read this short article if you are interested in type design, this headline is linked.
And speaking of headlines, here's one, I never thought to actually see.
Isn't it funny, how, small, wonderfully ridiculous things such as this,
make the larger, more mundane aspects of life ( ie. washing up, most
relatives, and certainly all wars ) marginally more endurable.
Don't you think ?
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I agree, that did make me chuckle.
And that type design article was very interesting.
Reminded me of this lecture im following by professor John McWhorter about The story of Human Language.
On an another note, I had a question about something you had said in one of your classes. You had told us that the reason why Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I was so expensinve is because someone was willing to pay that much money for it(as with any paintings). My question is, if someone was only willing to pay 5$ for it, would mean it would be worth only that much? Isn't there a base value to works of art that is based off materials used, time, and the technical aspects? And the person who bought it for 140M, wouldn't it mean that its worth that only to that person and not necessaraly an established standard value?
Value and Price, can, ironically, be entirely different things.
Take Oscar Wilde's famous quote, as a starting point.
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."
The price of the painting is relative to what someone IS willing to pay for it.
But it's value, is likely incalculable.
The same contradictions exists in the conduct of individuals, the geometry of families and the certainties of faith.
Never confuse the price of something with its worth.
ah ok now it makes more sense.
Out of curiosity though, what is "geometry of families"? I don't think I've heard this term...or maybe I know what it is just under a different name(highly unlikely...)
I used the phrase "Geometry of Families" metaphorically,because, often in a families you have, what appears to be extraordinary contradictions. Contradictions, that wouldn't survive in normal environments, or couldn't seemingly exist anywhere else, outside the family. How, as an example, brothers, or husbands or wives, might display great anger or great love, for the other but, in fact, deeply, feel the opposite. So a painting, indeed, might intrinsically be worth, lets say - 40$, but someone else, is willing to pay 40 million, because, inexplicably, the must have it. It is to them, priceless. But to you, it's just a painting of an old lady.
oh I see. thanks for the explanations.
Speaking of which, I was conversing about the origins about the universe with a friend the other day and i had remembered that you had once said that a proof that the big bang existed is the static of a television. Unfortunately I didn't remember enough to actually share that nugget of info. Was it related in the sense that static in a TV originates from a single point?
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