Comments on: Non-Minimal Weekend

By: ms. smith

ms. smith — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:42:16 +0000

do you eat raw eggs?

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:43:52 +0000

Wouldn’t a raw egg be more minimal than that? Or am I missing the point?

-cvj

By: ms. smith

ms. smith — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:15:33 +0000

oh and i had a question for everybody-

what do you think is the most minimal thing you do?

the thing i thought of is: eat a hardboiled egg.

By: ms. smith

ms. smith — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 08:09:00 +0000

could be-my figure was from kids registered w/ LAUSD(county) and it was over 110-but that was 2 years ago……

sheesh.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:52:03 +0000

I think I heard the other day it was 207 languages in LA county.

-cvj

By: ms. smith

ms. smith — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 07:21:52 +0000

are you kidding?
do i have to choose a culture?

i like both.
i take cues from our own evolution-
our eyes like the complex patterns of nature-they actually find it restful.
more restful than a blank wall.

and yet who doesn’t marvel at the sight of a big full moon-glowing with its spherical simplicity.

same w/ music-none of the minimalist concert was truly minimal-it was actually very symphonic-

choose a cultural expression?
did you know that there’s more than 100 languages spoken here?
in the desert (one of the more minimal environments?!)
anyway, thats why i love this city.
its one of the most eclectic in the world.

encourages our imaginations to run wild-
or to be content, looking at our big blue sky.

no need to choose-

By: Plato

Plato — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 19:30:39 +0000

Both spherical and hyperbolic geometries are examples of curved geometries, unlike Euclidean geometry, which is flat. In spherical geometry, the curvature is positive, in hyperbolic geometry, it is negative-Helen Joyce

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:36:31 +0000

Would you rather live in the simplicity/linearity of the Arts and Crafts Movement or in the complexity/nonlinearity of the Victorian Era? Questioned more generally, would you rather exist in a culture which thrives on expressions of Minimalism or thrives on expressions of Maximalism?

By: ms. smith

ms. smith — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:10:33 +0000

this quote may be applied to music, color, and physicists (apparently)(and thank goodness!)

“By giving up a preference for harmony,
we accept dissonance to be as desirable as consonance”

Interaction of Color, josef albers

it was a fantastic concert clifford-i truly felt priviliged to be there-thank you again-yes-i am a minimalist-to me its about getting to the essence of the thing-and sometimes its a feeling-relative to its surroundings-

to me-the victorians were about opulence and science, in that they were collectors of anything and everything of the natural world. the huntington gardens and many plants and trees growing here in LA were collected from around the world, at the turn of that last century. rooms were filled with cabinets of bird skulls etc., and rooms themselves were built of sea shells…..the arts and crafts movement was more a philosophical and (supposedly) socially conscious one-but could be just as heavy w/ the ornamentation.

the ornamentation and yes, the shapes, help describe architectural styles-during the same period- adolf loos wrote an essay called “ornament and crime”
for him- “the modern ornamentalist” was “either a cultural laggard or a pathological case”

art nouveau anyone?

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 03:53:47 +0000

Once hyperbolic geometry started to take hold in culture, curved/nonlinear expressions in Victorian architecture increases towards greater degrees of acceleration. Consequently, as a counter-cultural response to this increased acceleration in curvature within Victorian designs, the Arts and Crafts Movement began producing more simple styles encompassing straight lines/linear expressions.