Doing it right, doing it wrong, & it could be your Sunday surprise
Sunday, May 22nd, 2016[ by Charles Cameron — a quick note about putting the mind through hoops, aka connecting dots ]
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For the record, the mind is not a phalanx but a swarm — IOW it gets creative when the links are leaps, not serried ranks.
So when your evidence board, memory jolt, graphical display looks like this (and it’s not the unavoidable dimness of the screen-grab I’m talking about):
the mind won’t see as many possibilities as when it’s more like this:
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Randomize. Create uneven spaces between items. Shift items around. The idea here is to create fresh possibilities, not to look tidy.
I had a friend once who was an artist. His studio and his life were both disasters — and in his studio, in the middle of that life, he created dazzling, gorgeously colored and delicately graduated geometric patterns — as though he was a disorder organizer, and the more disorderly his input, the greater the precision of his output.
Think about that.
Here is what may be a diagrammatic version of what I’m saying, or maybe not, but which stirs my mind in any case, just thinking about it — from Ron Scroggin about a year ago, shared in John Kellden‘s Conversations on G+:
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Sources:
Evidence board, The Killing, series 3 episode 8 Al Qaida board, Manhunter
