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  • I think you should look again

    Rachel: Look, I know you think she was the one, but I don't. I think you're just remembering the good stuff. Next time you look back...I really think you should look again.

    Marc Webb, Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, 500 Days of Summer
    • memory
  • From the head of Jove

    A complex structure is a result of, and to a large extent a record of, its past. Though a proton and an electron may, as a pair, be able to spring full-panoplied from the head of Jove, more complex things cannot, or at least do not.

    Everything complicated must have had a history, and its internal structural features arise from its history and provide a specific record of it. One might call these structural details of memory “funeous,” after the unfortunate character in Borge’s story “Funes the Memorious” who remembered everything.

    The Interpretation of Microstructures of Metallic Artifacts
    1. ​​What the advancing interface leaves behind​​
    • memory
    • time
    • structure
    • material
  • Ise Shrines, Nagoya, 685–Present

    The Ise Shrines at Naiku and Geku, near Nagoya, highly refined idealizations of ancient agricultural storehouses, have been rebuilt at least sixty-one times since first being established. The entire twenty-year building cycle is a continuous, precisely defined ritual. The result is unlike any religious structure in the world, one that is always new, and at the same time over a millenium old.

    Robert McCarter & Juhani Pallasmaa, Understanding Architecture
    1. ​​The Abode of Fancy​​
    • time
    • memory
    • ritual
  • Amassing the archive

    I once sent a camera to a client, with a request that she keep a visual diary of her newly completed house. For a number of months she duly sent me one photograph a day, of whatever caught her attention, and it was fascinating seeing the spaces from her point of view.

    In part it's simply about amassing the archive, but it's also about understanding the implications of every design decision and bringing this knowledge to bear on new projects. You have to keep pushing the learning process.

    John Pawson, A Visual Inventory
    • photography
    • memory
    • learning
    • collections
  • What were you trying to protect?

    As the piece evolves, you try to protect those original, effusive sentences.
    Only to realize, at last, that what you're writing won't come together until they've been removed or revised.

    What were you trying to protect?
    The memory of the excitement you felt when those words "came to you."
    (Where did they "come" from?)
    You were protecting the memory
    of the excitement of really concentrating,
    of paying close attention to your thoughts and, perhaps, your sentences,
    the excitement of feeling the galvanic link between language and thought.

    Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing
    • memory
  • Retained as a quality

    Thermal information is not differentiated in our memory; rather it is retained as a quality, or underlying tone, associated with the whole experience of the place. It contributes to our sense of the particular personality, or spirit, that we identify with that place. In remembering the spirit of a place, we can anticipate that if we return, we will have the same sense of comfort or relaxation as before.

    Lisa Heschong, Thermal Delight in Architecture
    • memory
    • spirit
    • heat
  • The significance of love's burden

    There is an Arabic saying that the soul travels at the pace of a camel. While most of our self is led by the strict demands of timetables and diaries, our soul, the seat of the heart, trails nostalgically behind, burdened by the weight of memory. If every love affair adds a certain weight to the camel's load, then we can expect the soul to slow according to the significance of love's burden.

    Alain de Botton, On Love
    • memory
    • love
    • nostalgia
  • Mental infrastructure

    The diary provides the mental infrastructure that stimulates the mind to remember.

    Roger Kitching, A Reflection of the Truth
    1. ​​To serve as a reminder​​
    • memory
  • Memory prompts

    Journals are memory prompts and perhaps capture exquisite (and not so exquisite) moments of experience.

    Roger Kitching, A Reflection of the Truth
    • notetaking
    • memory
    • experience
  • To serve as a reminder

    Looking back at my notebooks now, the information seems fairly sketchy, often abbreviated, and fairly uninformative. The purpose was merely to serve as a reminder for when, that evening, I would write up my notes in a proper field book.

    James L. Reveal, The Evolution and Fate of Botanical Field Books
    1. ​​Mental infrastructure​​
    • memory
  • The bloodless ghosts of memory

    The bloodless ghosts of memory.

    David Pye, The Nature and Aesthetics of Design
    • memory

    Poetic phrase.

  • Can you even call it memory?

    My recall is a damn sight short of total. It’s so unreliable that I sometimes think I’m trying to prove something by it. But what would I be proving? Especially since inexactness is not exactly the sort of thing you can prove with any accuracy.

    Anyway—or rather, that being the case—my memory can be impressively iffy. I get things the wrong way around, fabrication filters into fact, sometimes my own eyewitness account interchanges with somebody else’s. At which point, can you even call it memory any more?

    Haruki Murakami, A Slow Boat to China
    • memory
  • In our bodies

    We tend to think of our memory as a cerebral capacity, but the act of memorizing engages our entire body. Remembering is not solely a mental even; it is also an act of embodiment and bodily projection. Memories are not only hidden in the electrochemical processes of the brain; they are also stored in our skeletons, muscles, senses, and skin.

    Robert McCarter & Juhani Pallasmaa, Understanding Architecture
    • memory
    • body
  • Memory & Fantasy

    Memory and fantasy are related, as are recollection and imagination; one who cannot remember also cannot imagine, as memory is the very soil of imagination.

    Robert McCarter & Juhani Pallasmaa, Understanding Architecture
    • creativity
    • memory
  • I can't remember

    Benjamin: It's like there's this whole life I had, but I can't remember what it was.

    David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
    • time
    • memory
    • life
  • Refuges

    Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams.

    Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
    • memory
  • The odor of raisins

    What would be the use, for instance, in giving the plan of the room that was really my room, in describing the little room at the end of the garret, in saying that from the window, across the indentations of the roofs, one could see the hill. I alone, in my memories of another century, can open the deep cupboard that still retains for me alone that unique odor, the odor of raisins drying on a wicker tray. The odor of raisins! It is an odor that is beyond description, one that it takes a lot of imagination to smell. But I've already said too much. If I said more, the reader, back in his own room, would not open that unique wardrobe, with its unique smell, which is the signature of intimacy.

    Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space
    • smell
    • memory
  • To fill in the gaps

    It would be easy to impose on the office a whole welter of detail, explanation, and background that was actually gleaned only later and not part of my arrival and dazed scurrying about with the Iranian Crisis at all. Which is a quirk of temporal memory—one tends to fill in gaps with data acquired only later, sort of the same way the brain automatically works to fill in the visual gap caused by the optical cord's exit through the back of the retina.

    David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
    • memory
  • Homes at Night

    A Dialogue by Todd Hido
    www.lensculture.com
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    Your series Homes at Night is one of my favorites. We never see human silhouettes or the homes’ inhabitants. Why is it important to you that the houses appear on their own?

    Because of the very simple fact that if it is an empty shell, the viewer can place their own memories within it or create a narrative that would otherwise be blocked by the reality of what is actually inside.

    1. ​​[email protected]​​
    • photography
    • memory
    • identity
    • home
  • The brag document

    An Article by Julia Evans
    jvns.ca

    It’s frustrating to have done something really important and later realize that you didn’t get rewarded for it just because the people making the decision didn’t understand or remember what you did.

    The tactic is pretty simple! Instead of trying to remember everything you did with your brain, maintain a “brag document” that lists everything so you can refer to it when you get to performance review season!

    • work
    • experience
    • memory
    • collections
  • The primacy of interpretation over sensation

    A Fragment by Mark Liberman
    languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu

    Our memory of exact word sequences usually fades more quickly than our memory of (contextually interpreted) meanings.

    More broadly, the exact auditory sensations normally fade very quickly; the corresponding word sequences fade a bit more slowly; and the interpreted meanings last longest.

    These generalizations can be overcome to some extent if the sound or the text has especially memorable characteristics. (And the question of what "memorable" means in this context is interesting.)

    • memory
    • senses
    • meaning
    • speech
    • words
  • On Memory Palaces & Visual Computation

    An Essay by Taulant Sulko
    www.are.na
    Screenshot of www.are.na on 2021-03-04 at 9.02.18 AM.png

    I now use Are.na as a Memory Palace, separating my channels into rooms. For example, I have a channel that I call the Computation Room. It’s pretty generic and includes any type of block that relates to computation.

    If I notice a pattern in the computation room I create a more specific channel in that room. I think of that more specific topic as an object within the room.

    Then there are the adjacent topics that I often find even more exciting to focus on. For those, I choose a name that corresponds with the nature of a room and also its size. For example I have a channel called the Visual Computing Observatory. In my head I am imagining an actual observatory where I am looking and observing and studying a given topic.

    1. ​​The Method of Loci​​
    • memory
    • commonplace
    • place
  • The Method of Loci

    An Article
    fs.blog

    From the time we learn to walk, we start building up spatial memories—recollections of the layouts of physical spaces and their relationships to the objects in them. These memories tend to form fast and stick around for a long time.

    The method of loci hijacks our innate aptitude for remembering physical spaces, using it to help us remember other kinds of information with greater ease.

    1. ​​On Memory Palaces & Visual Computation​​
    • memory
    • space
    • place
  • Derrière les fagots

    A Definition
    forum.wordreference.com

    A fagot is a bundle of branches tied with a string. They used to be kept in a corner of a barn or shed, and people used to hide things (wine, valuables, etc) behind them often for a long time, and forget about them. It is a way of saying that [a thing] is very good, but has been forgotten for a long time and recently re-discovered.

    • words
    • memory
  • Nototo

    An Application
    www.nototo.app
    Image from www.nototo.app on 2020-08-09 at 7.42.21 AM.png

    The visual workspace for notes. Humans have incredible visual-spatial memory. Leverage that with Nototo.

    1. ​​Spatial software references​​
    2. ​​Spatial Interfaces​​
    • notetaking
    • memory
    • space
    • vision
  • Art is memory's mise-en-scène

    A Quote
    • art
    • memory
    • metaphor

    Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Game.

  • Re-learning to learn

    An Article by Erica Heinz
    ericaheinz.com
    1. Pause at the end of each chapter and try to recall it (Recall)
    2. Highlight relevant passages for later comparative reading
    3. Analyze the book once I’m finished
    4. Explain it to unfamiliar audiences (The Feynman technique)
    5. Review topics I care about at regular intervals (Space repetition)
    • learning
    • notetaking
    • memory
  • Walking through doorways causes forgetting

    A Research Paper
    news.nd.edu

    Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away. Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized.

    1. ​​112. Entrance Transition​​
    • memory
    • architecture
    • walking
    • exits
    • doors
  • That the mind may not be taxed

    A Quote by Thomas Farnaby
    mycommonplacebook.org

    In order that the mind may not be taxed, moreover, by the manifold and confused reading of so many such things, and in order to prevent the escape of something valuable that we have read, heard, or discovered through the process of thinking itself, it will be found very useful to entrust to notebooks...those things which seem noteworthy and striking.

    • commonplace
    • i
    • memory
    • thinking
    • notetaking

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