If one has a room like this, what is worth sitting on?
What is worth sitting on?
The sofa?
The carpet?
The floor?
What is worth sitting on?
The sofa?
The carpet?
The floor?
Friday, September 14, 2018
Monday, September 10, 2018
That 'state of being' called...
Langoorics
A state separate from athletics.
That state when you don't know you are playing, preparing, practicing or competing.
That state when you can't say whether convenience is inconvenience or inconvenience is convenience.
That state when you can't say whether you are busy or lazy. Busily lazy or lazily busy.
That state when you may look childish, but surely not fatherish or motherish.
That state when Nassim Taleb's Fat Tony leaves the trading table and turns into Tinker Tony, may be.
I can go on talking about langoorics. It's a different state, and one that can make you strong. Just needs a bar and that first spring.
A state separate from athletics.
That state when you don't know you are playing, preparing, practicing or competing.
That state when you can't say whether convenience is inconvenience or inconvenience is convenience.
That state when you can't say whether you are busy or lazy. Busily lazy or lazily busy.
That state when you may look childish, but surely not fatherish or motherish.
That state when Nassim Taleb's Fat Tony leaves the trading table and turns into Tinker Tony, may be.
I can go on talking about langoorics. It's a different state, and one that can make you strong. Just needs a bar and that first spring.
Sunday, September 9, 2018
Something's wrong with...
...the flat that makes you round.
And if your flat's beautiful and you are round, then you should know that the beautiful can be wrong too.
And if your flat's beautiful and you are round, then you should know that the beautiful can be wrong too.
Friday, September 7, 2018
Funny perfections
Once you frame an interior-design-question in this mathematical way, you have to sound intelligent and just about the right person to handle interior design. For example:
What Is The Perfect Ratio Of Bedroom To Bed Size?
Now the interior designer, who asks such a question and then answers and informs you about it, has to be the one!
In that small expensive house with smaller-than-ever and further shrinking bedrooms, you interior design for the bed to royally sit like this. They call such bed sizes king-size and queen-size and other lofty names.
Oh, they tell you about the bed but never tell you this! The purpose of making the bed sit like this is not just sleeping. It is also to give you a patli gali... Oh, umm, sorry, it is also to give you a u-shaped walking track around the bed so that you can keep yourself in great shape. Morning walk, evening walk, right around the bed in a great U-shape. Just for you. Could you have asked for more in a smaller-than-ever bedroom?! That's the magic of interior design!
I found this naive layout drawing on this site which writes under its name 'Amazing Modern Home Design' and they ask just that exact intelligent-sounding mathematical question.
What Is The Perfect Ratio Of Bedroom To Bed Size?
What do you think?
What Is The Perfect Ratio Of Bedroom To Bed Size?
Now the interior designer, who asks such a question and then answers and informs you about it, has to be the one!
In that small expensive house with smaller-than-ever and further shrinking bedrooms, you interior design for the bed to royally sit like this. They call such bed sizes king-size and queen-size and other lofty names.
Oh, they tell you about the bed but never tell you this! The purpose of making the bed sit like this is not just sleeping. It is also to give you a patli gali... Oh, umm, sorry, it is also to give you a u-shaped walking track around the bed so that you can keep yourself in great shape. Morning walk, evening walk, right around the bed in a great U-shape. Just for you. Could you have asked for more in a smaller-than-ever bedroom?! That's the magic of interior design!
I found this naive layout drawing on this site which writes under its name 'Amazing Modern Home Design' and they ask just that exact intelligent-sounding mathematical question.
What Is The Perfect Ratio Of Bedroom To Bed Size?
What do you think?
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
You are talking about a Home Gym?
No, I am talking about strength.
I have a treadmill. I run (on the treadmill) regularly.
No, I am talking about strength.
No, I am talking about strength.
Cardio is important.
No, I am talking about strength.
One should have the stamina, right?!
No, I am talking about strength.
I also do Yoga.
No, I am talking about strength.
No, I am talking about strength.
I also do Yoga.
No, I am talking about strength.
Yes! Dialing New York School of Interior Design...
I typed these words on google:
What is Interior Design
The second result turned out to be this:
As on 5th September 2018, this is the definition (and understanding) according to the very renowned NYSID.
Interior design is all about how we experience spaces. It’s a powerful, essential part of our daily lives and affects how we live, work, play, and even heal. Comfortable homes, functional workplaces, beautiful public spaces—that’s interior design at work.
Right after the word heal, they place the phrase Comfortable homes.
There's a huge variety hiding behind that single concept heal. Barring exceptional circumstances, I have serious doubts if comfortable as we understand, imagine and practice currently as part of interior design plays that role in healing. Beautiful public places can surely heal. But then one would have to dig out the huge variety hiding behind that concept 'beautiful' and also behind the concept 'public places'.
That screenshot-image of the definition awkwardly jutting out (on my laptop screen it does) of the blog-frame may not be beautiful, and yet may play a role in healing the reader's understanding of interior design some day.
Academies and schools and institutions take time to revise the definitions. Sometimes, definitions, and their limits to convey the things that matter, and the time taken to revise the definitions do a lot of damage. But definitions are not the end-points of understanding. Just the start.
What is Interior Design
The second result turned out to be this:
As on 5th September 2018, this is the definition (and understanding) according to the very renowned NYSID.
Interior design is all about how we experience spaces. It’s a powerful, essential part of our daily lives and affects how we live, work, play, and even heal. Comfortable homes, functional workplaces, beautiful public spaces—that’s interior design at work.
Right after the word heal, they place the phrase Comfortable homes.
There's a huge variety hiding behind that single concept heal. Barring exceptional circumstances, I have serious doubts if comfortable as we understand, imagine and practice currently as part of interior design plays that role in healing. Beautiful public places can surely heal. But then one would have to dig out the huge variety hiding behind that concept 'beautiful' and also behind the concept 'public places'.
That screenshot-image of the definition awkwardly jutting out (on my laptop screen it does) of the blog-frame may not be beautiful, and yet may play a role in healing the reader's understanding of interior design some day.
Academies and schools and institutions take time to revise the definitions. Sometimes, definitions, and their limits to convey the things that matter, and the time taken to revise the definitions do a lot of damage. But definitions are not the end-points of understanding. Just the start.
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Surprisingly you slept well...
...on that day when the tire went flat.
Coz you removed the flat tire yourself and then fixed the step-knee yourself. And tolerated the sun and the sweat and some grime and some dust. And some ache in the palms and fingers too. And may be some scratch too.
No no! I am certainly not saying flatten your tires everyday. Nor am I suggesting one bit that you open a tire shop or 'puncture stall' to experience tire-changing everyday! If you fancy that, that's not bad either. MotoGP and Formula-1 offer those opportunities too if you are ambitious about tire-changing and care about the sleep that it can offer you every evening.
Interior design for strength is enough for those sensations and for that amazing sleep every night.
Coz you removed the flat tire yourself and then fixed the step-knee yourself. And tolerated the sun and the sweat and some grime and some dust. And some ache in the palms and fingers too. And may be some scratch too.
No no! I am certainly not saying flatten your tires everyday. Nor am I suggesting one bit that you open a tire shop or 'puncture stall' to experience tire-changing everyday! If you fancy that, that's not bad either. MotoGP and Formula-1 offer those opportunities too if you are ambitious about tire-changing and care about the sleep that it can offer you every evening.
Interior design for strength is enough for those sensations and for that amazing sleep every night.
Monday, September 3, 2018
What do you do in the moment exactly after feeling that you are motivated?
Is that a complete question?
Or is the reader wise enough to fill in the missing part and complete the question and answer for himself or herself?
Let us complete the question.
What do you do in the moment exactly after feeling that you are motivated to do falana and falana?
Falana stands for your situation or context or change or whatever it is that the motivation is meant for.
Repeat. What do you do in that moment exactly after feeling that you are motivated?
Make a plan?
Brush your teeth?
Have coffee?
Call your friend? Or poke your spouse?
Shoot out of your house towards the gym?
Or is the reader wise enough to fill in the missing part and complete the question and answer for himself or herself?
Let us complete the question.
What do you do in the moment exactly after feeling that you are motivated to do falana and falana?
Falana stands for your situation or context or change or whatever it is that the motivation is meant for.
Repeat. What do you do in that moment exactly after feeling that you are motivated?
Make a plan?
Brush your teeth?
Have coffee?
Call your friend? Or poke your spouse?
Shoot out of your house towards the gym?
What if in the moment exactly after feeling that you are motivated, you just spring and hang like a langoor on that bar in the room that you felt motivated in?!
Oh that bar isn't in your room yet! The pleasure of the langoor isn't yours to be, after all the motivation. Try some more motivation.
Sunday, September 2, 2018
There's a great variety of...
...sitting.
It may be wiser to keep in mind that sitting is a form of ultra-slow movement, not dictated by the movement of legs. The effort to adjust into a new (or next) sitting posture might just be great exercise. The kind of effort (or greater) put into unconsciously changing sleeping postures to have a great sleep through the night.
What kinds of sitting does your current interior design offer? That chair, that sofa, that bed...
Those are Peter Opsvik's chair-designs.
I realize that the chair at my office is making me (my body) dull and weak. Offers no variety in this movement called sitting.
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
When you say...
...strength is health, what do you mean by 'strength'? They ask me.
And since they ask me just that, my answer turns out to be a question:
What is 'health'?
And then we make paper-planes, so that we avoid further questions...
Why health? Why strength?
Are you healthy?
Are you strong?
Are you healthy but not strong?
Are you strong but not healthy?
What do you think?
And since they ask me just that, my answer turns out to be a question:
What is 'health'?
And then we make paper-planes, so that we avoid further questions...
Why health? Why strength?
Are you healthy?
Are you strong?
Are you healthy but not strong?
Are you strong but not healthy?
What do you think?
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