The skill – taste gap: educating taste
What are you doing to improve your taste? I’m sure you have your own ideas, but here’s what I’ve been thinking about: to educate your… Read More »The skill – taste gap: educating taste
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The skill – taste gap: compromising taste
“How can I improve my technique?” “How can I make my vision a reality?” We spend a lot of energy trying to close the skill… Read More »The skill – taste gap: compromising taste
The aesthetics of Kurosawa and Disney: Composing Movement
Kurosawa Every Frame a Painting presents a really excellent study of movement in the films of Akira Kurosawa. If you’re even vaguely interested in film,… Read More »The aesthetics of Kurosawa and Disney: Composing Movement
The skill – taste gap
In many areas of life our taste is for things that are better than the things that we can make ourselves. This makes sense with… Read More »The skill – taste gap
It’s not for you: John Stuart Mill Edition
The reader whom these things do not interest, has only himself to blame if he reads farther, and I do not desire any other indulgence… Read More »It’s not for you: John Stuart Mill Edition
“This is no good.”
Why? Because it doesn’t meet your specific and clearly stated requirements? Fine, if you’re paying for it or you’re responsible for it. Because it isn’t… Read More »“This is no good.”
One million copies sold
One million copies is a lot of anything, but should it influence your decision to buy a book? First thought: No it shouldn’t. Judging from… Read More »One million copies sold