Thoughts
My thoughts on art, design, and other things of interest that inspires me
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Innovatingtoastandstill
Innovation is a constant stress at traditional organisations. However what seems to happen is that every one is innovating so hard that you become inert. It becomes harder and harder to deliver business as usual because it keeps getting run over by innovation. Its when the product development cycles fall out of sync.
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Melancholia
Just heard on the radio a wonderful show about Dürer as part of the ‘Germany memories of a Nation’ by Neil MacGregor. I have always been fascinated by the print and its wonderful symbols. I was less familiar with the print of the Knight. I was also intrigued to hear MacGreor and a german art historian Horst…
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Pastel Beach
Found on the web. A photo of Copacabana beach, with its mosaic pavement, designed by Roberto Burle Marx. Wonderful washed out colour palette. Saw the photo and wanted to remember the designer of the wave pavement.
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Serendipity
A photo found on a continuous lean, serendipity, andy, and the Brooks brothers look. I was tickled by him and the sign.
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sunday morning
made a lego slide, rose made a castle… watch out, the world’s behind you, there’s always someone around you who will call, it’s nothing at all….
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Space Oddity
Space exploration is other worldly, this makes it odd, its strange and peculiar. But space exploration has created an amazing library of imagery and I am always struck by the colours. Nasa’s collection of vibrant technicolour photo’s are often seem matter of fact in their documentary approach, they are just recording events, but the subject matter is…
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Tom Sachs – Bricolage
I don’t know this artist Tom Sachs at all, but I came across his model of a NASA Hasselblad camera. The low-fi real but not real aesthetic of it appeals. Its not a copy, but, too crude to be a facsimile. I am never quite sure what a Jean Baudrillard’s simulacra means, but it our mixed up world…
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Uniform Wears
Went to Lords today and watched the English cricket fans, watching England bat against India, and was struck by how uniform what they wear is. Clothing featuring pastel colours, baby blue or salmon, and a lot of panama hats. A lifestyle culture, an urban tribe?
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Megan Boyd
After a very hectic day at work my nerves were soothed by ‘Kiss the Water’ a very peaceful documentary on Megan Boyd, who spent her whole life tying classic and traditional Atlantic salmon flies. She lived most of her adult life in a small cottage in Kintradwell, near Brora. Considered a friendly eccentric by her…
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Pastel Dystopia
Not good bad Place is how my google search defined dystopia. Having just finished reading Dave Egers ‘The Circle’ and watched ‘her’ with Joaquín Phoenix, it seems that we are going to be over run with an appealing, useful, ubiquitous, user experience, which masks a more threatening reality. Seems rather sad.
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