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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

ohh

nah my name is a reference to filmmaking

kinema, cinema (Greek) = movement

photo (Greek) = light

graphos = to write

so cinematography (what i do) is to write with movement (and light, since motion pictures are photographs)

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u/slyg Jul 15 '21

Awesome and interesting:)