The ratio of complexity and complication

Complexity by complication.
These terms are fundamentally different. This extends "on design". The ratio is an aesthetic measure.

I think I have nailed this profession of design.
The problem I am having is one of philosophy.
I expect that I am better prepared than most to deal with it.
Is truth separable from experience?
I say no.

JBL to sat. South to indian river in cedar lakes wilderness. weather good.

7/11/09 - 7/12/09 Motel night, Tupper Lake. off to limekiln, Indian, south of limekiln, not on the Jessup. Look at the Indian river back toward cedar lakes. Cedar River Flow?

Industrial design / product design

This is the source and reason for my view of aesthetics.

The "profession" of industrial design consists of the manipulation of the end users of objects through their aesthetic responses. Because this takes place in a commercial environment, manipulations are strictly time and cost limited.
Occasionally there is an opportunity to start a project with a blank sheet of paper. This can be fun in the deliverable stay finite and the manager stays enough involved to follow the project learning curve. The problem with such projects is to deal with the entire situation. The engineer probably will See no point in designing the package and the interface. He knows what all the buttons do and what will result from pushing them in a given order. The user will not know. The salesman knows what is on the spec. sheet and how to run the demo. This is probably useless to the user who probably comes to the equipment cold. Think of a command line dos "C:" prompt. type (file name) |more is not obvious nor is cd*. The color of the screen is just a fact to the hacker. To a casual user it is its fifth wall and proscenium arch. Keyboards are another can of worms.

Message and Aesthetic

A problem in mixed motives. Things are made because a patron is willing to pay the costs of production. What gets produced is a compromise between the patron and the creator. Self patronization is rare and has been more rare in the past. I suspect it is a cause of starving artists. The opening line of Genesis is: "In the beginning there was the word and the word was GOD." This is a tell for christian religious art. Islam and Judaism have prohibitions on imagery.

more later.

Plan?

I will be in the Adirondacks 7/7/09 ~7/15/09

More pictures is my intent. The Loj or Johns Brook to start. Look at the upper still water on the Indian south of the Moose river plain. Plans tentative.

Portrait?

Me in the studio last spring. The structure is student work.
Nick Foley is seen in the green sweater Sean has the camera.
Nick thinks and talks. Sean draws and paints.
Both work hard. The frame is far too dark. I will republish after post processing.

The first frame is the modified image. I have done what I can for it. The shirt is Ann's humor.