tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.comments2023-10-23T11:14:33.283-05:00Knowledge ArtUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-5544675678419699892014-02-25T23:28:05.227-05:002014-02-25T23:28:05.227-05:00People called them a lucky couple.People called them a lucky couple.goofykookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13185886783519596579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-67036341110667971822013-06-08T03:20:48.485-05:002013-06-08T03:20:48.485-05:00Similar, but different ;)
http://www.keilman.org/n...Similar, but different ;)<br />http://www.keilman.org/nightwalking.htmAlisNutriornoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-68497815861022424572013-05-23T16:17:41.743-05:002013-05-23T16:17:41.743-05:00For your research I suggest that you read the book...For your research I suggest that you read the book titled "Bounce" by Matthew Syed. Whilst this book is generally set in the world of sport, the concept applies to all physical skills, and even to professional areas like the law and accountancy. <br /><br />The basic idea is that practise allows the body to operate on the basis of unconscious competance and the required movements Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01254348610512511518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-86919302402051110982013-04-30T01:32:13.781-05:002013-04-30T01:32:13.781-05:00I have a friend from Montreal who speaks English w...I have a friend from Montreal who speaks English well, but with a strong French accent. When he's tired, his accent disappears. It's uncanny. When your body is fluent in something, sometimes the best thing you can do is to let it do its thing.<br /><br />It's a good lesson for organizations, too.eekimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06767548631109343095noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-88643520291044288112013-02-22T00:08:53.051-05:002013-02-22T00:08:53.051-05:00It also makes us secure a lot of structure that re...It also makes us secure a lot of structure that really doesn't fit into the product as developed.John Wadehttp://davisellis.weebly.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-70599267468070574782012-12-20T00:13:42.063-05:002012-12-20T00:13:42.063-05:00hi,
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Fiber board | MDF...hi,<br /><br />nice post and information.<br /><br /><b><a href="http://www.greenpanelmax.com" rel="nofollow">Fiber board</a></b> | <b><a href="http://www.greenpanelmax.com/Veneered-MDF.html" rel="nofollow">MDF with Veneers</a></b><br />MDF Boardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07165582541868381024noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-84981310971592125432012-03-27T05:37:08.633-05:002012-03-27T05:37:08.633-05:00I collected a lot of interesting things from your ...I collected a lot of interesting things from your blog especially its discussion. Comments in your posts, I believe I’m not alone having all the enjoyment here! keep up the great work.ActualExamshttp://www.actualexams.me/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-74674059408432137922012-03-13T05:31:45.876-05:002012-03-13T05:31:45.876-05:00This is a great inspiring article. I am pretty muc...This is a great inspiring article. I am pretty much pleased with your good work. You put really very helpful information. Keep it up. Keep blogging. Looking to reading your next post.ExamSheetshttp://www.examsheets.me/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-47158098406472193832011-02-21T16:17:19.282-05:002011-02-21T16:17:19.282-05:00Sandy,
Thanks for your comment, and I completely ...Sandy,<br /><br />Thanks for your comment, and I completely agree. In fact I spend a lot of time on textual shaping in the thesis as well. I do emphasize the more pictorial/visual aspects, but the aesthetic and other dimensions apply equally to words.<br /><br />AlAlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13752302051291118110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-30865324665095072132011-02-21T16:03:12.203-05:002011-02-21T16:03:12.203-05:00I think the question of making participatory visua...I think the question of making participatory <i>visual</i> representations coherent, engaging and useful applies as well to <i>written</i> representations.<br /><br />For example, when I've recorded a group's words on flip charts and they want to transcribe and distribute them, I caution that they won't mean the same thing to others, and indeed, in a few days they won't carry the Sandy Schumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04373637046730424126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-59550745163496463752010-10-18T13:10:10.550-05:002010-10-18T13:10:10.550-05:00Thanks Sandy! I'll definitely check that out.
...Thanks Sandy! I'll definitely check that out.<br /><br />Defintely still at it... in the final stages (writing up) of a phd at the Knowledge Media Institute, Open University UK. Here's a recent <a href="http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/current/abstracts/selvin_buckingham-shum_aakhus10.html" rel="nofollow">journal article</a> that describes much of the research. Also <a href="http://Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13752302051291118110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-27456252525562819962010-10-18T10:30:29.120-05:002010-10-18T10:30:29.120-05:00It looks like you might be interested in Guy Corte...It looks like you might be interested in Guy Cortesi's research, which compared communication channel (face-to-face, audioconferencing, and videoconferencing) and task type (convergent, such as decision-making, and divergent, such as idea generation). http://www.ils.unc.edu/mpact/mpact.php?op=show_tree&id=2002<br /><br />PS I haven't run into you since your Workshop on Strategies for Sandy Schumanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04373637046730424126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-17700812462495238202009-11-20T04:49:38.721-05:002009-11-20T04:49:38.721-05:00Many institutions limit access to their online inf...Many institutions limit access to their online information. Making this information available will be an asset to all.Paper on Researchhttp://www.researchpaperspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-21139762927988859382009-07-26T23:08:36.508-05:002009-07-26T23:08:36.508-05:00The volume of comments has not been such where I h...The volume of comments has not been such where I have had to worry about that too much :-) but thanks.Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13752302051291118110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-70244974582937724212009-07-26T20:59:33.823-05:002009-07-26T20:59:33.823-05:00re: "artifactual" ... to be playful with...re: "artifactual" ... to be playful with this, the artifacts I have set out to produce can be thought of as the "glass beads" in Hesse's <i>glasperlenspiel</i>. (Do folk more often call the book "Magister Ludi" or "Glass Bead Game"?) I found that concentrating on that one aspect of the complex allowed my system a certain vigorous rigour; I see the "Bernard (ben) Tremblayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097630017893920397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-33431138679670625082009-07-26T20:39:58.987-05:002009-07-26T20:39:58.987-05:00As I wrote in my Soup post, the quote from B. Derv...As I wrote in <a href="http://soup.groundplane.org/post/24014864/In-his-blogpost-Al-Selvin-quotes-this" rel="nofollow">my Soup post</a>, the quote from B. Dervin along with the Quest Map remind me of <i>what I resolved <b>not</b> to grapple with</i>, i.e. the whole of the process. It occurred to me (late 90s?) that trying to do too much would distract from the sub-processes that could be more Bernard (ben) Tremblayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097630017893920397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-31745490919383546702009-07-26T19:52:18.437-05:002009-07-26T19:52:18.437-05:00p.s. pondering at once my experience with VRML con...p.s. pondering at once my experience with VRML concept clouds and the fact of the Parthenon's columns I remember working with Dr. John Fentress on "organization of movement" (neuro-physiology / ethology): no nerve assembly (Hebb cells?) are functional without the others that are peripheral; no term is meaningful without the terms and concepts that comprise its context. This moved meBernard (ben) Tremblayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097630017893920397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-53507882914019828142009-07-26T19:44:21.535-05:002009-07-26T19:44:21.535-05:00@Al - I grabbed hold of entasis only very recently...@Al - I grabbed hold of <i>entasis</i> only very recently (a PBS documentary on the Parthenon's design features), hoping to use it as a "nearly good enough" descriptor for something I've been grapplling with for years. The original idea (from playing with VRML to present concept clouds ... late 90s) was that "meaning" acted like a strange attractor that organized Bernard (ben) Tremblayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097630017893920397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-26039041501847025132009-07-26T19:25:31.401-05:002009-07-26T19:25:31.401-05:00Perhaps an example of how a "communicative ge...Perhaps an example of how a "communicative gesture" can be taken as meaning different things to different people? (And no, I'm not just being argumentative.)<br />I imagined being in that situation (I probably see a couple of life performances each week) and being put-off ... if her gestures were over the top / theatrical. So I wonder what the other players' take on it was.<br /Bernard (ben) Tremblayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097630017893920397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-84000110644780111952009-07-26T09:36:43.527-05:002009-07-26T09:36:43.527-05:00Since there were about 4 people in the audience, I...Since there were about 4 people in the audience, I don't think she was playing to them. Not sure what in my account would make you think she was pushy or rude. My impression was the opposite.Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13752302051291118110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-75428467777785425952009-07-25T07:25:39.240-05:002009-07-25T07:25:39.240-05:00Ben,
I hope the core group that ignored your gest...Ben,<br /><br />I hope the core group that ignored your gestures was not Compendium's. If it was, I apologize. If that happened it certainly had nothing to do with credentials, which are not of much meaning to me (short, still, of some myself).<br /><br />Can you provide some pointers to your writings on the under-pinnings of conviction and entasis?<br /><br />AlAlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13752302051291118110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-21460747003107099172009-07-24T19:13:46.097-05:002009-07-24T19:13:46.097-05:00I think you missed a subtle distinction: her gestu...I think you missed a subtle distinction: her gestures were over-loud ... I'd guess aimed at the audience. To adopt the vernacular, she was pushy and rude, making the others look thick, if not inept.<br /><br />Of course I don't have credentials in this field ... only 25+yrs doing sound for jazz.<br /><br />What one sees is objective and can become the basis of "shared facts"; Bernard (ben) Tremblayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097630017893920397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-32501455010346282432009-07-24T19:07:51.526-05:002009-07-24T19:07:51.526-05:00"At its heart Compendium is a way to connect ..."At its heart Compendium is a way to connect all sorts of views, ideas, images, and other resources together, in all sorts of ways."<br />Years ago (many?) I tried to initiate a discussion along the lines of "doing many, many things, but none well enough". Without credentials, and not being one of the "core group", my gestures were simply ignored.<br />But I Bernard (ben) Tremblayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04097630017893920397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-86980814230605621562009-07-03T15:22:41.799-05:002009-07-03T15:22:41.799-05:00I commented and reposted this on the Visual Explor...I commented and reposted this on the Visual Explorer blog at http://cclve.blogspot.com/2009/07/levels-of-looking.html . Looking forward to updates from the agency, as they adopt VE as a shared tool.Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03514488804708046292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5295541.post-52878258881912498402009-05-26T01:54:37.318-05:002009-05-26T01:54:37.318-05:00Interesting observations, Al.
I find a parallel h...Interesting observations, Al.<br /><br />I find a parallel here with some of my work; there is a significant difference between understanding a piece of visual art as a means of expression and then shifting gears to use it as a point of inquiry. <br /><br />I find that the first response, as you say, comes naturally. Using imagery to inquire into the way our thought is working needs quite a bitSteve Marshallhttp://www.photo-dialogue.comnoreply@blogger.com