Daily Poetics

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of, and in your nature, there lies hidden rich mines of thought and purpose awaiting your development

Link: Strange-Carafes.

title  quote: Jonathan Swift

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you.

Link: Kiki van Eijk :: Lightbox .

"A poem in a box? When you open the box a candle pops up and from it's shadow shines a light!"

Title Quote: Rumi

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me

Link: raumge stalt.

"Wishes – the ring Right from our childhood, the power of making wishes is familiar to us: be it Aladdin rubbing his magic lamp, reciting magical poems to banish frightening nightmares, or the major or minor yearnings in our lives –the power of our wishes always seems to influence the way things work out. The plain ring invites you to listen to your wishes, irrespective of whether it is with words made available by others or self-created magical words - the wishes will be with you from now on."

Title Quote: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... The fire i' the flint / Shows not til it be struck.

Link: Pyreness Wood Block 100 Matches - Fitzsu Society.

"Pyreness Wood Block with 100 matches. To use just break a match off the block and scratch it along the block to light. In 1680, an Irish physicist named Robert Boyle (Boyle's Law) coated a small piece of paper with phosphorous and coated a small piece of wood with sulfur. He then rubbed the wood across the paper and created a fire. However, there was no useable match created by Robert Boyle."

Title Quote: Timon of Athens

Water is...hydrogen two parts, oxygen one, but there is also a third thing, that makes it water and nobody knows what that is. / The atom locks up two energies but it is the third thing present that makes it an atom.

Link: Virtually Mine.

exploring how we value the objects in our life

Title Quote: DH Lawrence

There was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look’d upon, that object he became; And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years...

Link: objectobject.

Object:Object Project is looking for submissions!

Object:Object is a project that hopes to examine the process of translating verbal communication to visual communication while connecting all of the participants involved through personal and heartfelt narrative.

Please help!

Write a detailed description of an object that you own or have owned which has particular sentimental value for you. Please describe the objects structure with as much detail as possible - be specific about it's size, shape, colour and other necessary aesthetic elements. If you like, include a short written narrative about how you came to own the object or a short story of why this object is of special value to you. Please do not submit photographs or other visuals of the item.

The written descriptions collected will be remade in sculptural form by an artist participant. Artists will use only the written description, with no visual reference, to recreate these objects. The first showing of completed pieces will be installed in an upcoming collateral event for the Open Engagement Conference in Regina, Saskatchewan this October, 2007.

Submissions are being accepted now.
objectobjectproject@gmail.com.

Quote: Walt Whitman

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when you love someone, you love him as he is.

Link: Print Story - canada.com network.

'We think with the objects we love' People Attach Deep Meaning To Things They Own Robert Fulford National Post

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Acigar is not just a cigar, even if Freud once claimed it was, and an object is never just an object -- it's an emblem of all that we've ever done with it and all that we've ever felt about it.

On a bookcase in the room where I work, there's a cheap Chinese vase from the 1930s that I believe once contained ginger and was given as a present to my parents. Anyone else will see it, correctly, as a squat-shaped and less-than-beautiful piece of china, decorated with a blue and white flowering-tree design. But it was the closest thing to a work of sculpture near me when I was two or three years old, and it was the first physical sign I ever noticed that the Orient existed. It's an object, yes, but also more than an object -- a symbol of discovery, a memory of childish ignorance and curiosity, a fragment of the infant me.

As Karl Marx wrote in Capital, "A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing." Analyze said object, though, and it becomes "a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."

That's the theme of Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (MIT Press), a remarkable book edited by Sherry Turkle, a professor of science and society at MIT.

Years ago, the Technology Review described her as the Margaret Mead of computer culture, an anthropologist studying the new people of the online world. In 1984, she travelled to cyberspace, moved in with the natives and reported on their lives in a pioneering book, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. Since then, she's pursued the subject of humans interacting with computers.

Evocative Objects takes her away from the digital universe and into the world of the purely concrete. "Objects bring philosophy down to earth," Turkle has decided. As she explains, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with."

... (con't)

Quote: Charles Peguy

I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere...

Link: raumgestalt.

Wisperer

"People have long suspected that there are very special powers inherent in stones. Now it has been proved that they can even speak! Whether plainly or poetically depends entirely on you - a ‘tender whisper’ or an unemotional ‘your meal is in the fridge’ - you can provide the talking pebble with a new text. It is sensitive to light and shade."

 

About us:
The company Raumgestalt designs, produces and purchases wellformed objects for use and perception.We wish this world to have more sensuality and stand opposite to the velocity and loudness that rule our daily enviroment. We realize that by designing and creating enviroments through our products which tell from the simple and clear and convince by itself and it´s materialism - with abdiction on obsolete patterns. Concentration and calm are properties that resident our objects. Our products realize an enviroment stimulating peoples creativity -raumgestalt

Quote: William Congreve

"hard skin on the underside of trembling / jello cold in the bowl ..." -poemcrazy

Link: Wunderwurks Design: Everything Normal Vase.

Materials: EVA plastic (hot glue).

"Inspired by the natural formations of marble, the Callisto vessels come in both warm and cool colors."

Link: Hatch: The Design Public® Blog » Blog Archive » On Tackiness and Anti-Depressive Living.

"Have you picked up any objects for anti-depressive living lately? If so, please share them with our flickr group! Recently I could not resist this ram who is packing much back. While he’s too tall for most of my shelves, he solved the problem of the floppy Ian McHarg book falling over all the time, and I like that his big head doesn’t fit." -hatch