Today we saw a completely objective, repeatable, observation of something fundamentally new.
Clements terms her practice "video sculpture" because she's "using video as a lens that permits the gradual observation of something that you couldn't see with the naked eye".
It's not inherently immoral to tweet an observation of something that's happening around you—I do it all the time but not-so-tacitly encouraging your followers to dox a woman who clearly does not want to be famous crosses a line.
Social media also has the added bonus of allowing teachers to circumvent the traditional modes of CPD – involving long sessions of passive learning that wouldn't get pass an observation – in favour of something more lively and applicable with colleagues across the globe.
With each observation, each witnessing of something happening inside you, a thought, feeling or sensation, ask the following: Is there a feeling about the feeling, a thought about the thought?
But when he hears, in the same tune, the "simple sincerity of songs I had last sung in the school yard of the Nigerian Military School", and is returned, trembling, to a state of childhood innocence, the observation has the force of something genuine.
Air did not play a role in phlogiston theory, nor were any initial quantitative experiments conducted to test the idea; instead, it was based on observations of what happens when something burns, that most common objects appear to become lighter and seem to lose something in the process.
