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I love books; I read and write them for the same reason I love to talk with a friend for 10 hours, not 10 minutes (let alone, as is the case with the average Web page, 10 seconds). The longer our talk goes, ideally, the less I feel pushed and bullied into the unbreathing boxes of black and white, Republican or Democrat, us or them. The long sentence is how we begin to free ourselves from the machine-like world of bullet points and the inhumanity of ballot-box yeas or nays.
~ Pico Iyer  Los Angeles Times
Going through an old journal, I found this entry: November 24, 2009 - Patterns Matter Remember: Patterns Matter. Seems important enough to reiterate and reenforce with ample evidence, such as the image above. ~ü [Image: Source Unknown]

Going through an old journal, I found this entry:

November 24, 2009 - Patterns Matter

Remember: Patterns Matter.

Seems important enough to reiterate and reenforce with ample evidence, such as the image above.

~ü

[Image: Source Unknown]

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Schaeffer observed that an amoeba placed on a cylindrical surface always moved in a spiral path around the cylinder…. when he asked a blindfolded man to walk in a straight line in field, he found that he did the same.

Schaeffer observed that an amoeba placed on a cylindrical surface always moved in a spiral path around the cylinder…. when he asked a blindfolded man to walk in a straight line in field, he found that he did the same.

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While his subject-matter may seem repetitious, Hammershoi is the master of subtly and subtle changes. His style of painting which seems influenced by Dutch genre artists like Vermeer and the impressionists, remains the same throughout, but his aesthetic is rich in the bridges it creates. The strange stillness of his paintings, especially the ones without human subjects, are almost surreal and his compositions and portraits, most notably when we only see the back of the subject’s head, are abstract in their experiments with compositional convention. Empty space dominates the paintings. Hammershoi’s muted emotion are emblematic to the mono no aware in Japanese visual art. The silence of his paintings are so great that you can almost hear it. ~ harmoniesoflight: [Image: White Doors, Vilhelm Hammershoi (1905)]

While his subject-matter may seem repetitious, Hammershoi is the master of subtly and subtle changes. His style of painting which seems influenced by Dutch genre artists like Vermeer and the impressionists, remains the same throughout, but his aesthetic is rich in the bridges it creates. The strange stillness of his paintings, especially the ones without human subjects, are almost surreal and his compositions and portraits, most notably when we only see the back of the subject’s head, are abstract in their experiments with compositional convention.

Empty space dominates the paintings. Hammershoi’s muted emotion are emblematic to the mono no aware in Japanese visual art. The silence of his paintings are so great that you can almost hear it.

~ harmoniesoflight:

[Image: White Doors, Vilhelm Hammershoi (1905)]

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There is no more obnoxious way to punish a man than to force him to perform acts which make no sense to him, as when one empties and fills the same ditch indefinitely, when one makes soldiers who are being punished march up and down, or when one forces a schoolboy to copy lines.
Simone de Beauvoir

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I was bed-ridden last weekend with a fever.  I have one about once a year, usually, coincidentally or not, in times of stress.  They last for a day or two and then recede.  During that time, I am possessed by geometric patterns - patters projected from within that need solving.  The feeling is difficult to describe.  I do not feel the impulse to solve patterns.  I do not make a choice.  The experience occurs at a level just below conscious.  My identity is not present in the analysis.  Just shapes.  Endless shapes and patterns.  My brain is the machine that explores and solves them.  The higher the fever, the harder this drives.   The cube was the geometric shape of last weekend.  Every time I found a place for a cube, more chaotic cubes would be revealed.  The activity lasted for hours.  In another instance, I can distinctly remember a particularly high fever, 104 degrees, of a few years ago.  I was constantly rotating pinwheel shapes in an effort to point them in the right direction. On the few occasions I was consciously aware of it’s happening, it felt maddeningly unstoppable.  It just seemed to propel the fever higher and higher - The Sisyphus inside.  But in a delirious state, the will melts away and I was unable to engage it. In a recent episode of Clever Apes, Jack Cowan discussed the possibility that hallucinations actually reflect the structure of the brain.  There is a systematic categorization of patterns here, whether they be drug, synesthetic, near-death or fever induced: a form constant.  The man who coined the term, Heinrich Klüver, found  four discreet categories: lattices, cobwebs, tunnels and spirals. So then, the lattices (cubes) and spirals (pinwheels) experienced during a fever are perhaps a conscious look into the invisible workings of the brain.  Structures in nature are scalable.  They work on the micro and macro levels.  It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to conclude that the patterns that mesmerize us when we look at them are just reflections of our own invisible inner-structure. ~ü

I was bed-ridden last weekend with a fever.  I have one about once a year, usually, coincidentally or not, in times of stress.  They last for a day or two and then recede.  During that time, I am possessed by geometric patterns - patters projected from within that need solving.  The feeling is difficult to describe.  I do not feel the impulse to solve patterns.  I do not make a choice.  The experience occurs at a level just below conscious.  My identity is not present in the analysis.  Just shapes.  Endless shapes and patterns.  My brain is the machine that explores and solves them.  The higher the fever, the harder this drives.  

The cube was the geometric shape of last weekend.  Every time I found a place for a cube, more chaotic cubes would be revealed.  The activity lasted for hours.  In another instance, I can distinctly remember a particularly high fever, 104 degrees, of a few years ago.  I was constantly rotating pinwheel shapes in an effort to point them in the right direction. On the few occasions I was consciously aware of it’s happening, it felt maddeningly unstoppable.  It just seemed to propel the fever higher and higher - The Sisyphus inside.  But in a delirious state, the will melts away and I was unable to engage it.

In a recent episode of Clever Apes, Jack Cowan discussed the possibility that hallucinations actually reflect the structure of the brain.  There is a systematic categorization of patterns here, whether they be drug, synesthetic, near-death or fever induced: a form constant.  The man who coined the term, Heinrich Klüver, found  four discreet categories: lattices, cobwebs, tunnels and spirals.

So then, the lattices (cubes) and spirals (pinwheels) experienced during a fever are perhaps a conscious look into the invisible workings of the brain.  Structures in nature are scalable.  They work on the micro and macro levels.  It wouldn’t be much of a stretch to conclude that the patterns that mesmerize us when we look at them are just reflections of our own invisible inner-structure.

~ü

This curve could continue forever.  Telephone pole after telephone pole.  She passes by, mimicking their outstretched arms.  Evenly spaced points along the path.  An infinite loop.  Recursion here.

This curve could continue forever.  Telephone pole after telephone pole.  She passes by, mimicking their outstretched arms.  Evenly spaced points along the path.  An infinite loop.  Recursion here.

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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner

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Simple list: 2, 1, 0. Division into quarters: 25/25/50. A sense of order, space and perspective.  What is missing when we are most troubled photo credit: don’t forget us by Ebru Sİdar

Simple list: 2, 1, 0.

Division into quarters: 25/25/50.

A sense of order, space and perspective. 

What is missing when we are most troubled

photo credit: don’t forget us by Ebru Sİdar

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Recursive Arches in ArchitectureRecursion is an elegant way that AI researchers use simple decisions to model large-scale behaviors.  To think of humans, and the complex decisions we make, broken down to the cellular level.  A chain of causality that creates what we consider consciousness. (set x’(1 1 1 1 -1))(defun recursiveArc (x)  (cond ((< x 0)(recursiveArc( cdr’(x) ) ))))

Recursive Arches in Architecture

Recursion is an elegant way that AI researchers use simple decisions to model large-scale behaviors.  To think of humans, and the complex decisions we make, broken down to the cellular level.  A chain of causality that creates what we consider consciousness.

(set x’(1 1 1 1 -1))

(defun recursiveArc (x)

  (cond ((< x 0)(recursiveArc( cdr’(x) ) )))

)