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Holtzman - On Vision and Art

I remember very well the influence Harry Holtzman had on changing my fundamental “visual habits” of perception (GS, summer seminars, Millbrook, 1948, and Great Barrington, 1949). He would draw a simple “straight line” with charcoal on a blank white piece of artist’s sketching paper, and then asked us to describe what we saw.

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Added by David Linwood on July 11, 2008 at 2:37pm — No Comments

Time-Binding Bound Too Tightly

Time-Binding Bound Too Tightly by David (Levine) Linwood I received the following piece from a former colleague, Professor Karla Foss, indicating when the “Bindings” might be a little too tight. _____________________________________________________________________________________________ “The U.S. Standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is four feet, eight-and-a-half inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they buil… Continue

Added by David Linwood on May 25, 2008 at 1:01pm — 12 Comments

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