How the controversial Gloria therapy tapes might point to focusing
I discovered through my reading of Robert Kegan the iconic video tapes of comparative therapy approaches that Carl Rogers, Frederick...
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John Oliver
- Apr 22, 2022
- 1 min
Just might be the most important moment of your life
In the words of David Isay, founder of StoryCorps, "inviting a loved one, a friend or even a stranger to record a meaningful interview...
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John Oliver
- Apr 11, 2022
- 2 min
The essential role of free speech in sensemaking - Jordan Peterson at Cambridge University Nov 2021
This might have initially seemed to be a talk tackling the political subject of freedom of speech, but it is in fact a seminal summary of...
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John Oliver
- Jun 12, 2020
- 1 min
Silence being my artistic frame... Working with symbols vs signs
Loving this book by JF Martel, Co-host of the excellent Weird Studies podcast. P69 speaks to how "the transmutation of signs into symbols...
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John Oliver
- Jun 11, 2020
- 1 min
Fun time tagging/signifying 45 min of silence
Fun time tagging/signifying 45 minutes of silence from a recent shoot. I found I in the end placed lots of tags, with things like...
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John Oliver
- Jun 1, 2020
- 1 min
Chris Marker and the film Sans Soleil - a generational reference in film making
With might be seen as an oblique connection to the witnessing filming process, but pointing to a direction I am embarking on to evolve my...
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John Oliver
- Apr 30, 2020
- 1 min
Dare to call this witnessing work as "sacred"
How dare I step into the religious realm or domain to even entertain a notion that this type of witnessing process might be a sacred...
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John Oliver
- Mar 4, 2020
- 1 min
"It's like going to a place where suddenly you become god"Â
Fabuloous quote from the Lo-Fi podcast by John Wentz, interviewing Ricardo Santos (https://www.instagram.com/ricardosaga/): "Why do I do...
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John Oliver
- Feb 21, 2020
- 1 min
The future of narrative landscapes - JR (again!)
A game-changer in narratives landscapes, here from a collaboration between JR and Time magazine. https://time.com/guns-in-america/...
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John Oliver
- Feb 21, 2020
- 1 min
World's largest participatory art project - JR. Image and social narratives.
JR is an absolute inspiration, with his social narratives vision...through photo portraits. I'm hoping to extend the same principles,...
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John Oliver
- Feb 17, 2020
- 1 min
Soul on film...Inspirations from the great photographers
Yousuf Karsh CC, was an Armenian-Canadian photographer known for his portraits of notable individuals (from Churchill to Picasso,...
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John Oliver
- Feb 15, 2020
- 1 min
Our amazing capacities of micro perception - is this a photo or someone sitting still?
I've at various moments in the editing, wanted to have a long fade of the portrait image between sections of the film. Often I time the...
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John Oliver
- Feb 12, 2020
- 2 min
The Hidden Order of Art - just finished reading, and wow!
Welcome to psycho-analytical aesthetics, with mythology and philosophy woven in! I bought this book around 3 years ago, drawn in by the...
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John Oliver
- Feb 7, 2020
- 1 min
The "exact moment of your life" - Herb Alpert interviewed by Alec Baldwin, on creative experiences
Herb Alpert (founder of A&M Records, sold for $500m in 1989): "There's something about being an artist, a painter, a musician, a...
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John Oliver
- Jan 24, 2020
- 1 min
Now I know why I'm so interested in working with artists... "Narratives" and "signifiers"Â
Since working from 2017 in the organisational development area called "Sensemaking", I've been diving deep with regards narratives in...
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John Oliver
- Jan 15, 2020
- 1 min
The institutional resistance to "truth"
Fabulous blog post here from Nic Askew on his recent experiences of where sharing our "truths" (what people are really thinking and...
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John Oliver
- Dec 23, 2019
- 1 min
"Searching for music is the same as searching for God"...David Bowie (BBC Verbatim)
The most amazing opening quote from David Bowie in this BBC Radio 4 Verbatim show, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b06z5pts same "There...
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John Oliver
- Dec 17, 2019
- 1 min
The mystery of the editing process
I'm on a huge learning curve in terms of the video editing process, but one thing that strikes me profoundly is the art of distilling the...
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John Oliver
- Nov 22, 2019
- 1 min
"Art should take a stand on everything..." Quote from Huang Yong PingÂ
Xiamen Dada founder, who believed art should not be detached from real life, and should take a stand on everything, passed away last...
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John Oliver
- Nov 8, 2019
- 1 min
Human the movieÂ
Wonderful series of movies by Yann Arthus Bertrand, http://www.human-themovie.org/, with a lot in common with the narratives approach of...
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John Oliver
- Oct 18, 2019
- 1 min
Peter Watkins and the monoform
How to counter the tyranny of the monoform? ... So pervasive, you don't know you're being manipulated...see the visionary filmmaker Peter...
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John Oliver
- Oct 3, 2019
- 1 min
Are you able to describe what you do?
Just try....check out this wonderful, humerous but touching series of takes from Nic Askew. https://vimeo.com/119284008
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John Oliver
- Oct 3, 2019
- 1 min
Witnessing.... Presence. The foundation of the interiortruth filming approachÂ
Sharing I feel the same core process as "The Artist Is Present" 2010 performance art of Marina Abramović, the NY Moma. ...
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John Oliver
- Oct 3, 2019
- 1 min
Creative Principles: Ann Hamilton
Acts That Amplify: Ann Hamilton on Art, the Creative Value of Unproductive Time, and the Power f Not Knowing.... “But not knowing,...
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