Tag: thought
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The Tragedy of Happiness
There was a man who sought joy and happiness. He searched high and low. He painted himself with attractive bright colors to appear happy and joyful. Then he started to seek thrills, sought success, sought money, power, and fame. He tried everything and anything. As he sat down one day, exhausted in his search, he…
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The Apple Generation
Steve Jobs who designed Apple for the current generation Reviewing the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. Another draft post from 2017. I honestly had loaded up quite a few draft posts then, thinking that I was going to be blogging often and all that. If I’m right, it was because I had come back from…
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What and Where
When thinking about what to do, I’m always stuck with this issue: What should I do, and where should it go? “What to do” is always an easy one to start with: Paint a picture, write a blog post, cut a video together. But then when you pair it with “Where should this piece go?”…
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Abstraction
How does Rothko make a Rothko? I was reading this and really processing. Would I cry if I stood long enough at a Rothko piece? I remember I was almost tearing at NGV when I saw the Rothko piece there, but that was from the pure happiness of actually seeing a Rothko piece. Did the abstraction miss…