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Most of you know my philosophy on science and art, beauty and simplicity in engineering, etc. and since i'm not caffinated enough at the moment to speak eloquently on the subject right now, if you don't know and would like to, ask me later.

anyways, i've been reading about digital film editing, well, because that's what i work on. and i came across some pretty interesting sentiments that i'd like to record here, mainly in case i loose my paper later. bear with me, if you find this stuff insanely boring, stop reading now. don't say i didn't warn you.

From Notes on Digital Film Editing:

"The aim is no longer to produce somthing, but to allow scope for the gesture of creation itself." -- Vilem Flusser, 1995

"There is a temptation to indulge in technology and hide behing the novelties of engineering."

"There may be a thin border line between technological inquisitiveness and the becoming immune to experience by indulgin in meaningless chatter."

"Aesthetic inquiry feeds on the experience of contradiction and on grappling with irresolvable contradictions. Technological thinking, however, holds it's own in providing answers to problems that can be solved."

"Editors seem to be more and more prone to a new kind of technological dependance."

"... infected by the oldest, most fatal computer virus of all, namely the belief in loss-free copying, faultless functioning, and digital perfection."

"... leading to an unbearable feeling of powerlessness."

"the result is an unprescedented palette of possibilites."