Control Freaks
In panic, people try to replace the lost order of the organic process, by artificial forms of order based on control. – Christopher Alexander, in The Timeless Way of Building Don’t Panic. Change is on the Way.
In panic, people try to replace the lost order of the organic process, by artificial forms of order based on control. – Christopher Alexander, in The Timeless Way of Building Don’t Panic. Change is on the Way.
Three children play in a field, not far from some ruins. The place is beautiful, eerily quiet. One of the children invents a game, dangers, threats, and a set of absurd, almost random rules for their game. He will lead the others to a magical place where all wishes come true, but only if they [...]
A movie review I was recently reading stated, in a tongue-in-cheek manner, that Action movies are basically children’s movies for adults. That is to say that they are expressly designed to hit very specific pleasure centers to generate a predictable and uniform reaction.. Re-reading this review after watching Where the Wild Things Are makes me [...]
Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Banksy – Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall I would love to side with Banksy here. He has a point: art at a bus stop has a mathematically greater chance of touching more people than would a museum (minus [...]
I can’t remember when was the last time I went to see a performance of contemporary dance. Probably never did. Theatre, sure, opera too – although I clearly spent more time in the last decade at museums or rock concerts than opera houses, I am equally comfortable banging my head in a muddy radiohead concert [...]