We read about the importance of search engine optimization, or SEO, all the time. Or at least everyone says it is important. If you don’t blog, you may not know how SEO is integrated with apps like Word Press. After I put together a post, or a page as I like to call it, you […]
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27Apr
2016
CAMBRIDGE FIRE HOUSE #3
2016
It immediately looked familiar. Yet I was not sure from where. When staying in Boston last week, we had occasion to walk past this building many times. My first thought is that it was published decades ago. I had this vague recollection of reading about it in Progresive Architecture in the architecture school library. At […]
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25Apr
2016
DAYDREAMS
2016
Our clients daydream. As soon as they look at your drawing, and as they begin to understand it, they immediately daydream. Your drawing is recalling things and places in their own past. They begin to daydream about their past. They cannot understand your drawing without calling up images from their past. If your drawing shows […]
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22Apr
2016
KEEP RUNNING
2016
You have to keep running not to be stuck. Noguchi said this, as reported by Herrera in her book, Listening to Stone, on page 94. It would be interesting to have some sort of investigation of this concept based on the real lives of real creative people. If this is a true statement, then how […]
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20Apr
2016
ALL ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
2016
Reading in Bachelard, it was gratifying to hear him contemplate memory, space and time. He posits the theory that memory is free of time. That is to say, our memories are devoid of a time component. He uses the analogy of fossils. And this may very well be true. Any memory that I have is […]
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18Apr
2016
WHAT IS AND WHAT WILL BE
2016
In Transparent Drawing, you draw to solve what is to be built, and you draw to solve what has already been built. Either way it is the same problem that requires a solution. That statement suddenly hit me when I was riding my bike. At first glance, we might not think these are the same. […]
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15Apr
2016
HOW DOES IT FEEL?
2016
I mentioned a couple of pages ago that I like the Staedtler Mars 4B pencils, which I use to draw in my Moleskine Watercolor sketchbooks. Of course there are thousands of pencil and paper combinations, any of which are just as valid. What I want to emphasize, though, is the feeling of using this pencil […]
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13Apr
2016
CHEAP WATERCOLOR SETS
2016
Two pages ago, I offered thoughts on watercolor sets. I also commented on the cost. The three sets that I highlighted were all around $70. In the whole scheme of things, when a tank of gas costs $50, then the expenditure of $70 for a watercolor set that could last you the rest of your […]
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11Apr
2016
THE LIVING IS FUZZY
2016
Reading more from the Poetics of Space, “His task is that of proceeding phenominologically to images that have not been experienced, and which life does not prepare, but which the poet creates; of living what has not been lived…” (p xxx) What a bracing thought. The poet and the architect both create means for experience […]
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8Apr
2016
PAINTS AND BRUSHES
2016
Christian writes in with the following query: “Just found your site searching for La Tourette images. I was wondering what materials you use and in what order? I’ve been using a water brush and fountain pen to do some transparent shading on drawings. I also recently tried watercolor pencils but was not impressed. I’m trying […]
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