Tuesday, November 21, 2017

the important thing with devices i suppose is to use them in a good way and not to be used by them in an unconscious way. to be conscious of devices and to feel your way through them. in a way it doesn't matter if the device sticks out, you just hope it serves a purpose and doesn't just get in the way of transmitting something. anyway i started thinking how formal stanley kubrick is, and how he was thought cold, wrongly. he was deeply committed to getting everything right, but not for the sake of accuracy, but to make a world, and make it live, and he does that, he makes a world in your mind that lives and that continues to live, and to invite you back, again and again. 
oh yeah, the title on this picture was, only the mind that has emptied itself of the known is creative, which is the title of krishnaurti's quote of the day. and is curious to me, because i think, well maybe devices may allow that emptiness, if they are not just causing us to empty ourselves of our contents.  
freedom from the known is the state of a mind that is in creation. he doesn't say not knowing, but freedom. he says, ...to understand that state of mind you have to know yourself, you have to observe the process of your thinking. i think of how kubric frames, how beautifully composed his windows are. and within them the actors breathe and become themselves, their inner characters. remarkable. i think his frame is thought, and within it is freedom. 
would that all devices were used that way.

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