RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • The referential sketch serves as a visual diary, a record of an architect’s discovery. It can be as simple as a shorthand notation of a design concept or can describe details of a larger composition. It might not even be a drawing that relates to a building or any time in history. It’s not likely…

  • Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them. Anaïs Nin (via explore-blog)

  • Futurist Scenarios: Three Futures For China

    stoweboyd: A classic futurist scenario-based extrapolation of current trends across the event horizon, but it doesn’t really compel. Micheal Lee spins three scenarios, based on factors in the footnotes, but it’s all so top-down and disconnected to outside influences: Michael Lee, Too Big to Succeed? Three China Scenarios to 2050 The fate of the 21st century…

  • futuramb: Dear CEO: What is Your 400 Year Business Plan?germaneconsulting.com I first heard of the 400 year busi­ness plan when my hus­band, Robert Per­schel, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, New Eng­land Forestry Foun­da­tion, attend­ed ProSil­va – Close to Nature forestry con­fer­ence in France. City girl that I am, I stayed in Par… Barrels used to make cognac are…

  • In our accelerated reality, it’s not too much of a stretch to say that cameraphone nudes, floating on the Internet, are part of the lineage from Botticelli to Mapplethorpe. Maybe they do not generally possess the same level of skill as those greats, but cell pics continue the tradition of capturing the human form in…

  • Towards a Machine-Oriented Aesthetics: On the Power of Art « Larval Subjects .

    Towards a Machine-Oriented Aesthetics: On the Power of Art « Larval Subjects . dropouthangoutspaceout: If there’s something profoundly wrong with Heidegger’s thesis that art is an expression of a world, it is that art opens us on to worlds beyond our own lived artworld. If there’s a reason for the persistent animosity towards art throughout…

  • explore-blog: The relationship to handcraft is a beautiful one. You are related bodily to a solid block of metal letters, to the weight of the trays, to the adroitness of spacing, to the tempo and temper of the machine. You acquire some of the weight and solidity of the metal, the strength and power of…

  • Courage doesn’t mean screaming in the streets : “Ho Chi Minh or Guevara.” Courage for an intelligent man, is not minding making himself a damned nuisance… I’ve never had that true courage, the daily courage which means sacrificing identity to be effective. excerpted from Chris Marker’s Grin Without a Cat. The writer/speaker of these words…

  • tumblr dashboard typography insufficient my new retina display

  • sudden, momentary, power outage hoping all of the hard drives start up again after giving them a few hours rest