Aug
3
…is digging posterous!
And this is just a test.
thoughts and stuff
a repository of little bits and bytes of my life
May
10
“When he would come up with a design decision, no matter how minute, he was asked to back it up with data. Before he could decide whether a line on a Web page should be three, four or five pixels wide, for example, he had to put up test versions of all three pages on the Web. Different groups of users would see different versions, and their clicking behavior, or the amount of time they spent on a page, would help pick a winner. “Data eventually becomes a crutch for every decision, paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions,”
Gizmodo - Design Or Data? Ex-Googler Spills All After Landing At Twitter - Google
Apr
14
Sometimes I make little sketches of TV characters while I watch their shows.
Can you guess who?
wishing for a non-wiggly thought
We live in a wiggly world, but our imagination can be otherwise.
If I had to describe God, if I had to conceive of It’s existence, I would describe It as pure and raw Abstraction, in true opposition of the physical, beyond it, even. It is the concept of Concept, the Symbol without the Symbolism. It is Thought. To conceive of something transcendent is, inherently, to deny the physical reality and to enter on the realms of imagination. It is imagination and nothing more.
This is the true concept of God, for me: to perceive, to imagine, to conceive of something other that physical reality. As such, to represent God is inherently impossible: how can we represent Thought? How can we physically represent the same thing that opposes physical reality? (In that same thought, is there such thing as a “physical reality?” What defines “reality”?)
We can’t represent Concept by itself. We can only create analogies, to include the inner concept of god in those other inventions of the human reason that share the same properties of godliness, the children of pure thought, like a perfect circle, the number zero or the straight line: with no width, no height and stretching to infinity (and infinity itself).
All of these are pure creations of abstraction, with true implications on our cultural development. The conceptualization of a grid, of a straight line, of something other than that found on a wiggly world can be virtuous: it is the pursuit of the only god-like ability existent in our world: to think abstractly, to go beyond the physical limitations of the natural world and to truly transcend into another realm. To envision a grid is not to limit nature, but to exercise our thoughts and define an undefinable world.
The need to represent Abstraction, while always and inherently flawed, can be inspiring: like the Boogie Woogie paintings of Piet Mondrian, or the minimalist Black Squares of Kasimir Malevich. They are conceptual poetry and they are moving to those who listen to it’s rhythm.
We are all but apes trying to touch a perfect black monolith, hoping to evolve. However, this monolith lives in our minds. It is our God, as we created him, and as God, it exists solely in our imaginations. It is Imagination.
Links: World of Wiggly and Alan Watts (on Youtube)
Quick sketch today, not really feeling it. Maybe already thinking about the weekend?
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