Day Six - Project 1

Yeah, that's about right.

  My partner Mary has reminded me that if I am writing/riting/wrighting/righting my Bjournal, I should not complain about having to do it.  Like I had any say in the matter.  She just doesn't get me, y'know?

  Man, I hate when she's correct (too many uses of right, already).  So henceforth, I will put equal  effort into the regular posting, the furtherance of the 10 day ritual, the crafting of the Bjournal itself, and the fixing of problems.

  See what I did there?

  Homonyms are gnarly.

  I like Vitruvian Man.  Art does not speak to me, unless it is funny.  I have wept at plays and movies, and books will make me feel something powerful and profound (especially if they're funny), but visual mediums are just something I see.  In one of the upcoming projects, I'm going to try to go to a large number of museums in Nova Scotia in ten days (shooting for a minimum of ten, but who knows?), and I just sighed aloud in thinking about having to look at paintings.

  But like homonyms, Vitruvian Man is gnarly.  Also, like a homonym, one thing is performing a bunch of different possible functions.  Da Vinci apparently got this idea from Marcus Vitruvius, a Roman scholar in the field of architecture, who, in a fit of Roman calling-it-like-unus-sees-it, called his work De Architectura.  The human form can touch the line of a perfect square and circle.  From what I can comprehend, this can allow the human form to be the basis for proportion in the building of temples and other urban structures, which would be rather pointless without human forms in them in the first place.

  I like Vitruvian Man because of the history it drags along with it.  Vitruvius lived through the era of the Late Republic, Spartacus' slave revolt, Julius Caesar, and Augustus.  De Architectura was available to Leonardo Da Vinci and his mentor because of the mini-renaissance that sort of blossomed in Aachen under Charlemagne allowed it to be copied and survive the Dark Ages.  And it's just a cool sketch, when you get down to it, an intellectual exercise doodled by a genius thinking about mathematics and buildings and people and I guess everything about human existence.

  I like science when it's artistic.  And I like art when it's being scientific.

  Okay, the bjournal is available to my monoglot brethren elsewhere in the world, and the post is done.

  If I had a PhD, and I was creating an online journal as part of my thesis and research, would the document I uploaded be part of a post-doc doc-post?

  I bet that won't translate.

  -Mike