AS IT IS 2016-09-13 American Teenager's 'Domino' Artwork Goes Viral

AS IT IS 2016-09-13 American Teenager's 'Domino' Artwork Goes Viral

This is What’s Trending Today.

A teenager from the northeast state of New Hampshire has one of the top trending YouTube videos this week.

Lily Hevesh is known as Hevesh5 on YouTube. She is an expert at making domino art.

Dominoes are plastic rectangles¹ used in a game that is popular around the world. The rectangles are white with black dots or black with white dots. They are called tiles³.

But there is something else you can do with dominoes. You can place the dominoes upright and knock them down.

One domino falls and knocks down the next domino. The lined-up dominoes create a chain reaction. This is where the expression “domino effect” comes from.

Hevesh is a master at making complex and creative domino art projects. She uses multi-colored dominoes. When they fall down, the design changes color.

Her work has been featured in a car commercial and a popular morning television program.

On Saturday, she released a video of her latest domino project. It is called “The Amazing Triple⁴ Spiral⁵.” She made the design using 15,000 dominoes.

It took her 25 hours and eight days to complete the project, she said.

Hevesh laid the dominoes on the floor in a wide spiral pattern. The blocks are all different colors – orange, yellow, blue, red, white, and green. Some of the dominoes are stacked on top of each other.

When she knocks down the first domino, it starts the chain reaction. It lasts for about 90 seconds.

First, the dominoes on the inside part of the spiral fall. Then the dominoes climb a stairway. The dominoes standing⁶ higher up on a platform then fall. Then the platform itself falls. The platform was created by placing five layers of dominoes on top of each other.

Hevesh’s latest design quickly impressed YouTube viewers. It has been viewed almost 3.5 million times.

One viewer wrote, “I couldn’t imagine myself spending 25 hours to build that, even if I had the dominoes.”

Another wrote, “Incredible, a whole new level and very artistic⁷.”

Hevesh once told her local newspaper that the best part about making domino art is “knocking them down and seeing it was successful.”

But, not all of her projects turn out as well as her latest creation⁸.

In August, Hevesh and another domino artist worked on a huge domino tower. The artists were trying to break the world record for the tallest domino tower.

They worked for seven hours putting more than 3,000 dominoes on top of each other. The tower was almost six meters tall.

Then, Hevesh accidentally knocked over the tower. Although they did not break the world record, they still broke the American record for tallest domino tower.

And that’s What’s Trending Today.

Words in This Story

domino – n. a small flat rectangular⁹ block made of wood or plastic that has one or more dots on one side and that is used in playing games

dot – n. a small round mark

tile² – n. a small, flat piece that is used in some board games

match – v. to have the same appearance, color, etc.

chain reaction – n. a series of events in which each event causes the next one : a series of events caused by one single event

domino effect – n. a circular curving line that goes around a central point while getting closer to or farther away from it

domino effect – expression. an effect produced when one event sets off a series of similar events

spiral – n. a circular curving line that goes around a central point while getting closer to or farther away from it

stack – n. a usually neat pile : a group of things that are put one on top of the other

block – n. a solid piece of material (such as rock or wood) that has flat sides and is usually square or rectangular in shape

platform – n. a flat surface that is raised higher than the floor or ground

layer – n. a covering piece of material or a part that lies over or under another

tower – n. a tall, narrow building or structure that may stand apart from or be attached to another building or structure

1 rectangles   

n.长方形，矩形( rectangle的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The open rectangles represent typical elements of the ion fluid. 空心的矩形表示典型的离子流体元。 来自辞典例句
• Label the rectangles, and illustrate and describe how one grouping or element affects others. 为每个方块图添加上标签和注解，并描述每个分组或者元素如何影响其他分组和元素。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

2 tile   

n.砖瓦；vt.铺以瓦，铺以瓷砖

参考例句：

• The bathroom is faced with tile.浴室铺着瓷砖。
• I pointed to a number of scratches in the tile floor.我指向地板砖上的一道道划痕。

3 tiles   

n.瓦片，瓷砖( tile的名词复数 )；扁平的小棋子

参考例句：

• The wind dislodged one or two tiles from the roof. 大风从屋顶上刮下了一两片瓦来。
• On both slopes of the roof there are broken tiles. 屋顶的两面斜面都有破瓦片。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 triple   

n.三倍之数，三个一组；adj.三倍的

参考例句：

• Twelve is the triple of four.十二是四的三倍数。
• He received triple wages for all his extra work.由于额外的工作他领取了三倍的工资。

5 spiral   

adj.螺旋的；n.螺旋（线）；vi.盘旋上升（或下降）

参考例句：

• The production in this factory is spiral.这个厂的产量呈盘旋上升。
• Their profits began to spiral down disastrously.他们的利润开始螺旋形地急剧下降。

6 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

7 artistic   

adj.艺术(家)的，美术(家)的；善于艺术创作的

参考例句：

• The picture on this screen is a good artistic work.这屏风上的画是件很好的艺术品。
• These artistic handicrafts are very popular with foreign friends.外国朋友很喜欢这些美术工艺品。

8 creation   

n.创造，创造的作品，产物，宇宙，天地万物

参考例句：

• Language is the most important mental creation of man.语言是人类头脑最重要的产物。
• The creation of new playgrounds will benefit the local children.新游戏场的建立将有益于当地的儿童。

9 rectangular   

adj.矩形的，成直角的

参考例句：

• He put a rectangular box on the table.他把一个长方形的箱子放在桌子上。
• The equations are written in rectangular coordinates.这些方程是在直角座标系中写出的。