MORE: a short video

Is enough indeed enough? This less-than-3-minute-long video experiment argues—with help from Leonard Cohen, William Blake, Ecclesiastes and Anaïs Nin—that it is not, that we ought indeed to ask for MORE.

Indeed this short video itself— with highly animated text and multi-layered audio—represents an effort to show that video might be able to say MORE—an argument I first made a quarter century ago in my book, the rise of the image the fall of the word. Can’t say the evidence I was right has been pouring in, but there are glimmerings. . . .

More “idea videos” on this site by Mitchell Stephens:

Traveling: Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

Our President Again — a very quick video

“The End of Going Out”

“Thinking About Thinking”

“Wish I Didn’t Know Now…”

Awe: A Total Eclipse of the Sun

Nothings: An Appreciation

I Am Not an Asshole

Reversing Time

Leaves

When the News Comes at You Too Fast

Mulberries

History’s Most Notorious Liars

UnDead

On Being Dragged to a Concert

No! American Journalism Has Not Gotten Worse

The High Road

Americans, Please!

Loch Ness, Hume and Trump

Mitchell Stephens

Mitchell Stephens, one of the editors of this site, is the author of nine books, including the rise of the image the fall of the word, A History of News, Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World, Beyond News: The Future of Journalism, and The Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Invention of 20th Century Journalism. He is a professor emeritus of Journalism at New York University, lives in New York City and spends a lot of time traveling and fiddling with video.

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