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What’s in a name?

By Jim | Published: July 23, 2005
All things change. Who am I to resist? I’ve changed the name of my website for several reasons, and I don’t know you well enough to get into all of them. Suffice it to say I was bored, and looking to muck things up a little bit. So what does Polymanic mean? The short answer [...]
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Frustration

By Jim | Published: May 24, 2005
When I draw, I watch my hand & the pencil making their movements in realtime, correcting and adjusting constantly. For me, it’s the typical creative process, to watch something becoming, and to push that becoming towards something recognizeable. I control the pace, though I don’t really know where I’m going till I get there– sometimes [...]
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Medium sized message

By Jim | Published: December 21, 2003
In the introduction to the second edition of his book Understanding Media, Marshall McLuhan writes, “The art and poetry of Zen create involvement by means of the interval, not by the connection used in the visually oriented Western world. Spectator becomes artist in Oriental art because he must supply all the connections.” Hot Damn! This [...]
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garble farble warble

By Jim | Published: October 8, 2003
Last night at 1:00 in the morning I had a fantastic idea for a post topic. Well, I thought it was fantastic at the time. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to remember it. Maybe I should have written it down, but when I do that sort of thing, by morning I’m always left puzzling out what [...]
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Rule No. 1

By Jim | Published: September 11, 2003
“Think for yourself, schmuck!” Wisdom of the ages.
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Don’t look now, you’re standing in it.

By Jim | Published: September 5, 2003
Been calling myself an artist this long and still have no real handle on how to generate imagery on demand… I realized today that I almost never start with an image as the core of a piece: the idea usually comes in the form of words. All my talk of visual literacy, and I’m still [...]
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By Jim | Published: August 30, 2003
I think we might be too dependent on verbal means of communication. Verbal communication applies “lossy” compression techniques that too often obscure clear mutual understanding. Expressing feelings and other pre-verbal (deeper than verbal–not less developed) experiences simply cannot be encompassed by our abstract alphabet. Anything that tries to open the bandwidth to normal experience levels [...]
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he giveth, he taketh away(eth)

By Jim | Published: August 28, 2003
I’ve been thinking about the term “indian giver”, mostly because my daughter (1 yr old) seems to be one. I’ve always disliked it, thinking it was another example of “White Man’s 1001 ways to screw over the Red Man”. This week I realized that I was misunderstanding this figure of speech; an “indian giver” is [...]
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