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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home 1 Notifications Chat Bookmarks Profile More Tweet Changbai @ChangbaiLi Tweet See new posts Conversation Dean W. Ball @deanwball Here is a paragraph from a manifesto on experimental cinema that I read in college and which comes to my mind almost literally every single day when I do my work: “Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "Green"? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations in heat waves can that eye be? Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of color. Imagine a world before the beginning was the w

Dean W. Ball @deanwball Here is a paragraph from a manifesto on experimental cinema that I read in college and which comes to my mind almost literally every single day when I do my work: “Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of "Green"? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye? How aware of variations

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