Friday, January 20, 2012

Anticipation

I'm just dipping my toe into what looks like a fascinating take-it-slow read: Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow.  By a Nobel Prize winner for economics, it's a study of how human minds work, of the ways our intuitive ideas and our conscious/rational thought systems interact as we make decisions.

Art and design, of course, are all about decision-making.

For me, one disadvantage of staying busy-busy with theater design is that I don't get to drop by the library.  But I passed the door today and, on impulse, stopped.  Browsed.  Found this unexpected gift-book of new ideas.

Art and design are also, of course, all about impulse and new ideas.

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  1. Nocturne23January 22, 2012 at 1:16 AM

    Hi again,
    Have you read this one yet: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/books/review/the-art-of-fielding-by-chad-harbach-book-review.html

    Maybe more Gary's cup of tea......all about baseball.
    c

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    1. Clare Floyd DeVriesJanuary 24, 2012 at 9:25 AM

      Your suggested book looks very promising! Have you read Summerland? Another story deeply steeped in baseball with philosophical overtones... and since it's by Michael Chabon a lot of other things too.

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