Creation

Vintage: identity vs. ballast

“Millésimé”: from superb wines to superb dishes. If identity is built up by accumulating and preserving the past, then there are chefs who preciously pour it out drop-wise across their menus. But when does identity turn into the deadweight of tradition? Chefs are keen at the idea of vintage decanted from the bottle to the dish. Keeping dis...

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Jan 02, 2010 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: art, chef, cooking, creation, creative, cuisine, culinary, dish, dishes, evolution, experience, food, future, gastronomic, history | Leave A Comment »

Experimentation, creation, art

Magazine -> #1 Timetables and scoreboards

Experimentation, innovation and creation are everything. Such a statement presents a comprehensive basis for things which we encounter in our everyday life, which people belonging to various cultures and classes all around the world meet in their everyday life. The relationship between content and form, and the aesthetic disunity of an ordinary da...

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Dec 14, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: aestethic, circle, clothes, communication, content, creation, cultures, design, everyday, experimentation, form, globally, graphic, graphic design, influence | Leave A Comment »

Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The Error

He woke up that morning with the clear resolve of wanting to do something good, or at least something that would unequivocally outstrip all the rest. He had a quick breakfast, all the time looking in admiration upon the marvellous achievements of his handiwork over the last five days. Dawn and sunset, he had to admit were perfect; the light and sta...

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Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: amen, birds, breath, conscience, creation, creator, creature, doing, earth, fragrant, god, handiwork, hell, ice, judgement | Leave A Comment »

Enlightened by error

Magazine -> #26 Re-Evaluate The Error

The great Russian woman poet, Marina Cvetaeva, once wrote: “I’ve trained my soul to linger outside the window… I simply wouldn’t allow it into the house, the same way as one wouldn’t let in a stray dog or an exotic bird”. That’s one, and not so infrequent, a way of keeping at bay those silly and seemingly unaccountable tricks played ...

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Dec 03, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: astrolabio, being unique, book, creation, desires, disorder, errors, ever tried, fail again, fail better, faulty behaviour, gabriella ripa di meana, idealisation, individuality, inevitable | Leave A Comment »

Interview with Jannis Kounellis

Magazine -> #9 Coopetition

You've asserted, to use your words, that "a journey, any journey, is essentially an initiation, an affirmative and conscious statement of love for knowledge". Would you say an artist sets out on such a journey alone? Is it necessarily a solitary journey or can it be undertaken with other artists as travel companions? Well, it's difficult to say. ...

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Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: america, artist, beautiful, beauty, collaborative, community, competition, creation, cubism, day, diversity, emotion, germany, globalisation, icons | Leave A Comment »

Maths: an emotional experience

Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentally

Odifreddi, you’re known to be a scientist with a strong penchant for art and music. Is there any room for intuition in the scientific profession? In any field it takes time for intellectual capacities to grow and develop fully. I’d say it’s the usual ninety percent perspiration and ten percent inspiration, but in science that ten percent is...

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Nov 23, 2009 | Categories: Experiences | Tags: art, astronomy, calculation, creation, creativity, hemispheres, inspiration, invention, mathematics, music, perspiration, piergiorgio odifreddi, reality | Leave A Comment »