Thought 5 - Milton Lim October 25th

My name is Milton Lim and this is my fifth thought residency going out to my fellow otakus I grew up watching and continue to watch a lot of Japanese animation; I consider anime both a pastime and a passion. The video essayist behind 'Every Frame a Painting', Tony Zhou, once did a video on Satoshi Kon, the man who created Paprika Paranoia Agent, and Perfect Blue among several other influential animated works. Satoshi Kon once stated that he preferred animation over live action, saying that live action cuts too slow for his style of editing. Tony goes on to show two clips of a bag being thrown in someone' s face, one live action and one animated —and the animated one completes and is perceived in fewer frames: it reads faster because there's less visual information. I think that lesson, beautifully illustrated for me, the range of differences between perception and cognition.