Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Persistence of Vision

   Rooms like real life present challenges.   How we face them tells the story.  So often I am sure ROOMS want to talk.    The chairs we sit in listen to our conversations.  We loose sight of our design when we are stuck.   Frustrations and dreams get lost when we  get stuck and loose sight.  Vision must remain fresh.   To keep the project moving  constant excitement about the room must be felt.  I must see where it is going.   
    I found this wonderful example of why it is imperative to keep our vision.   This tells how vision is used in filmmaking.  My daughter Joy attended a film workshop.   This was from the workbook by Jonathan Nixon.  He  formed Point of View Films in 1968.  The wisdom he shares is noteworthy for all life challenges.  We will learn  to see our room take  VIEW.  Persistence pays off.   
    "Persistence of vision is the phenomenon within the eye by which an afterimage is thought to persist for approximately one twenty-fifth of a second on the retina, supposedly to compensate for the blackout that would be experienced otherwise through blinking. The theory was invoked to explain how the perception of apparent motion in film created the illusion of moving pictures. When you look at a series of still images flashed before your eyes, you have the perception that the image is moving.
    Just as persistence of vision is a physical law of image creation, persistence of vision can also be a spiritual law used in media creation. The reason a series of still images are perceived as a moving image, is because the image persists on our retina. In the same way that our retina works to bring a series of still images to life, our persistence in faith operates to bring to life what we envision. If we will persist in faith and in the vision that God has given us, God is faithful to fulfill that vision."

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