a journey, not a destination

More at stake?

For visualcuriosity there is more at stake than just looking around at curious things (moving).

visualcuriosity gets you involved in a trance-like reality. You never quite forget, always fail to remember fully, do over and over again what you already thought you understood.

So that's with my newly adopted concept:

i hear and i forget,
i see and i remember,
i do and i undesrtand

More on that in other blogs.

i do & i understand

Portrait of Lucien Hervé,
in his Paris Home, 2002.

visual curiosity is deep in my makeup. It is my first nature.

Let me quote Lucien Hervé on that:
’Oser Voir ce que l’on voit’.

Hervé, Le Corbusier’s life-long photographer and friend (born Lazlò Elkàn, Budapest 1910) transmitted his great vision to me in simple words and a great friendship – nearly in the form of a Haiku.

What is a 'Haiku'?
Haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form composed of 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables respectively.  Actually, in Japanese they're usually written in one line, but still considered 3 separate units.  Contemporary international haiku usually relaxes the syllable-count restriction. In English haiku, 1-3 lines of 17 syllables or less is the norm (14 syllables is often recommended). 
Haiku are poems about nature and generally follow the principles of minimalism and immediacy.  Immediacy refers to the sense of a scene being directly presented to your senses.  A haiku tries to capture a concrete image in place and time.  A season word is usually required in the traditional form to place a poem in a specific season.  A cutting word is also common to direct the flow of the poem.

Back to the french.
‘Oser Voir ce que l’on voit’ translates as: ‘Dare to see what you see’.
This phrase reached right to the core in terming the emergence of social awareness in modern ‘photography’ - and far beyond towards something timeless. To me, pure poetry and a renewed sense of purpose.
Later blogs will be devoted to Lucien’s life and work.

Another source of energy (and hopefully some wisdom) to help structure my creativity has been the simple concept of learning by doing. Nothing really new here. The inspiration came up again when reading the acclaimed user interface author, Ben Schneiderman.
His recent book ‘Leanardo’s Laptop’ is particularily interesting in showing his vision of ‘creative computing’ (the so-called New Computing). Among other subjects, the idea of recreating education upon the base of the typical user activities [Collect – Relate – Create – Donate] caught my interest.

Scheiderman’s citations below, illustrate the universal, basic human learning process.

“Variations of active learning have existed for thousands of years, as indicated by the ancient chinese proverb:

I hear and I forget,
I see and I remember,
I do and I understand.”

Another beautiful citation from Sophocles:

“One must learn by doing the thing
For you think you know it
You have no certainty until you try.”

Ok. That was it.

Interpreting these words was a nice new puzzle to solve.

The following rhymes have offered me the ultimate interaction concept – at least one that I can grasp and use to structure my blogs-to-come:

I hear and I forget,
I see and I remember,
I do and I understand

These led me to formulate the following:

1. A blog (weblog): Use this blog (http://visualcuriosity.blogs.com), to hear and forget!

2. A gallery (site): Go to: http://www.visualcuriosity.com, in order to see and remember! (the gallery site is under construction)

3. A Plog (project-log): Join: http://visualcuriosity.seework.com, in order to do and understand!

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