But he's also a producer with selfish ideas, and in the 1980s he was acting in the Brian Eno tradition of making auteurlike albums subject to his own shifting vision and his address book.
The rationale behind these shifting visions of childhood is akin to Renaissance theories of "humours" or "the ruling passion".
There are her two meditations on female saints, Mary Magdalene and Joan of Arc, both so distant and ultimately unknowable that our shifting visions of these women and their roles in the church and society reveal more about the times in which particular views emerge than about the women themselves.
The results represent a major shift of vision for these two vastly important American photographers.
That is because by age 45, people start experiencing a shift in vision.
"I think we should shift our vision away from Nafta," he said, "and accept that it's complete and focus on the future".
This shift in vision has become so pronounced that, as the historian John Elliott remarks, past European explorers and voyagers can themselves now easily end up being damningly and indistinguishably "othered": re-represented for contemporary consumption as pioneers only and unvaryingly of racism.
This is a common trope in science fiction, but the idea that the glasses allowed our hero to see things differently and thus act on that shift in vision made us think: "God, what power that is.
Simply acknowledging this idea of services on many devices and operating systems is a change for Microsoft, and although it may be a quick answer to a question by a Microsoft executive, it shows a shift in vision that I don't recall seeing before.
That led to a trip back to the drawing board — the new chassis (seen above) is more attractive and more robust than the 3D-printed prototypes that came before it — and along with it came a pretty savvy shift in vision.
