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In this book he has some fascinating stories, including a well-known one about Temple Grandin, who was the high-functioning autistic who wrote the book Thinking in Pictures. If you're enjoying this interview, please support us by donating a small amount. I find it entrancing that you can bring into mind something that through force of habit we have come to ignore.ДЇive Books interviews are expensive to produce. We have adapted to not see the inside of the eye because you donвЂ™t want to be focusing on it all the time.

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The problem being, that once you have worked out how to see them you might not be able to stop seeing them! But for the most part we never see these things even though they are plastered to our eyes. Then you see the vessels and you can see lots of little floater objects sashaying across your visual field. We never see them because the brain has learnt to ignore them, so we need to trick ourselves into seeing them again. If you look at a diagram of your eye in a biology textbook you see that they are there. It is through becoming attentive to the blood vessels that run across the front of our eyes. And that is not through some strange microscopic mechanism. He has another example, which encourages you to look at the inside of your own eye. It sounds like he is doing observational detective work.

I love the idea that you can look at something so familiar that you have never really examined, and see this additional dimension вЂ“ in this case, of who has passed by before. What it represents is where a lot of cars, or in New York a very large bus, might have stopped and started repeatedly. If you begin to look for this shoved part of the pavement as you cross the street you will see it here and there. For instance he describes вЂњshovingвЂќ, which is when warm pavements, over time, create a little crevice and then a hill after it вЂ“ the pavement has been moved by the starting and stopping of a large force. Instead he is looking at what the movement of pavement tells us about who has driven on that road. He is not discussing what the stuff is that pavements are made up of. He has 31 examples, which include things like x-rays and stamps and maps and the winter ice halo around the sun. He takes things that we are familiar with but have never looked at closely. This book is really not about art per se вЂ“ instead it is really about the act of observation. Your first choice is How to Use Your Eyes by James Elkins, which looks at how we can use our eyes more efficiently.Д®lkins is a writer on art and art history. I would never have noticed these before, but they are actually part of a large network across the US of these little topographic landmarks. They are set in concrete or embedded in soil. For example, I live in New York and I have been seeing things like geodetic survey marks вЂ“ small brass discs that are planted at a particular latitude and longitude. Mostly I have seen that when we bother to stop and look, there is an enormous amount of surprising material right under our noses. In the course of your research, what unexpected observations have you made about some well-known places? I am very interested in getting different perspectives on what we consider to be an ordinary, well-known landscape.

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I am taking a series of walks, through the city of New York and other cities as well, with people whose expertise or in some cases physical condition allows them to see something about the city that I might not see.

Yes, I am writing a book that is about observation вЂ“ in particular, observations done in an вЂњordinaryвЂќ context. You are currently working on a project that involves this theme. Foreign Policy & International RelationsД«efore we look at your five book choices, I want to put them in context.

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