Learning Aesthetics

NSFW Warning! I’m getting there, I really am, but sometimes you have to go a very long way out of your way to come back a short distance correctly, and life keeps interrupting.  The danger of leaving Twitter open on the back-channel: This from the Laughing Squid: When San Francisco Was the Smut Capital of [...]

I’m expecting LA to take a more art focus in the near future; see the next post, but I stumbled across the followingand frankly couldn’t resist a post. There has always been an intentional ambiguity to Learning Aesthetics. It intends to be both about the art of learning and the learning of  art. And yes [...]

Some things I want to keep track of: Z-Type a really cool Improve Your Typing Game. And built on Impact.  All this by way of PhotoMatt.

Odd way to start the year? Many changes on the way; meanwhile I don’t want to lose track of: Digital Story Telling Resources Mashable on online education The University of the People

There’s apparently some really good stuff happening that I’m just finding: Learning Without Frontiers.

Is this what the “Classroom of teh Future” should look like? Image by wrex Could you learn “Photography” this way? Is there value to this kind of conference; enough to pay for it? 16th Annual TCC Worldwide Online Conference April 12-14, 2011 Pre-Conference Dates: April 5, 2011 http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES MAKING IT WORK The real [...]

I’m reading Zero History the latest William Gibson offering, and as per usual it’s rather like an encounter with the  instruction manual for the current social state. Also as usual, there’s some interesting, and relevant to what I’m currently thinking, passages: Addictions started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you [...]

Artists tend to worry about formal structure; a bit later critics come along and start talking about material nature and genre.  Normal folks have tended not to worry about such things, being too busy liking or hating to spend much time wondering about the why of it all.  Internet usage may be changing that, possibly [...]

Or maybe better Do Something (Different). It’s always comforting when your thinking is validated by someone who is obviously a lot smarter than you.  The normal sequence is that I get some cloudy idea and worry/write about it for a week or so and then stumble on someone who has worked it all out far [...]

Sort of a follow up. Here’s a link to some of the Do Easy essay and an excerpt: (How fast can you take your time, kid?) The beginner can think of DE as a game. You are running an obstacle course the obstacles set up by your opponent. As soon as you attempt to put DE [...]