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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
The opinion
Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallyOver the years, I’ve developed the firm belief that there are similarities between the purpose of a company’s life and that of an individual. They both aspire to that kind of happiness which Aristotle called “eudaimonia”, the perfect union between physical and intellectual pleasures. I think that if this idea can apply to all businesses, it...
continue..To eat childhood; three degrees of amazement in the kitchen
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseAnyone with a minimum of technical ability can be a wizard in the kitchen. The domestic chef, from whom we expect less, can amaze us with the deliciousness of a well-cooked dish. At advanced amateur (or basic professional) level we are surprised by an original recipe, a combination of flavours, or an unusual presentation. The art of surprise for...
continue..The strange alchemy
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and Surprise“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing”, wrote the philosopher Blaise Pascal. People once thought that emotions and rational thought travelled along parallel lines that never converged. Philosophers and scientists dismissed emotions as being of little interest - they were believed to hamper rational behaviour. But for some ti...
continue..The mobility of the emotions
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseIn front of a cup of coffee. Hey Jude, don’t make it bad take a sad song and make it better Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better … The Beatles, 1968. Certain places excite me more than others. When I visit them, I am reconnected with a very personal, familiar, dreamlike memory, and I feel a great t...
continue..Growing amazement
Magazine -> #23 Emotion and SurpriseFrom weeping to the research of the lost emotion. In Pictures and Tears (Routledge) James Elkins, art historian and critic, professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, appealed for and collected more than four hundred contributions from very different people, who told him which artwork the armour we use to try to defend ourselves from ...
continue..Building the future
-> Building the futureHow art can help the future? Olafur Eliasson is to know that if you paint a river of green perhaps it hurts www.olafureliasson.net ...
continue..The intention doesn’t matter
Magazine -> #21 Senti-mentallyIn front a cup of coffee. For me, the expression of emotion is never calculated. I’ll wager that emotion is always there if the work is motivated by pleasure and desire. Since I often have too many ideas or desires, I usually start each project with endless lists, which I then cut into little strips and arrange in order of preference to make ...
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