The Australian Ugliness, by Robin Boyd: (the above a “quality” institutional building at the university)
SO…
Written in 1960, it might have been professional courtesy to slog…
Over the course of the last few weeks various ideas have crossed my path, and, as any pattern recognition device does, commonalities were found and are detailed below. The…
This is a summary from all of my notes from the Business Network Theme Week at the Santa Fe Institute, September 2009. Additional daily summaries were posted back…
Social beings on an expansive earth. After sitting in a conference room for week discussing the future of the human endeavour, it has been equally impressive to drive…
So close.
Fun day, surprising day walking to lunch with physicist Roy Benedek… finding Steen Rasmussen meeting with Rick Stevens. Rick is nominally a computer scientist, and Steen…
“house as one man’s monument to solidity”… I never saw that. Not that I liked Alfred Caldwell’s own house. It was too, hmmnn… dark for me. So much…
non-contemplation participation in art
Sometimes people contemplate before looking at art, and sometimes contemplate after looking at art.
A building prepares people for events…
Contemplating art before…
2009 and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago is presenting work from at least 50 years ago. Maybe Chicago needs another museum, dedicated to “current experimental stuff.” Maybe the…
We make things for two reasons: for ourselves, and/or for others. Making things can be deeply emotional, a personal expression, and can be highly therapeutic. It comes as…
Many years ago I read the book Immortality, by Milan Kundera. While I didn’t find the book particularly interesting, I did find this wonderful question:
“how do…