COGNITART

  Any list of most pretentious film directors is likely to have Jean-Luc Godard near the top. Masculin- Féminin is a lively exploration of modern French culture with particular emphasis on youthful relations between the sexes,   and the dilemma of excessive American influence. Godard uses the very modest plot as a framework for his own ideas. Paul, the main protagonist, played by Jean-Pierre Leaud has a friend who puts up political posters around town. This was 1965, so the political unrest of 1968 was coming. Godard puts up posters here and there within his own movie. The subtitle translates this as “The mole is blind but burrows in a particular direction...” perhaps the motto of male sexual desire as Paul pursues Madelaine, who has just released her first pop song. ...MAKE OF THAT WHAT YOU LIKE He ends the film with FÉMININ and then artfully subtracts the middle letters to get FIN, the END. The added colors are mine. Words on  Film 3

Do you carry a mental image of where items can be found in your environment? Keys on a hall table, scissors in the second drawer etc. A traditional vehicle dashboard presented a series of lookalike gauges in a series. The first might be oil pressure, the second coolant temperature, the third fuel level. The driver knew where to look for the piece of information required. Suppose each slot in the above 7 by 9 grid was home to a specific word. And when that slot lit up you knew without looking that it was HOW or WHY or WHERE etc. Imagine a dozen dashboards of varying sizes. Imagine a dashboard in which the location from which a sentence started was an indication of its character, a dashboard in which subjects would be found here and indirect objects there. There are many possibilities, more pedestrian than those lyric videos, but potentially more useful... WORDS on SCREEN 2.

  WORDS on SCREEN. It must be said that ABKCOVEVO have done an outstanding job on the Stones catalog here. I sit and watch... As Tears Go By is a standout, but every song receives inspired animation. Check out on YouTube .

  One of the advantages of self-publishing on Amazon is the world-wide Print-on-Demand facility. Within a short time any number of copies can be lobbed on any number of doorsteps between Sydney and Stockholm at a competitive printing cost, plus delivery.

  A major update for the book WORDS v WORLD, Semantics AI & Language Revolution by Gregory Eiffe is now complete: in digital, paperback and hardcover.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HDBXQHL Now a switch to the question of actual language construction begins, but before that I order 3 copies to check out the new look...

Many years ago extreme ideas were more common. It seemed reasonable to contemplate a screen-based visual language dedicated to creative thoughts.