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Leonardo da Vinci: Philosopher and scientist? #2, People in landscapes
What does ‘philosophy’ mean when we look at paintings? Perhaps it’s a way of making sense of our place in the world – I’m thinking about places and worlds as painters might, specifically as landscapes. I’ve assumed painters see (literally) … Continue reading
Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist (exhibition review) #2
This excellent exhibition (in the Queen’s Gallery, London) has some fascinatingly different stories to tell of Leonardo’s extraordinary anatomical sketches. We can have our interpretations on the surface or we can dig for them, depending on whether we like our versions … Continue reading
Posted in Art criticism, Business, Media analysis, Medicine, Publishing
Tagged Anatomy, Apps, Information design, iPad, Leonardo da Vinci, Publishing, Queen's Gallery, Royal Collection, Theory of medicine
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Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist (exhibition review) #1
This is an unusual start to any review, but the gallery’s beautifully panelled and French-polished rosewood doors and postmodern urinal dividers in the spotless toilets were so unusual in their generosity to the possibility of civilized public behaviour that I … Continue reading
The pleasures of fine lettercutting in stone
Here’s a lovely thing I was very lucky to be given a few weeks ago. I hope anyone with an interest in words, writing and lettering will enjoy it here too. What is it? It’s a Clipsham limestone square pillar with … Continue reading
Posted in Art criticism, Media analysis, Typography, Words
Tagged Clipsham, Craftsman, David Jones, Letterform, Lettering, Richard Sennett, Samuel Beckett, Stonecutting, Typography, Words
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Tales from synaesthetic oceans: shampoo, Rimbaud and the cult of the LP sleeve
What do you think about this? [Product name] has fresh notes of bergamot and lime, a spicy sensual heart of poivre, beechwood and oakmoss, enhanced with base notes of sandalwood, amber and vetiver. It’s on a bottle of shampoo. For … Continue reading
After the (Olympics) gold rush – some thoughts on media and emotionality
If Usain Bolt had improved his 100 metres time from 2008 in step with the upgrades in 2012 Olympics media coverage, he would have run it in [fill in your own very small number here] seconds. My serious point is that … Continue reading
Posted in Media analysis
Tagged 2012 Summer Olympics, Andy Murray, emotion, London 2012, Olympic Games, Princess Diana, Tom Daley, Tony Blair, Usain Bolt, Zac Purchase
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What is synaesthesia? Why is it important?
Crikey – the online Random House dictionary says synaesthesia (synesthesia in more search-friendly US English) ‘is a sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Media analysis, Publishing, Writing
Tagged Communication, Daniel Tammet, Freud, Memory, Multimodality, Ramachandran, Synaesthesia, Synesthesia
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Inventing the future – the earliest mention of the word ‘wordpress’?
Two ifs: if there was a search engine that filtered on the earliest mention of, and if we then looked up ‘WordPress’, we would find this, by James Joyce, from 1939: A bone, a pebble, a ramskin; chip them, chap … Continue reading
Posted in Words, Writing
Tagged Blake, Creativity, Finnegans Wake, James Joyce, Large Hadron Collider, Marshall McLuhan, Murray Gell-Mann, WordPress, Words, Writing
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Bicycles, beds, chairs, doors – the use of modern art
‘Mr. Beckett’s patient concern with bicycles, amputees, battered hats, and the letter M’ starts Hugh Kenner’s still impressive Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study (New York: Grove Press, 1961, p. 1). My previous post tried to talk about the same things, respectively a … Continue reading
Posted in Art criticism, Media analysis
Tagged Bibliochaise, Bicycles, Chair, Conceptual art, Duchamp, Hugh Kenner, Joseph Kosuth, Media studies, Modern art, Readymades, Samuel Beckett, Tracey Emin
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