On Doing

I feel very special, and I assume you too do. Because of this, anytime I search information on a web-site, and I have a question, I distrust the FAQ. How can it be that what I think is what everybody else thinks?

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I have borrowed the name of this post from the most fantastic of Peter Greenaway films.
According to Mr. Greenaway, Creation “is to try to orchestrate the universe to understand what surround us. Even if, to accomplish that, we use all sorts of stratagems which in the end prove completely incapable of staying off chaos”.

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I haven’t found the proper word for what we in spanish call “criterio”. The most close to it seems to be “discretion”, but since it is the first time I ever listen it, I’m still hesitant about it.
What we mean by “criterio” is the ability to make the right choices, and to act properly […]

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For years, a typical sign of a “bad” design was that it was good for more than its main function. A razor blade with a pencil sharpener, a spoon with a can opener. This sort of hibridity was looked down, I believe, as a sign of poverty. Why have one single object if you can […]

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Since the Nintendo Wii upcoming, I’ve been thinking a lot on changing paradigms. We actually don’t know whether the Wii revolutionary command will be a standard in years to follow, but few things are as amusing to me as trying to foresee the future of culture.

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Today I was talking with the handyman who takes care of my building, about one of my favourite jackets who recently got burned by a cigarette in the back. I told him “how do you think I plan to fix it” (my plan being of adding an horizontal strip all through the back).
He told me […]

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Our work should be:
-The creation of a process, maybe once in a lifetime, maybe never, capable of answering many demands.
-The adaptation of this process to every singular case.
Unluckily, I have the feeling that, every time somebody asks me for something, they expect me to create a whole new thing, just for them, unseen before, special […]

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I’ve always been keen on thinking that there’s no such thing as special talent or conditions. I refer specifically to amazing efforts, like Egyptian pyramids, Sacsayhuaman, In Search of Lost Time, Rohmer’s films. While many theories tend to find explanations in extraterrestrials, outstanding IQ’s, unknown methods, etc., I rather think of plain work. Lots of […]

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Just yesterday i’ve posted on the fact that, today, we trust more in what our machines analizes than what we see. And that this can, in the future, cause that our dependance on sight could be diminished. However, today, i read this new about making visual our DNA.

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A few years ago (and, I must admit, still sometimes today), whenever I saw something, and then shared that experience with someone, a glimpse of doubt passed in front of me: did that person saw the same that I did?

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