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David Lynch
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Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity |
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Hardcover |
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192 |
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2006-12-28 |
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B000S1KZVA |
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Tarcher |
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0.6 pounds |
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6.9 x 7.0 x 0.7 inches |
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Product Description
In this "unexpected delight,"* filmmaker David Lynch describes his personal methods of capturing and working with ideas, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.
Now in a beautiful paperback edition, David Lynch's Catching the Big Fish provides a rare window into the internationally acclaimed filmmaker's methods as an artist, his personal working style, and the immense creative benefits he has experienced from the practice of meditation.
Catching the Big Fish comes as a revelation to the legion of fans who have longed to better understand Lynch's personal vision. And it is equally compelling to those who wonder how they can nurture their own creativity.
Catching Ideas
Ideas are like fish.
If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper.
Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They're huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful.
I look for a certain kind of fish that is important to me, one that can translate to cinema. But there are all kinds of fish swimming down there. There are fish for business, fish for sports. There are fish for everything.
Everything, anything that is a thing, comes up from the deepest level. Modern physics calls that level the Unified Field. The more your consciousness-your awareness-is expanded, the deeper you go toward this source, and the bigger the fish you can catch.
-from Catching the Big Fish
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Jen Sardam (USA: VA) (2008/07/25):
I have a lukewarm feeling about this book. I'm a huge fan of filmmaker David Lynch, and that's why I purchased this book. But it wasn't anything spectacular.It only took me part of a day to blow through this book. It was a mish-mash of his thoughts on how decades of transcendental mediation have greatly enhanced his creativity, alongside thoughts on how he encountered the ideas that gradually evolved into the body of work he possesses today. Still, it did lead me to pursue an interest in meditation that I already had. So all was not lost. Lynch did make some interesting points on how new technologies are greatly changing the art of cinema. He sees the cinema at its best as a world into which an audience enters and each member perceives the film in his or her own way. He believes that seeing video on a smaller scale (such as on an iPod), in his opinion, really takes away from this opportunity for the unique personal perception of a film. He says that high-def. is almost too crystal clear for this medium, because it takes away the mystique, the feeling of other-wordliness. I happen to agree. I found this the most interesting point Lynch made in the book. In our modern society, we seem to have this fixation with getting perfect clarity in everything we see. It's wonderful that we can avail ourselves of these technologies to achieve this. But, at times, television and movies are too realistic; and don't we watch movies, because we want our minds to be carried away from all that is part of ordinary life? Don't we want the veil of imagination to cover us for a short time and take us away from it all?
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