design... not that I know anything about it.

[simplexorganism]

To the untrained eye, the varied multitude of objects and motions that populate our world and bring us so much visual pleasure may seem, in many cases, to be happy coincidences or, at best, to be the result of a sort of freeform creativity possessed by the gifted among us. To a more trained eye, especially when training denotes Art Education in

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[simplexorganism]

Heh... I was talking to Klimas, who is looking to start a blog about design. He said something about me being a contributor in some way, and my first thought was that I'd never even tried to write about design, so I decided to give it a try.
The two main things that I was thinking about, and have been for a while now, are that pretty things aren't less worthy, just because their primary goodness is being pleasant (and that's not just a design thing) and the idea that overthinking design is a dangerous thing.

[simplexorganism]

Of course, it's hard for me to say much, since I really have zero education, higher or lower, in the subject of design.

[emilylike]

you write well, about a lot of things.

[simplexorganism]

Thank you... I just so rarely have anything in particular to say, these days. Or, I have things to say... but the idea of sitting down to write them out, especially without any specific audience, is daunting. I have a lot to say about the relationship of love and politics, but it's hard to bring myself to spend the time writing it out.
Years ago, back when I dated and forgot I was dating Debbie DeGeorge, she got me a tape recorder. She knew that I was more likely to just talk to a tape recorder than to actually write things. The problem is that now I have tapes and no secretary to type them up for me. So hopefully someday I'll have a lot of money and be able to employ a secretary.