{"id":11927,"date":"2019-07-27T12:11:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T16:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=11927"},"modified":"2020-01-14T15:54:15","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T19:54:15","slug":"spontaneity-and-adaptation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/11927","title":{"rendered":"Spontaneity and adaptation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI never plotted anything out. I don\u2019t believe in storyboarding. I think you have a very dull-looking movie. You have to take advantage of the moment. I\u2019m the kind of person that loves what we call the fog of war. That when things are going, and opportunities present themselves, you use them, you know, and there\u2019s a fluidity that occurs that way. Now, I\u2019ll go to all the locations. I know what I\u2019m going to shoot, and where I\u2019m going to shoot it, but I\u2019m always ready to change. I\u2019m always ready to adapt to the situation as it develops, and I think that there\u2019s a certain organic quality that occurs then.\u201d
\n\u2014 John Milius
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The incomparable Milius was obviously talking about his approach to crafting a film, but I find his description entirely appropriate when discussing the art of collage. There must be a balance of careful research, discernment, and preparation \u2014 to set in readiness the potential ingredients \u2014 combined with a difficult-to-articulate sense of walking into the studio with absolutely no idea what will happen next, or how one might adjust the wheel to a different point on the compass. He puts it into words as well as anyone. If current movies \u2014 or any art form based on visual montage \u2014 look more contrived than ever, all the clues we need to know why are in that quotation.
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Aggravated Dissent<\/em><\/strong>
\ncollage on pasteboard by J A Dixon
\n7.5 x 11.5 inches
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\u201cI never plotted anything out. I don\u2019t believe in storyboarding. I think you have a very dull-looking movie. You have to take advantage of the moment. I\u2019m the kind of person that loves what we call the fog of war. That when things are going, and opportunities present themselves, you use them, you know, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,251,1,168,202,150,13,22,18,35],"tags":[90,308,441,415,310,439,442,440,444,443],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11927"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13413,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11927\/revisions\/13413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}