Ken Paul Rosenthal

From: David Lee (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Nov 30 2007 - 17:30:46 PST


You asked a good question and received about 39
replies.
Did any of those replies alter your thinking?
-David Lee (Washington, DC)
--- Ken Paul Rosenthal <email suppressed>
wrote:

> I've been off the list for quite some time, and have
> really enjoyed the '...black?' thread.
>
> Though much of the theorizing/pontification has been
> challenging to disseminate, the discussion has been
> very inspiring. In fact...
>
> ...in my post-alarm clock daze this morning, my face
> was only a few inches from the lamp beside my bed.
> And when i flipped it on, the light stabbed me in
> the face. And when I laid back to catch a few more
> minutes of rest, the snapshot inside my lids was a
> black line with 2 fields of white top and bottom!
>
> Now I cannot intelligently fit this into the
> discussion. However the poet in me immediately
> thought of two video fields interlacing, with each
> eyelid akin to a 'frame', and where they met akin to
> a film strip's frameline. And I considered how our
> eyes are in some way akin to the shutter mechanism
> that causes flicker on the projected image.
>
> Indeed sometimes at programs that feature flicker
> films, I get so bored that I start blinking my eyes
> rapidly, canting my head, or rapidly twiddling my
> fingers in front of me--in short, altering the
> apparatus of my body to create a more compelling
> show.
>
> Anyhow, it was fun to wake up and immediately refer
> my experience to 'Frameworks'--so aptly named.
>
> Ken
> www.kenpaulrosenthal.com
>
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                 -- Armand DiMele, psychologist and drummer (on wbai.org)

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