Urban legend of the Eskimos
There is an old urban legend that Eskimos have an extrordinarily large vocabulary for types of snow. Apparently the myth is usually blown out of proportion, but in its essence there is some truth: The more important a particular subject is to us, the richer our vocabulary will become to describe it. For example, my flatmate, Viktor Bijelovic is a …
Illusionary world
Did you know that your eye is constantly processing what you see? What you think you see has already changed from what light has actually reached your eye. Here is an image I was sent in an e-mail a long time ago that demonstrates this: If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, you will only see …
Learning to see
Much of learning to draw is about learning to see. One of the first things I learned when I started to draw with pencil were contour drawings. In a contour drawing, you take a large pad of paper, put your pencil down on the paper, and trace a complex object without looking at the paper. You trace the object with …
New perspective
Today I am going to see the world from a different perspective. Ha ha. Just kidding. April fools. I’ll save it for tomorrow.