Before getting to the meat and potatoes, a teeny-tiny entrée of ‘writing about music’. With that pulsating tabula-punctuating rhythm (and appropriate for this post), at times, they sound heavily influenced by one of my favorite groups, Oregon, representative examples being “
Oooh, nice music! And great phrase, "prophylactic against the coming top-down, globalist / corporate nation-state designed, 15 minute slums." Slums. That's the word I was looking for. We have a vote coming up locally on whether we want 12 story luxury slum buildings downtown or 5 story slum buildings in every neighborhood--that's what the Overton window has come down to.
We've accepted that we have to build 4000 new units with the stick being the loss of state funding if we don't and the carrot being affordable housing. But as I drove past one of these monstrosities, I couldn't picture who would want to live in them. Certainly no one who'd be an asset to our community. Some funky basement apartment that floods, no problem. A hippie household with frequent couch-surfers, fine. But who would live in these prison-windowed cubicles? I think it's preparing for an influx from China. That's my grim determination.
Interesting and educational fractal clip on mandelbrot sets.
I defer to the Chinese Feng Shui rather than Vastus as a map for harmony. As human nature is binary, so it seems to me that a Sun Focused Architectural plan is too limited in application for 10,000 men and women. (Especially if you knock off the current BS in society denying who is who, and return to Nature as a restorative.)
What lies outside the compass points either serve the macro or microcosm, but not both at the same time (?!). Are we in, or out? And when?!
You brilliant mathematicians seem to understand the mellifluous systems within metaphysics which elude my brain. Unless I use the language of art to capture one singular instance of truth, I find only poetry and paint to solve the quadratic equation of 'what is.'
loved the music, and i've been a huge fan of fractal 'stuff' for 40plus years. and it has come into my writing often. strange attractors have a strange attraction to me!
synchronicity? after listening to oregon, youtube put into my 'you might like' column a look at 'wei wu wei'. in spanish! it was delightful for me to mostly understand it and the concepts align with my own practice, experience and now teaching in the courses i'm developing. then by 'chance' youtube started without my initiating it a look at ancient architecture - that isn't architecture and isn't possible. "ancient technology science can't explain - chennakeshava temple, belur karnataka"
this is the 2nd video from praveen mohan. really amazing stuff.
and thank you for introducing me to vastu architecture. i've used feng shui for thirty years and now wonder if its roots are like those of acupuncture: vedic/ ayurvedic. fascinating stuff.
"which triangulates well with my intuition that any quantification of reality that is in line with nature, either structures or frequencies, is inherently fractal, the mandelbrot set being my favorite metaphor and mandala for that intuition"
I intuit the same - on the inherent fractal piece - though the 'quantification of reality' I'm not so sure can be pinned down. Suspect reality is in ongoing flux - and so a moving target; subject to cycles that repeat and add novelty at once, within time and space settings that are also not fixed.
But what do I know?
Good thoughts, and welcome post and hope you're well, Steve.
Synchronicity - at least with the song! Just watched an episode of Austin City Limits with bluegrass bands. And now this. I flunked geometry in high school. And now this. Yep. Synchronicity.
Fantastic! Something I had not thought about in years. Crazy, I took a hit off from my meerschaum just prior to checking this out , got lost in it - Lol. Far better than a boring rorschach. Closer to an Etch a sketch, gone wild! Thanks for the Mandelbrot and the intimate fractal tune. Music, sends me. If interested, (a bit off topic) give this a listen Steve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF5cnu4JpN4
I find this music to be quite beautiful and somewhat haunting. I'm also amazed it has survived over the span of time; should Enki be privy to this rendition, curiosity of his thoughts. Blessings ~
Oooh, nice music! And great phrase, "prophylactic against the coming top-down, globalist / corporate nation-state designed, 15 minute slums." Slums. That's the word I was looking for. We have a vote coming up locally on whether we want 12 story luxury slum buildings downtown or 5 story slum buildings in every neighborhood--that's what the Overton window has come down to.
We've accepted that we have to build 4000 new units with the stick being the loss of state funding if we don't and the carrot being affordable housing. But as I drove past one of these monstrosities, I couldn't picture who would want to live in them. Certainly no one who'd be an asset to our community. Some funky basement apartment that floods, no problem. A hippie household with frequent couch-surfers, fine. But who would live in these prison-windowed cubicles? I think it's preparing for an influx from China. That's my grim determination.
Howdy Steve.
Interesting and educational fractal clip on mandelbrot sets.
I defer to the Chinese Feng Shui rather than Vastus as a map for harmony. As human nature is binary, so it seems to me that a Sun Focused Architectural plan is too limited in application for 10,000 men and women. (Especially if you knock off the current BS in society denying who is who, and return to Nature as a restorative.)
What lies outside the compass points either serve the macro or microcosm, but not both at the same time (?!). Are we in, or out? And when?!
You brilliant mathematicians seem to understand the mellifluous systems within metaphysics which elude my brain. Unless I use the language of art to capture one singular instance of truth, I find only poetry and paint to solve the quadratic equation of 'what is.'
Semma what? LOL!!
hola, steve.
loved the music, and i've been a huge fan of fractal 'stuff' for 40plus years. and it has come into my writing often. strange attractors have a strange attraction to me!
synchronicity? after listening to oregon, youtube put into my 'you might like' column a look at 'wei wu wei'. in spanish! it was delightful for me to mostly understand it and the concepts align with my own practice, experience and now teaching in the courses i'm developing. then by 'chance' youtube started without my initiating it a look at ancient architecture - that isn't architecture and isn't possible. "ancient technology science can't explain - chennakeshava temple, belur karnataka"
https://youtu.be/oRBc9o9I5Uo
this is the 2nd video from praveen mohan. really amazing stuff.
and thank you for introducing me to vastu architecture. i've used feng shui for thirty years and now wonder if its roots are like those of acupuncture: vedic/ ayurvedic. fascinating stuff.
hope you are well. all the best and thank you.
Beautiful music and imagery.
"which triangulates well with my intuition that any quantification of reality that is in line with nature, either structures or frequencies, is inherently fractal, the mandelbrot set being my favorite metaphor and mandala for that intuition"
I intuit the same - on the inherent fractal piece - though the 'quantification of reality' I'm not so sure can be pinned down. Suspect reality is in ongoing flux - and so a moving target; subject to cycles that repeat and add novelty at once, within time and space settings that are also not fixed.
But what do I know?
Good thoughts, and welcome post and hope you're well, Steve.
Synchronicity - at least with the song! Just watched an episode of Austin City Limits with bluegrass bands. And now this. I flunked geometry in high school. And now this. Yep. Synchronicity.
Fantastic! Something I had not thought about in years. Crazy, I took a hit off from my meerschaum just prior to checking this out , got lost in it - Lol. Far better than a boring rorschach. Closer to an Etch a sketch, gone wild! Thanks for the Mandelbrot and the intimate fractal tune. Music, sends me. If interested, (a bit off topic) give this a listen Steve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sF5cnu4JpN4
I find this music to be quite beautiful and somewhat haunting. I'm also amazed it has survived over the span of time; should Enki be privy to this rendition, curiosity of his thoughts. Blessings ~