Jean Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic, once said, “Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.” Two and a half hours of a whole new world. No judgements of possibilities or impossibilities. No thoughts about real life. The...
At some point in every school’s art class, students are asked to draw a basket of fruit. I was in the seventh grade when my teacher assigned this to us. What started out as a mindless task became an exercise in observing detail. I think I did a pretty good job for a...
At some point in time, every child would have received a Rubik’s Cube as a gift. Or they might have been fascinated by the challenge and made their parents buy one for them. I was in the third category: my interest was flamed by criticism. When I was in the 12th...