a performer i know shared this story with me:
he and his family moved to nyc from puerto rico when he was in the fourth grade. he was asked by his teacher to memorize and recite a poem to the class. he chose ‘little brown baby‘ – (read the comment below the poem [...]
…but they do not create illuminations”. so says werner herzog in the interview below.
i recall a quote from hofstadter’s Godel, Escher, Bach:
Gödel showed that provability is a weaker notion than truth, no matter what axiom system is involved..
the limits of formalization are interesting to me, and i’m intrigued at how dogmatic some [...]
while sitting in an artist’s studio yesterday i noticed how insulated i felt from the forest just yards away, and how pretty the woods looked through the small window cut out of the cinderblock wall, framed by all sorts of chemicals and gizmos.
last month i spent time visiting my father in massachusetts and spent [...]
Cesar, in response to Richard’s installation, described a difference between the hypnotic and the meditative. (I’m recalling these comments from memory a few hours later):
The hypnotic requires no conscious work from the subject. To me this suggests that the hypnotic is an intellectually effortless act of complacency and submission.
The meditative requires work from whoever wishes [...]
overheard at a crit.
during the question and answer period after last week’s talk at MICA someone brought up this post (improved interface design, not instinct), and asked if i knew anything about mirroring as a technique in early education and how it had been, according to the person asking the question, minimized as a technique over the past [...]
i have an umbrella that i hate – it is too big, slightly bowed (so it always falls to the ground whenever i lean it against something), and seems to become inverted if i so much as sneeze while it’s open. i have also tripped over it about fifty times and stabbed countless scores [...]