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  • New ideas must use old buildings

    Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.

    Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    1. ​​The economic value of old buildings​​
    • time
    • ideas
    • architecture
    • novelty
  • The subtlest slightest kinds of differences

    Someone said to me the other day that there's nothing really ever new. That everything really repeats itself, you know, is repeating itself all the time, and they were showing me a Carl Andrew and they were also showing me some aborigine art and there really was a very strong similarity. And so I got to thinking about it and it came to me that if everything is really repeating itself constantly and that there's nothing ever really new...at the same time it's equally true that nothing is ever exactly the same. That everything is different every single time even though it's repeated constantly and all the same things keep passing through. They're never exactly the same so that the nature of change is not about something wholly new. It's actually about the subtlest slightest kinds of differences.

    Robert Irwin, Robert Irwin: A Conditional Art
    • novelty
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  • Having quite lost sight of the principle

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    But the coppersmiths themselves, in their desire to do better or otherwise than their predecessors, soon quit the line of truth and propriety. There comes then a second coppersmith, who proposes to modify the form of the primitive vase in order to seduce the purchaser with the attraction of novelty...and it becomes fashionable, and everybody in town must have one of the vases made by the second coppersmith. A third, seeing the success of this expedient, goes still further, and makes a third vase, with rounder outlines, for anybody who will buy it. Having quite lost sight of the principle, he becomes capricious and fanciful...yet everyone applauds the new vase, and the third coppersmith is regarded as having singularly perfected his art, while in fact he has only robbed the original work of all its style, and produced an object which is really ugly and comparatively inconvenient.

    Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Discourses on Architecture
    1. ​​Camels​​
    2. ​​Style consists in distinction of form​​
    • fashion
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  • Ending is better than mending

    “We always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, ending is better…”

    Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
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    • trash
    • waste
    • melancholy
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  • A fresh focus of power

    The demand for “originality”—with the implication that the reminiscence of other writers is a sin against originality and a defect in the work—is a recent one and would have seemed quite ludicrous to poets of the Augustan Age, or of Shakespeare’s time. The traditional view is that each new work should be a fresh focus of power through which former streams of beauty, emotion, and reflection are directed. This view is adopted, and perhaps carried to excess, by writers like T. S. Eliot, some of whose poems are a close web of quotations and adaptations, chosen for their associative value, or like James Joyce, who makes great use of the associative value of sounds and syllables.

    Dorothy Sayers, The Mind of the Maker
    1. ​​On Theft​​
    2. ​​The signature​​
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  • Over-imagination

    An architect intent on being different may in the end prove as troubling as an over-imaginative pilot or doctor. However important originality may be in some fields, restraint and adherence to procedure emerge as the more significant virtues in a great many others.

    We rarely wish to be surprised by novelty as we round street corners. We require consistency in our buildings, for we are ourselves frequently close to disorientation and frenzy.

    Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
    1. ​​The signature​​
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  • The word invents itself

    Posits certain neologisms as arising from their own cultural necessity—his words, I believe. Yes, he said. When the kind of experience that you're getting a man-sized taste of becomes possible, the word invents itself.

    David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
    • words
    • meaning
    • novelty
    • invention
  • Don’t Play It Like the Flute

    An Article by Matthias Ott
    matthiasott.com

    Don’t play it like the flute. Play it as if it was the wind whistling through the desert dunes.

    No matter what you love to create, there is something to be learned from the way Hans Zimmer approached the Dune score. We are all striving to create work that is novel, innovative, memorable, and inspiring. To get there, however, we tend to focus on getting things right, on avoiding mistakes, on “being professional”. Yes, it is important to have the commitment, dedication, and attention to detail of a professional. But being right? That will only take you so far. What is much more important is to approach the problem in front of you with curiosity and an open mind. With an urge to explore what can be found beyond the ordinary, beyond the right way of doing things. If you want to create something that nobody has come up with yet, it is important that you try out all the crazy ideas others are afraid to try, that you build prototypes, improvise, and freely play with the materials and the technologies you have at hand.

    • music
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    • exploration
    • curiosity
  • The Web is Industrialized and I Helped Industrialize It

    An Article by Dave Rupert
    daverupert.com

    In our cultural obsession with billionaire entrepreneurs we laud new features more than the maintenance and incrementalism work of making old features better and more accessible. Maintenance looks like red minus signs in the spreadsheet. New features look like green plus signs. New features look better on our LinkedIn profiles. New features have that pizzazz, baby.

    When gardening, the building of planters and initial planting is a very short process. The majority of your time is spent nurturing and monitoring growth. I personally feel the struggle between maintainer work and new shiny feature work. I enjoy that new feature smell but I know that my day-to-day is more like a janitor on a boat mopping up someone else’s barf. In terms of metaphors, the gardening metaphor is certainly better, and it acknowledges that design and development still tend to be more creative endeavors.

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    • www

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  2. words
  3. meaning
  4. invention
  5. time
  6. ideas
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  1. Alain de Botton
  2. David Foster Wallace
  3. Jane Jacobs
  4. Aldous Huxley
  5. Dave Rupert
  6. Dorothy Sayers
  7. Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
  8. Robert Irwin
  9. Matthias Ott