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October 02, 2006
Video Black comments
The part on the discovery of the Laws of Linear Perspective was illuminating. I would love to study those laws as my marker-on-velum drawings seem very flat. I think it's because I never learned to draw things like boxes or cups in 3-D, so I don't know how to set up vanishing points, sight lines etc. that give a deep sense of depth.
"Duration is the medium that makes thought possible, therefore duration is to consciousness as light is to eye" struck me. Is this so? I need more here...
The still image being the "root of the cinematic process" which is a "mental process" I found very important to reconsider, especially as we are creating still environment scenes that could become animated environments in a movie or game.
if the "whole does not exist" of a video, except in a storage state, then digital files of videos are like camping food waiting for a cup of water to reconsitiute them into food.
This seems to not fit with people's memories of video or film being a flowing additional "edit" to the piece. We do not remember every frame. We all remember different parks of different scenes. The author speaks of "The concreteness of individual experience," but I see no concrete in indivisual's experience. They are all a wet, organic mass of endless shifting, changing, sets of observations that can be changed by time, other people's observations, etc.
The concrete to me is in the original file, reel, or tape.
Posted by Caleb Clark at October 2, 2006 12:24 PM