'if'... Thoughts, wrote Nietzsche, are shadows of our feelings: always darker, emptier, and simpler than these. And the written word, it strikes me, is but a shadow of our thoughts.
"Actors as action figures: Michael Snow's "*Corpus Callosum" uses video animation to comment on office life. [nyt]"
::comment:: the fluid understanding of 'actor' is fascinating ... computer generated thespians takes the profession well into the new millenium and continues a wonderful tradition from shaman to . . . action figure . . . move away from art as presentation into act as vehicle . . .
Proust wrote: "The only true voyage of discovery, the only really rejuvenating experience would not be to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees."
"In everyday life 'if' is an evasion, in the theatre 'if' is the truth. In everyday life 'if' is a fiction, in the theatre 'if' is an experiment." Peter Brook -- The Empty Space