Subtitled TEDTalk Chris Jordan 2008 Part One

Part Two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUxoLK7KFvU
Chris Jordan is an artist from Seattle, USA who wants to impress on us how our behaviour affects the world once it is multiplied to 7-digit numbers and beyond.

Dear Chris,
working on your talk was sheer ravishing pleasure. You are a skilled "master of the pause" not for eloquence's sake but to express your own need for emotional quality in life. A true "word-artist".

Find his work on his website:
http://www.chrisjordan.com/

Find more ideas worth spreading on
http://www.ted.com/

original film:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/chris_jordan_pictures_some_shocking_stats....

Here's some vocabulary for German speakers:

behaviour Verhalten
engage in sich verwickeln in
be in denial about unterdrücken
awareness Bewusstsein
anxiety Ängstlichkeit, Beunruhigung
unconscious ungewollt
spew out ausspucken
freeway interchange Autobahnkreuz
virtually buchstäblich
to dwarf s.th in den Schatten stellen
beverage Getränk
canvas Leinwand
scale reference Größenvergleich
troubling beunruhigend
incarcerate einkerkern, in Haft nehmen
nickel $ 0,05
barely kaum
laundry Wäsche
scull Schädel
reverberate nachhallen
dismiss etwas abtun

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