I was never all that impressed by Bond movies. I remember twenny years ago I was watching Octopussy on video. Most on it I watched on fast-forward, and I didn't miss a thing.
I can't recall why, but it seems something had compelled me to put The Spy Who Loved me on my online rental list, and it arrived this week. I could only stand to watch less than ten minutes of it. My gawd, what an abysmally, toe-curlingly, heart-stoppingly bad movie. Even for light summer entertainment. It felt like being hungry, being out of food, and trying to eat an empty cereal box. Yuck.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Your mind's eye?
Update, let me try to be clearer:
Close your eyes. Recall a building you looked at recently. Is the picture as detailed as reality? If not, how much less?
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Here's a survey I've been meaning to do:
Close your eyes. Recall a building you looked at recently. Is the picture as detailed as reality? If not, how much less?
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Here's a survey I've been meaning to do:
What do you see when you remember or imagine things? How detailed are the pictures? Is there color? Is it three-dimensional?
Not long ago I had a "lucid dream", meaning I knew I was dreaming. But unlike usual, I didn't wake up soon, I kept dreaming. And more so, the dream was fantastically detailed and real-appearing visually. In fact I particularly noticed that everything I was seeing was at least as detailed and three-dimensional as what I see with my eyes when I'm "awake". It was amazing. (It was one of those things that proved to me that I can't prove the World is not a dream. But that's another story.)
The point is, though, that while I remember the experience, when I remember the dream, I don't see it very detailed. And it's the same for anything I remember, or for anything I imagine: even though I'm very visual, whatever I see in my mind is sketchy. In fact it's so sketchy that "conceptual" is probably a more precise word. Not clear at all.
So I am wondering what other people's experience is? Yours?
RSS
How do I make a link to let people get RSS feed for this blog?
Update: thanks to my alert readers. I've selected to add the link manually to the right side now, it says "RSS feed".
Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve
Zeitgeist - The Movie: Federal Reserve (Part 1 of 5)
This is surely relevant to almost any country on the planet.
There's apparently expanded versions.
... These days I am not sure what to think of conspiracy theories. I think it's healthy to face the evil in the world, but I also think it's faulty to see evil "out there". Everything comes from "in here".
This is surely relevant to almost any country on the planet.
There's apparently expanded versions.
... These days I am not sure what to think of conspiracy theories. I think it's healthy to face the evil in the world, but I also think it's faulty to see evil "out there". Everything comes from "in here".
Objectified movie
Objectified is a documentary about design, which will have premiere in March. I'll watch it as soon as it comes on disk. (Hopefully blu-ray.)
BTW, a blog (like the site for this movie) is an easy site to set up, but for many projects it may not be the best one, since new articles will push down articles which may be essential for new readers.
Funny, by the way, re the quote below, I was just talking to a friend about how people are sooooo conservative in the designs they will accept. Just take car colors. There are maybe five colors which make up 99% of all used on cars.
"Probably the thing that irks me the most [in car design] is when I see this repetition of the known, because it shows people have comfort zones that are too tight to themselves and they’re really afraid to walk out of those. And then somebody comes up with a new idea, and then everybody follows that because their comfort zone has been expanded. The work that we’ve done in the last ten years has been about expanding those comfort zones."
– Chris Bangle, BMW
Or a different example: I have a uniquely-designed drawing table I got made by a furniture maker. I has curved end-edges and many inlaid kinds of wood. The same guy made an early design with inlaid wood, a coffee table which look like it had a big zipper in it, partly open. He told me that everybody loved that table, but it took four years before anybody actually ordered one!
BTW, a blog (like the site for this movie) is an easy site to set up, but for many projects it may not be the best one, since new articles will push down articles which may be essential for new readers.
Funny, by the way, re the quote below, I was just talking to a friend about how people are sooooo conservative in the designs they will accept. Just take car colors. There are maybe five colors which make up 99% of all used on cars.
"Probably the thing that irks me the most [in car design] is when I see this repetition of the known, because it shows people have comfort zones that are too tight to themselves and they’re really afraid to walk out of those. And then somebody comes up with a new idea, and then everybody follows that because their comfort zone has been expanded. The work that we’ve done in the last ten years has been about expanding those comfort zones."
– Chris Bangle, BMW
Or a different example: I have a uniquely-designed drawing table I got made by a furniture maker. I has curved end-edges and many inlaid kinds of wood. The same guy made an early design with inlaid wood, a coffee table which look like it had a big zipper in it, partly open. He told me that everybody loved that table, but it took four years before anybody actually ordered one!
Laurie Anderson - O Superman/Here With You
And here is another one of those I got besmitten with and I had to make myself: Here With You.
Daily Routines
How writers, artists, and other interesting people organize their days. Article.
TTL said:
Actually it's not an article but a whole website (blog) about the daily routines of interesting people. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to get updates.
Another interesting one is How we work by rodcorp. This one is more like an article (with subpages) but it too receives updates.
TTL said:
Actually it's not an article but a whole website (blog) about the daily routines of interesting people. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to get updates.
Another interesting one is How we work by rodcorp. This one is more like an article (with subpages) but it too receives updates.
Friday, January 23, 2009
A cliche blonde
This one has been popular for a while, but I don't think I blogged it before.
I like:
"I listen to what you're saying, but I only hear what I want."
(Oh, isn't she lovely though.)
"Women don't really want to hear a man's opinion, they just want to hear their opinion in a deeper voice."
I like:
"I listen to what you're saying, but I only hear what I want."
(Oh, isn't she lovely though.)
"Women don't really want to hear a man's opinion, they just want to hear their opinion in a deeper voice."
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