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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
"It's like going to a place where suddenly you become god"
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20202 min read
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, 20201 min read
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, 20201 min read
Now I know why I'm so interested in working with artists... "Narratives" and "signifiers"
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, 20201 min read
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, 20191 min read
"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, 20191 min read
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, 20191 min read
"Art should take a stand on everything..." Quote from Huang Yong Ping
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, 20191 min read
Human the movie
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, 20191 min read
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, 20191 min read
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, 20191 min read
Witnessing.... Presence. The foundation of the interiortruth filming approach
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, 20191 min read
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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