Insanity is... by Majyk
March 13th, 2009 6:24 PMso for this it took ages to come up with a way to do it properly, but in the way of the best tasks it came to me randomly. In my workshop, where ironically im obsessed with perfect repitition and clean accuraye results.
i found my results of beautiful chaos happening in such a precise environment, so enjoy the pictures of a beautiful chaotic results
Ok im sober so now i'll attempt explain this a little better but i'm rubbish with words so this still may not work.
This praxis was based on the snow flake principal. In my work as a young furniture maker I have to be very clean in my construction of pieces but I LOVE chaos for its unpredictabillity and the constantly random results, so I put this in to my furniture with the simple rule that no two pieces will be exactly the same (thats just boring) I enjoy working with timber because no two pieces of timber are identical! I like to think i have an observant eye to look for all the little pieces of chaos which no-one seems to notice? and i picked my favourite little piece of chaos for this task and for the sake of simplicity i'll explain exactly what it was:
my workshop gets a little humid from time to time and for all my tools this is a terrible thing so as part of the maintanence i have a piece of 180 grit wet and dry abrassive paper and another piece of 1200 grit wet and dry abbrasive both glued to a slab of granite salvaged from a kitchen I was replacing. This I use on my hand tools, planes chisels etc to remove any rust before it gets to bad, a little spalsh of water onto the abbrasive paper rub the tool around for a while an tadaa!! the worn of rust has formed gorgeous little random patterns with the water which i always marvel at for the fact that like snow flakes no two are the same! so a little bit of chaos in my precise (but deffienetely not tidy) workshop.
Hope that made some sense?
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I see what he did, and I see how he did it, but it's just a bit meh.
Pulling that plane up from that wet surface left patterns on the side of the plane as it was picked up. Each pattern each time was different. I think it'll be different every time he does it, I think it's a little like the snowflake rule.
I think he's done the task I'm just not sure it's vote-worthy yet. Maybe you're right Fiona, maybe some explanation would help me feel less meh.
ok so ive tweaked it and id like some feed back please (im still rubbish at writing a praxis)
Thats better.
Thanks for a great adventure yesterday.
Can't wait to finish it and complete praxis.
Ventnor some time? Stealth mission!
Hugs to you little brother.
I think my problem with this task isn't in this completion, I think you've done it as well as can be done really. I think. My problem is in the task description. It's hard to figure out what this task wants us to do. Because the definition of insanity as actually something along the lines of "Unsoundness of mind sufficient in the judgment of a civil court to render a person unfit to maintain a contractual or other legal relationship." but what the task description refers to is the Albert Einstein quote, "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." So to change the Einstein quote to the one in the task description is asking us to break that rule somehow. I suppose because there's no way to do the same thing the same way twice. Because we're human, and everything changes from moment to moment. You can never swim in the same river twice, and you can never exactly replicate any results. So I suppose the task is asking us to try to do the exact same thing the exact same way twice and document how the results varied and to what extent. And in that effort lies this praxis.
And yet, somehow I remain unsatisfied. I'll take awhile and think on this. When I come up with a solution that satisfies me, perhaps you'll read about it in a praxis.
In the meantime have a point for the effort of trying to figure out a complicated task and winning.
A little more explanation would be good.