The trees in the canopy determine the trees in the understory and sometimes the trees in the understory can replace the predominant species.
The Life of The Forest.Jack McCormick.
Net Galley Challenge
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Painting Light with its concept of shadow having a colour.
The green in Gustave Caillebotte's Boats and Shed on the Bank of the Seine reminded of the painting in yupha's Thai kitchen.
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot's Forest of Fontainebleau with the cow, made me wonder if it is possible to draw it as in the shades. Then I moved onto the rock fissure, then the trees. Smaller trees around merge into a huge one.
My new interest in trees has me reading Trees of North America and The Life of the forest
To date, I have identified Sycamore and fig trees from the guide. I felt the need for a guide after spotting a shrub in the South mountains on Holberts trail with its pod that I wanted to know more about.
Sometimes when I leaf through the book, one leaf does look very different from the other, even the pine cones. Just like how the kind of birds increase as we keep paying attention to them.
When I see the picture of a bird in a picture with text identifying an animal, I want to know of the bird too.
Laundry Drying of Gustave Caillebotte looks like smoke from a factory or the top of a factory.
Infrared reflectography shows all the underdrawings on a canvas.
The green in Gustave Caillebotte's Boats and Shed on the Bank of the Seine reminded of the painting in yupha's Thai kitchen.
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot's Forest of Fontainebleau with the cow, made me wonder if it is possible to draw it as in the shades. Then I moved onto the rock fissure, then the trees. Smaller trees around merge into a huge one.
My new interest in trees has me reading Trees of North America and The Life of the forest
To date, I have identified Sycamore and fig trees from the guide. I felt the need for a guide after spotting a shrub in the South mountains on Holberts trail with its pod that I wanted to know more about.
Sometimes when I leaf through the book, one leaf does look very different from the other, even the pine cones. Just like how the kind of birds increase as we keep paying attention to them.
When I see the picture of a bird in a picture with text identifying an animal, I want to know of the bird too.
Laundry Drying of Gustave Caillebotte looks like smoke from a factory or the top of a factory.
Infrared reflectography shows all the underdrawings on a canvas.
Talk of the building
Conversations with Frank Gehry
I came across Frank Gehry as an architect in a movie on Louis Kahn.
Each building brings with it the chance of using a new material.In this book, looking at models of Weisman Art Museum in brown (may be wood), white and metal, I could see how each material lends a different look to the building. The wooden seeming one recalled adobe houses.
Lewis Library and its Finnish influence?
pg.94 Gehry left models(metal)outside for an entire year to see how different seasons affect the building.
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Tempe Centre of Arts architecture and more.
I came across Frank Gehry as an architect in a movie on Louis Kahn.
Each building brings with it the chance of using a new material.In this book, looking at models of Weisman Art Museum in brown (may be wood), white and metal, I could see how each material lends a different look to the building. The wooden seeming one recalled adobe houses.
Lewis Library and its Finnish influence?
pg.94 Gehry left models(metal)outside for an entire year to see how different seasons affect the building.
About
Tempe Centre of Arts architecture and more.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Grand Motions
The Great Railway Bazaar Train through Asia by Paul theroux
Books with maps have never disappointed me.
His encounters with some kind of people seem to be so skewed. He has a very good style of making any kind of conversations fit into the book. A town that I was in had its train station at one end. If it can be generalized then his travel is only through the edges of towns meeting certain kinds of people and those experiences wont be a good sample of the whole.
In a para, he sums up how trains in different countries are different with different amenities.
I wasnt prepared for his experiences in Japan.
Books with maps have never disappointed me.
His encounters with some kind of people seem to be so skewed. He has a very good style of making any kind of conversations fit into the book. A town that I was in had its train station at one end. If it can be generalized then his travel is only through the edges of towns meeting certain kinds of people and those experiences wont be a good sample of the whole.
In a para, he sums up how trains in different countries are different with different amenities.
I wasnt prepared for his experiences in Japan.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Power and thereof
Men are not corrupted by the exercise of power or debased by the habits of obedience, but by the exercise of a power which they believe to be illegal and by obedience to a rule which they consider to be usurped and oppressive.
Alexis de Tocquille
Once in power, every effort will be done to not lose it. If possible even to gain more power. To gain new powers, new weaknesses have to be brought about somewhere. When competitive, the artifice is limited to one side of the table.
Alexis de Tocquille
Once in power, every effort will be done to not lose it. If possible even to gain more power. To gain new powers, new weaknesses have to be brought about somewhere. When competitive, the artifice is limited to one side of the table.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Crossing borders
The place to study, work, live - all away from home is foreign. The days leading to the departure- the crossing of the border.
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