“Form follows emotion”

“Design addresses itself to the need.”

design problem

April 1, 2008

“Here is one of the few effective keys to the design problem – the ability of the designer to recognize as many of the constraints as possible – his willingness and enthusiasm for working within these constraints. Constraints of price, of size, of strength, of balance, of surface, of time and so forth.”

“What is design? A plan for arranging elements in such a way as to best accomplish a particular purpose.”

“Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.”

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

Travel & photographs

March 31, 2008

“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”

Travel

March 31, 2008

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”

Religion

March 31, 2008

“Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds”

What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn’t sex but death.