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"We all live in a Yellow submarine, yellow submarine, yellow submarine..."
I have been a Beatles fan for a very long time. This week, my friend found a DVD of the film "Yellow Submarine" and so she decided to lend it to me. I can't even begin to describe how cool the movie is. The visual art is amazing, the drawings, the pictures, they all come alive almost magically. What was even better was the fact that I was able to sing along to almost every song. I had fun watching the movie even by myself.
During class, we discussed vision, visual arts and optical illusions. According to John Berger "The way we see things is affected by what we know and what we believe." I was reminded of this quote while watching the movie.
In the scene, the Beatles are coming together to help Young Fred (who is from Pepperland) after being terrorized by the "Blue Meanies" who are actually haters of music.
In this scene, George is driving a car that is red with yellow wheels. Ringo insists actually belongs to him. George goes, "What makes you say it's your car?" and Ringo replies; "Because my car is red with yellow wheels."
The car leaves the scene and comes back with a different color scheme, blue with orange wheels. Then George goes: "It's all in the mind."
And it's true, the way see things is indeed affected by what we know and believe. Our perception changes our view of what we see.
I remember talking to a friend about guitars. You must understand that this friend of mine has no interest whatsoever, in guitars. Apparently, it is a big part me and I could go on all week talking about it. I brought over a catalog from Fender, makers of awesome electric guitars. My enthusiasm started rolling as soon as I opened the first page. When I was done getting all technical, she just looked at me and laughed. Then she said: "I don't know anything about those but I can listen.."
Guitars just did not hold meaning for her at all. And it was alright, because I understand that she saw guitars as guitars, and nothing more because it's not part of her interests and she knows almost nothing about them.
On the other hand, I brought the very same catalog to a fellow guitar-lover and I showed him my "dream guitar". Soon, we found ourselves ecstatic about the simple catalog. He even asked if he could borrow it and return it the following week.
The catalog held much meaning for him because like me, he had the knowledge about the instrument. Enough knowledge to make him see the value in that catalog.
Source:
http://www.beatles.com/hub/gfx/albums/front/YS-A.jpg
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