STEPPING OUTSIDE OUR CULTURE
Philip Glass’ book, Words Without Music, is an inspirational and humble look into the mind of a famous creator. When I read books like this, I like to keep an eye on some of...
Monthly Archive: May 2015
THINK AHEAD OF THE ROBOTS
An article in the New York Times today talks about higher education’s need to teach their students the skills necessary to remain relevant in face of the robotic revolution. The article mentions how a...
ANTI-TECHNIQUE
I am wary of watercolor technique. You might call me anti-technique. Open any introduction to watercolor book and the pages are bold and bright and frankly intimidating. Those books demonstrate all sorts of standard...
TRANSPARENT BRAIN
The current issue of The New Yorker chronicles the efforts of Karl Deisseroth to understand how the brain works. Mr. Deisseroth is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Stanford. And he has led groundbreaking efforts...
CULTURAL BIAS
Analogue drawing is such a precious tool that we possess. From what I can tell, there is a lack of innovation. Yet we should be innovating. We should be developing broader and unique ways...
UNLEARN THE PICTURE PLANE
Studies done of peoples who are completely separate from the western media and mindset are illuminating. Joan and Louis Forsdale demonstrate that our understanding of the contents of a two dimensional picture plane seems...
DRAW THE WRONG WAY
When you have to come up with a creative solution, you need to feel free to draw like you have never drawn before. And this typically means that you end up drawing the wrong...
CINEMATIC LECORBUSIER
I believe that LeCorbusier was very dependent upon pictures and photographs to make his architecture. His books are stuffed full of photographs of ships and machines. I pretty sure that when he was designing...
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