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Film, beauty, and iridescence

Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Beauty Will Save the World

In Russia, it's spoken frequently that beauty will save the world. I don't know where it comes from exactly, but how it feels to me is that I think it's a combination of two things: density of information and compression. And so for example, now that I'm a little bit older, when I see younger people who I think are very attractive, I look at them and I think, why do I think that they're so wonderful? Why do other people think they’re so wonderful? As far as I can tell, it's partly about potential, it's about information that hasn't happened yet. You're seeing something and you're almost making predictions. So

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