There I was on what I thought was the way out of Gaudi’s La Pedrera in Barcelona. And then, wham, I am in the most interesting sculpture show that I have ever seen. I had wondered into an exhibition by the Spanish sculptor, Jorge Oteiza. Had I even heard of Otezia? Of course not, but […]
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29Jan
2017
WE ARE ALL MUSLIMS NOW
2017
Emily Nussbaum, in her New Yorker article titled, Tragedy Plus time, states: “It could be surprisingly hard to look at the phenomenon of Trump directly; the words bent; the meaning dissolved.” That says it more clearly than I have ever heard. In the election, the words did bend. The meaning did dissolve. It was a […]
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25Jan
2017
TRANSPARENT MACHINE DRAWING
2017
A robot makes transparent drawings. As faithful readers of these pages will attest, I am always on the lookout for transparent drawings. And here we have transparent drawings. And they are done by a machine. The artist Grant Stewart has assembled a robot that draws. And the drawing output is transparent. The robot drawings, […]
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23Jan
2017
DRAWING CONTINUUM
2017
Let’s put the following all into one bowl and stir: lingual characters, scientific graphs, pictograms, logographic characters, petroglyphs, transparent drawing, heiroglyphics, etc. All of these we produce with a pencil and paper. Ergo, they are all drawings. And because all of them are drawn, we can ask how do they compare and relate to each […]
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20Jan
2017
SCIENTIFIC ICONS
2017
Mike makes a really good point. In his reply to The Pencil Marks On The Paper, he states that engineering graphs give a more complete and intuitive understanding than the mathematical characters which produce the graph. His thought posed the question, are scientific graphs the equilavent of a lingual character? Or to ask this another […]
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18Jan
2017
THE END OF DESIGN
2017
You have an idea. You draw the idea on your paper. Then you describe the idea in words. That description, using words, makes your concept static. Think about it. There you are, happily drawing away. You might be thinking on your paper while you solve a design problem. Or you might be developing new forms […]
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16Jan
2017
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING IN THE WORLD 1
2017
We were hungry for lunch. Trip Advisor said there was an interesting spot not too far from where we were. After making our way thru the streets of Lisbon, a small courtyard opened before us, and there was the restaurant. The proprietor was serving only one other table, and they were from Germany. As we […]
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10Jan
2017
WAR ON LANGUAGE
2017
Maybe it is just me, but it seems that everywhere I read, very negative things are said about language. I have recorded some of these examples in these pages. It is becoming clear that I need to start another site dealing with language, and documenting the examples that I find regarding our cultural evaluation of […]
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