My penis is not the most important organ in my body. My eyes are.”
~ Paul Cadmus (source)
Exercising My Eyes
Age helps you reassess what’s important. I have made some bad choices along the way but thankfully I always knew each day brought me a new set of choices.
I saw a question that someone posted searching for an answer to how art changes lives. I guess, short answer, it allows you explore your dreams, passions, fears, thoughts, and give you a moment catch your breath and move on.
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
~ Rudolf Arnheim
Perception is not Reality
Found a few minutes to look through my photographs and post this photo and quote. The quote came from Brainy Quotes. and I search out a quote specifically to do with Gestalt Theory since we are talking about it in my courses this week.
I am looking forward to being back and working more on my sites.
If you touch something (it is likely) someone will feel it. If you feel something (it is likely) someone will be touched.”
~ Rick Valicenti
Early February on Lake Harriet
School is keeping me very busy… Wishing I had more time. Need to take Bill time.
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes … the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. … You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things. … They push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.” ~ Apple Commercial, 1997
Drama on Lake Superior
Reading to the Jobs’ biography. Very inspiring… Plus I am visiting You Tube and viewing some of the interviews, commercials and slices of history relating to Apple and Steve Jobs. I’m still on Lake Superior… Enjoying the views of the lake and working on my class plans.” Great day.
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.”
~ Louis Pasteur
A Bright Winter's Morning
A week from tomorrow I return to the classroom. Putting the final polishes on the syllabi and doing some last-minute prep. I have a splendid seat now while I work. I am in front of the window at my make-shift desk looking over an incredibly blue lake with clouds off in the horizon.
I’m still enamored but the text, Design Basics. The design process can be described many ways but Lauer and Pentak break it down into three simple steps—think, look, and do. What is simpler to understand?
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Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.” ~ Rumi
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.” ~ Ruby Dee
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?” ~ John Lennon
