This morning I read, in Dialogue: The Art of Verbal Action for the Page, Stage, and Screen by Robert McKee, “Every consequential moment in life pivots around a dynamic of action/reaction. In the physical realm, reactions are equal, opposite, and predictable in obedience to Newton’s third law of motion; in the human sphere, the unforeseenContinue reading “Contradictory Abstractions: The Dynamic of Action / Reaction”
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Contradictory Abstractions: The Synthesis of Beauty and Ugliness
It’s the last day of the first month of the new year, and I woke up early, tore apart my mirrorworld, and started fresh. Though conceptually I feel like my ideas are coming together, the images aren’t yet what I’ve been hoping for. How about you? How did your month go? This week I’m exploringContinue reading “Contradictory Abstractions: The Synthesis of Beauty and Ugliness”
The Week in Review: Reading, Writing, and Abstraction
How was your week? Did you try reading like a writer? Though I didn’t find a lot to apply to my novel from The Woman in the Library by Sulari Gentill, I did have fun brainstorming unique formats for my novel, and it inspired me to get a copy of S. by J.J. Abrams andContinue reading “The Week in Review: Reading, Writing, and Abstraction”
Dialectic Thinking and the Study of Contradictory Abstractions
Last week, while thinking about the first of my new calls to action “To find the truth in deceit and the deceit in truth; either deceive the truth, or unveil the deceit” (I now think reveal works better than unveil), the idea of deceiving truth, along with the blues songs I’ve been studying, got meContinue reading “Dialectic Thinking and the Study of Contradictory Abstractions”
Expanding the Study of Contradictory Abstractions
Not Just Nouns Anymore While reading The Linchpin Writer by John Matthew Fox, I came across this interesting sentence: “You should use your descriptions to do one of two things: to either defamiliarize the familiar, or to familiarize the unfamiliar. “ The form of that sentence, with its contradictions, reminded me of “find the despairContinue reading “Expanding the Study of Contradictory Abstractions”
#Writober Day 3: Naive Skeletal Wisdom
Contradictory Abstract Nouns This week I am exploring the naivete in wisdom and the wisdom in naivete. Yesterday, while reading The Senses: Design Beyond Vision edited by Ellen Lipton and Andrea Lipps, I read, “Sensory design activates touch, sound, smell, taste, and the wisdom of the body.” That really opened up this week’s study forContinue reading “#Writober Day 3: Naive Skeletal Wisdom”
Grief in Happiness and Happiness in Grief
Exploring the Big 5 abstractions is proving an interesting challenge. Turning my attention to happiness, I found some interesting websites: Happiness Academy World Happiness Foundation happiness.com https://www.dayofhappiness.net/ https://happinessday.org/ outlines 10 steps to Global Happiness: They define global happiness this way: Of course, none of those definitions actually define happiness which I contemplated a bit inContinue reading “Grief in Happiness and Happiness in Grief”
Do Our Ideas About Beauty and Ugliness Change When We Close Our Eyes?
This morning I did a search for “the ugliness in beauty” and found a couple of really interesting articles: The Biological Response to Beauty and Ugliness in Art [Excerpt] by Eric Kandel 2012 from Scientific American Experiences of Ugliness in Nature and Urban environments by Fatima M. Felisberti from International Association of Empirical Aesthetics TheContinue reading “Do Our Ideas About Beauty and Ugliness Change When We Close Our Eyes?”
The Ugliness in Beauty and the Beauty in Ugliness
I thought about continuing last week’s study of love and apathy, there is so much to think about and explore, but I decided I’ll let that simmer as I continue through my planned overview of the big five. This week I’m looking at the ugliness in beauty and the beauty in ugliness. Remember back inContinue reading “The Ugliness in Beauty and the Beauty in Ugliness”
Calvino’s 3rd Memo: Exactitude – Crystal & Flame
I’m continuing to find inspiration in Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino. This week I’m looking at Exactitude and Vagueness as contradictory abstractions. Let’s start with some definitions: exactitude: precision, accuracy, meticulousness vagueness: unspecific, imprecise; obscure, hazy, shadowy Calvino uses the symbols of crystal and flame, so I decided to start there.Continue reading “Calvino’s 3rd Memo: Exactitude – Crystal & Flame”
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