99% Invisible-60- Names vs The Nothing

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2012

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

New Public Sites is an investigation into some of the invisible sites and overlooked features of our everyday public spaces. These are the liminal spaces within cities that are not traditionally framed as “public space” because, quite frankly,

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.
0:03.6	There's this 80s movie that I have a real soft spot for.
0:10.5	I saw it in the theater in fact. Now I get to show it to my kids.
0:14.5	It's a good one which is a good thing because when your kids like a movie
0:18.0	you end up watching it over
0:19.8	and over again. It's called The Never Ending Story.
0:23.9	The Never Ending Story? What's that?
0:26.9	The Never Ending Story is a tale of a boy adventure or named.
0:32.1	He and his luck dragon named
0:36.6	are trying to save the world from the onslaught of a terrible force called
0:41.3	Look at real, the nothing!
0:44.5	But this story also takes place inside of a book that's being read by a present day boy.
0:49.3	A boy named.
0:53.0	Pretty much all the dialogue in the movie is written with exclamation points.
0:56.4	Anyway, so Bastion the Reader
0:58.4	realizes that he is actually written into the story and it's up to him
1:02.4	to save the storybook world.
1:05.1	Maybe he doesn't know what he has to do!
1:07.0	What do I have to do?
1:08.7	Bastion winds up defeating the nothing.
1:11.1	It's spoiler alert.
1:12.3	By giving the Empress of the Fantasy World a new name.
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