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alternative title : Master-Slave dialectic over 38° N
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Study of the day:
Everything, as much as it is in it, endeavors to persevere in its being. (...) The effort by which everything tends to persevere in its being is nothing more than the present essence of this thing.
There is no singular thing, in the nature of things, that there should be an other more powerful and stronger. Thus, any thing given, there is always an other more powerful, by which the former may be destroyed.
Toute chose, autant qu’il est en elle, s’efforce de persévérer dans son être. (...) L’effort par lequel toute chose tend à persévérer dans son être n’est rien de plus que l’essence actuelle de cette chose.
Il n’y a pas de chose singulière, dans la nature des choses, qu’il n’y en ait une autre plus puissante et plus forte. Ainsi, étant donnée une chose quelconque, il y en a toujours une autre plus puissante, par qui la première peut être détruite.
( Baruch Spinoza, Eth. III - prop VI..VII, Eth. IV La servitude humaine )
Just as monstrous and mutant algae invade the lagoon of Venice, so our television screens are populated, saturated, by ‘degenerate’ images and statements. In the field of social ecology, men like Donald Trump are permitted to proliferate freely, like another species of algae, taking over entire districts of New York and Atlantic City; he ‘redevelops’ by raising rents, thereby driving out tens of thousands of poor families, most of whom are condemned to homelessness, becoming the equivalent of the dead fish of environmental ecology.
De même que les algues mutantes et monstrueuses envahissent la lagune de Venise, de même les écrans de télévision sont saturés d’une population d’images et d’énoncés "dégénérés". Une autre espèce d’algue relevant, cette fois, de l’écologie sociale consiste en cette liberté de prolifération qui est laissée à des hommes comme Donald Trump qui s’empare de quartiers entiers de New York, d’Atlantic City, etc. pour les "rénover", en augmentant les loyers et refouler, par la même occasion, des dizaines de milliers de familles pauvres, dont la plupart sont condamnées à devenir "homeless", l’équivalent ici des poissons morts de l’écologie environnementale.
( Félix Guattari, Three Ecologies, 1989 )
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Poem of the day:
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And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
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Et la mort n’aura point d’empire.
Les goélands, fini d’entendre leur crierie,
Et les vagues venant se briser sur les grèves ;
Où la fleur a fleuri, nulle autre fleur ne lève
La tête pour l’offrir aux bourrasques de pluie ;
Qu’importe qu’ils soient fous, clous morts, minés de rouille,
Leurs têtes de bouffons battront les marguerites,
Forceront le soleil jusqu’à ce qu’il s’écroule
Et la mort n’aura point d’empire.
( Dylan Thomas - Twenty-Five Poems, 1936 )
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rectO-persO | E ≥ m.C² | co~errAnce | TiLt
Someone got creative and put a Daffodil in this group of Rhododendron flowers. It looks great even in the rain.
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Study of the day:
"Il y a autant de différence entre le néant et l'espace vide que de l'espace vide au corps matériel ; et ainsi l'espace vide tient le milieu entre la matière et le néant."
( Blaise Pascal - Œuvres complètes - réponse au "père Noël" )
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"La ligne qui passe entre les choses n’est pas la ligne qui cerne les choses, mais la ligne qui les assemble et les sépare à la fois."
The line that passes between things is not the line that surrounds things, but the line that assembles and separates them at a time.
( Gilles Deleuze - Cours PARIS 8 )
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rectO-persO | E ≥ m.C² | co~errAnce | TiLt
I spent an afternoon at my mom’s the other day and browsed through her large stock of buttons, ribbons and old lace. A gold mine for a craft enthusiast! This is part of what I came home with. :-)
Blogged here:
(Another Don Draper slide, this quote is from a recent episode.)
I laughed out loud when I heard this one and it's so true. Creativity can be encouraged, sure, but it can be very difficult to force. Sometimes you just have to fuck around until creativity strikes.
Slightly related: www.dkeithrobinson.com/thingimade/the_science_or_lack_the...
"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." ~ Charles Mingus - Jazz Bassist
Corpus Christi 2007 - Sitges, Barcelona (Spain).
ENGLISH
For the festivity of Corpus Christi, every year it is celebrated a contest of carpets of flowers in the streets of Sitges, in which people, groups and schools participate. The used materials usually are petals of carnations, grass, earth, coffee, bran of rice and other types of flowers. Also some balconies are specially arranged.
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CASTELLANO
Para la festividad de Corpus Christi se celebra cada año en las calles de Sitges un concurso de alfombras de flores, en que participan personas, colectivos y escuelas. Los materiales empleados suelen ser pétalos de claveles, hierba, tierra, café, salvado de arroz y otros tipos de flores. También se engalanan algunos balcones.
Title: Eden of Creativity
Giclée (Acrylic) on stretched cotton (100%) canvas
Size: 66 cm x 87.6 cm (frame 4 cm thick)
Price: christoff-kott.webtorch.co.za/eden-of-creativity/
For inquiries:
Email: christoff.kott@gmail.com
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Study of the day:
" [...] Pitié pour la viande! La viande n'est pas une chair morte, elle a gardé toutes les souffrances et pris sur soi toutes les couleurs de la chair vive. Tant de douleur convulsive et de vulnérabilité, mais aussi d'invention charmante, de couleur et d'acrobatie. Bacon ne dit pas "pitié pour les bêtes " mais plutôt tout homme qui souffre est de la viande. La viande est la zone commune de l'homme et de la bête, leur zone d'indiscernabilité, elle est ce "fait ", cet état même où le peintre s'identifie aux objets de son horreur ou de sa compassion. Le peintre est boucher certes, mais il est dans cette boucherie comme dans une église, avec la viande pour Crucifié. C'est seulement dans les boucheries que Bacon est un peintre religieux. ". [...]"
"[...] Pity for meat ! The meat is not a dead flesh, it has kept all the suffering and took on itself all the colors of the flesh alive. Both convulsive pain and vulnerability, but also charming invention, colors and acrobatics. Bacon does not say "pity for beasts" but any man who suffers is some meat. The meat is the common zone of man and beast, their area of indistinguishabilty, it is this "fact", this state where the painter identifies the objects of his horrors and compassions. The painter is butcher, but it is in his butchery as in a church, with the meat for Crucified. It is only in butcher shops that Bacon is a religious painter. [...]"
( Gilles Deleuze - 1981 - Logique de la sensation )
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(...) J’essaie de montrer ce que c’est qu'une "ligne de fuite" en peinture. J’arrive à peu près à la définition du processus. Je prends des exemples.
Je prends par exemple la ligne de certains artistes très classiques, la ligne qui répond à la formule célèbre : "Il ne peignait pas les choses, il peignait entre les choses". La ligne qui passe entre les choses n'est pas la ligne qui cerne les choses, mais la ligne qui les assemble et les sépare à la fois.
Je prends un autre exemple extrême, chez un artiste récent : la ligne dite de Pollock. Ce qu’il y a d’extraordinaire avec cette ligne, c’est qu'elle récuse aussi bien l’abstrait que le représentatif. Qu’y a-t-il de commun entre l’abstrait et le représentatif ? D’une certaine manière, la ligne y est encore une ligne au moins virtuelle de mort.
Qu’est-ce que j’appelle "ligne de mort" ? Une ligne de mort est une ligne qui détermine, qui ferme, qui achève un contour. Alors la vraie différence, elle n'est pas entre abstrait et représentatif, elle est entre la ligne qui ferme un contour et la ligne qui procède autrement. Une ligne qui ferme un contour peut déterminer une figure concrète aussi bien qu'une figure abstraite. Que ce soit de l’abstrait ou du représentatif, il n'y a pas là de différence, vous avez toujours la ligne qui fait contour.
Pourquoi la ligne de Pollock n'est-elle ni abstraite ni concrète ? Parce qu’elle ne forme pas un contour. Comme on le disait à propos d’autres peintres, elle passe "entre" les choses. Elle ne va pas d’un point à un autre, c’est au contraire un point qui va d’une ligne à une autre, ou d’un segment de ligne à un autre segment de ligne, etc.
Je dis que la ligne de Pollock c’est une "ligne de vie", en effet. (...)
(...) I try to show what is a "vanishing line" in painting. I manage to roughly define the process. Let's look at some examples.
For example, I look at the line of some very classical artists, the line that meets the famous: "It does not paint things, he painted between things." The line that passes between things is not the line that turns around things, but the line which separates them and assembles them at once.
Another extreme example, is with a recent artist: the line said as the Pollock's line. What is extraordinary with this line is that it rejects both the abstract as the representative. What is common between abstract and representative ? In a way, the line is still virtually a "line of death".
What I call "line of death" ? A "line of death" is a line that determines, which closes, which is completing a contour. So the real difference, it is not between abstract and representative, it is between the line closing a contour, and the line proceeding otherwise. A line which closes a contour can determine a concrete figure as well as an abstract figure. Whether it is abstract or representative, there is no difference there, you have a line making a contour.
Why Pollock's line is neither abstract nor concrete ? Because it does not form a contour. As we said about other painters, she runs "between" things. It does not go from one point to another, in contrary, it is a point that goes from one line to another, or from a segment of line to another segment of line, etc.
I say that the Pollock's line is a "life line", indeed. (...)
( Gilles Deleuze - Cours Université PARIS 8 - "Anti-Œdipe et autres réflexions" )
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rectO-persO | E ≥ m.C² | co~errAnce | TiLt
Skates made of wooden cars from IKEA.
The method of installation - socks. The product made by Natasha, almost 6 years old.
Cosplay by K'dawn as Bayonetta Friday at 2015 Taiyou Con Mesa AZ.
Bayonetta (Japanese: ベヨネッタ Hepburn: Beyonetta?) is a third-person Beat'em up game for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U
I've been asked: "How do you create your magical pictures...?"
Okay. This video is one of my answers.
I have learned so much by my flickr friends that I want to say THANK YOU ALL!!!
Now I will show what I have learned...
No need to keep secrets.
Enjoy your own creativity!
HKD
If you start photo manipulation, maybe you'll be inspired... :-))
HKD
If you like to see full length...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6mFXKc5tls
HKD
An attempt to show the most fundamental things that God created: Substance, joy, beauty, relationship, wisdom, holiness, all played out in time/eternity. I have blogged about this here.
Thanks for looking!
"What will I write about?" I always asked myself
Then I always think "Together my thoughts will melt"
And then I am off! and off in an instant
your poem doesn't need to be worthy of inscription
let your mind free
grab that pen, and press the keys
Take your mind on a ride through your vast imagination
don't give into a quitting temptation
keep strong and let yourself go
and your poem doesn't have to rhyme
quality will come all in good time
Practice makes perfect so I hope you will all start writing
You will have to watch out if Quiting is fighting
To cure writers block (It's self-explanatory)
put the pen to the paper and fulfill your dreams!
-Wyatt Campbell
It's how I feel about photography. ...Have a Happy New Year, May you all be blessed with renewed inspiration and creativity.
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Outlining a Theory of General Creativity . .
. . on a 'Pataphysical projectory
Entropy ≥ Memory ● Creativity ²
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Study of the day:
Plus on va loin, moins on apprend.
The more one goes, the less one learns.
( 老子 - Lǎozǐ - ... )
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rectO-persO | E ≥ m.C² | co~errAnce | TiLt
Justing messing around on photoshop with a selfie. Its quite trippy. I haven't done anything like this in ages but its always a good way to procrastinate.
I cannot take any credit for the amazing creativity as I copied the idea from Jeff Aris on Flickr, so you should probably check out the original.
It's time for a personal project. This one is inspired by my very good friend from Italy; Paolo Martinez, who do lots of these projects and this one is focused on 30 days with my nifty fifty, a lens that I don't use very often, but primes lenses tends to boost creativity, so follow me for the next 30 days to see what I can get out of a cheap lens.
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“The creative mind plays with the object it loves”
“The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn't need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.”
Location: Fuvahmulah / Maldives
"Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected."
Buy this tee on Imaginary Foundation!
The two girls talk about their secrets of youth. It was a gloomy day, it was very cold, but the girls did not bother.
We are in the forecourt of refuge "CITELLI" at an altitude of 1,400 meters above the sea level. When there is no haze we can see the Ionian Sea and the coast of Calabria.
The Tree of Creativity is the world’s biggest LEGO tree, planted in LEGO House in Denmark. 15 meters tall, made from more than 6 million LEGO bricks, and built by hand, the LEGO Tree of Creativity took almost 25000 hours to complete.
Lego House is an experience centre in Billund, Denmark. Near Legoland, it is a 12,000-square metre house filled with 25 million Lego bricks. Lego House allows children and adults to physically and digitally build with Lego bricks, with activities such as programming robots and animating models.
Lego House is also called Home of the Brick with references to Billund, where Lego originates. The house was designed by Bjarke Ingels Group, and was inaugurated on September 28, 2017.
The house's Experience Zones consist of two exhibition areas and four play areas. Architecture involves 21 staggered blocks that resemble Lego bricks, with nine roof terraces containing children’s play areas.
Source:
- LEGO House official video – Timelapse: Tree of Creativity
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lego_House_(Billund)
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