October 6ths

10/6/1988                

“Pickles” (A sketch on bass)    

 

 [The new version for the Curios series] 

10/6/2004            

Photographer Richard Avedon died. He was one of the first to admit that still photography is a “sin of omission”. It’s a cropping of time and context. Something always gets excluded and sometimes it’s the part that’s true.            

[10/6/2024: These diary revisitations are an interesting way to see how art has evolved. The collage he made of Audrey Hepburn in 1967 is not unlike something that would be generated by AI. AI is essentially a collage technique without scissors and glue].    

10/6/2011 

Dynaxiom: The eye expects good design and the heart affirms it. 

Steve Jobs connected design and desire. His approach to life was the antithesis of the idea of institutional learning. He was the quintessential autodidact. How you learn is attached to the desire to learn.     

Songday seed: