The Art of Noticing - by James Buckhouse
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This post explores the role of noticing in story, art, design and film. It's a long post, presented with love. Hope you enjoy.
This post was just sent as a guest post over on Design Better. Re-posting it here. I parked my left hand on my keyboard and let my fingers strum the keys, marching from the outside towards the center to tap out the four-letter nonsense phrase asdf. It’s an easy hand movement, a bit like playing the first few notes of the C-Major scale where your hand just does it without really thinking. It trills up the scale by raindropping one key after the next, naturally, easily, with a familiarity that is comforting. The phrase asdf doesn’t really mean anything. It’s a little bit of digital jetsam…
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