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6.24.2004
Color Design
I am loving this book right now -- Color Design in Photography by Harald Mante.
- If you, unknowing, are able to create masterpieces in colour, then unknowledge is your way. But if you are unable to create masterpieces in colour out of your unknowledge, then you ought to look for knowledge.
-Johannes Itten, quoted from the preface of dynamics of visual form
- Yellow is the lightest and brightest
it exhibits delicate warmth
Red has an intense radiance
against dark red exhibits its full fiery power
Blue is passive, cold
it is not obtrusive, but restrained
Orange is luminous
degrades into brown
Voilet is balanced
the darkest of color hues
Green is a quiet, soothing color but slightly cold,
the color of vegitation symbolizes fertility and hope
This post is dedicated to rare $6 finds at Abandoned Planet (518 Valencia & 16th, SF).
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6.19.2004
Re: Kafkaesque
- It wasn't consistent, some passages treated him as a free man and conceded that he had a will of his own, such as the initial greeting and the passage concerning his wishes. There were other passages, though, that treated him openly or indirectly as a lowly worker who was barely noticeable from the director's post, the director had to make an effort to "keep him in mind," his superior was only the village chairman, to whom he was even accountable, his only colleague was perhaps the village policeman. Undoubtedly these were contradictions, so obvious they must be intentional. The thought--a crazy one in the case of such authorities--that indecision might have played a role here, scarcely occurred to K. He saw it more as a choice that had been freely offered him, it had been left up to him to decide what he wanted to make of the provisions of the letter, whether he wanted to be a village worker with a distinctive but merely apparent connection to the Castle, or an apparent village worker who in reality allowed the messages brought by Barnabas to define the terms of his position.
6.17.2004
Мама Епанчина
- Nothing would have happened to other people - that was certain. But what made Mrs Yepanchin so different from anybody else was that because of her inherent anxiety, she managed to discover in the combination and confused interplay of the most ordinary things something that sometimes alarmed her till it made her ill, and threw her into a most morbid and inexplicable panic, a panic that for that very reason was so distressing. What must have been her feelings now when, through this confused tangle of absurd and groundless anxieties, she could actually discern something that really seemed important, something that really justified all her anxieties, doubts, and suspicions!
6.13.2004
Re: Surveyor position
- Dear Sir!
As you know, you have been accepted into the Count's service. Your immediate superior is the village council chairman, he will furnish you with all further details concerning your work and terms of employment, and you, in turn, will be accountable to him. Nevertheless, I too shall keep you in mind. Barnabas, who brings you this letter, will occasionally call on you to ascertain your wishes and relay them to me. You will find that I am always ready, insofar as possible, to oblige you. Having satisfied workers is important to me.
Mr. Klamm
The Director of Bureau No. 10
6.12.2004
Re: Guileless in the enlightenment
- Everything is for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds.
`Do you think', said Candide, `that men have always massacred each other the way they do now? that they've always been liars, cheats, traitors, ingrates, brigands? that they've always been feeble, fickle, envious, gluttonous, drunken, avaricious, ambitious, bloodthirsty, slanderous, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and stupid?'
`Do you think', said Martin, `that hawks have always eaten pidgeons when they find them?'
`Yes, no doubt,' said Candide.
`Well then,' said Martin, `if hawks have always had the same character, why do you expect men to have changed theirs?'
`Oh!' said Candide, `there's a big difference, because free will ...'
6.10.2004
Re: Fiery unworldliness
- How then did it work out, all this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and that and conclude that it was liking one felt, or disliking? And to those words, what meaning attached, after all? Standing now, apparently transfixed, by the pear tree, impressings poured in upon her of those two men, and to follow her thought was like following a voice which speaks too quickly to be taken down by one's pencil, and the voice was her own voice saying without prompting undeniable, everlasting, contradictory things, so that even the fissures and humps on the bark of the pear tree were irrevocably fixed there for eternity. You have greatness, she continued...
- "Yet, she's no more aware of her beauty than a child," said Mr. Bankes. ... For always, he thought, there was something incongruous to be worked into the harmony of her face. She clapped a deer-stalker's hat on her head; she ran across the lawn in goloshes to snatch a child from mischief. So that if it was her beauty merely that one thought of, one must remember the quivering thing, the living thing (...), and work it into the picture; or if one thought of her simply as a woman, one must endow her with some freak of idiosyncrasy -- she did not like admiration -- or suppose some latent desire to doff her royalty of form as if her beauty bored her and all that men say of beauty, and she wanted only to be like other people, insignificant. He did not know. He did not know. He must go to his work.
6.08.2004
Permanent currency
This week's episode of:- "Subsidies Are Permanent, Money Is Temporary." And this slogan accurately reflects their view of the world. People are afraid of money and the freedom of choice that comes with it. Subsidies, on the other hand, constitute the state's recognition of their misfortune.
