WEEK11-DAY6
1. Soundtrack of the day
Love story
2.Places to discover
Wonderland
3. People to meet
Lewis Carrol
4. Question of the day
“Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice...
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” said Alice.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat, “we’re all mad here.”
Lewis Carroll was quite a designer indeed. He designed worlds. Complete ones that made sense in their nonsense.
“Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense”,
said the The Mock Turtle.
Bobby Fischer, the chess champion. - “All that matters on the chessboard is good moves.”A documentary on Bobby Fischer.
A designer is a person who has the duty to invent worlds.
6. Homework
Today, you will relax and get lost in a dream-like state of mind. Explore the nonsensical, the riddles, the meaningless puzzles of life. Find a way slip “Through the Looking Glass” and reach “Alice in Wonderland.”
Thomas Lommée’s Open Structures
Archigram’s Archival Project
Norman McLaren’s video worlds
You must start building your own world. It can be a world like Escher or a world like the Collyer Brothers. Ferdinand Cheval or the Greek Meteoras. Bomarzo
or La Linea.
“No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”Aristotle
“Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.”
Allen Ginsberg
“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”
Salvador Dali
Did you know that Dali illustrated Alice in Wonderland?
”I’m late! I’m late!
‘Hello, Goodbye’.
I’m late, I’m late, I’m late.
Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!”
said the White Rabbit.
“Well, no wonder you’re late!
Why this clock is exactly two days slow!”
replied the Mad Hatter.
The Lewis chessmen: “Few objects compete with the Lewis chessmen in terms of their popular appeal.”
Find out more on BBC’s “History of the World”
Jan Švankmajer’s version of Wonderland...
“Close your eyes or you won’t see anything” - Jan Švankmajer
7.Extras.
Alice from Pogo
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