Another Example of "The Art Of" - One of the Great Documentaries...
As a reminder : I've long synthesized the term "the art of " and the creative process; whether the product is, say, the Edison light bulb; or, Tesla and AC; or, Horowitz and the piano transcription, etc., etc.
I once created an arts course, titled "Sights and Sounds," which combined these two elemental aspects of consciousness by way of fusing the artist and musician in countless ways in order to enhance each of these powers; for instance, dealing with Impressionist artists and Debussy in their products of depiction, such as, say, a body of water.
Then why not "the art of" the Word? Shakespeare? - enough said...
One of my favorite activities is to collect documentaries that are so defining and powerful in message as to represent, at a high level of attainment, the altering of the direction of the Road of History.
One such example is, in my view, a documentary made in 1981 by a wonderful writer , who, I think, is still teaching at Master's level, the profession of journalism at the University of California. His name is Jon Else.
When I first saw the work shortly after its release, my primary reaction was " I need to own this documentary", - which I immediately proceeded to do.
The title is "The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb"
The sense of a rather arcane, engrossing; yet, rather gentle form of atmosphere wafts out of this video - the narrative Else writes to depict the tale of the men and women grappling with one of the mysteries in our existence is so wonderfully fused to the Byzantine path leading to that defining moment in New Mexico just weeks before Hiroshima - some of the finest writing I've been witness to, in this form of presentation.
The gradual destruction of the moral core of a number of physicists working in the Manhattan Project is so disturbingly evident in the increasingly vacant, and, in a sense, dying eyes of such great scientists as Hans Bethe, Robert Wilson and Oppenheimer's brother Frank, also a physicist, who at times, in interview, wraps his arms around his head in anguish as he describes his reactions to that first atomic explosion in the desert.
And so; in this documentary, Jon Else, in unparalleled power, depicts the feeling of these geniuses undergoing, within a second, the horrendous journey of "We did it!!" to "My God, What Have We Done?"
I have yet to witness a more brilliant example of the Power of the Word...
I once created an arts course, titled "Sights and Sounds," which combined these two elemental aspects of consciousness by way of fusing the artist and musician in countless ways in order to enhance each of these powers; for instance, dealing with Impressionist artists and Debussy in their products of depiction, such as, say, a body of water.
Then why not "the art of" the Word? Shakespeare? - enough said...
One of my favorite activities is to collect documentaries that are so defining and powerful in message as to represent, at a high level of attainment, the altering of the direction of the Road of History.
One such example is, in my view, a documentary made in 1981 by a wonderful writer , who, I think, is still teaching at Master's level, the profession of journalism at the University of California. His name is Jon Else.
When I first saw the work shortly after its release, my primary reaction was " I need to own this documentary", - which I immediately proceeded to do.
The title is "The Day After Trinity: J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb"
The sense of a rather arcane, engrossing; yet, rather gentle form of atmosphere wafts out of this video - the narrative Else writes to depict the tale of the men and women grappling with one of the mysteries in our existence is so wonderfully fused to the Byzantine path leading to that defining moment in New Mexico just weeks before Hiroshima - some of the finest writing I've been witness to, in this form of presentation.
The gradual destruction of the moral core of a number of physicists working in the Manhattan Project is so disturbingly evident in the increasingly vacant, and, in a sense, dying eyes of such great scientists as Hans Bethe, Robert Wilson and Oppenheimer's brother Frank, also a physicist, who at times, in interview, wraps his arms around his head in anguish as he describes his reactions to that first atomic explosion in the desert.
And so; in this documentary, Jon Else, in unparalleled power, depicts the feeling of these geniuses undergoing, within a second, the horrendous journey of "We did it!!" to "My God, What Have We Done?"
I have yet to witness a more brilliant example of the Power of the Word...
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