Dave, Howdy.
dmb: <snip> > I've always thought the most important part of ZMM was in reuniting > "art" with everyday activity. > ...aesthetic/Quality that could be (and should be) (and IS) an integral > part of everything from building rotisseries to repairing a > motorcycle to welding a chain guard. > ><snip> mel: A boat builder with whom I used to work frequently repeated a phrase: 'beauty is free'. The first few times he said it, the timing was a mystery to me--Why did he say that, now? Eventually I got it. He was prodding me towards seeing that how I made the structural pieces of the boat look were more important than the simple plan-form of structure. Analogous to how different the musical score is from the performance. Inevitably, the 'beautiful' elements found efficiencies that the purely functional lacked. What seemed an accident or a trick was instead a deeped insight. Whenever I made a part more beautiful in appearance, it was also stronger, better fit, more efficient, etc. It was so, because I had unknowingly paid attention to more parts than simply the abutting or adjacent bits. thanks--mel Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
