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when the going gets weird,
the weird go pro
famous wisdom from hunter thompson . . .
(who really hasn't written all that well since Fear and Loathing
in Las Vegas - which was real)
"There's that nice clean well-modeled binary reference turning
like a turing test on the old intellectural rotisserie and doing that
wonderful compressive thing with that multilayered evolving tube o'fog
- and then, whoops! What's that? Looks like a big chloral hydrate!
But maybe it's an alternate universe in which big data takes care
of the breadpudding in the automat (no, those aren't roaches) and
big dada takes parking fees at the Old Abstractionists Home . . .
"
. . . . .Ben Shahn
| How
many F's in this sentence?
"Finished files are the result of years of scientific study combined with the experience of years." The correct answer is 6. No tricks. Most people find 3. If you're like me, you didn't see the F's in the word "of" which appears three times in the sentence. Conclusion -- most of what we see is what we're trained to see. Creativity is understanding these patterns and looking for algorithms that allow you to find what you're looking for anyway. Business as usual finds three F's. A disciplined creative person finds six. |
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"Resolution Desired:" . . . . . From my scanning software. |
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"Old
Fashioned Painting is a Healing Thing:"
. . . From conservation between Ronnie Landfield and Ron Davis. |
| "The
pump don't work; the vandals took the handle."
. . . From a song by Bob Dylan. |
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work of the artists dubbed "Abstract Illusionists" heroically
dealt with so many painting issues. Sometimes the beauty and
lyrical painterly qualities of their work is overshadowed (to
the untrained eye) as the observer unravels the visual complexities
involved in the abstract depiction of space. Dimension always
exists in abstraction, no matter how it may be concealed. It
is the ironic honesty of Abstract Illusionism that ranks it
among the great "isms" of twentieth century painting.
Andrea Marzell |
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