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Aesthetics offer a visual language: we say what we can't put into words through colors, clothes, and music. Is this visual language freedom of expression, or everyone starting to speak in the same Pinterest templates?
— video essay topic; aesthetics as a visual language
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Set the timer (5-30 min), take 20 seconds of prep if you like, start talking. Jot your thoughts onto the sticky-note board.
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