Da Vinchi’s Art
0. Warning, confusing post ahead.
1. The artwork of Da Vinchi is not his pretty pictures.
The genious of Da Vinchi is an idea that there are things to be understood from nature that can be applied to other things.
For example:
We take a black box, which contains one amazing characteristic, which can be found in nature, e.g. the flight of birds, or shortly, flight.
Then we take an object, for example something easy to make (like a wooden stick) and apply the black-box characteristic to the object.
Hence, a flying machine is developed.
Here, we took a characteristic of a bird and applied this characteristic to wood.
It is the generalization that any characteristic of a natural object can be applied so that it becomes a characteristic of another natural object.
2. Examples of this have already been know in mathematics for a long time. For example:
What do we need to add to 1, so that that the result will have characteristics of the number 8.
Possible routes to solve this would be would be:
So, 1+x = even number
1+x = a number that can be evenly divisible by 4
And possible solutions would be: 7, in the first case; 15, in the second case.
In the same way, Da Vinchi came up with many possibilities of how the machine would be constructed.
A Lovely Afternoon
Walking up a hill for the view is such a nuisance.
I saw a lady drive up the same hill last time. She seemed fat and sick.
We try to buy ourselves freedom and convenience, but often, what we get is just plain illness.
Teams
I was with a bunch of idiots again, or so it seemed. The project we were about to do would again be a contest about whether our mind’s will get numbed more then the ones of our audience, out of sheer, thick, suffocating, boredom. We heard it before, we were going to tell it again, and they are going to hear it again. None of us even wanted to be there. It was as fun as death.
Then i threw my ideas in. I was stunned. Not about what i said (it was just a hair-width away in terms of boredom, still a bit better, as i thought at the time), but what people started coming up with in reply. The whole thing started to become interesting and engaging.
All of a sudden, there was a flood of ideas that i found not boring, but just amazing.
What did just happen? Was it me that did something?
Generosity
If we don’t give away our good ideas (or make them come true ourselves) they block the path from where new ideas arise in our minds.
The ‘How To’
The painful yearning of being in love is usually just a sign that one needs to take one step forward in trusting the other person.
Often, that one must do what is forbidden or impossible – and thus prove it otherwise.
Interior Design
The way of arranging and aquiring stuff tells of a feeling we would like to re-experience. An opens space feels like freedom, a filled one feels safe. This is because there is nothing worse then experiencing – in terms of emotions – something new. If we do – are we still going back to where we are, or spin into madness?
What you know is what you know you can cope with.
Decoration is simply slavery to our own emotions. As they rule the mind, rationalizations about why we own what we do are becoming an art themselves. There no rational explanation for owning knick-knacks.
Don’t be afraid. Instead of walking around with a duster, you could be walking around with a friend.
Times of Slavery
Once upon a time, if a person was born a slave, he would prepare dinners, clean the rooms, take the kids to school. It would make for a better environment for him and his master. Slaves grew food and helped repair things. Their life was that of a slave, but somebody got something out of it. Occasionally, even though they were slaves, their work was appreciated, and some of them were freed.
Todays wage slaves don’t have it this awesome. They work in factories, where they produce chemicals and knickacks. For a bowl of food a day, they work their lives off for fake plastic fish and fake shitting pigs.
Who cares for that? Will they ever be made free men because someone will appreciate their work enough as may have happened to some slaves in the past?
Don’t waste your money on enslaving people, and making their lives so purpuseless. Be mindful of the things you buy. With money comes power to buy objects that further human knowledge (like buying a new computer), creativity, or just waste human time and life. With money, you are likely making people do what they really don’t feel like doing. Be kind, make their (and possibly your future) work worthwhile and appreciated.
Courage
If you have a good idea which you tell the world – and there is a crowd of a million people to ridicule you for it, maybe there will be one among them that will not only understand, but be be able to make the million others understand and appreciate the idea too.
So do not be afraid to stand for what you know is true.
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