Caught this on Tagbanger today. I wonder what it feels like to have your eyes pointed upward all the time.
This is a video by Kate Moross (who does awesome & really punchy work) & Alex Sushon for Simian Mobile Disco. It’s really spare & geometric stuff - mostly just black & white circles but what I like is how the room that it’s staged in is being lit up so that we glipses of where its being shot. I also like how they shift the camera angle around so it’s not always straight on the projection - again giving us a little more information about the room.
Rob sent me this nice essay by Henry Alford in the New York Times about why people leave things in the pages of books.
Nice example of reduction of sight. The band’s all decked out in black body suits and what looks to be a giant snow globe.
Some quotes about seeing that my friend Jed sent my way…
One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
- G. K. Chesterton
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don’t even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces.
- Colin Neenan
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-William James
The human doesn’t see things as they are, but as he is.
-Racter
Phil passed this along a few weeks ago right after the election. It’s a great example of how repetition & juxtaposition can go a long way in telling a story.