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Clare Davies 24 April – 12 May 2013 opening 6 – 8pm, 24 April c3 Contemporary Art Space Abbotsford Convent Foundation 1 St Heliers St. Abbotsford VIC 3067 Australia
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Roll in to work, settle in for half an hour or so, and then head to the tearoom to make a cup of coffee. A good way to get one’s head in for a nice morning building databases. But that’s further down the list of Best Ways to Drink Coffee… A nice cosy cafe, without [...]
[Keywords: cafés, coffee, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
The Fremantle Society AGM was held last night, at FTI. Always inspiring to talk to people (before and after the meeting) about why they care about Freo. Perhaps less so concerning some of the discussions (during the meeting) — that seem at times to be more about people airing their personal gripes than working for [...]
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It’s hot! The first sight of the firey face of summer? Perhaps so. I’ve not been in this house for a summer yet, but I think it’s going to be okay. I’m even rather looking forward to it. Getting home from work, cracking open a beer, sitting down to… well, fiddle with Semantic Mediawiki as [...]
[Keywords: boring posts, e-volunteering, NaBloPoMo] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Just back from Nanga. A wonderful weekend. I’m just posting a few photos here now, because otherwise I know I’ll never get around to it. I am far too tired to think about writing anything meaningful about any of it! Goodnight.
The ANU Food Co-operative is now called the Food Co-op Shop, and (thanks to a pint bottle of Little Creatures Pale, and an hour or so of shuffling files around and fiddling with databases when I got home from work this evening) can now be found online at www.foodco-opshop.com.au. Long live the Coop!! Hurrah!
[Keywords: ANU, Canberra, Food Co-op, Posts written when drunk, The Co-operative Food Shop, websites] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Someone here at work wanted to know how to add a three-page PDF to a Word document, and then add a dozen photos after it, and then save the whole mess as a new PDF. I suggested ImageMagick’s convert and pdftk. Combine all the images into one PDF: $ convert *.jpg photos.pdf Put the two [...]
[Keywords: concatenation, image manipulation, JPG, PDFs] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Monday morning. A weekend of much work and little writing, in which I thought (yet again) to chuck the blog, chuck the computer, and return to Moleskine and ink. I didn’t; I just went to work. And two comments on my last post, in as many days — I actually had no idea that anyone [...]
[Keywords: I.T., In support of I.T., luddism, technology, Wordsworth] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have been reading Lessig’s Free Culture, specifically about the four different types of content-sharing that he identifies on p2p networks: sharing content that the user would otherwise buy (bad); sharing content as a precursor to buying it (good); sharing unavailable content (good); and sharing freely-available content (good; and the preceeding three were all about [...]
[Keywords: Duplication of content, Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig, Tropicana] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Thanks to all the modern things I have just this morning become aware of NaBloPoMo, which seems to be the alternative, for those lacking in ambition (like myself), to NaNoWriMo. The idea is to write one post per day for the whole month. Why? Well, I’m not quite sure, but it seems that lots of [...]
[Keywords: Blogging, I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, NaBloPoMo, Public diary, Tim Brook-Taylor, Why I write] [No comments] [Permanent link]
The documenting of how we live, where we live, what we do — that’s what I’m interested in. And it’s a waste of time, really, in that it doesn’t contribute to any of those things (oh, of course that’s simplifying it too much; oh well). It’s also necessary to live, to be of the world, [...]
[Keywords: community, dichotomy, documentation, Making, modernity, recording, wikis] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have been playing around with a different form for this website for the last couple of weeks. Because I don’t particularly care if people don’t have access to it all the time, I made the changes to the live site, and so it’s looked pretty bad lately. Lots of changes behind the scenes, though, [...]
[Keywords: Brindabellas, IBM, MacKennal Street, moving, samwilson.id.au, software, storage, tuggeranong, website, White Gum Valley] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I really shouldn’t have bothered with that last post; siting in that office, my brain confuddled with fluro lights, cake, and the ‘net, I can never think well enough to write anything. I should get that by now. So I’ve left the place, earlier than I should’ve, walked across town towards the dam wall, and [...]
[Keywords: escape, exploration, Exploring, tuggeranong, urbex] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Right. Well then. My idea, this week, is to write more. So far, I have failed. I have nothing to say. There is nothing going on, nothing worth talking about. But I want to write. * * * I have six weeks and two days to go at IBM. I’ve bought my train ticket, and [...]
[Keywords: Blathering, Blogging, IBM, Leaving Canberra, Nikon D60, tuggeranong, Writing, Writing in public view] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’ve come up the east hill today, just to see where it goes, what’s up here, and what I can see. I can’t believe I’ve been this way before. It’s such an obvious high point, from which I can see all of (tiny) Tuggeranong spread out along the valley, and the scrub and the hills [...]
[Keywords: Exploring, leaving the office, scenery, tuggeranong, Urban Exploration] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Reading history is a bit like reading fantasy or sci-fi; it’s just that the fanfic of history is generally more consistent than that of fantasy. I have been reading history lately (Victoria and Disraeli by Theo Aronson, the last couple of days, to be precise; history about personal relationships) and it is the story that [...]
[Keywords: Alternate world, Darkover, fanfic, fantasy, History, Marrion Zimmer Bradley, Reading, Theo Aronson, Victoria and Disraeli] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Last night I went to an ACS talk about teleworking. Against my expectations, I actually really enjoyed it. Within five minutes the presenter — Bevis England: a neat, friendly, almost English-sounding Kiwi — had mentioned peak oil and the way in which biofuel production is pushing up food prices. The environmental benefits of teleworking have [...]
[Keywords: ACS, Australian Computer Society, Food shortages, IBM, Peak oil, Telecottage, Telework, Working from home] [4 comments] [Permanent link]
Bugfix release 1.1 for Addressbook is now available from the WP plugin repository. I’ll get to the outstanding feature requests soon, I promise (feel free to hassle me here though — and don’t email me, it doesn’t work).
[Keywords: Addressbook plugin] [11 comments] [Permanent link]
I have finally gotten around to fixing the most major bug that’s been festering in the Image Flicker documentation. Sorry for my laxity in this. To make up for being slow, I’ve added a widget, to make it easier to use the thing. Isn’t that jolly exciting? Leave comments, bugs, and feature requests below.
[Keywords: Image Flicker plugin] [22 comments] [Permanent link]
I’m bored and tired this Monday morning, but still I flick through my blog feeds; I found this: [if:book: ephemera] from the Institute for the Future of the Book. It’s an interesting idea: that the inconsequential, unconsidered, printed matter of the day gives ‘the future’ (the people, that is) insight into how normal lives were [...]
[Keywords: archiving, books, how I write, Tools] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Another gap in posts for this blog; sorry. (Not that there’s anyone reading this to say sorry to, but as they say: meh.) It’s not that I haven’t been writing lately, I have, but in places that the web doesn’t reach; I’ve been enjoying that. But it’s four-thirty on a Thursday afternoon and I’m at [...]
[Keywords: Bicycle, boredom, how I write, Investigation, keyboard vs. pen, Speed, Things, transport] [One comment] [Permanent link]
Urban Adventure in Rotterdam Not that I’m bored today at work or anything, as you can see: not posting for a month, then here I am warbling on about urban exploration! But then I would really rather be out charting the course of a drain, or sketching the rust scars on a strange unknowable lump [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, Fremantle, how I write, Investigation, place, Placeblogging, Railway] [No comments] [Permanent link]
[about walk walk walk] The above is about walking in a local urban area, and doing so to get to know where you live. A great idea, I think, and it’s something that I’m very keen on.
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, Investigation, place, Placeblogging] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Bloggers unite. Today is blog action day, when we write about ‘the environment’ in order to ‘save it’. Oh yeah. Tom Worthington calls for less emails; but I concur with Paul Kingsnorth, and say: smash your computer and lock on to the nearest airport check-in counter! (I might say that, but I’m more inclined to [...]
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, air travel, blog action day, Making, sewing, social networking, transport] [One comment] [Permanent link]
Just to intersperse this stream of codeish posts with something a little more real… I rode part of the way to work today, and then put my bicycle on the bus for the remainder of the journey. (An odd feeling, looking through the bus’ windscreen and seeing my little bike all alone out there, bobbing [...]
[Keywords: Bicycle, craft, Making, technology, transport, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
On Sunday 2007-08-20, Steve Dalton of the Gold Coast Greens posted the following: Reposting this excellent cartoon that everyone should see to get an understanding of preferential voting and why it is so important to Vote 1 Green! Except, of course, it isn’t actually doubling your vote, is it? The ‘S’ in STV is of [...]
[Keywords: Federal Election 2007, politics, STV, voting] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have often thought that one of the greatest attractions for me to writing in ink, on paper, in a properly-bound book, is that where one writes the words is where they will remain, and the only place they will ever be. That’s not the case when writing on a screen: I often write a [...]
[Keywords: archiving, how I write, Investigation, keyboard vs. pen, Things, world wide web] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’ve just discovered the ABC’s blogs (blogs.abc.net.au) and I quite like what I’ve read so far. Maybe it’s just the idea of far-away correspondents filing these ‘letters home’ that appeals. A chap with a laptop (I’d like to think he’d be writing in longhand, on some favorite brand of Australian notepaper, but I realise the [...]
[Keywords: ABC, boredom, gardening, Work] [One comment] [Permanent link]
All has gone well, since my last post, with my intra-office carlessness. My announcement (“I don’t go in cars; don’t ask me to.”) has been met with near universal acceptance (or silence), to my great relief. I had wondered whether the conversations in the tea-room about various cars’ power-ratings and other such motorcar trivia would [...]
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, cars, dichotomy, Making, woodworking, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’m writing a more in-depth article on this topic at the moment, and I’ll post it soon, but for now I just want to mention a couple of things. The team that I am part of at IBM looks after servers that are spread over two different data-centres, one just across the road from us, [...]
[Keywords: Bicycle, Canberra, place, Speed, transport] [One comment] [Permanent link]
My brain is feeling pretty groggy at the moment, so excuse any pointlessness in this post. Not that there’s ever any point to my posts, but that’s beside the point. I’m at work, almost thinking that the afternoon’s nearly half-gone and so, well, what’s the point of doing any more work… There are, in Australia, [...]
[Keywords: A Place of One's Own, AuDA, place, Placeblogging, social networking, technology, world wide web] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I have just returned from my customary post-lunch walk around the lake. It’s lovely, strolling through the hundred meters of bush that lies between the shore and the highway — I’m not being ironic, it really is lovely. I went across the bridge (the one over the weir) and turned south, along a vehicle track, [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, dichotomy, Investigation, place] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Professor Mike Dopita “traces the often violent life cycle of galaxies to answer the following questions: How are galaxies formed? How is the gas transformed into stars? How do the massive Black Holes that lurk at their centres grow? What happens when galaxies collide?”. A public lecture from the Australian Academy of Science. Read more [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, Coming events, Investigation] [No comments] [Permanent link]
On October the 15th, blog about the environment — along with everyone else! Register your blog for the Blog Action Day.
[Keywords: Coming events, Miscellaneous, People, social networking] [2 comments] [Permanent link]
I seem to always want to return to this state: a quite chair with a pleasant outlook, and a good book. Here I am, into my second week at IBM, and I have achieved it, albeit with some detractions. The most major: I’m reading IBM Red Books. Next: this is no quiet parlor with a [...]
[Keywords: A chair in which to sit, Canberra, place] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I bought this watch when I started working at IBM, because it is such an archetype of The Digital Watch, and I like to be reminded of the Future. Some pointless facts about the F-91W: Water Resistant; Micro Light; Daily Alarm; 1/100 second digital stopwatch: Measuring capacity: 59:59.99; Measuring modes: Net time, split time, 1st-2nd [...]
[Keywords: Casio, F-91W, technology, timekeeping, watches] [No comments] [Permanent link]
During the last few days I’ve been working with Margo Kingstong and Kate Tucker on porting Kerrie Tucker’s website to WordPress. I’ve also set up the new ACT Greens online merchandise shop, Green Shop. So I’ve probably had about enough of sitting at here at our kitchen table hunched over this laptop; why I’m not [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, Miscellaneous, People, politics, technology, woodworking, world wide web] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Well, look here, I really can’t think very well at this time of night, so I don’t think you should expect much of this post. I’m thinking of that cave just up from the Palm Tree Beach, the one who’s main enterance caved in a few years ago, leaving only the other more convoluted way [...]
[Keywords: Fremantle, Investigation, photography, place, Posts written when drunk] [No comments] [Permanent link]
…I really don’t like being honked at by lone occupants of four-wheel drives! Me get off the road?! Why don’t they get off their stupid arses!?
[Keywords: People, Speed, transport] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Walking the same path, backwards and forwards, again and again, day after day, in doing this one gets to know the path. It doesn’t matter where it is: a city street full of cars and businesses, a suburban wasteland of scraps of grass and rough dirt, wherever we walk we build up a pattern of [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, place] [One comment] [Permanent link]
I’ve been walking lately. To university, to the co-op, and home again: along Sullivan’s Creek I go, sort of following the bike path and generally veering off and strolling quietly through grassy, damp, tree-lined avenues. It’s nice, as nice as anything really, these quiet moments of stillness amongst the green, and I notice the small [...]
[Keywords: Canberra, gardening, place, Speed, transport] [One comment] [Permanent link]
I’m finished with university for the year, and that skipping calm happiness of walking into a library and being free to read whatsoever I like is mine again! O friendly days! I leave for Perth in two days, on bike and bus and train, and am getting ready in my usual half-arsed but ready too [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous] [One comment] [Permanent link]
From Mr Tom Hodgkinson (of Idle fame), and HRH The Duke of Rothesay (lovely three-piece), comes a jolly sensible implore to slow down. May we heed it gratefully.
[Keywords: People, Speed] [No comments] [Permanent link]
August ’06: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig 1975.
(So why am I saying this?) I am looking forward to the day when I will again have something worth writing about (and I’m thinking here of woodwork: one of the happiest times of wood/tech union was back in 2003 when I was working at the art school wood workshop. The web then was a [...]
[Keywords: dichotomy, technology, woodworking] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Often, when I’m sitting in a lecture about concurrency, say, or sketching a possible design for some program, I actively love the fountain pen that I’m using at these times. Engaging with I.T., I find such great comfort in using such an old and ‘outdated’ technology. I usuallly don’t find this particularly interesting, becuase it [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous, People, technology, woodworking, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
It seems better to not take any photos at all, or at least not to incorporate them into this text. They break up the flow (mental, not typographical, although they do that too) and distract one from reading (and me from writing, which is more to my point — nobody reads this). I’ll still take [...]
[Keywords: archiving, photography] [No comments] [Permanent link]
(From ‘Work Suspended’ and other stories written before the second world war, Evelyn Waugh, 1948 (revised edition).) “For the civilized man there are none of those swift transitions of joy and pain which possess the savage; words form slowly like pus about his hurts; there are no clean wounds for him; first a numbness, then [...]
The following from Japan for Sustainability: During the planning stage for the construction of a new condominium, the prospective residents had a heated debate on whether or not an elevator should be installed. Some were opposed because once installed it would consume energy, which would mean carbon dioxide emissions. Others were in favor, insisting that [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous, transport] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Market day at uni, and the most exciting thing I can think of: that my mungbeans are up! They’re shooting forth in a little green row, cracking the clay apart, and are to me such wonderful little things. There’s not much that draws me at Market Day, on the other hand; an ominous shyness, prehaps, [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous, University] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I’m about to get on the Indian Pacific in East Perth (W.A.) to go home (home?! really? is it home?) to Canberra. I’ll be studying, not writing (journal-wise) nor blogging. Seeya.
[Keywords: Miscellaneous] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I am unsure as to just how wise this whole online journaling idea is, and yet I feel drawn to it time and time again. Why on Earth would I want the world to read what I have to write? Why do I not just write it in my [other, paper-and-ink, bound, real] journal? That’s [...]
[Keywords: Making, Miscellaneous] [No comments] [Permanent link]
In which I am prompted by events surrounding the previous night’s dinner to explain that Things being Wrong annoy me greatly; I outline something of what happens when they do; I float off into a daydream of how I should prefer to live; and I rant against others’ uncaring attitude towards wooden chopping boards and knives.
In which I am prompted by events surrounding the previous night’s dinner to explain that Things being Wrong annoy me greatly; I outline something of what happens when they do; I float off into a daydream of how I should prefer to live; and I rant against others’ uncaring attitude towards wooden chopping boards and knives.
[Keywords: Miscellaneous] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Returning to this blog after so long? What do I think I’m doing?! As if this is what it’s all about! I don’t want to return to this God-awful dive of diurnal dialog with myself; I don’t want to say, yet again, “Ooh, yes, woodwork is grand, but surely my life is–better?!–if I combine the [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Doing lots of coding; not much woodworking. Doing what I want, getting stuff done, having a good time. Seems useful. Am I to continue with wood? Not thinking about it; just doing that which has my thoughts mostly. Feeling a bit guilty, but not ’cause I don’t like what I am doing. Doesn’t really matter. [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous] [No comments] [Permanent link]
The crisp morning, cold but nothing to worry about; sitting reading at 6AM quite possible, wrapped only in everything I own. I am captivated at the moment by the ‘international community’ (and I use this phrase sarcastically) of the web, and especially the open source development ‘community’. There is something fascinating about collaborating with people [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous] [No comments] [Permanent link]
This morning I have been playing around with CSS. I know it doesn’t look too great just now, but I’ll fix it soon… maybe. I want to get back to working on my main PHP project, but it’s such a drag working on it without the lovely syntax high-lighting of a useful editor… Something interesting [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous] [No comments] [Permanent link]
An unexamined life may indeed not be worth living, but what of constant, total re-evaluation of everything?! Is that a state to be envied? It seems utterly unavoidable, quite outside of my control, this daily, hourly, questioning of is it worth it, is there any point? At one moment I’m rolling along happily, smiling at [...]
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I’M BACK!! Today was wonderful! I actually wanted to be in the workshop, working; amazing! I gave up on trying to work towards any particular project, and went back to the basics. I felt like I could’ve been in year eight! I cut a mortice and tennon joint, with no view whatsoever to doing anything [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous] [One comment] [Permanent link]
I have not blogged for ages. I am sick of forcing myself to work with wood. If I were to be doing just what I want at the moment, I would not even be thinking of wood. I would be sitting in a nice place reading, or at my desk at home coding. Instead I’m [...]
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By Pamela M. Oliver INTRODUCTION: That there was a change in the nature of the Society between the years 1647 and 1742 seems indisputable. It was withdrawing from outwardly-observable religious acts or witnesses to the Truth. Was it an increase in spiritual zeal: the belief that inaction or quietness would lead one to hear the [...]
I awoke this morning with a very sore back, but got up, breakfasted, read for an hour and was out of the house by eight. I had no wish to go back to the workshop, nor to make anything; all I wanted to do was read. There is so much that I want to read [...]
[Keywords: University, woodworking] [One comment] [Permanent link]
Making, creating, working with one’s hands, is a wonderous thing. An absolute requirement for being human, hugely satisfying, and I love it. Thing is, I am just as happy patching my old pair of army pants as I am working the finest wood – possibly more so, because I’ll not have cold wind blowing in [...]
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A moment of doubt: I have come to the workshop this morning to work again on the scroll. I am bevelling the ends of one of the rods with my blockplane, using the bench-hook as a shooting board. I have just realised that i am wearing a groove in the bench with this arrangement, and [...]
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This morning, outside the workshop: “It is so very good to be back at school. Even though niether the library nor the workshop are open yet, I feel relieved, and insipired to study. It’s a bit like a fraction of what Harry Potter felt when he got back to Hogwarts…” Went from there to Menzies, [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Soon I shall return to the workshop. I have books to make!
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By Edward Morgan Forster “To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.” — p.35, a thought of Margaret’s. “You remember ‘rent’? It was one of father’s words – Rent to the ideal, to his own faith in human nature. You remember how be would trust [...]
I have spent far too long on the computer. My mind is in quite a strange state. What am I to do? All this coding suddenly seems pointless, and I want to stroll on the terrace, prehaps sit with a quiet cup of tea, or be warmed by the fire and Keats. Escaping the world [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous, technology] [No comments] [Permanent link]
Around and aound I go as always, but now at least I am starting to see the pattern. For the last few days I have been in techno-mode, spending a lot of time on computers and ignoring the world. Predictably, this immersion in the web has resulted in my this afternoon rearranging my room and [...]
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I scribbled the following, sitting on the cold hard concrete of the city: This is the other side. This is the side that eschews all forms of pomposity, vanity, indeed any care taken over appearance or manner. This is the sleepin’ rough, carrying-little techno-savy activist. This is the only time I will listed to non-folky/classical [...]
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The house/room/attic that I dream of making, inhabiting and remaking; – where is it? What will it seem like to strangers seeing it for the first time? Many articles I have read of poet-build abodes, and rarely have they captured any true poetic image of the space. Descriptions of construction method, natural environment, recyled materials [...]
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A seminar by Ian Percival, a man who’s life embodies so much of what is wonderful about tools, making, and what might be termed ‘industrial technology’; a thoroughly inspiring talk. Then a lunch with the other post-graduate students and Ian (a usual Wednesday afternoon thing), during which the talk focused mostly around my book plans. [...]
[Keywords: lectures, Miscellaneous, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
This really is dreadful! I am going around and around in circles with this image stuff! There is a promise that the next release of WordPress will include better photo functionality, so I think my best bet is to wait until then, and go now to find a nook in the library in which to [...]
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Yesterday I did interesting things with InDesign and two bits of wood. I read. I chatted with people. I investigated the bookbinding studio. All things that were good and I left campus feeling so very excited! Then: I stayed up too late, and am now too tired… So back to the PHP I go, with [...]
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I wonder how much of this journalling I should create? Am I to go on and on, putting down my world as it comes by me – as if it were a film and I a critic taking notes – and heedless of the reams of text, the “ocean waste and wide”, that I leave [...]
Shopping, Sharing, Socrates.
Shopping, Sharing, Socrates.
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Working at the co-op set me thinking (and chatting with a few people) about how utterly enjoyable is work that we do from a sense of love. Fabulous! After a few hours at the co-op I went to the library to continue with Bachelard. I am finding him hard-going, but every so often bits emerge [...]
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The loveliest thing happened this afternoon: I sat down to sewing the signatures soon after lunch, an lo! 2½ hours later I looked up! It is so nice when work occupies one so; I don’t really care what I do so long as I can experience this feeling sometimes. It didn’t take long once I [...]
[Keywords: Miscellaneous, Work] [No comments] [Permanent link]
I began the morning in good spirits, lying watcing the grapevine outside my bedroom window, and the small bright blue patches of sky between the leaves. It didn’t seem to matter if I got out of bed or not… I have this morning begun binding a book: A small piece of blackwood from my table [...]
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Some ways of affixing wooden boards to books, and a short history of same.
Some ways of affixing wooden boards to books, and a short history of same.
By Gaston Bachelard “Imagination augments the values of reality.” — p.3 “…they describe [the humble abode] as it actually it, without really experiencing its primitiveness, a primitiveness which belongs to all, rich and poor alike, if they are willing to dream.” — p.4 “…the recollection of moments of confined, simple, shut-in space are experiences of [...]
The two forms of blind acceptance of how things are – one unable to question, the other not wanting to; the old and the new – and me, balancing a knife-edge in the middle and seeking to hone that edge to razor sharpness.
The two forms of blind acceptance of how things are – one unable to question, the other not wanting to; the old and the new – and me, balancing a knife-edge in the middle and seeking to hone that edge to razor sharpness.
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