Swan Sangha

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The pattern underlying [the creative act] is the perceiving of a situation or idea, L, in two self-consistent but habitually incompatible frames of reference, M1 and M2. The event L, in which the two intersect, is made to vibrate simultaneously on two different wavelengths, as it were. While this unusual situation lasts, L is not merely linked to one associative context, but bisociated with two.

I have coined the term ‘bisociation’ in order to make a distinction between the routine skills of thinking on a single ‘plane,’ as it were, and the creative act, which … always operates on more than one plane. The former can be called single-minded, the latter double-minded, transitory state of unstable equilibrium where the balance of both emotion and thought is disturbed.

Arthur Koestler’s seminal theory of “bisociation” explaining how creativity in humor, art, and science works.

valentineuhovski:

Clifford Coffin for Vogue, (1949). 

explore-blog:

The first Japanese printed map to depict the world, including Europe and America, from a Buddhist cosmographical perspective, 1710. Also see Magnificent Maps: Power, Propaganda and Art.

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cavetocanvas:

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Doctor Francisco Rodríguez de Sandoval, 1906

leastofthese:

Foliage covered green roof in Kirkjubøur, a photo from Faroe Islands. More

sqrm:

Tim Sloan of Levitate Architects came up with this innovative solution to a storage problem and desire for an in-house library, ’We created a ‘secret’ staircase, hidden from the main reception room, to access a new loft bedroom lit by roof lights.

One day i will have one of these.

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on-women:

André Derain - La Femme et le Pantin, vers 1930

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