we are indeed master editors
14th May 2017 | for Creatives | magic/mystery of creating/art, reaching your audience, editors, storytelling, magic/illusion/mentalism, Derren Brown |
"If magic exploits our capacity to continuously, unconsciously modify events in the ongoing world to form a story, even at the expense of everything we know to be possible in the universe, then we are indeed master editors, tirelessly working to communicate to others and ourselves a meaningful tale."
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