Eolake Stobblehouse thoughts

Sine Wave, 1978.   Won gold in a national exhibition.  Click For Big Pic.    By the way, I don't post much here anymore, but d...

Quality and the Art of Purpose Maintenance By Eolake Stobblehouse In the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig wr...

I’ve realised what people mean when they say stuff like “it’s all politics”. And what politics are about. Politics are the attempt at mana...

I think it’s a pity that there are almost no characters in literature or movies who are higher than humans. (Gods, angels, aliens, AIs...) A...

Good art is a balance between the familiar and the new.  The all-familiar is not interesting. The all-new is not attractive.

An article I wrote years ago. The book has not happened yet. This is compressed data from many years of research.  (“Compleat” is correct....

I like technology because it represents control and order in a chaotic universe. I like art because it represents a finer and more complex...

How do you trap the most powerful being in the world? In the classic story Whatever Happened To The Man Of Tomorrow, writer Alan Moore has...

Leica M10D. The best damn seventies camera money can buy. (I’m a little confused though, I’m sure this camera came out like two years ago...

Deadpool II is funny. Near the beginning there’s a scene where DP (no, not that) is slaughtering a whole steam room full of Asian gangsters....

Choosing:  Gain divided by distance or time, compared to gain divided by distance or time.  If a gain is far away (happening to others, p...

Judenhass by Dave Sim. “Jew hatred”. A very brief visual history of the holocaust and beyond. Not only Germany was implicated, by far. A de...