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"In Radiohead's new video for "House of Cards", no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data."

Watching the video, the shifting of the forms reminds me that I become so accustomed to a photographic way of seeing - film or camera or drawing - that I assume that is the way I see.

But, you know, I don't think that is quite true.

I was in Toronto yesterday, and realized that my navigation is a bit faltering in the city - I'm good in neighbourhoods, and running on directional instinct between them. There's a spaciality (is that a word?) there - a knowing/seeing by an embodied feeling, rather than simply visual.

Like driving slowly in fog - I'm as much disconcerted by the changed time and pace as the impaired sightline.

And watching the shifting breaking lines of the faces in the video really reminded me that I'm an eyes-closed-lights-off kind of girl for sex. Using the shapes and relative distances somehow translated how that feels into a visual.

Very cool.