{"id":2976,"date":"2006-08-07T16:29:59","date_gmt":"2006-08-07T20:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=2976"},"modified":"2006-08-07T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2006-08-07T20:29:59","slug":"180-degrees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/2976\/180-degrees\/","title":{"rendered":"180 Degrees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2977\" title=\"audio_black\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/audio_black.jpg\" alt=\"audio_black\" width=\"393\" height=\"156\" \/><br \/>\n<!-- AudioAcrobat.com Player code BEGIN --><\/p>\n<div class=\"aaplayer\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.audioacrobat.com\/playweb?audioid=Pb31adba47641cba351c6167710996d31ZV1xRXZuY2N0Vg&amp;buffer=5&amp;shape=5&amp;fc=00CCFF&amp;pc=AAAAFF&amp;kc=888800&amp;bc=FFFFFF&amp;brand=1&amp;player=ap03\" height=\"20\" width=\"164\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!-- AudioAcrobat.com Player code END --><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans; font-size: small;\"><strong>180 Degrees<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans; font-size: small;\">The  most powerful creative techniques provide an opportunity for you to  shift your perspective. The most powerful technique of all is reversal.  Shift your perspective 180 degrees. Make an observation or assertion.  Then make an observation from the opposite perspective or assert the  opposite. Use this as a tool for exploration. Many ideas will come to  light. It may take a little practice to find the real utility in any  technique, so don&#8217;t give up too quickly. You&#8217;ll also find every technique  has its limitations; this technique leads you towards framing things  as dichotomies (either\/or choices) rather than dialetics (spectrums  of possibilities). <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Gill Sans; font-size: small;\">How  has this helped me? Let me count the ways! Here&#8217;s one. It&#8217;s been tremendously  stimulating for me to constantly shift between making minimally altered  photographs and highly altered images.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>180 Degrees The most powerful creative techniques provide an opportunity for you to shift your perspective. The most powerful technique of all is reversal. Shift your perspective 180 degrees. Make an observation or assertion. 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