Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.--Swiss playwright Max Frisch
June 27, 2008
Chicken soup for the Luddite soul
June 27, 2008
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7 Comments:
In a book I was reading recently, the author spoke of the way that sketching drew one's attention to the details of a visited spot in a way that taking a photo doesn't. It is easy to snap of shot and move on, never to notice the details again or bother to be in the moment.
A good point. I think this is part of why I don't take many pictures. My personality is such that, when taking pictures, I tend to concentrate on that and miss whatever is going on that I want to photograph, leaving me with a photo record of something I don't have any real memories of!
I think handwritten notes can perform a similar function to the sketch: focusing your attention and then connecting what you notice to muscle memory. A written record also has the advantage of being able to record other senses than sight.
The quote, by the way, came from an article I read about how between online mapping and gps, nobody gets lost anymore and has to ask for directions, a circumstance which often led to serendipitous discoveries and meetings that would otherwise have been missed.
I was thinking that avoidance must be the reason you have such a technology centered job. ;)
About the picture deal. I know a guy that actually takes pictures of buildings that are walked by everyday without really being noticed. Nothing fancy at all about the buildings. He thinks it causes people to start looking at the things around them that they never notice. If you have $100 I'll buy one for you ;).
And handwritten notes don't help those of us that can't read our own writting later...
Take care,
steve
Also, I've been with some people that play these games with gps systems where someone puts a box somewhere and lists the position on a web site. People go to the box and put something in and take something out. Just little trinkets and stuff. Sometimes if candy gets put in them it is smelled out by some animal and they kind of mess up the box!
Steve,
Or maybe my technology centered job tends to strengthen my Luddite tendencies!
If I had $100, I might take you up on the picture!
Is the gps game called geocaching? I've heard of it. Kind of a weird, less skilled version of orienteering, I guess.
The people hide the boxes pretty creatively it seems. One was stuck on the underside of a picnic table and the people were walking all around it for quite a while before they located it. So getting to the correct location is often just the beginning of the hide-and-seek portion of the game.
Not anything I'm interested in doing but it seems to be growing in popularity.
BTW I have done a couple of orientation courses since moving here... how Lewis and Clark did what they did... well let's just say that I am not the one you want trying to get you out of the woods! The road less traveled on is the one you can get lost on too!
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