When synthesizers came, many musicians were amazed because “it can mimic any other instruments!”. But of course some guys began to use them for their own possibilities. Isn’t there a tool here?
When something new comes, use it as a tool to go elsewhere and explore, instead of planting it in the old soil – though it could work too, right?
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Fraternity between those who don’t play the game.
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Oblivion makes you disappear. Fame imprisons in a genre.
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Some loss of balance can lead someone to go through their ideas.
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Some police investigators are just logical and thorough. Some others have diagnostical impressionism : they have a “clinical sense” which is continuously plugged to the world and human beings…
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Rain is happy to meet grass
Grass is happy to meet rain
Claude Roy
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What helps us in friendship is not much the help that friends give us, but the trust we have in this help.
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What is the height of distress, or hardship? To not be surprised by anything.
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Maskenfreiheit, the freedom of the mask
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The Five Obstructions, Lars von Trier and Jørgen Leth, 2003
In this underrated film the iconoclastic Danish director Lars von Trier challenges experimental film-maker Jørgen Leth to remake one of his earlier films, The Perfect Human, five times, each time with a different creative constraint. The first “obstruction” imposed by von Trier, for example, was that the film had to be made in Cuba, using shots of no more than 12 frames. Another was that it had to be made as a cartoon. It’s basically these two creative egos going up against each other and it gives a fascinating insight into the film-making process, what goes on in a director’s head and how you cope with stress and constraint and challenge. It’s delicious and playful and there’s never a dull moment watching these two maestros needling each other.
Who will you ask to obstruct your work? What for?
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