A very deep Quote

 “Most people end up being conformists; they adapt to prison life. A few become reformers; they fight for better lighting, better ventilation. Hardly anyone becomes a rebel, a revolutionary who breaks down the prison walls. You can only be a revolutionary when you see the prison walls in the first place.”​

— Anthony de Mello

Bruno Munari - Collectables

Bruno Munari

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Love Sonnet 20

Love Sonnet 20

Pablo Neruda

 

Tonight I can write the saddest lines. 

Write, for example, 'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.

 

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. 

 

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. 

 

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms.

I kissed her again and again under the endless sky. 

 

She loved me, and sometimes I loved her too.

How could one not have loved her great still eyes. 

 

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her. 

 

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.

And the verse falls to the soul like the dew to the pasture. 

 

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.

The night is shattered and she is not with me. 

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.

My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her. 

 

My sight searches for her as though to go to her.

My heart looks for her, and she is not with me. 

 

The same night whitening the same trees.

We, of that time, are no longer the same. 

 

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.

My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing. 

 

Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.

Her voice. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes. 

 

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long. 

 

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms

my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her. 

 

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer

and these the last verses that I write for her. 

 

 

 

Design Conferences/ Art Festivals

Can you think of topics and questions to talk about in Design Conferences or Art festivals and residencies. What do you really talk about? That is when you are not with a group of known people around you.

They have already talked about there work and what they have to say about their experience. What topics can you cover?

Something to think about.

A little Something for you to think on

while you discover the meaninglessness 

and rediscover the Mathematical meaning 

of Lewis Carroll's work.

If you can make sense of it.
Write below how. If not,
You can ask HOW too.

SWIEL LLORRAC

I'll tell Thee Everything I can

Jabbers, Jobbery how he came,
Conquered things that I called mine,
Telling Thee Everything I can
How I was happy, as he took
things I valued so less.

While resting under a Lemon tree,
My dreams ere floating near
Jabberwock
He picked a needle to slain
the bubble, But Alice took
him under the Rabbit hole rubble.

Tis Jibbering woke up with the smell.
Told Thee Wonderland is all I have.
Slain it with the eye or the flash,
SWEIL will make non-sense out of that.

Unleash

Thee will know always when Tis' unleashed,
Tis' will be beauty unseen.
Till then enjoy the beauty, test thy patience.

Sculptor - Paige Bradley

Calm - Composed

Light within

Intentions

Don't always make sense

Humpty Dumpty's Song

In winter, when the fields are white,
I sing this song for your delight.

In Spring, when woods are getting green,
I'll try and tell you what I mean.

In Summer, when the days are long,
Perhaps you'll understand the song.

In Autumn, when the leaves are brown,
Take pen and ink, and write it down.

I sent a message to the fish:
I told them 'This is what I wish.'

The little fishes of the sea,
They sent an answer back to me.

The little fishes' answer was
'We cannot do it, Sir, because-'

I sent to them again to say
'It will be better to obey.'

The fishes answered, with a grin,
'Why, what a temper you are in!'

I told them once, I told them twice:
They would not listen to advice.

I took a kettle large and new,
Fit for the deed I had to do.

My heart went hop, my heart went thump:
I filled the kettle at the pump.

Then someone came to me and said
'The little fishes are in bed.'

I said to him, I said it plain,
'Then you must wake them up again.'

I said it very loud and clear:
I went and shouted in his ear.

But he was very stiff and proud:
He said 'You needn't shout so loud!'

And he was very proud and stiff:
He said 'I'd go and wake them, if-'

I took a corkscrew from the shelf:
I went to wake them up myself.

And when I found the door was locked,
I pulled and pushed and kicked and knocked.

And when I found the door was shut,
I tried to turn the handle, but- 

Lewis Carroll

Millo

After a long time I have written on my blog and what prompted me to do so is this work of an Artist MILLO




 

When you first see the art work, the intent does not strike you directly. Its when you SEE IT, that it sinks in, how strongly MILLO has depicted the issues we try to give a blind eye.

 

My personal Favorite is the character trying to swim. It's subtly depicted but hits you hard. You tend to smile when you first see the art work cause of the character. But you might not know you are actually laughing at yourself. AREN'T YOU?

 

Scale matters, Thought matters more

What we yearn for is not longer important. This is what we will get.

 

Learn

Never stop Learning. - nista

Quotes

One can't LEARN alone. - nista

One more from my friend

* copywright and owner Karthik Srikrishna

from One Hundred Random Thoughts in verse

You Wish

Y ou're sitting looking around in the disco lights,
All you want to do is to be out in the starry night,

My Friends Poem

* copywright and owner Karthik Srikrishna

from One Hundred Random Thoughts in verse

A LIVING FANTASY

Perfect faces, imperfect worlds,

Little white girl with long black curls,

I see scenes that amuse me,

Every day, a living fantasy.

Beggar man with a half-buck bowl,

His stray dog in a mournful howl,

Ragged old hag selling the news,

A word too many that you can't use,

Holding hands on lovers' lane,

Each bound in, by his or her pain,

Single mother, broken toy,

A baby's smile brings endless joy,

I see scenes that amuse me,

Every day, a living fantasy.

Light at the end of a long, dark road,

Or the glinting edge of your killer's sword,

They say to the world, here we come,

Tomorrow's heroes are today's scum,

So many out on the midnight streets,

Dragging on life with tired feet,

Big man in a long, sleek car,

Wondering what love and happiness are,

I see scenes that amuse me,

Every day, a living fantasy.

Each believes that he'll never die,

When people do, they wonder why,

One man to do and one man to see,

That is the reason I came to be,

I see scenes that amuse me,

Every day, a living fantasy.

Friends

Always be beside people you call friends when they need you.At other times you can just say'I'm busy'. - Nista

Very true.. No point getting carried away

Most of the designers among us too make this mistake of overdoing ... And their designer ego does not let them stop at less. It seems as if, they want to do everything that's possible to put in a product according to their thought process. Have said it many times to colleagues, make it simple, not crowded

"While I’ve been offering advice on how to communicate better, I’ve seen most people commit the same mistake- including too much information in one product. Often, less often is more effective as it has more and lasting impact on the audience. It takes a lot of intellectual sophistication to create something very simple. Minimalism beats clutter and substance trumps verbosity." - Pravin Mishra

I am in Bhubaneshwar, conducting a four-day workshop on creativity in communication for Odisha government officers. Today was the second day of the workshop with 30 participants who are from different districts dealing with communication. Last year, I conducted a similar workshop for the district public relations officers (DPROs) of Bihar.

While I’ve been offering advice on how to communicate better, I’ve seen most people commit the same mistake- including too much information in one product. Often, less often is more effective as it has more and lasting impact on the audience. It takes a lot of intellectual sophistication to create something very simple. Minimalism beats clutter and substance trumps verbosity.

Serious design intervention is the need of hour at the higher levels of the government where policy decisions are taken. There’s a lot to learn from the failure of family planning campaigns and the success of pulse polio campaign. Many messages given to the masses are not based on any behavioural research or updated scientific studies.

New coins come out of RBI every now and then. The new ones of the same denomination are not even remotely similar to the existing ones. Till about two decades back, even a visually-challenged person could identify the difference between one, two, three, five, 10, 20, 25 and 50 paise coins. They were available in specific shapes, sizes and weights. There was variety in the market. Today, even a visually capable person needs to put efforts to differentiate between one-rupee and two-rupee coins. If the cost reduction was an issue, one could change the material as the technology is constantly improving. This might have resulted in some change in weight, but at least there would have been some consistency in shapes and the sizes of the coins. There are several ways like making a hole in the centre to keep the size and outer-shape constant and still save material.

Whatever I say about the design of the government forms, including the railway reservation form, it will be too less. I am yet to hear about one design student who would like to re-design the railway form in spite of it touching tens of thousands of lives every day.

Even in this age of communication, there’s lack of communication at every stage. Just listen to a senior officer of government and NGOs briefing a design agency. The brief is full of abbreviated terms like EBF for exclusive breast feeding, M&E for monitoring and evaluation, WCD for women and child development and FBMNCI for facility-based management of neo-natal and childhood illness. It is expected from a designer to know and remember hundreds of such abridged terms before they come for the briefing.

Hundreds of crores are spent in government communications. Unfortunately very few are designed to make a real change in society. Either they are advertisements of the achievements of the government or they are designed to create a perception of change.

Government communications lack in emotions and clarity in call for action. The amount and complexity of information is too high to generate interest amongst the masses. Sometimes it starts with a simple good idea but by the time it reaches the final stages, senior members would have contributed out of their own perceptions to make it a complete thali of communication. People continue to enforce their ideas till it becomes absolutely unclear and ineffective. This often happens because of a top-down approach. Whereas, the real communication mantra should be- when in doubt, leave it out!

Life- what a big deal!!!! phuffffff!!!!

we live every day, that's not a big deal if life stops someday.
but its a big deal if you haven't loved everyday, like its the last day of your life. - Nista

Design

Details are Design. - Nista

Thoughts

First thoughts are the true ones, Second thoughts are compromise --- Nista

On Seriousness

"And to me, seriousness is a sickness, and the sense of humor makes you more human, more humble. The sense of humor - according to me - is one of the most essential parts of religiousness."
- Not by me