I was doing research - looking at a variety of theoretical concepts that I could incorporate and respond to in my current projects. 

I found a book in the Library yesterday - its old and tatty but for some reason I wnated to look at it. Late,  late last night I was very tired  and I opened the book up and read the title for the first time: 

WAR AND CINEMA by Paul Virilio

I looked at the book and thought-- why did I borrow it? I am not looking in to war imagery, I have enough to do and read. Then, I looked again and realised I'd taken the book out - gambling on a vague memory about the author being important and influential. Still unsure of the books relevance to my research I again questioned my selection.

However, within my mind, a quiet voice spoke up and said -  trust yourself and just open a page and read it and I did. - As they say - let the pages fall where they lie - in listening to myself in doing so,  the first words I read, I found what I needed. It is a brilliant quote from 1916. It has already begun to reshape my thinking and I am going to write it out here..... because it is formative.

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"  In cinema there is no longer such a thing as an 'accurate' reflection. 'Everything', Wegener said in 1916, 'depends on a certain flow in which the fantastic world of the past rejoins the world of the present.'  The chaos of the non- sensory order installed itself alongside the quiet visible order of the senses. Delirious new ghostly images, having been stolen, touched up and invoked anew, could be taken and sold as the enthralling 

object of a profitable trade in appearances, or could be projected in every direction in time and space. '

"Already,' Duhamel remarked around 1930, 'I can no longer think what I like. Moving images substitute themselves for my own thoughts.'  "

These ideas are important and link in with Mc Luhan's notion of the medium is the message and Manovich's concerns for the structuring of the interface as its' action orders and shapes communication. Images are powerful and are inherently linked to ideas and sharing. Images communicate and moving images are part of the wallpaper of contemporary culture and social exchange.

These quotes led me to question my thinking about:

What structuring order will I apply to the content of my Blog and why? What questions can I pose?

How is past and present cojoined in within the text and imagery?

What can I reveal?

How is the content and structre working in relation to accuracy and revelation?

To be ACCURATE and to REVEAL are founding concepts, dare I say tenents for documentary - for it is in these concepts that documentary differentiates itself from FICTION AND FANTASY- Movies - so I believe.
What am I trying to convey and what relationship to 'accuracy or the accurate', does my work have?