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So, while the NY Times reports on brain researchers developing drugs to help people forget unpleasant memories,  I'm still trying to capture memories – or rather the visual impression of memories – before the brain gets in there and starts its own editing. Read full post »

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There is a really wonderful short film, called HKG, (Gerard Holthuis, The Netherlands, 1999, 14 minutes), that I really like to show in my classes when they are thinking about working with sound and image. It includes imagery of huge jumbo jets float… Read full post »

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It’s SPRING!!

Sure, it snowed on Friday, and I still had to wear my winter parka to breakfast this morning. But it was unzipped!

There is an undeniable, nearly universal, sense of exultation at the first signs of spring. Like infatuation, it&rsq… Read full post »

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You probably don’t want to sit next to me in a movie theater. I don’t gratuitously rustle around the popcorn, or text my friends – but at some point I will have to ask a question about the plot. The kind of question that… Read full post »

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 In my neighborhood, it’s common to go to the corner for a morning coffee and find the place absolutely stuffed with tourists, invariably blocking the flow of business with their awkwardness and unfamiliarity. Or to step out of the… Read full post »