This is an image of Edgar Degas.
It began as a self portrait. Was captured in a movie and then I snapped it off the TV – made this using an iphone ap. But is it art? Anyway, I like it.
Rembrant!
Got this via Louvre iPhone app. Cropped. Wonderful!
Life after death
How to create a socially mediated TV Channel on Twitter #waltzzzTV
I had a good TV night last night as I used my Twitter list’s recommendations to watch YouTube & other videos. Today at lunch we were discussing how to consciously optimise that experience. How to create list of tweets with TV links that would make good watching.
Thoughts on that question follow.
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Jung image
Phronesis – knowing through performance, action
A few years ago I printed out this article to read! Today I began reading it. Wonderful.
Art as action or art as object? the embodiment of knowledge in practice as research
Dr Anna Pakes, Roehampton University of Surrey, England
<A.Pakes@roehampton.ac.uk>
If I can make a short summary: Through action we know stuff.
This is right on the topic of my science & Psychodrama paper, and goes back again to Aristotle: Phronesis (see earlier post of mine) I have highlighted a bit in the quote below that may as well describe a Psychodrama session. She relates the knowing to dance, but and I am sure it applies equally if not more so to Psychodrama which is a conscious form of experimentation in addition to all that she describes.
Quote follows.
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Twitter, retweeting, creativity and constraint
Useful PDF on Twitter – I like the line about creativity.
http://www.danah.org/papers/TweetTweetRetweet.pdf
Though the service evolved to include more uses besides SMS. such as web and desktop clients. this limitation persisted, and so was re-narrated as a feature. Twitter`s Creative Director Biz Stone argues, “creativity comes from constraint” [16].
Circle Doodle
Is it just me or is this lovely in it’s simplicity and ease of execution on the I Doodle app?
Signed one follows
One more from the phone
Photo?
OK, that worked!
Computing as a liberal art
I would love to teach the psychology of cyberspace in such a course tomorrow!
Great essay!
Ian Bogost – Computing as a Liberal Art:
But what we really need is a new strategy. A wholesale shift in the way we think about computing (among other disciplines) that would underwrite a new way to do it let alone teach it. I think the frame shift we want is one that considers computing a liberal art rather than a science. Indeed, James Duderstadt has already suggested [PDF] that engineering be newly construed as a liberal art (I’ve written about this before). And Lockhart’s gripes about mathematics should remind us that his discipline was long considered to form half of the medieval quadrivium, a fact that some institutions have not yet forgotten (consider, for example, the contextual and historical mathematics program at St. John’s College).