A lot of the work in, say, construction or restaurants involves visual and motor flexibility. It also requires adaptability, in terms of answering questions, giving people directions, or taking orders.
Writing is not my forte, but I am good at visualising.
The art of drawing which is of more real importance to the human race than that of writing...should be taught to every child just as writing is.
Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.
Most people are visually illiterate. Most people don't understand images: they don't understand how to interpret them or how to manufacture them.
Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.
There is research proving that deaf people have increased visual abilities.
Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.
I was aware that the teaching of drawing was being stopped almost 30 years ago. And I always said, 'The teaching of drawing is the teaching of looking.' A lot of people don't look very hard.
Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.
Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.
