pocket bauhaus

taken quickly! from the museum in weimar

golem kollection | tomas grzimek

golem kollection

snow. light. children.

looking through a set of

curtains on a morning

with new snow; the top

photo's taken at the villa

delange in nussdorf, a

thoroughly delightful

place to stay. a bit more

here in reference to that.

the photo below was taken

near the hackesche höfe in

berlin. it's the children in

the pediment that capture

the eye, & the good color.

much to charm the heart.

the essence of the humanities

"If the mind of the woodcarver or calligrapher is not at the edge where tool meets material -- or, more accurately, is recreated at their meeting -- then the job is botched. Whatever was originally meant by the term, crafts are 'mysteries' for that reason (OED sv 'mystery' 1,2)...We cannot, therefore, rest content with the comfortably simple definition of humanities computing as the application of the computer to the disciplines of the humanities, for it omits the very heart of the matter. It fails us by deleting the agent-scholar from the scene and, in the spatial metaphor implied by the preposition to (as in 'apply pencil to paper'), by overlooking the mediation of thought that his or her use of the computer implies..."

"...Pauline Yu [says], 'Without a persistent willingness to rethink traditional categories, we may only delude ourselves about what it means to cross disciplines. And without a conviction to adjust modes of analysis to newly perceived realities, to question what seems obvious or without question, and to reaffirm what seems of enduring value, we risk forgetting...the essence of the humanities. We cannot afford to take the risk of losing the insights into ourselves, our pasts, and our futures...'"

words from the work of dr. w. mccarty, king's college

goethe's house in weimar,

(this gives at least something

of an idea of the color. a bit.)

no experimentum crucis

well, wittgenstein had

something to say about

goethe's color theory &

i can honestly tell you

that i am quite relieved that

remarks on color is "generally

considered a very difficult

work" (due, partially, to

fragmentation. imagine!)

because i don't need one

more thing to add to my

(long & getting rather dusty)

reading list. but i did very

much like the cover of this

book in the window.

(probably a good

thing the shop was closed

for the night.)

zur farbenlehre

there is a magnificent

exhibit in weimar that

explains the intricacies

of goethe's color theory

see:

goethe's theory of colours &

schopenhauer's on vision and colors

the bright side

i think it can be habit-forming

to look at things with joy.

why not?

postcards for mr. beer and mr. john

a toast,

to two people who know from home

'a gigantic and delicate marvel'

"I would go from one turret to another,

admiring . . . the view of France, Switzerland

and Germany via one ray of sunshine."

-- Victor Hugo

The Cathedral of Our Lady of Strasbourg