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Book Notes: 'John Harris - Beyond the Horizon'

Book Notes: 'John Harris - Beyond the Horizon'

I mention the Beatles in this one, but only at the very end

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This 2014 art collection is written by John Harris himself, and he’s not a bad hand at prose.

Page 16: Harris plays around with barely noticeable contradictions to confuse a viewer’s understanding of the physics of a scene. For instance, he’ll add vapor trails rising up from a spaceship that’s hovering motionless in the air. Presumably, there’s an atmos…

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