Also included in the 25th anniversary was an essay contest for viewers to write in about how C-SPAN has influenced their life regarding community service.
Here, the creative, "intelligent," and evolutionary technology for which the possibilities are still being explored is probed in a 10-minute video essay that takes viewers deep into an uncanny journey of 3D-rendered landscapes and surreal objects, set to a soundtrack by Andrea Young.
But the small handful of pictures that Thode left on the table became the seeds of an essay that gave the viewer a sense of being in the park, involved in the conversation, among the occupiers.
Cinematic visions of apocalypse, as Susan Sontag wrote in her 1965 essay "The Imagination of Disaster," allow the viewer to "participate in the fantasy of one's own death" and "the destruction of humanity itself".
With that in mind, on Thursday Mr. Killen published an unusually candid essay on his personal blog, thelettereleven.blogspot.com, pleading for "Lone Star" viewers to recruit more viewers, replete with the humorous offer of yard work.
In his catalog essay Mr. Ray elegantly summarizes the problem many viewers have with Chamberlain's late works.
The piece has inspired over 6,700 viewers to sign and send an automated letter posted beneath the essay to the Canadian government, according to a counter on the Web site.
Late in life, Töpffer produced an essay expounding a theory of the doodle, and demonstrating that, to a viewer, even an approximately drawn face seems to possess character.
In "Essay on a New Method of Criticism" (1890 93), Aurier decreed that viewers must become "mystics" of the new art, for it was the "last plank of salvation".
Such films, he wrote in an essay, "restricted themselves to analyzing a work in space, leading the gaze of the viewer from one detail to another".
