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This spatial fact is perhaps inherent in the process of urban or architectural planning itself, a process that involves miniaturization and scale models upon which patron and planner gaze down, exactly as if they were in a helicopter.13 There is, after all, no other way of visually imagining what a large-scale construction project will look like
... See moreProfessor James C. Scott • Seeing Like a State
Marshall McLuhan • Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
I want to take audiences back to the earliest days of cinema, when the Lumière brothers screened their film of a train pulling into a station. Apparently some people fled in panic because they were convinced they were about to be run over. I can’t confirm this; it might be a legend, but I like the story. At screenings of Fitzcarraldo I heard gasps
... See morePaul Cronin • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
The camera is an instrument of transformation. It can make what it sees more beautiful, more gruesome, milder, darker, all the while insisting on the plain reality of its depiction.
Teju Cole • Known and Strange Things
There are three unique domains we will cover: the mechanics, the orientation, and the spirit of the creative process.
Robert Fritz • The Path of Least Resistance for Artists: The Structure and Spirit of the Creative Process
There is the heart and the mind, the Puritan idea is that the mind must be master. I think the heart should be master and the mind should be the tool and servant of the heart. As it is, we give too much attention to laws and not enough to principles. The man who wants to produce art must have the emotional side first, and this must be reinforced by
... See moreRobert Henri • The Art Spirit
There is no “objectivity” in photography. As a photographer, you are a filter of reality. You decide what to include in the frame, and what not to include in the frame.