Friday 5 October 2012
Monday 1 October 2012
Wednesday 26 September 2012
Wednesday 6 June 2012
Tuesday 24 April 2012
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
“Imagine we had to arrange the books of a library. When we begin the books lie higgledy piggledy on the floor.
Now there would be many ways of sorting them and putting them in their places. One would be to take the books one by one and put each on the shelf in its right place.
On the other hand we might take up several books from the floor and put them in a row on a shelf, merely in order to indicate that these books ought to go together in this order.
In the course of arranging the library this whole row of books will have to change its place. But it would be wrong to say that therefore putting them together on a shelf was no step towards the final result. In this case, in fact, it is pretty obvious that having put together books which belong together was a definite achievement, even though the whole row of them had to be shifted. But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side.
The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think that in such a case that nothing at all has been achieved. – The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. E.g., to see that when we have put two books together in their right order we have not thereby put them in their final places.
When we think about the relation of the objects surrounding us to our personal experiences of them, we are sometimes tempted to say that these personal experiences are the material of which reality consists.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
Source: http://activephilosophy.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/wittgenstein-on-philosophy/
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
“Imagine we had to arrange the books of a library. When we begin the books lie higgledy piggledy on the floor.
Now there would be many ways of sorting them and putting them in their places. One would be to take the books one by one and put each on the shelf in its right place.
On the other hand we might take up several books from the floor and put them in a row on a shelf, merely in order to indicate that these books ought to go together in this order.
In the course of arranging the library this whole row of books will have to change its place. But it would be wrong to say that therefore putting them together on a shelf was no step towards the final result. In this case, in fact, it is pretty obvious that having put together books which belong together was a definite achievement, even though the whole row of them had to be shifted. But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting them on different shelves; nothing more being final about their positions than that they no longer lie side by side.
The onlooker who doesn’t know the difficulty of the task might well think that in such a case that nothing at all has been achieved. – The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. E.g., to see that when we have put two books together in their right order we have not thereby put them in their final places.
When we think about the relation of the objects surrounding us to our personal experiences of them, we are sometimes tempted to say that these personal experiences are the material of which reality consists.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein
Source: http://activephilosophy.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/wittgenstein-on-philosophy/
Tuesday 17 April 2012
letterpress practice
first - gil sans
second - tahoma (google chrome address bar uses)
Monday 16 April 2012
arranging books
As a mean of mapping, since it is the printed form I want to symbolise information, I decided to make something that mimicks conceptual internet map. And to do that, arranging a bookshelf seemed the most rational thing to see how internet functions.
The aspect I initially chose of internet was the "link," and I am sticking to that. After steady experiments on "links" from book craft to the abtract booklet guide, I decided to settle at a bookshelf. I am still deciding whether to choose a keyword soon for the arrangement, but since it will be an portray of internet, it will never be exact nor beneficial for users. I will instead communicate in a way that users notice and be aware of unrelated links-covered search result and soon find their way of sorting and using the internet. I briefly researched on URL shortner early in this project, which resulted unused because it was a bit off the idea, but I still like the error symbols such as @£$%$^&*/ which is pretty relevant to the idea of "misleading."
What I need to do is,
1. measure the size of spines of my bookshelf,
2. print symbols according to the size in acetate paper or plain white paper,
3. place them on books and put them in the shelf,
4. take a photograph of it,
5. make a booklet guide.
Easy! I'm not sure whether i can use computer in this project, but I will believe I can. If not, that means I need to go to archway to do letterpress. that will make it look more organic, but its about time now! :(
The aspect I initially chose of internet was the "link," and I am sticking to that. After steady experiments on "links" from book craft to the abtract booklet guide, I decided to settle at a bookshelf. I am still deciding whether to choose a keyword soon for the arrangement, but since it will be an portray of internet, it will never be exact nor beneficial for users. I will instead communicate in a way that users notice and be aware of unrelated links-covered search result and soon find their way of sorting and using the internet. I briefly researched on URL shortner early in this project, which resulted unused because it was a bit off the idea, but I still like the error symbols such as @£$%$^&*/ which is pretty relevant to the idea of "misleading."
What I need to do is,
1. measure the size of spines of my bookshelf,
2. print symbols according to the size in acetate paper or plain white paper,
3. place them on books and put them in the shelf,
4. take a photograph of it,
5. make a booklet guide.
Easy! I'm not sure whether i can use computer in this project, but I will believe I can. If not, that means I need to go to archway to do letterpress. that will make it look more organic, but its about time now! :(
Saturday 14 April 2012
mapping the internet - development1
experimenting on colour coding the right information and irrelevant information. images are drawn just to see the whether it'd work in real paper coding. Red is used for irrelevant infomation for "warning." Arranging them in more logical order needs to be sorted out. but I quite like the composition of white and red, mimicking the bookshelf/books.
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