We made a pilgrimage to Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center in Cambridge, MA recently. This might have been the third time that I was there. School had not started yet so we were able to walk thru the entire building without feeling like we were imposing. I just think that this building is almost beyond belief. […]
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27Jan
2015
DATA PROCESSING
2015
Don’t draw like a camera. A camera merely records perceptual data. A camera records the surface data. Then at some distant point in time, the processing of that data occurs. Or is supposed to occur. The how or even the why of that data processing is never really taught or encouraged. Instead we are taught […]
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26Jan
2015
STATE OF THE ART
2015
We were in Boston for a few days so we dutifully toured Trinity Church. I simply was appalled by the absolute heaviness and dreary experience of being in the building. The last large scale […]
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21Jan
2015
PICTURE FROM A BUS
2015
It helps to be quick on the draw, pardon the pun. I took this photo during a bus ride on a recent travel. I am always interested in industrial sites. Any time that I see one when I am traveling I do my best to take a picture. But sometimes you don’t have the ability […]
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19Jan
2015
VISUAL SUPERIORITY
2015
Have you ever thought about how lucky you are to be able to utilize and operate within the world of visual shapes, rather than rely instead on verbal language? The immense richness of our visual world allows us the unparalleled capacity to be able to manipulate shapes and objects that are two and three dimensional. […]
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14Jan
2015
POWER TO THE PENCIL
2015
With our focus on the power of the analogue pencil in these pages, it was amazing to see the protests in France use the pencil as a symbol for the murders at Charlie Hebdo. The pencil and artist’s paint brush indeed seem to retain their iconic hold on the imaginations of our society. Of course […]
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13Jan
2015
ANCIENT OPERATING SYSTEM
2015
Let’s face it. The operating system for Transparent Drawing is ancient. After all, we are talking about nothing more than a pencil and a piece of paper with some watercolor tones. So how long has this OS been around? People were drawing on the walls of caves some 40,000 years ago. And not only that, […]
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8Jan
2015
TERMS OF SERVICE
2015
I read that everyone likes lists online as they are easier to read and then are more likely to be forwarded (hint). So I offer to you this short list of terms and definitions which summarizes some of what we are about. -not a rendering -unbroken relationships -diagrams of instruction -spatial arrangement -unrealistic -integral beauty […]
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6Jan
2015
FUTURISM AND MOVEMENT
2015
“What can you find in an old picture except the painful contortions of the artist trying to break uncrossable barriers which obstruct the full expression of his dream?” This quote is taken from the Futurist Manifesto, written by Marinetti in 1909. If you need it, a link here for quick Futurist primer. The Futurists, as […]
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2Jan
2015
BERLIN PHILHARMONIE
2015
Hans Scharoun was one of my early heroes. Here was a modernist, yet one who embraced organic geometries and responsive enclosures. I do believe that it was Scharoun’s organic pieces, most notably the Berlin Philharmonie, that opened my eyes to the richness of the curved line. We first looked Scharoun thru his contribution to the […]
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