There is a certain serenity about the gentle curvature of nature. Towns and cities are full of straight lines and edges. There are curves, as in nature there are some straight lines, but fewer.
Cheers, Tom.
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kevinwilson
Pro - 10/07/08 @ 10:20:50
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trintrin1x
- 10/07/08 @ 10:50:37
I'm much of a straight up and down person myself, if i turn sideways you can't see me, i have to use polo mints to hold up my socks!
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SeasideMan
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But that's only one dimension. And polo mints are curved...
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 11:08:11
I think so too. All those straight lies feel harsh somehow.
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kendersrule
Pro - 10/07/08 @ 12:22:09
mixtures work well, I'm a both kinda person
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 12:46:49
Yin/Yang, black/white, curry/pizza.
I agree.
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kendersrule
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- 10/07/08 @ 12:55:27
...curry/pizza...?
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 13:01:47
Yeah, you know, yin:yang the two extremes. Everything edible is either curry, pizza or some combination of them. We each tend to one end or the other of the spectrum.
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kendersrule
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- 11/07/08 @ 08:54:11
Oh i get the yin yang, but can't really connect curry n pizza thusly as I'm not keen on either lol!
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SeasideMan
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- 11/07/08 @ 09:08:17
I was joking :-)
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jenray
Pro - http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 10/07/08 @ 13:08:49
I like the architecture of some hot countries where they've used curves in their homes and buildings...much more pleasing to the eye and the psyche too...have you seen the latest addition to London the Serpentine pavillion...!! Very very strange construction....great big hugs...XX
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jenray
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- 10/07/08 @ 13:12:18
Sorry...not in London..in New Jersey!!!
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jenray
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- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 10/07/08 @ 13:50:34
I'm wrong...it is going to be in London for a while...HLOL...I'll get this right one day...
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 13:13:42
I agree with you, and climate is almost certainly a factor.
I haven't seen that building yet. Perhaps I'm overdue for a tourist trip to London. I haven't been on The Eye yet either.
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jenray
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- 10/07/08 @ 13:52:19
No, I haven't been on The Eye either...we were thinking of going on it when we went up for the blog meet weekend with our son, but the queue was very long so we went to Tate Modern instead...LOL...I think the weird gallery in on display until October....
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loiswakeman
- http://lois.co.uk
- 10/07/08 @ 13:37:26
Devon cob cottages (made of mud and straw) have the same pleasing rounded edges as adobe - so I think I know what you mean.
I read once about some nomadic people who lived in round huts, and didn't have the knack of spotting a right angle like we do.-
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 13:48:17
It makes sense that spotting angles requires experience.
I always liked the idea of a house made by a traditional method, such as straw bale, or mud. I imagine they'd be thermally efficient, cheap to make and inexpensive to repair.
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loiswakeman
- http://lois.co.uk
- 10/07/08 @ 13:51:11
If I had my life over, I'd be very keen to build a straw bale house, rather than live in the cranky and poorly insulated stone pile we currently inhabit. But I'm too old and broke to start again!
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 14:07:58
It takes a lot of energy, commitment and savings to start a project like that. I only have one of those three at any one time, unfortunately!
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jenray
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- 10/07/08 @ 14:04:19
I read ages ago a very interesting article on how our tendency to always produce linear buildings has a very adverse effect on us...we don't feel truly at home where almost every building is of a linear design....and that's probably true though at a subconscious level...harsh lines produce harsher people maybe...what I found very interesting was seeing the back side of Goudi's cathedral, being completed now...the front side is soft and there's no straight lines but the back has gone completely the opposite way and all the adornments have harsh angles...they say they're taking it from Goudi's own designs for the back, but I suspect that they're the rough guides he made and would have soften all of the angles out as he worked on each one...it's very jarring compared to the front which is breathtaking...made me cry actually...I was just overwhelmed by its complexity and how he had made a hard material look so amazingly soft and curving...somehow the back now suits the ethos of Barcelona, which I found to be beautiful in some parts but the new is just so modern and materialism is rampant there now in the vast square of shops...the people are also rude and not very friendly at all...I don't think I've ever been anywhere where I was barged into so many times by oncoming people who just walked through you not around you...in the end, I wanted to punch some of their lights out...HLOL...nice to visit it though for a week...no more...just too damned crowded and dangerous for me to stay any longer...great big hugs...XX
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 14:14:53
I suspect you're right that Gaudi wouldn't have left it like that. There is a great film by the Japanese director Teshigahara that documents Gaudi's buildings in lavish detail. This film in fact:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086907/
I've never seen it, but I'd like to.
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jenray
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- 10/07/08 @ 17:19:03
I expect it's beautiful to look at...I love Gaudi's work...it would also help if I spelled his name correctly...DOH...LOL...When we visited his house I truly felt at home in it because it was full of curves where you don't normally have them, and for the first time I fitted in physically with my unusual curves...the really funny thing was, I was getting as much attention as his house was as I walked around...I'm used to it, but it did strike me as very funny walking round a house made for me I felt and I was part of the exhibition...HLOL...I get that in art galleries as well...people do stare at you if you look different from most other people...
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 18:03:07
That's most intriguing how you say you felt like you fitted in in Gaudi's house. I really would love to try a more curved house at some point, but I probably never will.
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jenray
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- 10/07/08 @ 18:46:01
Well, not really as I've got curves not many other people have...HLOL...not many houses have these...
Also I love colour and textures in houses which he included...he was a strange little guy who died so oddly...under a bus I believe on his way to work...must have been thinking of what he was about to do that day instead of watching the road...sad that...he was quite unique and Barcelona wouldn't have the fame it has today if his influence was absent I think...-
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 19:04:59
Well, I didn't know that. You were right: he was run over by a tram in 1926. The drivers refused to pick him up because he looked poor and scruffy.
I see his final building Sagrada Familía is due to be completed in 2026. Talk about a long construction! That's almost as long as some medieval cathedrals took.
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jenray
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- http://www.jenniferhunter.co.uk
- 10/07/08 @ 21:05:01
Well, if you saw the front, you'd see why the back is going to take so long...every figure has to be carved into the surface of the church, and the internal structure has to be completed as well...it has to be one of the largest and most intricate buildings ever created in the last and this century...there's been a big row in Barcelona about building a subway underneath it...the builders of the church are afraid it may cause subsidence under it...seems a bit dim to do that to it considering it's one of the largest draws to Barcelona...millions visit it..when we were there we wanted to go up to the top to see inside the spire...they've got a lift up to it but the queue was so long and the wait interminable we had to give up...I couldn't stand for that long....to endanger it in anyway is ridiculous...
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 21:35:59
It does seem dense to build a subway under a church, but I suppose modern engineering is a very precise science. You'd hope they'd only do it if it was safe...
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jenray
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- 10/07/08 @ 21:58:51
Well I believe the roadways in Boston that went underground had problems after they were built even though the architects believed they had counteracted every possible problem and that church has to be extremely weighty with all that concrete on it...it may be extraordinarily ornate but the figures are large and each of them must weigh tons...not like a medieval church that was simply stone upon stone and some carvings...this is all carvings so whoever designs the subway structure to support is taking their lives in their hands if they believe they have solved every problem of subsidence in the area...not sure whether they're going to go ahead with it after so many objections were raised...will have to check that out....must go now...off to see Without a Trace...only a couple of series on tonight...and now at least four days with nothing worth watching...speak to you again...XX
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loiswakeman
- http://lois.co.uk
- 10/07/08 @ 14:16:03
I guess you'd like the mud buildings in Mali too? I saw a TV documentary about them (Dan Cruikshank I think) and they are almost like termite mounds in their rounded shapes - very satisfying.
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 14:46:44
I have a couple of CDs by Diabate, and I love the sound of the Kora.
Those mud buildings are fabulous.
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jenray
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- 10/07/08 @ 17:23:47
Yes, I've seen them and I agree...beautiful shapes and the music goes hand in glove with them...the gourd instrument sounds similar to the sitar and both produce magical music...used to adore sitting in the garden in the evening and listening to an evening raga...hmmm...it was bliss...don't do it anymore because the player is upstairs so not possible to hear it the garden...one prob of a three storey house...
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jenray
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- 10/07/08 @ 13:11:03
here's a preview of it...
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2008/03/forthcoming_summer_2008serpent.html-
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SeasideMan
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- 10/07/08 @ 13:16:54
Ah, so a trip to London won't help me much then! Shame, it looks like a fascinating building.
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jenray
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- 10/07/08 @ 13:53:00
see my next comment...checked in the paper and it is in London...DOH...XXX
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philghodg
- 11/07/08 @ 22:59:12
Straight lines are so clinical, curves are more natural
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SeasideMan
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- 12/07/08 @ 00:31:43
I agree: the natural is curved, the created is straight. Human minds seem to relish creating lines. I wonder why that is?
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- 16/07/08 @ 19:31:39
http://www.blog.co.uk/community/profile_photo_sizes.php?item_ID=2656279
I prefer curves to straight lines :-)
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SeasideMan
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- 16/07/08 @ 22:48:13
I see you do...
I'm impartial.
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