Category: creativity

numbers happen

Posted on Posted in A Symbol Life, creativity, overnight notes, Theory

3.14. it is always a PI day celebration. Like all symbols, empty unless used.

pieranch

3.14159265359

other numbers: 01.10.01

On this yesterday in 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by astronomer William Herschel.

or one that follows me:

… and dogs playing poker . The dogs, in this case, are the mistaken Xwits, opening files and folders, trying to figure out what “it all” means .. The worst of programmers write programs without domain knowledge .. that’s what is happening with Elon’s crew .. Smart enough to gain root but not smart enough to know what’s at stake ..Without knowing the path.

A thought experiment: How many millions of dollars do you think are paid by social security administration to those over 95; how about over 105 .. how much do you think the annual payment is for someone on SSA; someone who retired 35 years ago .. do you think it’s $2000 a year ? more, or less.. so, someone being paid $2000 a year, how many “someones” does it take to defraud the government by millions and millions … How many untaxed millionaires …

https://www.bumc.bu.edu/centenarian/statistics/

They, the valley dogs, arrived based on several assumptions. One being{ government is evil, another being, government employees and bureaucrats are lazy, incompetent ,stupid, and evil .. Finally, that they, the volunteer geniuses are saviors, saviors of the world; they, being smart, genius even ,creative beyond anyone’s expectation; that they will set it right, by first smashing it up …

None of their assumptions are correct.. none of their experiences are authentic. They’ve all been protected by a life of Glamping . They are each involved because of one thing: profit and proximity to someone who is profitable. A numbers game.

Their mistake is thinking profit is a prophet. Profit is excess capital; cultural fat. Money uncirculated. Retained earnings isn’t muscle, it is fat.

Blue Pizza

Posted on Posted in coursenotes, creativity, dye transfer, minimum daily requirement, the meta

The New Dye group, as it changed names with almost every meeting of a growing group, they gathered impressions of their growing community. What, if anything, do we call this thing?

… because, for a while one of the printing tests was to turn a pizza blue ..

–here’s an Ektachrome transparency of a pizza. Standard Manhattan pie. Print it so that it’s blue.

My, (we), asking that inner self about your result: do you find an interesting way to do it, or do you print it blue, like a good student would do.

Do you make an ashtray — piece of clay, shaped roundish, with dimples for the cigarettes.

This answered the question that wasn’t asked directly: are you a printer or a printmaker. Is there a question you can answer we haven’t asked. A question interesting to the group. This was always the second round of matriculation interview..

DYE TRANSFER: learn to tell time before taking the watch apart.

TODAY, soup is getting cold, salad getting warm. It is a film day. Stay away from the endless thread pullings.

How about a strange brew of two songs:

— success with few bars, fewer words George Strait https://youtu.be/x_JL_hMBakk?si=WjxBAt5iTWS6JQHn

and only because it seems a counter fact: Dire Straits https://youtu.be/jhdFe3evXpk?si=xsBHpViV4c3VMACc

Both would be/were played at Blue Pizza tables. With dance, discussion, delight.