In a way, looking at a blog (such as this one) we do become a "third eye" for the person responding or posting a question about the reading. We see where the previous author is coming from and see how can incorporate it with the following response. I feel that this "third eye" helps other students see a piece of the text and reveal clarification and raise new questions as to what the author might be saying.
In the last two films viewed in class (Anselmo and the Women/Reassemblage) we see how the film maker constructs the film and the messages that the authors where trying to portray to the audience. As discussed in class I explained that Levi Strauss follows a "Textbook" answer as to what ethnography is and how he goes about his thinking. On the other hand, Strand does not follow the "textbook" answer and incorporates a lot of self-reflection and describing what she sees and how she will portray it in the viewers eye.
In the end, we look at different things with "different eyes". No matter how vague, vacant or bold, we will never see "eye to eye" on everything exactly the same, but rather look at something in a way we haven't see before. Is that not the point of "the third eye" to see something in someone's else "eye" as if you have never thought of their explanation that way before?
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