Category Archives: Art | Design

Pretending to have a Japanese garden

Posted on February 18, 2012 by otinokyad

This photo and the following bulleted paragraph are from my About page, which deconstructs the title of this blog, in this case the middle word “garden”: ● “…garden…” The dry landscape garden (kare-sansui) at Ryoan-ji temple in Kyoto is the … Continue reading →

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The Mind’s Compound Eye

Posted on October 15, 2011 by otinokyad

[This was originally posted on September 8, 2011, but had to be "reconstructed" following the crash of a MySQL server at my Web hosting service.] About a decade ago, Canadian artist Angela Bulloch, now based in London and Berlin, created … Continue reading →

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Spring Webcleaning

Posted on May 1, 2011 by otinokyad

Web nostalgia is sweeping over me. As I described in the previous post, Zen and the Art of Instellar Immanence, I recently chanced upon a link to one of my old Web essays from 1995 that had been mirrored on … Continue reading →

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The aesthetics of iMandalArt

Posted on February 6, 2011 by otinokyad

Last September, I wrote a post about productivity apps and the impending appearance of the iPad version of iMandalArt. In November, I added a brief update with a link to the MandalArt Website with videos — three of them now … Continue reading →

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