The Aesthetics and Beauty of Knowledge
Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge – various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories – to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge – this was shih.
– David Zindell, The Broken God, 1993
Geek Attitude
The attitude thing is about flexibility, portability, creativity, sociability and jamming (ran out of suitable “ity” words!). It’s about improvising – in the practical and musical senses of the word; not getting tangled in boundaries and the “right” way to do things.
Definitely the only way to travel.
– Martin Delaney – “Laptop Music”.
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Digital Urban
This is an exciting website, written by Dr Andrew Hudson-Smith, aimed at examining the latest techniques to visualise the city scape via digital media. How to make movies is explained at the tutorials page, I think I will have a closer look on this shortly, but for now I decided to go just for the fun-stuff: two great movies.
1. Just Breathe (with also very interesting Telepop music)
And 2: Growing Pains; The story of a tree outgrown by an evolving city.
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