My Brain is a Rock Tumbler
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My brain is a rock tumbler filled with rough ideas that don't really want to be next to each other.
My brain tumbles these rough ideas together, and with lots of smashing, scraping, grit, lubricant and time occasionally produces a glassy surfaced idea in a natural looking shape. Things tumble in my head at sleep, at wake, a patient and unexpecting grinding.
You've got to understand that I'm the son of an engineer and that engineering involves thinking in time scales that go beyond the lifespan of a humans; I have ideas that have been tumbling around my head since I was three.
One of those ideas is repeating patterns. This has ground together with my love of triangles and my ideas about my occasional but intense bouts of lazing. It is formed in my head but not yet elsewhere:
po* pumpkin equilateral-triangle laminated-frame laser-guided tri-hammock garden-seat
It will be in the lea of my plum tree.
* Po is a though tool by Edward de Bono who know more about how to teach and learn creativity techniques than I have had hot dinners. It is worth mentioning that I skip less than one dinner a year.
3 comments:
The same de Bono that has theories taught in education? The seven hats and stuff?
Laser guided garden seats?
not kate: de Bono is the 7 hats guy. He also did a book about shoes in a similar vein.
billy: I intend to laser cut the guides to use for cutting but I'm not sure how to contract wood that has been hand cut with markings made with a laser cut guide into a po :-)
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