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I like the word blink!!!! Somehow whenever I say ‘blink’ my eyes blink.
Blink got new meaning when I say Palkaro in my mother tongue Gujarati. Nice phonetic sound Palkaro… Palkaro I can feel the word while saying it and I blink
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Why do we blink??? Main reason is to moisten our dry eyes.
Is there any other reason??? Why do we think??? Can we blink without thinking? Can we think without blinking? Think. Blink. Do both.
Are they related?
I think because I blink. Can we say so?
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My friend told me, ‘ We blink because we are tired of this monotonous world and we hope that after blinking our eyes will open up to a better world.’ Or do we blink because we want to capture and process life? We want to frame it and register it so that we can enjoy that moment later. It is like a camera each blink is like a new snapshot to capture. We see the world, capture it, blink and we are ready for fresh for new take. This camera has endless stock of reels.”
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Imagine if we couldn’t blink all our life, how our life would be. It can be compared to a film without any cut, a long endless take like “Russian Arc’.
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I guess when we blink we are alone for that moment, just with ourselves. The outer world for that moment shuts down for us. We often gone back to our shell and reflect things around us. Blinking is to find momentarily peace within oneself
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Is sleep conscious blinking with lot of time gap between each blink?
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When we turn our heads, we blink, when we agree with some one we blink, when we meet some one, we blink, when we are discussing a point and reach at the end of first part we blink. When we made the point we blink. When we nod, we blink. When we understand the point we blink. When we reach full point we blink.
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Each person thinks differently, walks differently, talks differently but does each person blink differently? Yes. One person blinks only once in a moment another one blinks frequently in one moment. Is there any reason? Or it is just another habit? Do you remember Sarah Palin? She is a self-proclaimed spokesperson of blinking.
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Blinking shows the character of a person too. If a person blinks several times in a sentence he is not confident about the subject matter or he is hiding something. If person blinks several times it reminds me of Barbie doll and its fakeness. Many girls have the habit of blinking several times to show off their attitude.
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We can extend our blinking to the films. Each character should blink at the precise moment in the film. So an actor has to go beyond the skin of a character and comes out with pattern of blinking for a character. In close up shots actor must blink at the precise moment. If an actor is angry he should not blink often. But remember blinking should come from within actor. The director can’t force it.
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Let’s think about a situation of watching a performance. If we like the movie, or play, we blink less number of times. We are so involved with story we don’t think anything else. we don’t remember what is going on in our own life. We are so engrossed in the scene that we go by the rhythm of the story. In emotional films when characters blink , we simultaneously blink with him. We identify with that character so much that we feel the rhythm of that character within us. And many of the us (viewers) might blink at the same time. We tuned to rhythm of a character and story for time being. If this happens movie wins our heart.
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Jean-Dominique Bauby writes a memoir with blink of an eye. He was suffering from massive stroke known as locked-in syndrome. He could only blink his eye in whole body. But his mind is intact. He fulfils his promise to write a book to his publisher even after the stroke. Bauby cannot speak, but he develops a system of communication with his speech therapist by blinking his left eye as she reads a list of letters to spell out his messages, letter by letter. He writes a memoir with blinking. He writes, talks with blinking. So blinking becomes a way of communication. You need to watch ‘John Schanabel “Diving Bell and Butterfly” if you haven’t watched it till today.
this is a trailer of the film.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Ek4ZBpshs
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I blink because I can meet my own self, my own city, my own tears in moments Now I blink and you think and blink. I am going for sleep. I will blink in dreams too. You do the same.
I am thankful to Arvind Goja and Walter Murch. I have borrowed ideas from both of them.
Love
JS
