Information Organization, Mediums, Creativity, and Experience
We receive data sensually. What we make of the data depends on what we have in the mind, and its current state. person <– data For a great amount of time, especially during the information age,...
View ArticlePublic Spaces and Action
I feel there is an association to public spaces and action. By public spaces I’m mostly thinking of anywhere outside of a building, inside of a city: streets, parks, and plazas. The lack of private...
View ArticleLearning the Aesthetics of Art
It is unusual if one grew up learning aesthetics through textbooks. I grew up with games, then films, then new media, in that order. I learned what made them aesthetically good by experiencing them,...
View ArticleGrowing Up with Technology
In the end of a blog about information and mediums, I said: The more sensual the unknown product the more pleasurable it becomes and the faster data is transmitted. With that known, and according to my...
View ArticleBland Apartment Buildings
If you just walk around your city or town, you’ll likely find something that just shouldn’t exist. You wonder, why was this made? Perhaps it existed since or before the Industrial Revolution. That’s...
View ArticleHomeless East Asians
~2/14/13 to 8/6/13 in New York Why do bums live on? Homeless East Asians are special. Testaments of the crime-less, thrifty ethics of East Asians; Modest modern scavengers of urban waste a la...
View ArticleThe Way of Including
To experience another’s life, in addition to the economic and social influences, the latter impossible to experience, the former, difficult, there is the difference of space and time. To simple be with...
View ArticleOn Stoicism
On Stoicism After what felt like several years of cold, summer finally arrived in Taiwan, with its beautiful shifts of before the storm weather, bursts of typhoons, and sweltering zero entropy...
View ArticleThe Kinds of Literature and the Extraction of Ideas
[related writings: What is Worth Reading?, Notes on Translations of Ancient Literature, Lessons in Research of a Past Time, The Kinds of Literature and the Extraction of Ideas] Why Read? To map words...
View ArticleA Japanese Ideal
Perhaps thought of after watching Hotarubi no Mori e (~Into the Forest of Fireflies’ Light) [todo: write a film review]. There is an ideal of an idyllic, rustic lifestyle shared in many of my favorite...
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