Partial Glossary list

GLOSSARY
Aristotelian-
Euclidean-
Newtonian-
Non-Aristotelian
Non-Euclidean-
Non-Newtonian-
Quantum Physics-
General Relativity-
Special Relativity-
Essence and Accident-
Existentialism-
Operationalism-
The Copenhagen Interpretation (of quantum physics)-
General Semantics-
Transactional Psychology-
“noise”-
Etic and emic realities-
Meaningful and meaningless, indeterminate and true/false(as pertains to scientific ideas)-
“isness”
Observer & observed-
“objective reality”

Gloss/Eigenstate/reality-tunnel/script/worldview/mindset/schematic/

Chaos

metaprogramming

Inventory of content ideas- part one:

Activity/prompt ideas:

Match the Map to the Monument- use pictures of different maps (subway, topographical, street) of places like Giza, Egypt, Paris, France, New York City, etc. "draw a line from the map to the image of the monument found there"

Which Dollar Bill has no Worth?: Circle the Counterfeit- Several images of real dollar bills.
also Which Dollar is Worth More?- images of dollar bills with little bios like: found on the street, framed and hung by Andy Warhol, Printed by the Mafia, Blessed by a Cardinal

What are the differences between a one dollar issued by the federal reserve bank for the market and a wafer blessed by the church for communion?

Match the image to the title
1Match the label to the person: What's in a name? - A list of titles such as: Communist, Racist, Religious Fundamentalist, Liberal, Conservative etc. and corresponding illustrations of "regular" looking people
2Match the image to the definition/title
-fork
-chair

How many reasons can you come up with for why you are doing this exercise (or reading this book) right now in 20 minutes? accompanied with fold out image of potential answers

Imagine your enemy as a collection of atoms- featuring picture of Kim Jung Il looking a mirrored image silhouetted to look like particles

What is Sound?- Circle the definition(s) you think is/are most true. List of definitions which are all partial but true.

How much of an apple can you see? place an apple on a table, write down what percentage of the apple you can see. Get a friend to stand opposite you and the table, how much can the two of you see combined? Get 12 people to stand in a circle around the table and the apple, now how much can you see? Cut the apple in half, space 6 inches- now how much can the group see. How close to 100% of the apple can you see?

Functionality ideas

So far I have a couple different concept ideas for the way my book will work.

I'm still open to it being written in, but am considering that the presentation of the activity maybe enough, much like the artist Jessica (Larva) had me pull up in class. Then I could print it on a nicer paper which is always fun!

One idea)
is to make it very simple, like a workbook or activity book, with one example after another with explainations. This could be a lot like the book This Means This, This Means That. If you click that link and then click on the picture on the amazon site you can look at a couple pages and see how it works. This could be broken down into chapters, such as: "Money", "Status/Labels", "What role do we play in this?" "Nouns versus Verbs" etc. or just a consistent layout with different ideas sort of randomly organized. Another way it could possibly be organized is by "level" of perception, so one chapter is about social realities, one is more about personal reality etc.

Another idea)
that I've played with is to make the book about one or a handful of specific subjects which is split into four or so chapters or parts. Each part would deal with a different definition or model of the idea in question which is held as true. The title of this would be something like, "EVERYTHING IN THIS BOOK IS TRUE" The idea that all of the definitions are useful by different fields though they seem contradictory, paired with the notion that they are all "truth" could really be strong I think. The problem I am having with this is keeping them somewhat simple. The best examples I have is how light is both a wave and a particle like in the "double slit experiment" video I posted a while back, and the idea of sound which I talked about as posters. This would have to be very specific to limited subjects in order to keep it a realistic length and I think that could be less useful.

I could still make it less structured and have a mixture of brief informational pages, such as in The Medium is the Massage and the questions/activities for examples. If I go this route I think the "Bar graph of Belief could be utilized inside the book as well.

Feb 15:
Due dates: CV+ Portfolio + Card and Poster ideas for the show.

Possible Forms for the Design Solution

My ideas are spinning. I want to do so much and there is not so much time! I feel like if I could commit to an idea in the next week or two I can take it so much further than if I let "it" keep evolving. On the other hand, I keep reading such great stuff and changing the way I state my idea/problem (slightly, but enough that the design solution seems like it would be different).

So far my ideas include:
-A poster series about what the word "sound" means, using the "If a tree falls . . ." example which use different definitions, one in each designated area (Short North, Clintonville, Bexley etc.).

-A mural, preferably projected flash video, of a "bargraph of belief" which depicts the number of people who hold different beliefs compared to the world population

-A workbook, think "Highlights for nerds," with duable activities and project ideas which will present the ideas and give the viewer and interactive experience and allowing for contemplation.
(I think that many of my ideas which I don't see as "final product ideas" could be utilized in this idea)

-Quotes by important thinkers on the subject such as Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, Robert Anton Wilson, Alfred Korzybski, Timothy Leary, Fred Allan Wolfe. etc. Presented as street art, perhaps as full scale wheatpaste of the thinker + a quote on the subject

-A book, much like that of Quentin Fiore's work with McLuhan and Fuller, which presents the ideas and examples in a graphic way. (see, The Medium is the Massage, War and Peace in the Global Village, I Seem to be a Verb)

Some "new" sketches

So, these sketches are really just for "fun." I had this idea way back in September and had talked about it a couple of times. I decided it was worth seeing a rough of idea of what they could look like. I just used some google images. The lists are basically what came to mind when I started to type them, I didn't delete or rearrange any parts of them. That said, if I were to really produce these (I imagined them as 40x60in or larger prints) I would obsess over what is included in the lists. Not sure I would keep the words "fork" and "chair" in the actual pieces.

Maybe these could be utilized in some sort of workbook or book if I go that route. Perhaps the opposing page could say, "Circle the correct one" or "What does chair/fork mean?" or "Which of these describes the pictured object?" or something like that. . .

Let me know what you think about these. Do they make sense? Are they helpful? Have they been done before (I feel like something similar must exists somewhere)?

Some More Freewriting. (b&w, abstract concepts, my greatest hope for humanity)

"Black & white" - stemming from an Aristotelian mindset (either/or mentality), this is the idea that everything IS either one way or another. This is easily observed in the idea of morals. An action either is "right" or "wrong" to most people, regardless of the individual context. However, this also seems to appear in any identification.

Words as Forms. Plato's forms are the concepts we attach to words? There seems to be a belief that the word is the thing. I say 'fork' and it implies a shape, a use or short list of uses, a color probably, and a texture perhaps to the fingers and different parts of the mouth. But fork 1 is not fork 2 is not fork 3. The differences between them being, different sources of creation, different histories (being owned by different people, used to eat different foods etc), different physical features, different locations, degrees of cleaness, - all of these seem pretty unimportant though.

When we begin to label abstract concepts [words whose meanings are up for interpretation?] (what do I mean by that word?) such as, "Hip Hop", "Justice", "Appropriate Clothing", "Christian", "Muslim", "Thief", "Nutritious," "Progress," "negative," "positive" etc. etc. etc. . . . all sorts of confusions happen which create disagreements which in many cases escalate into un-cooperativeness (think non-partisanship) with or even violence against other human beings.

How to get on the same page? is that the question? What does "progress" or "the best way for human beings to be" mean to me? A: The best thing I can imagine for human kind is the ability for every human being to pursue the deepest pleasures and aspirations her or she has, to discover their calling and achieve it- for every person to have a purpose to themselves and society as a whole. This of course requires many of things before it could ever happen, abolition of poverty, hunger, slavery, prejudice etc. I'm not imaging a utopia with nothing unfortunate or "bad" ever happening, but a situation in which no one is exploited. My greatest hope for humanity is that no one is exploited.