I remember something a friend told me many years ago. He was being shown around a studio by the artist, a friend of his. The artist pointed to a stack of paintings: "That's my good stuff; they will sell for around £100 each." He then pointed to another stack: "That's the rubbish; I will get £1000 each for those!".
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I know you lads down there do stuff different but:
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Need a lot of wasabi
I know you lads down there do stuff different but:Google Image Result for http://www.damienhirst.com/images/hirstimage/DHS46723quarter4_771_0.jpg
Need a lot of wasabi
Went through this book and ignoring the introduction the methods do help.
Basically gets you to draw what you are looking at rather than what you "see" for example; draw the lines making the shape of the arm you are looking at rather than your brains stored image of an "arm".
Not unlike blind a/b testing in that it tries to remove biases.
Thanks
-Antonio
Well, I'm glad, Antonio, that you actually read 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain'.
Both this book and another: 'The MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE for a HAT' by Oliver Sacks, was recommended to me by ED DELL, the former editor of the 'AUDIO Express' and before that 'The Audio Amateur where many of us debated and contributed, in past decades.
Ed Dell did NOT recommend these for 'light reading' for I have always been surrounded by books, but for INSIGHT, into why we are the way we are, specifically in my case, why do some people hear differences and others don't. These books are light, popular material, written for non specialists, but they give a wonder of insight, based on other peoples experience and testing, far away from engineering and statistics. I strongly recommend both of them.
Both this book and another: 'The MAN WHO MISTOOK HIS WIFE for a HAT' by Oliver Sacks, was recommended to me by ED DELL, the former editor of the 'AUDIO Express' and before that 'The Audio Amateur where many of us debated and contributed, in past decades.
Ed Dell did NOT recommend these for 'light reading' for I have always been surrounded by books, but for INSIGHT, into why we are the way we are, specifically in my case, why do some people hear differences and others don't. These books are light, popular material, written for non specialists, but they give a wonder of insight, based on other peoples experience and testing, far away from engineering and statistics. I strongly recommend both of them.
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Have you consulted a specialist ?
Remember Jeanne d'Arc, it can be dangerous.
Anything by Oliver Sacks is worthwhile. His 'Musicophilia' is more in line with our slant, though.
jan
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Need a lot of wasabi
needs more Wasabi
as chance would have it, this massive White Pointer was caught off Western Australia I believe
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actually John, back in the day my mother taught a course related to the drawing on the right side of the brain book, it was quite popular and she did a good job of the course material. as a method it is actually quite useful. the useful stuff is covered in fine arts/design courses anyway, its not psychology, just things like drawing using the negative space around objects, which has nothing to do with left or right side, just learning to ignore drawing what your brain/memory tells you it should look like and draw what you see.
Qusp,
You are correct and others that in fine art one of the things that will be taught will be anatomy of the human body such that we can draw with accuracy in that regards and understand proportion and movement. Fine art and modern art share many things but also are at opposites many times.
John,
You seem to have hit on some text that all seem to agree have a beneficial experience that can be used in many different fields. As far as why some can hear a difference in sounds and others not perhaps much of that is just learning to distinguish sounds and knowing what something should sound like, but I conjecture like color blindness and tone deafness that some just cannot hear what most of use here say we can. All you have to do is watch some of the awful people trying to sing on American Idol to understand that there truly are people who are tone deaf!
And thanks Jneutron for correcting my spelling, yes Akita! Wonderful dogs, mine just love people but the male will go after any other dog around for some reason though when younger he did not do that.
You are correct and others that in fine art one of the things that will be taught will be anatomy of the human body such that we can draw with accuracy in that regards and understand proportion and movement. Fine art and modern art share many things but also are at opposites many times.
John,
You seem to have hit on some text that all seem to agree have a beneficial experience that can be used in many different fields. As far as why some can hear a difference in sounds and others not perhaps much of that is just learning to distinguish sounds and knowing what something should sound like, but I conjecture like color blindness and tone deafness that some just cannot hear what most of use here say we can. All you have to do is watch some of the awful people trying to sing on American Idol to understand that there truly are people who are tone deaf!
And thanks Jneutron for correcting my spelling, yes Akita! Wonderful dogs, mine just love people but the male will go after any other dog around for some reason though when younger he did not do that.
While we are on about all this brain stuff a fascinating (and I wish I had the original image) example of how the brain works was a page of seemingly random black and white patterns very very like those square bar code things (QR codes ?). Its years since I tried this but the gist of it was that you had to hold the image up close to one eye and with a vertical mirror on the page look at the reflection at the same time, and if I remember correctly overlapping the images you saw. And then you just waited and concentrated and after a minute or longer an obvious 3 D pattern suddenly emerges as your brain has completed literally millions of seemingly random calculations to make sense of it all. If you looked away and then back again the image was lost and it took many seconds for it to appear again. If the eye/mirror was reversed the same happened but the image was inverted, for example a 3D pyramid became a 3D hole. It was weird.
You have to understand what John means when he says that. Standard English does not work. What this means when John says it is, "...hearing differences that disappear under double blind conditions, especially when they involve things that my friends, clients, and I sell." He may go on to characterize that as a form of deafness, but he applies that term to people who distinguish all sorts of subtle differences (just not the ones he and his team sell) under double blind conditions.
It's a natural mistake on your part since your understanding of the written word and basic terminology seems to be excellent, and in the world of fashion audio, words and terms are quite plastic.
Just an observation ... not a fact, necessarily -->
There are too many things we dont have the words to fully describe. Thus, math is so much more complete. When a model of left-right brain is proposed, a lot of people take it literally... esp noticed here in these forums... The Left-Right is a model not unlike what i describe sometimes when words or knowledge is not complete -- its AS IF there was a left and right doing all these perceptual things. And, some of that model is true and some not. But it helps set up the thinking and communication to look at the sitauation from a more stable point of reference. From there we can launch more detailed info and tests. Models are very helpful in communicating thoughts but they are still models even when they seem to work for you.
Thx-RNMarsh
There are too many things we dont have the words to fully describe. Thus, math is so much more complete. When a model of left-right brain is proposed, a lot of people take it literally... esp noticed here in these forums... The Left-Right is a model not unlike what i describe sometimes when words or knowledge is not complete -- its AS IF there was a left and right doing all these perceptual things. And, some of that model is true and some not. But it helps set up the thinking and communication to look at the sitauation from a more stable point of reference. From there we can launch more detailed info and tests. Models are very helpful in communicating thoughts but they are still models even when they seem to work for you.
Thx-RNMarsh
Hey, just because I'm an extreme nitpicker doesn't mean all nitpicking is mine..
Blame Scott for that one...I thought you spelled it correctly..
Me, I'd do a recording of a great dane.. Apparently it is possible to train them to growl deeply (without barking) at the sound of someone approaching the outside of the house..been there, been on the receiving end...awesome...
Kinda like hearing a mack truck engine right behind you while riding a bicycle..my body response...All flight...no fight..
jn
Sorry about that Jneutron, I try and spell correctly as much as possible and hate when I see I made a grammatical error, it just bothers me. So Scott is the spell checker then! It sounds similar spelled either way....... As for the bark the Akita's do have a nice low bass note to the sound, they definitely don't sound like small dogs. Perhaps a study of the frequency response of different dogs barks is needed! Just kidding.
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