Word: zoom
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...less in common with modern gore movies than with certain avant-garde films of the late '60s, like Michael Snow's Wavelength - a murder mystery in the form of a single, slow, 45-min. zoom shot through a room - and Morgan Fisher's Phi Phenomenon, an 11-min. shot of a wall clock without a second hand. In Fisher's film, viewers were meant to concentrate so intently that they could see the minute hand move. PA uses a similar strategy: the stationary camera in the overnight bedroom scenes has a time code at the bottom right of the frame...
...zoom in to the level of the individual. How do you approach investing differently, knowing what you do about the psychology of decision-making? One theme is contemplating different outcomes and attaching probabilities to those. There is this notion called the inside-outside view. The inside view, which is how almost all of us plan, is that when you're thinking about the future, you gather all the information around you and do your analysis and go from there - whether you're launching a new product, putting an addition onto your house or forecasting the markets. The outside view asks...
...goes as I zoom north into the Berkshires of northwestern Massachusetts, with more "Who is that guy?" stares from people whenever I approach the parked car. Is Chevy's newly reintroduced Camaro hot? I don't know, is Gisele Bündchen? I get to drive a lot of cars, and every now and again you get in one that not only stops traffic, but also starts people talking. But this phenomenon generally happens when you're driving something a lot more expensive. You'd expect the killer design of the Audi R-8, for instance, to elicit some oohs...
...Seeking to help out a little, and to zoom out from a perspective of the world as numbers on a page, I’ve run into more than I bargained...
...mimics the speed of the butterscotch Benji ladles out at his summer job scooping ice cream at Jonni Waffle. ("Is the toppings bar ready for its close-up? Let us cue the orchestra as we pan lovingly, lingeringly, over the delights in the tiny containers.") But if the slow zoom sometimes verges on the picayune, it also highlights the eternal puzzle of summer pacing. Benji and his friends can't wait to get out to Sag, but once they do, they're desperate for ways to kill time - until the evening, until the weekend and ultimately until Labor Day. Summer...