EC Container 4
artist
1st April
01/04/10 07:43
I just recorded all that and none of it recorded so I shall have to do it again.
It was beginning with the idea of making an iphone app out of a filemaker pro database, I had an email advertising this as a possible service and I immediately thought of the possibility of the game of consequences as an iphone app I shall have to have a search when I get back to see if one already exists, but otherwise it seems like a good idea, I could at least do the interface if I don't actually build the app because of the expense. I went on to do some talking about Hare Brain Tortoise Mind' and - this is really difficult now because not only am I talking, but i am trying to remember what it is that I was saying, it was to do with the radio 4 programme where there was a propensity for people to believe in wrathful gods as a way of control in large societies where in small societies people are more inclined to worship spirits of natural things. And it was about teaching as a gut feeling working with the gut feeling with an artistic sensibility and wether people are genetically wired with certain brains so that if you have a brain that is more spatially aware and makes looser connections does that mean that you are going to be inclined to be an artist. And if you decide that your are going to be an artists, do you become an artist, or is it the way brain works that turns you into an artist. Are you an artist if you decide that you are going to be an artist - can you be an artist if you are not mad? VG, Picasso? I think that is basically what I was trying to say.
Take three
I had an email this morning from a company suggesting that I could make an iphone app from a filmmaker database and my immediate thought was that I could turn my title game of consequences into an iphone app and gradually build up stories over time. I may design it anyway even though I am thinking that it would be a little bit expensive to actually put it into practice just for that. But if it is designed and the idea is there then that will be a part of the work done. And then I went on to talk about 'Hare Brain Tortoise Mind' and specifically talking about the way our brains are built would give us a propensity to be an artist or a mathematician perhaps but if we have somehow a loose more right brain approach then we are more likely to be artists and have that artistic sentimentality. I think that came from thinking that you can teach proportion, golden section, balance and composition, perspective, but mostly this just comes by feel, you get students that just seem to have an innate ability with putting colours together and making comfortable and easy compositions. Where does that design sense, the balance, the composition, come from? Is it somehow in the way that the brain is working is it trained? I definitely think that I have students who seem to have a natural ability with it, is it therefore programmed somehow into the genetics, into the brain, do certain brains have a propensity towards being artistic and if they do does that predetermine what you might become if you have a brain that is somehow looser, are you more likely to become an artist. And how much is the teaching in education involved in that and how much is the identity - if you decide that your identity is that of an artist, If you identify with artists is that what makes you want to become one and therefore you find the tools. So is it that identity that is vital, and are there experiences in life which give you that trigger to be choosing your identity in that direction. That reminds me of north american indians and the fact that if you are born with green eyes you are destined to be the medicine woman and then the programme on radio 4 about the basis of god and religion talking about the fact that is small tribal societies where everyone could know every one the sprits are more likely to be in and of the earth and in the animals they wouldn't be overriding creatures spiritual deities that have control, they would be more benign perhaps but big societies like Egyptian and Greek Roman and then Christianity, the other big religions, have powerful god or set of gods in control maybe big societies need to have the control in order not to fall apart. A sort of spiritual police force. Maybe that is programmed into the brain collectively as we are social beings.
It is an extraordinary experience in itself that the first recording that I made flowed pretty well - the thoughts just tumbled out - and then the second third and fourth recordings when I was trying to reproduce what I had said, I couldn't do it. The thoughts did not tumble out in the same way as I was trying to think about what I had said as well as saying it.
It was beginning with the idea of making an iphone app out of a filemaker pro database, I had an email advertising this as a possible service and I immediately thought of the possibility of the game of consequences as an iphone app I shall have to have a search when I get back to see if one already exists, but otherwise it seems like a good idea, I could at least do the interface if I don't actually build the app because of the expense. I went on to do some talking about Hare Brain Tortoise Mind' and - this is really difficult now because not only am I talking, but i am trying to remember what it is that I was saying, it was to do with the radio 4 programme where there was a propensity for people to believe in wrathful gods as a way of control in large societies where in small societies people are more inclined to worship spirits of natural things. And it was about teaching as a gut feeling working with the gut feeling with an artistic sensibility and wether people are genetically wired with certain brains so that if you have a brain that is more spatially aware and makes looser connections does that mean that you are going to be inclined to be an artist. And if you decide that your are going to be an artists, do you become an artist, or is it the way brain works that turns you into an artist. Are you an artist if you decide that you are going to be an artist - can you be an artist if you are not mad? VG, Picasso? I think that is basically what I was trying to say.
Take three
I had an email this morning from a company suggesting that I could make an iphone app from a filmmaker database and my immediate thought was that I could turn my title game of consequences into an iphone app and gradually build up stories over time. I may design it anyway even though I am thinking that it would be a little bit expensive to actually put it into practice just for that. But if it is designed and the idea is there then that will be a part of the work done. And then I went on to talk about 'Hare Brain Tortoise Mind' and specifically talking about the way our brains are built would give us a propensity to be an artist or a mathematician perhaps but if we have somehow a loose more right brain approach then we are more likely to be artists and have that artistic sentimentality. I think that came from thinking that you can teach proportion, golden section, balance and composition, perspective, but mostly this just comes by feel, you get students that just seem to have an innate ability with putting colours together and making comfortable and easy compositions. Where does that design sense, the balance, the composition, come from? Is it somehow in the way that the brain is working is it trained? I definitely think that I have students who seem to have a natural ability with it, is it therefore programmed somehow into the genetics, into the brain, do certain brains have a propensity towards being artistic and if they do does that predetermine what you might become if you have a brain that is somehow looser, are you more likely to become an artist. And how much is the teaching in education involved in that and how much is the identity - if you decide that your identity is that of an artist, If you identify with artists is that what makes you want to become one and therefore you find the tools. So is it that identity that is vital, and are there experiences in life which give you that trigger to be choosing your identity in that direction. That reminds me of north american indians and the fact that if you are born with green eyes you are destined to be the medicine woman and then the programme on radio 4 about the basis of god and religion talking about the fact that is small tribal societies where everyone could know every one the sprits are more likely to be in and of the earth and in the animals they wouldn't be overriding creatures spiritual deities that have control, they would be more benign perhaps but big societies like Egyptian and Greek Roman and then Christianity, the other big religions, have powerful god or set of gods in control maybe big societies need to have the control in order not to fall apart. A sort of spiritual police force. Maybe that is programmed into the brain collectively as we are social beings.
It is an extraordinary experience in itself that the first recording that I made flowed pretty well - the thoughts just tumbled out - and then the second third and fourth recordings when I was trying to reproduce what I had said, I couldn't do it. The thoughts did not tumble out in the same way as I was trying to think about what I had said as well as saying it.
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