Ideas are only lasting if they can be captured and preserved. Everything is ephemeral, and there’s no way to get anything back once it disappears.
Read MoreCLOSE UP
A close up is the ultimate special effect, the trope that asks our complicity in telling a story so that it matters.
Read MoreTHE CHALLENGE OF ART IN INTENSELY POLITICAL TIMES
It’s a terrific development in human history that so many people should have the means and mechanisms to create images and sounds and words, but the dilution of importance for the best of those creations threatens the value and continuity of the whole enterprise.
Read MoreHOW TO COLLABORATE
To be clear, multi-tasking in the great fallacy of the age. Nonetheless, people continue to talk themselves into believing that it works, that they can do it.
Read MoreBANDERSNATCH
Bandersnatch asks us to question our own autonomy, much like the main character himself questions how and why things are happening to him in the film based on inputs from viewers, the unseen puppet masters.
Read MoreSAVE OR EJECT?
What if that seemingly irrelevant shot, blurry and showing no discernible subject, is the downstream neurological spark of some elegant surrealistic moment?
Read MoreINTERSTITIAL IS A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
Musicians are making music because music needs to be made. Music between news stories may be interstitial elements for many people, but for those who play to keep the world turning, those music bumpers are the main reason for the show.
Read MoreWANTING REALISM IS NOT REALISTIC
The reason something looks real is because a production team has gone to pains to present visuals and words and other narrative elements that suggest realism to the viewer.
Read MoreKICKIN’ IT OLD SCHOOL
When there’s no direct reliance on trust, powers of creative perception change. Obligation provokes sensitivity, and sensitivity inspires creative insight.
Read MoreMANIPULATION
To develop creative work is to manipulate. The creative process has less to do with quantification than it does with intuition. To be creative is to feel something rather than calculate something, and feelings are always subject to change.
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