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August 31, 2005
Things for fun...
During class I mentioned that I liked playing games with the little specks of dust in my eyes. Here are some other examples of games I play with my eyes:
While sitting in the front seat of a car, I would notice a bit of dirt on the windshield. With my focus on the road ahead, the bit of dirt looks like two bits of dirt…which I would move in relation to the road sweeping by. Common games would be maintaining as narrow a course as possible, slaloming between lane markings, or simply imagining they were part of the focusing mechanism of some abstract camera I was wielding to record the information between the marks…
The specks of dust. I like just going through the motions…arcing from right to left, continuously. That’s just fun. The afterimages always struck me as interesting.
The “area” that’s created when near the corner of some large obstruction, like a wall. Maximize that area by focusing as far away as possible and maneuver around the corner to target various things that I’d identify on the fly.
When my sister was in the car, we’d play various games…and we’d challenge ourselves by playing them without the board. Quickly jumped from Tic tac toe to Connect Four to Chess (where we would hardly ever finish a game because there’d be some argument over where some piece was located, but it was stil fun…) Much more fun because there was nothing to see…
Posted by diamante at August 31, 2005 05:30 PM
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Vince, this is really surreal. On car rides when I was little I would totally play with specs on the windshield - I would pretend that they were little cars and have them drive on the other side of the road, waiting until the last instant to swerve back into the other lane. Glad but a little surprised that I was not the only one to follow such a pursuit.
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at August 31, 2005 09:39 PM
I love this whole idea of "fun you make with your eyes" - it makes me wonder what other kinds of fun are like it. I guess blowing spit bubbles is one.
Posted by: Bernie DeKoven at September 1, 2005 08:44 AM
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