Walter Logeman: Journal
The River Wye
Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first
I came among these hills; when like a roe
I bounded o’er the mountains, by the sides
Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams,
Continue reading “From Tintern Abbey”
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Walter
Been walking in the evening light. very dark by the time I got home!
How To Make a Book Proposal:
A few templates follow
I like his work! And these “rules” make a good read.
Nice video here. hilmancurtis
Milton Glaser’s Great Rules For Life « Saskia Wilson-Brown http://saskiawilsonbrown.com/2010/07/28/milton-glasers-great-rules-for-life/
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Unfortunately in our field, in the so-called creative – I hate that word because it is misused so often. I also hate the fact that it is used as a noun. Can you imagine calling someone a creative? Anyhow, when you are doing something in a recurring way to diminish risk or doing it in the same way as you have done it before, it is clear why professionalism is not enough. After all, what is required in our field, more than anything else, is the continuous transgression. Professionalism does not allow for that because transgression has to encompass the possibility of failure and if you are professional your instinct is not to fail, it is to repeat success. So professionalism as a lifetime aspiration is a limited goal.
Found this in my jumble. Bought back the memory of that trip to Sydney
Linda Stone (reference) is aware of the changes in the body / mind in our psyberspace. She does not lament it but is inspirational as to how to drive on though the difficulties of poor breathing & posture and other negative affects on the body.
That is one of the reasons I see the iDevices as steps in the right direction. “What more screens?” Yes, one while I walk, one I can have with me to write, read and draw “Plein Air”. Liberation from the desk.
World, relationships, information, art, absorbing, creating all converging in an immersive movie of the soul.
I understand something is changing in our psyche / brain with respect to focus. It is much harder to read books! There are so many articles and blog posts that lament his process. Maybe something is lost, but so much more is gained. It is a lemarkian step in our evolution. Yes we can change psyche, and do to adapt to a new environment. We have such a wonderful capacity for fluidity. I am thankful I am a creature that can evolve!
We are now differently abeled. This process is not new. Media impacts psyche. Photography changed portraiture. Writing changed the oral traditions. Cinema changed theatre. Television changed cinema. Cinematic literacy impacted on the psyche. Old movies are slow! There must be a market in re-editing them for the contemporary soul.
Books are like old movies. We have moved on. Today we read in a relational way. We read a quote by a friend from Moby Dick, with a link to the whole book, we can search for snippets, or read the condensed version, flick to a trailer of the movie, read the reviews, and search, tweet, re-tweet, Instapaper and blog as we go.
This is lamented?!
But don’t get me wrong. There is nothing that will replace a good book, or an old movie for that matter. The context has changed, expanded.
We are still learning how to be here.
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There are items like this one on how to train yourself to be in the dark:
http://infovegan.com/2010/07/26/how-to-focus
Like all exercise, different kinds of workouts work differently for different people. For me, interval training works wonders— this blog post, for instance, has taken me 70 minutes to research and write — ordinarily a blog post like this before I had this set-up would take me nearly a full day’s worth of work. More importantly though, I’m able to do things like read long articles or even academic papers — things I never used to “have time for” which really meant “had attention for.”
Look at the words in this: Distracted, shattered…
Author Nicholas Carr: The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires Brains | Magazine http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/05/ff_nicholas_carr/all/1
The Internet is an interruption system. It seizes our attention only to scramble it. There’s the problem of hypertext and the many different kinds of media coming at us simultaneously. There’s also the fact that numerous studies—including one that tracked eye movement, one that surveyed people, and even one that examined the habits displayed by users of two academic databases—show that we start to read faster and less thoroughly as soon as we go online. Plus, the Internet has a hundred ways of distracting us from our onscreen reading. Most email applications check automatically for new messages every five or 10 minutes, and people routinely click the Check for New Mail button even more frequently. Office workers often glance at their inbox 30 to 40 times an hour. Since each glance breaks our concentration and burdens our working memory, the cognitive penalty can be severe.
(via Instapaper)
Walter
It has always worked so well on the iPhone I’ve forgotten how I did it.
For some reason my Gmail (custom domain) works instantly in the iPad, I’ve forgotten how I did that already!
But I am now setting up the Google (Custom Domain, apps docs, whatever they call it!! – How about Google Live? Google Cloud? Google Everywhere? To hard to name: Gapps?)
Short answer, worked instantly:
Maybe this that I had already tried
http://www.google.com/calendar/hosted/psybernet.co.nz/iphoneselect
had a part to play.
Anyway it works
The MS Exchange way did not, however I had to get my Contacts working using MS exchange.
Hugh Wilson (botanist) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Hugh Dale Wilson (born 1945) is a New Zealand botanist. He has written and illustrated a number of books about New Zealand plants. He manages Hinewai Reserve on Banks Peninsula.
My friend Hugh. On Wikipedia!
He probably won’t tread this as he is a luddite. His motto could be “I am a luddite so you don’t have to be”, But its not. He sets an example as to how to save the planet.