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My name is Paul Greer, I work full time at BDH, making computer animation for the telly.
This is a scrapbook where I gather, research and organise things I see, find or am shown.

Including film, photos, stories, music, thought, comics, note taking, realities and math.

My update blog is here.

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monsieur rené magritte, interview

Video | | Paul Greer

via thenearsightedmonkey

Beinvenue yourself on down the rickety stairs to the Near Sighted Monkey Lounge where we are watching a film interview in French. It doesn’t matter if you understand it or not because no matter what it sounds good playing in the background and it features Monsieur Magritte speaking about mystery:

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.”

Francis Bacon on Friendship

Quote | | Paul Greer

“A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings, and suffocations, are the most dangerous in the body; and it is not much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flowers of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but no receipt openeth the heart, but a true friend; to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.”

— via BrainPickings

Abstractions

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“In Hollywood, more often than not, they’re making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone. But what’s so fantastic is to get down into areas where things are abstract and where things are felt, or understood in an intuitive way that, you can’t, you know, put a microphone to somebody at the theatre and say ‘Did you understand that?’ but they come out with a strange, fantastic feeling and they can carry that, and it opens some little door or something that’s magical and that’s the power that film has.”

— David Lynch