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📷 Our Imagination Is A Camera Of The Mind

Congratulations to Edward Rooster, the winner of the second OSV monthly writing challenge ✍️ | PLUS, time is running out to enter our Next-Gen Filmmaking Competition 🍿

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Sep 29, 2023
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📷 Our Imagination Is A Camera Of The Mind

“Art’s ironic pragmatism is its potential to look to the creative potential of science, to borrow from and play with its advances, to fulfill the desires of imagination.”

— Edward Rooster

We recently wrapped up our second monthly writing challenge over at the OSV Discord. 

This month’s theme was The Intersection of Art and Science. 🎨🔬

Congratulations to our winner, friend-of-the-show

Edward Rooster
(Infinite Loops appearance), whose wonderful piece explores the past, present and future overlap between art and science, revealing how our imagination operates as a “camera to create pictures of the future.”

We’ve always been big fans of Edward’s poetic, lyrical prose, and it was on full display throughout his essay:

“Art connects us to worlds which may already exist. Our imagination wanders far enough to discover them. Our power of creation gives us new tools, or new uses for old ones, to explore.

Art captures and recreates moments when optical fantasy becomes physical reality.”

You can read the full essay over at Edward’s Substack,

From The Future
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From The Future
Our Imagination Is A Camera Of The Mind
Welcome to an essay “From The Future”. After this essay, I plan to share chapters for my novels as part of writing in public. Future + Fiction, Story + History, is my formula for everything From The Future, whether it’s an essay, story or ch…
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If you're interested in being part of a creative, supportive, and exciting community, join our Discord using this form to access more writing challenges, exclusive community events, opportunities for collaboration, regular competitions & giveaways, cohort courses & workshops, and more.

🍿 Next-Gen Filmmaking Competition

Time is running out to enter our Next-Gen Filmmaking Competition… but it’s not too late!

The application deadline is tomorrow (Saturday, September 30). Don’t miss out on your chance to win up to $5,000 and the opportunity to be considered for future Infinite Films productions.

A reminder: The entire submission does not need to be created using next-gen technology. It only needs to be used as part of the creation process, e.g. editing, writing or image creation.

For more information on the competition, including FAQs, judges, rules, and the submission process, check out our website.


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Liberty
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Sep 29

Congrats to Ed Rooster! I love that line, "Our Imagination Is A Camera Of The Mind". Such good writing.

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