Posts tagged Rhythm and Angularity

Spirals

Spirals are perfectly dynamic.  Too much symmetry and it is impossible to create variance on a theme.  Too little symmetry and the variations are difficult to relate to one another.  Spirals exhibit a clear order.  Spirals also have a strong sense of motion and change.

Placing two related visual patterns near one another creates a third meaning.  The invisible relationship, the qualities drawn from it, are created in the mind of the viewer.  It is foundation of engaging artwork and communication.  The spiral is elegant, simple and powerful.

Spirals can also be made in silence.

~ü

Sprials below [Image: Ernst Haeckel Kunstformen der Natur - no 53 (1904)]

Sprials below

[Image: Ernst Haeckel Kunstformen der Natur - no 53 (1904)]

Spirals above

Spirals above

Flickr / nadya_ka

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
Oscar Wilde
Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair.
T.S. Eliot

mythologyofblue

Kinetic energy, the complex details of which are normally obscured, comes to light when frozen in time. ~ü [Image: “A Night to Dance with Water”  Ethan in Zürich, 2010]

Kinetic energy, the complex details of which are normally obscured, comes to light when frozen in time.

~ü

[Image: “A Night to Dance with Water”  Ethan in Zürich, 2010]

Flickr / ethanoelman

This image has a sense of musicality.  All abstract concepts do.  Rhythm and harmony made material.  It works because it’s our primary way - the first way - of integrating with the world, even if the ear is often usurped by the eye.  Indeed, it is generally understood that there is no seeing at all for the first few weeks, even though there is some response to light.  It, then, stands to reason that the function of hearing is prior to seeing in each and every individual, just as it is prior in evolutionary structures. - Moshe Feldenkrais [Image: Marc Chagall, King David]

This image has a sense of musicality.  All abstract concepts do.  Rhythm and harmony made material.  It works because it’s our primary way - the first way - of integrating with the world, even if the ear is often usurped by the eye. 

Indeed, it is generally understood that there is no seeing at all for the first few weeks, even though there is some response to light.  It, then, stands to reason that the function of hearing is prior to seeing in each and every individual, just as it is prior in evolutionary structures.

- Moshe Feldenkrais

[Image: Marc Chagall, King David]

quaerere-deum

The Underground Online pt 2/3 - Different Ways of BeingThis is part two of a three part series.  Part one can be found here.When you make something that no one sees, there is an implicit existential crisis.  If it is never seen, does it exist?  Certainly does.  Inside you.  Like so many important things in our lives, no one can see it happen.  We just feel it.  That’s the ultimate underground.Then there is the next level.  The shared level.  Creative subcultures.  Film lovers.  Music lovers.  Theater lovers.  Geeks.  Fetishists.  Something outside of the mainstream moves them.  The only experience more exciting than being immersed is sharing that feeling with someone else.  That’s why the underground exists.  It is more special than popular art; it is more intimate by definition and it’s shared by a community.Chicago represented that second level to me.  Wax Trax! records was a large part of that.  The music was unknown to most of my everyday acquaintances.  The music promotes non-mainstream values.  It is sexually obscure like the intersection of Belmont and Clark in Chicago.  The institutions that surround the intersection tell the tale.  It is equidistant to Wrigley Field and Boys Town.  Berlin is less than a block away - a 4 or 5 AM nightclub where the straight, bisexual, transgendered and outright gay have all come together for 20 years.  Straight-laced DePaul University sits just south with it’s college parties and suburban commuters.  And they all intersect at Clark and Belmont at some point.  I’ve only ever found myself comfortable where everyone is welcome.  I never fully committed to any particular culture.  I identify with so many different ways of being.  I love to dance the waltz as much as I love to bachata.  I love the peace and quiet of meditation but I also engage in the onslaught of physical violence at an Enstrüzende Neubauten concert.  But it’s impossible to be in all these places at once.  So I’m only vaguely involved in any one culture, split by the possibility of being in love and totally committed - never truly being. ~ü[Logo: Wax Trax! Records]

The Underground Online pt 2/3 - Different Ways of Being

This is part two of a three part series.  Part one can be found here.

When you make something that no one sees, there is an implicit existential crisis.  If it is never seen, does it exist?  Certainly does.  Inside you.  Like so many important things in our lives, no one can see it happen.  We just feel it.  That’s the ultimate underground.

Then there is the next level.  The shared level.  Creative subcultures.  Film lovers.  Music lovers.  Theater lovers.  Geeks.  Fetishists.  Something outside of the mainstream moves them.  The only experience more exciting than being immersed is sharing that feeling with someone else.  That’s why the underground exists.  It is more special than popular art; it is more intimate by definition and it’s shared by a community.

Chicago represented that second level to me.  Wax Trax! records was a large part of that.  The music was unknown to most of my everyday acquaintances.  The music promotes non-mainstream values.  It is sexually obscure like the intersection of Belmont and Clark in Chicago.  The institutions that surround the intersection tell the tale.  It is equidistant to Wrigley Field and Boys Town.  Berlin is less than a block away - a 4 or 5 AM nightclub where the straight, bisexual, transgendered and outright gay have all come together for 20 years.  Straight-laced DePaul University sits just south with it’s college parties and suburban commuters.  And they all intersect at Clark and Belmont at some point. 

I’ve only ever found myself comfortable where everyone is welcome.  I never fully committed to any particular culture.  I identify with so many different ways of being.  I love to dance the waltz as much as I love to bachata.  I love the peace and quiet of meditation but I also engage in the onslaught of physical violence at an Enstrüzende Neubauten concert.  But it’s impossible to be in all these places at once.  So I’m only vaguely involved in any one culture, split by the possibility of being in love and totally committed - never truly being.

~ü

[Logo: Wax Trax! Records]

Evanescence

An interesting article on what makes us human - or not.  The article opens:

It’s not “technology” which makes us less human, de Grazia argued persuasively, but clock dependence.

And then continues:

By the 1910s in this country, the pre-eminent time-and-attendance office equipment company was the International Time Recording Company (later known as IBM), whose catalogues warned employers against “evanescence” — time’s fleetingness.

Essentially implying that our internal clock, the clock that is driven by desire or hunger, is the human clock.   Thereby making the mechanical clock the artificial driver of productivity.

~ü

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