Great art and great science involve a leap of imagination into a world that is different from the present. The rest of society often views these new ideas as fantasies without relevance to current reality. And they are right. But the whole point of art and science is to go beyond what we now consider real and create a new reality. At the same time, this “escape” is not into a never-never land. What makes a novel idea creative is that once we see it, sooner or later we recognize that, strange as it is, it is true.
Most of us assume that artists – musicians, writers, poets, painters – are strong on the fantasy side, whereas scientists, politicians, and businesspeople are realists. This may be true in terms of day-to-day routine activities. But when a person begins to work creatively, all bets are off.
Here is Seven hanging with the latest addition to my room. I have Ginny to thank for pretty much everything on my walls. Coming soon: boring pictures of my fancy new mattress.
Photo: Tim Walker, from his current exhibition at the Design Museum London. Song: “Orphans” (lightly feat. the Cat) off the new Beck album Modern Guilt (links to neat video)
Bathtime Planetarium – I preface with this is Japanese and I can’t have it, you can’t have it either. Can be aimed up or down into the water, doubles as a sealife/aquarium projector. Via a new favorite blog.
This post was going to be a list of things to do with my new and different lonely life. I couldn’t come up with enough things worth talking about, so this post turned into another “All the things I’d like to share with you”…
For the record, this is what I plan to do with my time: Finish all the projects I’ve promised to friends. Read some books. Paste Rocky Balboa’s face onto the body of H.W. Plainview (followed with a venn diagram of similarities and differences: deaf, bastard from a basket, blank stare). Do good work at my new job (and try not to talk so much). Make local friends!
