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becoming-wave: (via The Humans With Super Human Vision | Senses | DISCOVER Magazine) An average human, utterly unremarkable in every way, can perceive a million different colors. Vermilion, puce, cerulean, periwinkle, chartreuse—we have thousands of words for them, but mere language can never capture our extraordinary range of hues. Our powers of color vision derive…
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The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act. The Creative Act – Marcel Duchamp’s 1957 masterpiece, read by the artist himself. (via explore-blog)
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Once you know things, you start seeing problems everywhere … and once you see problems, you feel like you ought to try to fix them. And fixing problems always seems to require personal change… and change means doing things that aren’t fun! Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson, 20 May 2012 (via thisway)
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Questioning As A Way To Find Answers
stoweboyd: Dan Hill has a great post about an ‘imaginary appliance’ called Brickstarter, and explains how speculative design (not a term he is using, but he should) animates the process of getting people to consider the implications of a design: Dan Hill, Brickstarter – Brickstarter prototype v0.1, and using sketches to ask questions Previously on…
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prostheticknowledge: AfterImage Furniture by Bomi Park South Korean designer creates furniture with a cubic / volumetric wire mesh form. Via Designboom: South Korean designer Bomi Park has created a collection of furniture pieces titled ‘afterimage’ shown at DMY berlin 2012. The collection references optical illusions and, of course, its namesake with a controlled chaos of…
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artandsciencejournal: Colour Theory: A Brief History These diagrams are 19th and 20th century attempts to systematize colours and describe how the human eye perceives them. In the late 18th century, scholars began to develop colour theory according to the understanding that three primary colours – red, yellow, and blue – could be combined to create…