Civil Eats | Promoting critical thought about sustainable agriculture and food systems. Freebies. The Museum as Memory Palace. Illustration by Swanny Mouton. How museums naturally take advantage of a peculiar quirk in our brains. A Place to Hang Your Facts In the mid 1880s, Mark Twain devised a children’s game he felt would boost the memory of young children.
The game had an unusual format and broke outside the traditional confines of a board game. Twain originally conceived the idea to help his children memorize the reigns of British royalty. The game, as it turned out, was an utter financial failure. Twain later despaired in a letter: “If you haven’t ever tried to invent an indoor historical game—don’t.” All the World’s a Stage, for Memory In the 1500s, an Italian scholar and philosopher named Giulio Camillo conceived of an arguably outrageous plan to facilitate the memorization of all the knowledge in the world.
Reconstruction of Camillo’s Memory Palace from Frances Yates’ Art of Memory. A visitor to the “theater of memory” would orient themselves on a centrally located stage and gaze out into the structure. I hate your shoes: Early Christmas present. In the words of Clark Griswold, "Hallelujah, holy shit!
" Yesterday I received a copy of Issue 45 of Frankie Magazine. They've featured my pocket manfriends and my taco kitty tote bag. Thank you, Santa. You done me good. Sarah fretwell photographs. Inspiration: Sally Mann | pia jane bijkerk. “…the things that are close to you, are the things you can photograph the best…” “…and unless you photograph what you love, you are not going to make good art.”
“it’s always been my philosophy to try to make art out of the everyday and ordinary…it never occurred to me to leave home to make art.” A few weeks ago I watched a documentary. And it took hold of my soul so swiftly, that it has taken me this long to tell you about it. Sally’s philosophy about her art resonates deep within me. For more info on Sally, click here and here. All images and quotes by Sally Mann. Related Posts : recycled home by mark and sally bailey... book review: recycled home baileys, of course!
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