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Quote – Saul Leiter on photography
Saul Leiter on how the artform is knowledge. Words are not needed. We can think in images.
Living bridges and supper from sewage: can ancient fixes save our crisis-torn world?
An interesting take on the problematic influence of the purity of conservationism and the impurity of development. From underground aqueducts to tree-bridges and fish that love sewage, indigenous customs could save the planet – but are under threat. Landscape architect Julia Watson shares her ‘lo-TEK’ vision
Fairytale Prisoner by Choice: The Photographic Eye of Melania Trump – Art as Research
This is a great use of photography as research. Of particular interest is the power of the snapshot, the image we take without thinking, rather than the 'artistic' image we make through a deliberate act with a clear aesthetic, political or personal intention. Posting, showing or sharing a snapshot, however, is deliberate and gives us insight into the photographer as much as the thing being photographed.
Learning by doing
You have to assume this was learned by doing. Embodied cognition at it's best.
Quote – William S. Burroughs on artists
William S. Burroughs on art making as making knowledge. And a thing about the end of the human line.
How’s It Gonna End – Tom Waits
May you live in interesting times. A song for our interesting times.
I took down my poem, 'Going Viral' as, given the current situation, it is not a helpful contribution.
Learning by doing
A big thing for me regards art is that it is a doing thing. You learn by making something and doing something. Call it embodied cognition, experiential learning, craft, performance or spritual technology, this post just shows how clever bodies are. Art, craft, cookery, whatever this is, it is amazing. Knowing through doing.
Hidden data is revealing the true scale of the coronavirus outbreak
Satellite images, internet speed and traffic information tell a whole new story about Covid-19. Exploring the idea of cyberspace as a digital place which is an adjunct to physical, analogue space. This article shows how understanding digital space changes our perceptions of analogue space.