Intr-un tunel, pesimistul vede intunericul. Optimistul vede lumina de la capatul tunelului. Realistul vede trenul. Mecanicul de locomotiva vede trei idioti pe sine.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
vad trei idioti pe sine
hmmm... cu cine ma indentific?... :
Friday, January 18, 2008
...
some people's inability to understand and apply the concept of occam's razor sometimes makes you wanna teach it to them in a very painful way... one involving an actual razor!!
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
i hate webdesign
just finished (actually not yet...) "designing" and developing a website. actually re-re-almost-designing it.
but this is not about a site. it's a about how 90% percent of people are completely incapable of discerning beauty from shear ugliness. ...this sounds wrong for you too, doesn't it?
if it does, it means you're not an artist. I'm not. I never pretended to be. the thing with persons who consider themselves as having the gift of understanding art (I say "consider themselves" because I don't consider there is such thing as "understanding" art, at least in the sense people normally use the verb "understand"), is that they also expect others to have it, and they are really amazed by their total lack of it.
back to the main story: after uploading a test version and mailing the link to the persons who should like it or not (no, I won't post a link on this blog!), I started to receive some pretty weird answers. it turned out they all said they like it. regardless of the weirdness of having your work "appreciated" in a non-profit, non-competitive context, where people should, in principle, be free to say what's on their minds but they don't, the weirdness of the situation was that they liked it. I didn't "LIKED" it!! but I knew it was fit for the job. I knew I invested just the right amount of effort, not more not less, for this particular task.
after almost settling with the thought that is must look pretty good, I finally received "feedback" from someone with more artistic intuition than me: it sucks! (not in these words, but...).
the point:
(a) people don't say what they think, unless they have some specific interest in doing so. they just adapt their words to the current context of self and group interests.
(b) trying to make something "beautiful" is waste of time. something "kind of ugly but sort of better that what they've seen before and presumably functional" has just the same impression. ofcourse, my goal for this project was to make things work and learn something in the process.
(c) i hate webdesign (oh, and no, not because of what I've just said... it actually has nothing to do with it...)
[edit: the bloody site was actually redesigned by somone else... glaaaaaad!]
but this is not about a site. it's a about how 90% percent of people are completely incapable of discerning beauty from shear ugliness. ...this sounds wrong for you too, doesn't it?
if it does, it means you're not an artist. I'm not. I never pretended to be. the thing with persons who consider themselves as having the gift of understanding art (I say "consider themselves" because I don't consider there is such thing as "understanding" art, at least in the sense people normally use the verb "understand"), is that they also expect others to have it, and they are really amazed by their total lack of it.
back to the main story: after uploading a test version and mailing the link to the persons who should like it or not (no, I won't post a link on this blog!), I started to receive some pretty weird answers. it turned out they all said they like it. regardless of the weirdness of having your work "appreciated" in a non-profit, non-competitive context, where people should, in principle, be free to say what's on their minds but they don't, the weirdness of the situation was that they liked it. I didn't "LIKED" it!! but I knew it was fit for the job. I knew I invested just the right amount of effort, not more not less, for this particular task.
after almost settling with the thought that is must look pretty good, I finally received "feedback" from someone with more artistic intuition than me: it sucks! (not in these words, but...).
the point:
(a) people don't say what they think, unless they have some specific interest in doing so. they just adapt their words to the current context of self and group interests.
(b) trying to make something "beautiful" is waste of time. something "kind of ugly but sort of better that what they've seen before and presumably functional" has just the same impression. ofcourse, my goal for this project was to make things work and learn something in the process.
(c) i hate webdesign (oh, and no, not because of what I've just said... it actually has nothing to do with it...)
[edit: the bloody site was actually redesigned by somone else... glaaaaaad!]
Friday, January 4, 2008
Glossa
dintr-o convorbire telefonica (da, 2008...):
...nu imi plac poeziile(n-am inteles niciodata ce rost are sa "mutilezi" cuvintele de dragul unei "forme" care oricum se pierde la o simpla traducere in alta limba).
asta nu inseamna ca nu am o poezie preferata, care din pura intamplare este cea care incepe cu versurile de mai sus. zic din pura intamplare pentru ca astazi mi le-a recitat cineva la telefon. bineintles ca nu i-am spus asta! probabil ar fi trebuit sa-i spun, dar cred ca pur si simplu nu-mi place sa fac oamenii sa se simta bine.
Vreme trece, vreme vine,
Toate-s vechi si noua toate;
Ce e rau si ce e bine
Tu te-ntreaba si socoate;
Nu spera si nu ai teama,
Ce e val ca valul trece;
De te-ndeamna, de te cheama,
Tu ramâi la toate rece.
...nu imi plac poeziile(n-am inteles niciodata ce rost are sa "mutilezi" cuvintele de dragul unei "forme" care oricum se pierde la o simpla traducere in alta limba).
asta nu inseamna ca nu am o poezie preferata, care din pura intamplare este cea care incepe cu versurile de mai sus. zic din pura intamplare pentru ca astazi mi le-a recitat cineva la telefon. bineintles ca nu i-am spus asta! probabil ar fi trebuit sa-i spun, dar cred ca pur si simplu nu-mi place sa fac oamenii sa se simta bine.
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