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Hi again,
I must admit I have always found myself fascinated by Leonardo's comments about stains on a wall and the capacity of human brain to IMAGINE (like a reflex) things he knows.
For that picture I felt inspired by the shape of a sphere, some ...
Yes Nora, absolutely!
I feel somewhat fascinated by stairs & steps and found a guilty pleasure in making them the most impracticable possible.
BTW I like your semantic mix (on purpose ?) as I suppose you refer to
http://www.marcelduchamp.net/Nude_...
Is that a "Staircase Descending DuChamp"?
Lovely image. Exploding brain? Cities on a partially decomposed planet?
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- Where do you live?
- North EU
- Are you a teacher or student?
- Teacher
- If a teacher or student, what's your specialty or primary subject?
- Fine art / graphic design / computer graphics
- If a teacher or student, what level and what school?
- [medium and high > "University" ] SupInfoCom (animated computer graphics) and International School of Design (Industrial design)
- If you're not a teacher or student, what do you do for a living?
- I teach and I create graphics (webdesign or logotype or desktop publishing)
as well.
- What interests do you have that others might wish to contact you about?
- Adobe Illustrator / Adobe Photoshop, 2D & 3D Imagery in general, Zen, Psychology (like Boris Cyrulnik or Paul Watzlawick) Krishnamurti, Pedagogy, Humour, translation in French, re-reading and correcting typos (more gifted for french articles), any art of presentation but mostly visual arts, web issues, communication skills, paradoxes. zetetics (I still wonder what level of value it can have for me at the moment), fine art, graphic design, Van Vogt (many french speaking people got to know GS through "The world of null A") etc.
- If you could have a front row ticket to any sporting event, concert, theater, or event, what would you choose?
- Peter Gabriel concert
- What well-known living persons would you like to meet during Happy Hour?
- I wouldn't mind having a word with Steven Stockdale or "Diogenes" from the forum of IGS. I actually find interesting the "gift" of color and pictures that Steven Stockdale brought in his "This is not That" website. I feel particularly enclined to find ways of making young people think in a more critical way using some tools proposed by GS masters. Hopefully the youngest now will become the oldest in the future.
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Wieviel Uhr ist es ?
I wanted to display analog clocks here so that I could easily know what times it is "over there". This Ning post does not seem to handle correctly the code I copied and pasted because I can only see the names of the towns I chose. By clicking on them it will still give you the time for the town in question...
From the site >
http://24timezones.com/
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From the site >
http://24timezones.com/
Posted on June 9, 2008 at 4:00am — 1 Comment
μουσική Music Musik Musique Müzik Muziek Tónlist Música موسيقى 音乐 音楽 музыка etc.
To me, one of the highest expression of human minds. (partly because it goes beyond verbal limits)
I will try here to make some of what I like to listen to, available to others (and to me).
It seems to work out fine!
And I suppose it complies with the music broadcast regulations, doesn't it?
Bye the way, I edit this post as I asked Ning support team how it was working about uploaded mp3s
Hello, If I bought a cd and extracted some songs in mp3 do I have the right to put it… Continue
I will try here to make some of what I like to listen to, available to others (and to me).
It seems to work out fine!
And I suppose it complies with the music broadcast regulations, doesn't it?
Bye the way, I edit this post as I asked Ning support team how it was working about uploaded mp3s
Hello, If I bought a cd and extracted some songs in mp3 do I have the right to put it… Continue
Posted on June 9, 2008 at 2:00am —
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- At 4:50am on November 1, 2009,
David Linwood said…
- Dear Luc Martin,
It is about 5:30 AM Eastern Daylight Savings Time here in Knoxville, Tennessee, on a mild Sunday morning. The day after Halloween. All but my personal ghosts have disappeared into their snug little homes. I have received a message from you at my dlinwood@bellsouth.net e-mail address that seems to me somewhat vague and unfocussed.
There are several women on Ning that I communicate with. Nora Miller is a friend. I haven't communicated with her for a while -- but I believe you know her name.
Are you referring to Yocheved Menashe who lives in Jerusalem, Israel? I have befriended this lovely person and sent her a copy of Volume I of my trilogy--in--progress:
"Hannah and Miriam".
I like your numerous images that you entertain us with. You seem to function as a person with a rather artistic visual perspective. Do you practice the tactile arts as well?
Are you a sculptor with more than light?
Have I answered your questions? If not, keep asking. I may eventually understand to whom or what you refer.
"I am an old man, in a dry month, being read to by a boy" (T.S. Eliot)
Regards, David
- At 2:50pm on June 20, 2008,
Arno Joentgen said… - Luc, hello!
I have to admit I don't know what the consequences of accepting a "friend request" are, but I accepted it anyway :o).
I think General Semantics would be called "Allgemeine Semantik" in German - which is a straightforward translation.
Some years ago I searched for german organizations and german books on General Semantics. I found no organizations and only two books. I tried to read one of them and ... let's just say I found it unsatisfying.
The next I read about was the ESGS homepage.
The last entry on the site was an announcement for a workshop which was more than a six months old.
Searching further I finally found the ISGS and contacted Steve to make sure I knew enough to attend a summer workshop at Alverno College. At this time I had read "only" 60-80% of S&S and I definitely did not know what level of knowledge the workshop presumed.
Despite the fact that the concepts of S&S seemed very familiar at that time my understanding was (and is?!) not deep enough to discuss them with my friends.
Therefore I embraced the possibility to travel to Milwaukee to meet with more experiences people. Two more workshops followed.
After buying S&S at amazon and finding the IGS-website I stopped looking for german organizations and book, i.e. I
do not know if there exists a german GS-organization today.
To make a long reply even longer, I answer a question you didn't ask - at least not explicitely. I hate filling out forms, especially if they contain "freetext" fields.
Yes, I could write something like "Hi, my name is Arno, I am 46 years old (June 2008). I live a city called Aachen in Germany.
After studying Mathematics I worked at a life insurance company for 6 years, studied again (Operations Research) work in Data Mining and now have a job as a kind of technical project manager), .... and so on and so on.
This is all true, but that's not (and can't be!) me.
Usually one of the first reactions is "uuh, mathematics" :o)
Knowing my "background" might help people interpret some of my comments - but then they might just think they understand.
Sure, I can't stop anybody from projecting his "history" on me.
And I cannot not comunicate (even saying nothing can be interpreted). But at least I can try to have a "clean" start.
The last part sounds a little bit strange after reading.
Maybe I got carried away a little bit :o)
So, back to the "facts": I dont like writing...
A bientot,
Arno
P.S. Thanks for the image.
P.S.S. I still have to practice with this website... I just sent a comment to myself ::o)
- At 3:01am on June 10, 2008,
Arno Joentgen said…
- Hello Luc,
thanks for the welcome.
I think I sometimes apply minimalism in my life,
i.e. I don't do more than is REALLY necessary.
But I didn't know it also is a form of art :o)
Maybe you can give me some examples beside
my profile on thisisnotthat.ning.com.
I don't like answering standard phrases.
Especially when I am not sure who reads them.
But if you have any questions, please ask me
directly.
Greetings,
Arno
- At 8:20pm on June 3, 2008,
Steve Stockdale said… - Luc, thanks very much for your nice comments. I especially appreciate that you like the little graphics on my ThisIsNotThat.com website. I purchased the rights to these in 2002 and I've found them to be very useful and evocative.
Since you mentioned teaching and in particular young students, I will say that one of my motivations for developing this social network and my website is to provide as many resources and materials as possible for teachers.
Certainly, I hope you will help spread awareness of these resources to others that you know in France and anywhere. I think it's incredible that just in a couple of weeks and with just a few people, we have already engaged residents of 4 continents with you in France, Laura in Argentina, Yosheved in Israel, and those of us in the US. So please invite your friends and associates in France.
Best regards,
Steve
- At 5:23pm on June 3, 2008,
l'm said…
- Buenos días Nora,
Thanks for your comment. I feel personaly extremely fond of minimalist (or "repetitive") movements. If you want to see videos of Yann TIERSEN, I like this page (esp. the two bottom thumbnails pointing towards "live" events >
http://www.labels.tm.fr/fr/labelstv.asp?artiste=YANN%20TIERSEN
Another page you can have a look at (and listen to his last music) is located there >
http://www.myspace.com/yanntierseninprogress
What I read in your message about freedom in music reminds me of a provocative ocular band called "The Residents" as they've made an album exclusively with children's toys...(called "Diskomo" apparently).
... I hope I'm not disturbing you with the references and links I give.
I think the tremendous development of the use of computers by more and more people all over the planet can evoke a real mental plague for certain aspects but can as well bring people closer (like here hopefully). So many things depend on the use(s) we can find for them. I feel concerned by the way a task can be achieved and not only by the task itself.
Anyway, I can say I enjoy "speaking" with you all (until now ;-)
I figured out from previous exchanges on several yahoo groups that people work better if they know each other better so I consider that speaking freely of ourselves makes a relevant start. (even with my Moliere's english...)
¡adiós!
- At 11:11am on June 3, 2008,
Nora said…
- Bonjour Luc. I much appreciate the Yann Tiersen piece. His soundtrack for the film "Amelie Poulain" figures as one of my top five favorites of all time. My current partner spent a decade or so in NYC in the 70s involved in the minimalist "movement". He has more or less completely restructured my understanding and appreciation of sound and music. From him I learned to hear things like Tiersen's toy piano with a fresh ear so to speak. I especially like the unexpectedness and the exuberance of the way he pulls sounds from whatever source he finds of interest without concern for "appropriateness." It makes the whole score vibrant and perfectly insouciant, just like Amelie. Thanks for reminding me of this.
- At 1:56pm on June 2, 2008,
John B. Free said… - Luc,
I doubt if a machine could read such an abstract piece as this was. I didn't modify the image except to take out the printing of the receipt and 'fill in' the blank spaces with the same color background. I used the editor in ACDsee, my favorite photo program. (enclosed the original......my friend found on the ground while we were out skiing.....he almost used it to start a fire with, until he looked at it closer......then we got into the fun of gazing at it this way and that......and so it went and so it goes!
Yes, it could be used like a Rorscharch test....but I wouldn't presume to understand what another person would or could project into it. (I was trained as a clinical psychologist in the 60's, and trained to 'interpret' Rorscharch cards as well.....but I've long since retired and could care less!.....this was just a fun project for me to get into........without all the psychological mumbo jumbo that could be attached!
Nice music! I love it, thanks for sharing.
Also of note. when I was a 'wee lad', I lived in La Fere. My dad was stationed at Laon Air Force Base. We lived there and in another town nearby from 1952 to 1955. I have many pleasant memories from living in the country and playing with the local Les Enfants!
BFree
- At 2:38am on June 2, 2008,
l'm said…
- Sayanara, B free
(for a long second, I thought "BFree" was your moto-signature.)
I like a lot the piece you've sent, especially that when I was studying fine art +- 20 years ago, I was very interested by stains and all sort of marks, which any human viewer naturally tends to interpret and "transcend" as something else (very far away from a mere stain of ink) Hermann Rorschach used this tendancy for psychiatric purposes ( ~ test) . I call this attitude: a natural human greed for stories. (stories in the widest sense <> organizing representation)
"Is" it a head (facing left) you thought I could see?
It makes me think of the system used to avoid dishonest subscriptions on the net which are designed so that a scan-machine cannot read it. Do you know if a machine can read that kind of picture as a face..... yet? Any researchers studying that?
I suppose I could launch a topic on this forum to do with something around that "visual identification" process and when it can lead to evaluation errors.
Last thing, does anybody know if there's a possibility to enlarge this writing box. I have the feeling I' writing on a stamp... Are the caracters limited?
I'll put some pictures of mine later.
Bye for now ... have a good day!
- At 5:38pm on June 1, 2008,
John B. Free said…
- OH......sorry, the photo is titled: "Burnt offering",,,,detail from a piece of receipt found in the Nevada Mountains while skiing with a friend last weekend.
BFree
- At 5:37pm on June 1, 2008,
John B. Free said…
- Luc,
"Happy Hour" describes an 'American tradition' whereby folks get together after work for a few drinks at a local bar.......most commonly achieved on a Friday......but expanded as needed to other daze......days!
I enjoy Peter Gabriel as well and have several of his works.
BFree
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