javalosophy

theantidote:

The immense imporance of the smallest detail

Scene from Polish director Kieslowski’s “Blue” [from Three Colours Trilogy]

According to interviews Kieslowski attempted using over 80 brand-makes of sugar cube before finding the one seen in the photo above that (according to the director’s rigid specifications) took exactly five seconds to fully saturate with coffee upon the southern tip of the cube being skimmed into the liquid’s surface.

I think any serious artist can admire the specificity with which these small choices are made. After all, if art is to reflect life, it must reflect that ever-present reality that any image is an ever-divisible series of decisions reflected in color and form.

For the musician it is the introductions, the small accents, the slight changes, the tambour and resonance of a tone and all of their slight altercations and digressions that create the collection of moments that we may refer to as a song.

(via frozenfilms: / softcare:)