痴迷和它們講述的故事（亞當-薩維奇：我對物品的痴迷和它們講述的故事）。 (【TED】Adam Savage: My obsession with objects and the stories they tell (Adam Savage: My obsession with objects and the stories they tell))

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