Show Me What You Got.

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I came across this sort of randomly. I’m not sure what to make of it, but these “virtual bumps” have a few characteristics which might be interesting to play around with.

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You Never Know What You’ll Find in a Book

Rob sent me this nice essay by Henry Alford in the New York Times about why people leave things in the pages of books.

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"The writer Marshall McLuhan liked to point out that of all the modes through which the human organism is endowed to participate in the world, only that of vision and its corresponding apparatus, the eye, has the capacity to focus. Our other senses are panoramic, prodigal, continuous and integrated; they overlap, seep into one another’s synapses and always deliver a world that is single and woven- an organic totality. The capacity to isolate, to intensify one element in a field at the expense of the others, to establish hierarchies by actively molding and truncating attention, lies at the root of the dissociative habits that make our modern culture of analysis- and its linear, sequential processes- possible."

taken from Sanford Kwinter’s book “Far From Equilibrium”

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

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