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		<title>Nothing at Facebook is someone else&#8217;s problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 15:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telling the story by hand and meditation. I can recall designing and writing out a phrasing by Michelangelo Buonarroti, &#8220;By hand, which follows mind and meditation.&#8221; It&#8217;s actually a telling that follows a longer contemplation: &#8220;The best of artists never &#8230; <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=10985">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Telling the story by hand and meditation.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I can recall designing and writing out a phrasing by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/182763.Michelangelo_Buonarroti" target="_blank">Michelangelo Buonarroti</a>, &#8220;By hand, which follows mind and meditation.&#8221; It&#8217;s actually a telling that follows a longer contemplation:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">&#8220;The best of artists never makes creation</span><br />
<span style="color: #800000;"> That is not hid already in the stone</span><br />
<span style="color: #800000;"> In marble fixed and yet the work is done</span><br />
<span style="color: #800000;"> By hand, which follows mind and meditation.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">The point comes down to the notation that the spirit of the mind, and memory, in meditation &#8212; the contemplation of an idea, or ideal, that bridges and interweaves that translation, the transforming of dream to expression, pushing out the story and the invention of interpretation. If &#8220;illustration&#8221; as I recently told a group of brand + design students is about making something &#8220;shine;&#8221; and that &#8220;translation&#8221; &#8212; is a transferring [which inherently means a carrying or a ferrying], while transforming is a movement through <em>form, </em>the idea of the hand touch carries through each and each is a lensed treatment of the perspective of the soulful insight &#8212; these movements are <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?s=signature">signs, signals, signatures and sigils</a> of &#8212; the person. As in the founding meaning of the word &#8220;interpret&#8221; is &#8220;to spread&#8221; &#8212; to explain, expound and understand &#8212; all of these are journeys in which the hand plays a part in the telling of that story.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.printmag.com/imprint/master-class-in-master-lettering/">A friend</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Heller_(design_writer)">Steve Heller</a>, art director, writer, educator, <a href="http://www.hellerbooks.com/">publisher</a> and scholar sent this link, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-art-of-facebook/275897/">his blog notations</a>, along to me, a blog that he found relevant to <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=7060">my commentary</a>, a non-digital laboratory in a wholly digital company; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/analoglab">the analog lab at Facebook</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="Nothing at Facebook is someone else's problem" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/story-hand-meditation_02.jpg" alt="Nothing at Facebook is someone else's problem" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A key message from Heller&#8217;s discussions:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&#8220;<span style="color: #800000;">Barry&#8217;s Analog Lab team art directs the physical spaces and signage programs to insure that design reinforces the Facebook culture. And recently an artist in residency program was instituted, where outside artists are invited to create work for a period of two to eight weeks.</span> And quoting Ben Barry, the art director of the Facebook Analog Design laboratory, a kind of visual brand culture design propaganda messaging office: <span style="color: #800000;">&#8220;To me the act of creating the work is as important as the work itself because we are a culture of hackers/makers/builders.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The touch of anything, especially not contained in the enclave of a screen, is a meaningful deepening of holistic sensation. And becomes more…<em>unforgettable</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The <a href="https://foursquare.com/tgirvin/checkin/513cf9cde4b0c2f5b5bbb83f?s=FMFtZo1sMMWk07EzavuyAmVWN6o&amp;ref=tw" target="_blank">hand</a>, matters.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Tim Girvin | Girvin Island Studios | Decatur Island</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #ff0000;"> G I R V I N</span> <span style="color: #800000;">|<strong style="font-size: .7em;">N E W WOWNESS</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #808080;"><strong style="font-size: .7em;">CREATING STRATEGIES, PRODUCTS,<br />
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		<title>Rippling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 15:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Waves of Brand Story from the Light When I walk into a place, I think about what I feel. When I watch a person &#8212; in my room, my immediate space, I watch them wholly. When I look at, &#8230; <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=10975">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Waves of Brand Story from the Light</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When I walk into a place, I think about what I feel.<br />
When I watch a person &#8212; in my room, my immediate space, I watch them wholly.<br />
When I look at, <em>read</em> a story, I try to sense it, that telling, before I do anything else.<br />
I listen big, and open &#8212; I try to hear the sounds, the inflections, around the sound.<br />
I try not to evaluate it, but flow into it to sensually &#8220;see&#8221; what I can <em>feel in that telling</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">These days, it&#8217;s all about that sensate holism.<br />
And, in the end, it all comes back to that idea of feeling.<br />
It&#8217;s not the facts that matter in the end, it&#8217;s the feeling of it.<br />
I don&#8217;t know that people really think and act on facts alone &#8212; it&#8217;s good &#8220;facts&#8221; with concomitant feelings and emotionality to support the follow-through to decision-making. People think with their instinctive reaction to what feels right &#8212; not, solely, the grounding of numbers and facts, alone. Surely, there are divisions in humanity of thinkers and feelers &#8212; but intuition and holistic &#8220;feelingness&#8221; can hold sway over even the most linear of analysts.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The Waves of Brand Story from the Light" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/rippling-brand-story-light_02.jpg" alt="The Waves of Brand Story from the Light" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Not that everyone is spending all their time slipping into the dreamtime of holistic experientiality [I coined that for the moment -- a state (and degree) of experience character; I'm sure you've got another word for it. What is that?]<br />
The point to enlarged and sensitive experiencers is that that holist sensuality is layered on a rippling of touches.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Think on this, as a retail designer.<br />
<img title="The Waves of Brand Story from the Light" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/rippling-brand-story-light_03.jpg" alt="The Waves of Brand Story from the Light" /><br />
You&#8217;re walking the street &#8212; a football field away, <strong><em>you see</em></strong> the shopfronts and the signing from afar. Getting closer, the building and its envelope supports a greater experience &#8212; textural character, materiality, sound, foot-track+touch character, greenness, air quality, light and reflectivity &#8212; all of these spill out to the storytelling and the sequential procession<br />
and impressions of place.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The Waves of Brand Story from the Light" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/rippling-brand-story-light_04.jpg" alt="The Waves of Brand Story from the Light" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">That perception is sequencing &#8212; and it flows out, and flows in &#8212; just like the movement,<br />
flowing in, flowing out: ingress and egress. It&#8217;s a rippling &#8212; like the energy that we flow, and move in, it&#8217;s what we see &#8212; <strong><em>what you sense</em></strong>: vibrations and molecular movements, the fluttering of sound, the flickering fractions of light &#8212; shimmering, a glimmering reflections of movements. Light passes, as do we &#8212; <em>through it, by it, and around it.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The point might be is thinking about your flow through the brands that you work on &#8212; how to make the layering of their stories act as a sequencing of ripples.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The Waves of Brand Story from the Light" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/rippling-brand-story-light_05.jpg" alt="The Waves of Brand Story from the Light" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The wave is a telling &#8212; like the experiencer, it flows in, out, through and repeats.<br />
People walk in, they connect and embrace with the sense and state of place, the recall that frequency of storytelling and this is shared, flowing onwards.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The Waves of Brand Story from the Light" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/rippling-brand-story-light_06.jpg" alt="The Waves of Brand Story from the Light" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A ripple, like a wave &#8212; flows on and on.<br />
But it starts with the first wrinkle in time,<br />
rippling wider in the rings of grasping consciousness<br />
in the spirit of the experiencer.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>TIM | GIRVIN STUDIOS | NYC<br />
….</strong></span><br />
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		<title>The nest, the egg, the weaving of the Matrix</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Whorl of Making and Imagination Sometimes when I&#8217;m thinking about a challenge, working my way throughout a complex puzzle &#8212; I draw my self into it, and out of it. Above, my little finger on an iPhone. Below, the &#8230; <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=10966">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Whorl of Making and Imagination</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Sometimes when I&#8217;m thinking about a challenge, working my way throughout a complex puzzle &#8212; I draw my self into it, and out of it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Above, my little finger on an iPhone.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Below, the dinner table and a team meeting, whirling:<br />
<img title="The nest, the egg, the weaving of the Matrix" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/mothers-day_02.jpg" alt="The nest, the egg, the weaving of the Matrix" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In a manner, drawing in the mind-full and mindless state of the scratching doodle, you go in and out and in that weaving there is a sorting &#8212; a plan, an approach emerges in the whirling whorl of distraction, abstraction and traction.<br />
In making a nest, the drawings seek to enwrap the egg of the idea.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It happens.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But it got me thinking about <a href="http://tim.girvin.com/Entries/?p=723" target="_blank">patterning</a>, and the whirling of layers of containment and the contentment that comes from, and in, that making.<br />
I was contemplating the <em>nest</em>, which, in a way is an attribute of Motherhood, the making &#8212; and, in the weaving of the nest, the nature of inspiration.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Isn&#8217;t it so that <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=8851" target="_blank"><em>the wisdom</em> of Mothers</a> teach us, take us <em>home</em> and into the heart, the heat of hearth and the holism of making? Home, heart, heat, hearth &#8212; it all threads and intermingles in <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=6894" target="_blank">the web of the archetypal</a>, together, gathered.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The nest, the egg, the weaving of the Matrix" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/mothers-day_03.jpg" alt="The nest, the egg, the weaving of the Matrix" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">To <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=6239" target="_blank">the symbolism of nest</a> and Mother, these contemplations aren&#8217;t new, they go way back. A way back, my path, my journeying &#8212; along <a href="http://tim.girvin.com/Entries/?p=261" target="_blank">the red thread of meaning</a>, con-text, framing, and the magic of being [in that place we are working: <em>de<a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?s=signature" target="_blank">sign</a></em>].</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The nest, the egg, the weaving of the Matrix" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/mothers-day_04.jpg" alt="The nest, the egg, the weaving of the Matrix" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">A nest is <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=nest&amp;allowed_in_frame=0" target="_blank">an ancient word</a>, it&#8217;s a world.<br />
Nest is <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&amp;search=nitidus&amp;searchmode=none" target="_blank">neat</a>ness.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The nest, the egg, the weaving of the Matrix" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/mothers-day_05.jpg" alt="The nest, the egg, the weaving of the Matrix" /><br />
<span class="img-tag">Island installation of bird&#8217;s nest and hornet nest</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://tim.girvin.com/Entries/?p=328" target="_blank">Weaving that story</a>, the whorl of <em>contained</em> contentment, habitation, familial community &#8212; containing the egg, the center of that making, that protection, there are stories, on stories, in stories.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Told.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>You go where you go.<br />
You come back from where you&#8217;ve been.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>May, be.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">TIM | GIRVIN island studios</span><br />
<span style="color: #ff0000;"> …..</span></p>
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<span style="color: #000000;font-size: .7em;"">CREATING STRATEGIES, PRODUCTS,</span><br />
<span style="color: #000000;font-size: .7em;""> IDEAS FOR CHANGE.</span><br />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Studying the Eye, In sight and the Touch of Seeing The Rhythm of Insight, Seeing-In &#8212; 1000 Eyes &#8211; the brushstrokes of Storytelling, the Rippling of Imagination I was looking into the eyes of a dragonfly that I&#8217;d arranged on &#8230; <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=10953">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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the Touch of Seeing</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>The Rhythm of Insight, <em>Seeing-In</em> &#8212; 1000 Eyes &#8211;<br />
the brushstrokes<br />
of Storytelling, the Rippling of Imagination</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I was looking into the eyes of a dragonfly that I&#8217;d arranged on a mapping, a cartographic<br />
brush-drawing of a circle stroke of containment.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">That stroke, an <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensō" target="_blank">enso</a></em>,<br />
is <em>a meditation on completion and fullness, in the balance of nothingness</em>.<br />
I see the rich raven-black of the strokes seeping <em>into</em> the fabric, and they bleed into a tiny multiplicity of micro-strokes and tendrils, as the ink trails out, following the line. There is a symbolism in the weaving of ideas. One stroke, feathers along the warp and weft, to lay out, <em>in</em> a matrix of inked runnels &#8212; the idea seeps into lines of threading known and unknown, grasped and held &#8212; distantly touched in the capillary gathering of the ink, long those lines. Like storytelling &#8212; and the hold it makes, moving out in the rippling of telling. There is a synchrony between the strokes of the <em>enso</em>, the architecture of their explosive distribution and the wings and designed brilliance of the <em>odonata</em>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">In my world, a whorled view,<br />
the idea of the stroke and the energy of a drawing &#8211;<br />
could be the live-wired framing of the armature of a living being &#8211;<br />
the spirited spatter lines become pulses, heart rhythms, quivering sensation.<br />
Others espy a more direct assemblage of designed thinking,<br />
natural review<br />
and the emblems of outcome.<br />
I never seem to think quite that way, or <a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/bugs-eye-inspires-hemispherical-digital-camera" target="_blank">Kurzweil</a>&#8216;s immediacy &#8212; below, the &#8220;bug&#8217;s eye camera.&#8221;<br />
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Then again, I&#8217;m not him &#8212; I&#8217;m <a href="http://tim.girvin.com/Entries/?p=1423" target="_blank">holding the truth</a> of the place<br />
that I live, see, sense in.<br />
That&#8217;s a touching world &#8212; sweat, salt, the wafted scent of forest, the rasp of fabric and the call of the brushstroke, the ox gall bitterness of the black ink, trailing its lines, telling its stories.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Like real stories, the spattered wetness of the forced line &#8211;<br />
once they&#8217;re told, they get out there &#8211;<br />
farther than you could hope to know.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 15:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AND THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL, IN THE SPATTERING OF INSPIRATION. When I was in college, I taught workshops to help my payment of the tuition, along with support from my family. I used variously colored butcher paper to do that &#8230; <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=10940">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;">AND THE ATTENTION TO DETAIL, IN THE SPATTERING OF INSPIRATION.<strong><br />
</strong><br />
When <a href="http://tim.girvin.com/Entries/?p=837" target="_blank">I was in college</a>,<br />
I taught workshops to help my payment of the tuition, along with support from my family.<br />
I used variously colored butcher paper to do that &#8211;<br />
pulled, ripped out and sheared on a rolling roller of &#8220;wrapping paper stock.&#8221;<br />
We have this in the office, on rollers, to move around the office, for improvisational note taking<br />
and idea jotting, think mapping.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">All photography, this blog,<br />
by <a href="mailto:ggirvin@girvin.com" target="_blank">Gabrielle Girvin</a><br />
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<p style="text-align: center;">What I found was that doing banners created a kind of splashy formatting for sharing ideas &#8212; like rollable white boards.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Meeting with <a href="http://news.starbucks.com/executive+biographies/" target="_blank">a friend</a>, recently &#8212; we talked about a transformation of a text, to a banner, in support of a very special place &#8212; an office wall, above a set of brilliantly fired Ferrari red file cabinets. I&#8217;d pointed out that a strip of red, torn, with spattered black calligraphy, could be a good banner to this idea:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">&#8220;The difference between mediocrity and excellence is attention to detail.&#8221; That&#8217;s <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/96242-the-difference-between-mediocrity-and-excellence-is-attention-to-detail" target="_blank">Sebastian J. Barbarito</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And it&#8217;s in the details that the emotional resonance of a design emerges.</p>
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series of things &#8212; but to one, &#8220;intention.&#8221;<br />
You&#8217;re doing something, but why &#8212; what is the drive to direction?<br />
What do you, are you, intending?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Intention &#8212; and its aligned word, attention, are thematically compelling to me and our teams. What&#8217;s the point &#8212; what are you doing and why are you doing it? This, a foundational question &#8212; both to the inside messaging &#8212; the internal teams, and how these expressions become experiences on the outside. The words, intend, intention, and the attending to attention. They link to muscle &#8211; <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tendon&amp;allowed_in_frame=0" target="_blank">tendon</a>, and tensility as well as <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tenet&amp;allowed_in_frame=0" target="_blank">tenet</a>. In intention, as well as attention, there is a principle of &#8220;turning in to &#8211; turning focus towards.&#8221; That relates in a manner to the concept of stiffness, rigor, discipline &#8211;<br />
or a &#8220;cord&#8221; &#8212; a string that ties things together.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="THE RED THREAD OF IDEAS AND INTENTIONS" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/idea-and_intentions_04.jpg" alt="THE RED THREAD OF IDEAS AND INTENTIONS" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Thematically, in the grand arc of <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?s=metaphorical+thinking" target="_blank">metaphorical thinking at Girvin</a>,<br />
we think about <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=3043" target="_blank">what lies within</a>,<br />
and what lies beneath, <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=6239" target="_blank">the deeper allegory</a>,<br />
in <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/index.php?s=human+brands" target="_blank">the poetry of people in story-making and telling</a>,<br />
in many things.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It&#8217;s never just the work,<br />
it&#8217;s the meaning and the why of it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="THE RED THREAD OF IDEAS AND INTENTIONS" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/idea-and_intentions_05.jpg" alt="THE RED THREAD OF IDEAS AND INTENTIONS" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When I think about a piece of writing, <em>I flow into</em> that script in<br />
<em><a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=8743" target="_blank">the spell-binding of the story</a></em><br />
that lies within &#8211;<br />
I consider:<br />
scale,<br />
flow,<br />
spatter and<br />
energy,<br />
drive and<br />
follow-through:<br />
<em>the flourish,<br />
and the finish</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="THE RED THREAD OF IDEAS AND INTENTIONS" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/idea-and_intentions_06.jpg" alt="THE RED THREAD OF IDEAS AND INTENTIONS" /><br />
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<p style="text-align: center;">I&#8217;m looking for the energy of that drive-through the literature,<br />
I&#8217;m looking to transform, and translate the wafting whisper of ideas, voiced, and now evoked &#8212; there&#8217;s a story, a script, a message, and how do you go <em>through it</em>, to the <em>rendering on the other side</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>In the end, that journey, like spell-making, binding and casting, sigils and symbolic formula &#8211;<br />
<a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=3933" target="_blank">the calligraphy of ideas</a>,<br />
mapping in<br />
<a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=2775" target="_blank">a cartography of breath, energy, flow</a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=6772" target="_blank">The red is a thread of blood</a> &#8211;<br />
scribed and scratched and overlaid in black &#8211;<br />
<a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=10307" target="_blank">a set of incantations</a>. </em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">It&#8217;s all magic.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Like the college days, the core of my teaching to dozens of students, is<br />
<a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=3352" target="_blank">how to make that breath of expression, that meditation, live</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">There is the inspiration.<br />
There is the breathing-out,<br />
the washed fluency of ink and blood &#8211;<br />
and you move through to the other side,<br />
where it&#8217;s not a dream,<br />
but it&#8217;s an &#8220;acted-on&#8221;<br />
principle of movement in the execution of<br />
the best, the ideal &#8212; the perfected.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The quote was an item of discussion &#8212; and then an artistic drafting for <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1665183&amp;authType=NAME_SEARCH&amp;authToken=UCS9&amp;locale=en_US&amp;srchid=63b69c42-ca7c-408e-acaa-7f3e5736447a-0&amp;srchindex=1&amp;srchtotal=3&amp;goback=.fps_PBCK_*1_Arthur_Rubinfeld_*1_*1_*1_*1_*2_*1_Y_*1_*1_*1_false_1_R_*1_*51_*1_*51_true_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2_*2&amp;pvs=ps&amp;trk=pp_profile_name_link" target="_blank">a friend, designer and core creative director at Starbucks</a> &#8212; long a point <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?tag=starbucks" target="_blank">[Starbucks] of blogging commentary by Girvin</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I watched, I read, I listened, I pondered the dimensions of the place of installation &#8211;<br />
then exhaled and drew, fast and without a plan, wet and full of curiosity about what<br />
might come forth, a surprise in the risk of the wet, the black, the flow, the flung.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Done, gone, and shipped.<br />
<img title="THE RED THREAD OF IDEAS AND INTENTIONS" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/idea-and_intentions_11.jpg" alt="THE RED THREAD OF IDEAS AND INTENTIONS" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We&#8217;ll see what he thinks of <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=6472" target="_blank">the details</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When I think of details, I contemplate, in the thoughtfulness of strategist, and pattern language theorist, Christopher Alexander &#8212; who espouses that <span style="color: #800000;"><em>real human design &#8212; the quest for beauty, in the details, will show up for relevance in meaning &#8212; in &#8220;an eighth of an inch.&#8221; </em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Details.<br />
Detailed.<br />
<a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=detail&amp;allowed_in_frame=0" target="_blank">Detail</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Piece by piece, step by step, en détail.<br />
<a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=tailor&amp;allowed_in_frame=0" target="_blank">Tailored</a>, that touch, that moment.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Storytelling of Place, in the Minds of the Experiencer I just told this story recently. I was working with a colleague, in Florida &#8212; our client, her boss, was Michael Eisner. He had a dream about a Disney place &#8230; <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=10917">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<strong>The Storytelling of Place, in the Minds of the Experiencer</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I just told this story recently.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I was working with a colleague, in Florida &#8212; our client, her boss, was Michael Eisner. He had a dream about a Disney place that would be a kind of learning experience &#8212; but something even slightly theatrical, a traipsing venture, akin to his memories, along with his wife of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua" target="_blank">the notion of Chautauqua</a> &#8212; a circuit of entertainments and wisdom-wanderers that might sparkle wonder in a rural road of touring. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chautauqua#Circuit_Chautauquas" target="_blank">The proverbial Chautauqua circuit</a> &#8212; a way of self learning, that has a deep legacy in the roots of american culture, which reached its closing nadir in the mid-1920&#8242;s. Eisner&#8217;s dream was <a href="http://disneyinstitute.com/" target="_blank">the Disney Institute</a> &#8212; and our role, to the branding of it.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Different now, <a href="http://www.girvin.com/clients/documents/disney_institute.pdf" target="_blank">than then</a>.<br />
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But, presenting to another group in California, I was talking about the layering and detailing of experience. And at the conclusion of the talk, a woman came up and said &#8212; &#8220;I went there, to that Disney Institute place &#8212; very fancy, very nice, a big place. But what was something that I remembered, wasn&#8217;t the big things, it was the small things, the touches &#8212; little details that I&#8217;ll never forget. And it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m an interior designer &#8212; but when I go places, I look at things. I remember noticing that there were many little things, seals, icons, devices &#8212; and they kept coming out &#8212; these icons &#8212; stories in teaching, showing themselves &#8212; ways to learn, what to learn, and finally, how to learn. It wasn&#8217;t the big, but it was the small that stitched themselves together, to lead me somewhere, to get the whole, big idea.&#8221;</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Sometimes, big ideas come out of small packages &#8211;<br />
big stories, from just<br />
a haiku of imagery.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/patterning-of-space_03.jpg" alt="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When I was working in Paris, I&#8217;d linked to <a href="http://www.triganos.com/en/" target="_blank">Serge Trigano</a> &#8212; we co-paneled at a function at the American Embassy &#8212; we talked about story, touch, place and meaning; the idea of touch-points and place-making taught me a lot. We talked about his new concept &#8212; <a href="http://www.triganos.com/en/hotels/" target="_blank">Mama</a> which he brainstormed and built with <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?s=starck" target="_blank">Philippe Starck</a> &#8212; and is now defined as the most innovative &#8220;business hotel&#8221; in Europe. When I was working there, talking to him &#8212; we talked about his early visioning for Mama, <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=2422" target="_blank">another tier to the story</a> here.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The point, to anything in the design of experiences &#8212; the big story, the small story, the large thinking of designed presence, to the smaller micro points of beautiful conceptions &#8212; is that it&#8217;s all of them. Mama works because there is a big story, and there are many small stories &#8211; there is a big design, and many tiny ones. Organic and osmotic, flow goes both ways &#8212; big, filtered to small, small channels to large &#8212; one intention, moves through the walls to show something wonderful in another room,<br />
another place.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/patterning-of-space_04.jpg" alt="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Speaking of Paris, I was thinking about design, inspirations and the crossover of the big story to the small &#8212; and the fresh eye, and storytelling, to one room, a gallery of rooms, a hotel, <a href="http://viceversahotel.com/" target="_blank">ViceVersa</a> &#8211;<br />
and <a href="http://www.chantalthomass.fr/#/accueil" target="_blank">Chantal Thomass</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/patterning-of-space_05.jpg" alt="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I never thought of Chantal Thomass as an interior designer [rather, a designer of intimate apparel,] but she plays the role well: stories told, layered and lascivious, promiscuous and densely sensual. Stories told, played out in their telling &#8212; big and small &#8212; and laid bare.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The hotel is modeled on sin, all seven of them.<br />
That is the big story, but the power will be in the layering of their smaller whispers.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Like, being a sinner, the presumption would be that you&#8217;d start your journey in &#8220;heaven.&#8221;<br />
The lobby and reception:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img style="vertical-align: top;" title="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/patterning-of-space_06.jpg" alt="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" /><br />
<img style="vertical-align: top;" title="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/patterning-of-space_07.jpg" alt="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" /><br />
<img style="vertical-align: top;" title="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/patterning-of-space_08.jpg" alt="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You can guess the nature of these rooms?<br />
<img title="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/patterning-of-space_09.jpg" alt="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" /><br />
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<img title="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/patterning-of-space_11.jpg" alt="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" /><br />
<img title="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/patterning-of-space_12.jpg" alt="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" /><br />
<img title="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/patterning-of-space_13.jpg" alt="The Patterning of Space, Made to Place" /><br />
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<p style="text-align: center;">What I&#8217;m curious about is how people experience places &#8212; how they come into one environment, SENSE &#8212; listen to the stories,<br />
experience their telling,<br />
and <em>move into<br />
that experience,</em><br />
as a<br />
co-experiencer of the<br />
shared dream,<br />
deep.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Deep.<br />
Beneath.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">TIM | VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA</span><br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Hand-ground pigment, split timbers, scent and the explosive splatter of haboku. When I draw, my senses are open, the touch of the paper, the splintering of the wood, the sound &#8212; the gasp, the clasp, the rasp of the stroke &#8230; <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=10899">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Hand-ground pigment, split timbers, scent and<br />
the explosive splatter of <em><a href="http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0804832609&amp;id=vROF2UAiLRUC&amp;pg=PA63&amp;lpg=PA63&amp;ots=mAzyeCH9Tk&amp;dq=haboku&amp;sig=u8t8XE4zFOAY8OfW_cda_sZ_GOU#v=onepage&amp;q=haboku&amp;f=false" target="_blank">haboku</a></em>.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">When I draw, my senses are open, the touch of the paper, the splintering of the wood, the sound &#8212; the gasp, the clasp, the rasp of the stroke of the brush on the stock.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thescreamonline.com/girvin/" target="_blank">We worked on the Lone Ranger</a>, but the corvid insinuation above isn&#8217;t our design solution &#8211;<br />
<em>that&#8217;s another story</em>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I&#8217;ve thought about <a href="http://tim.girvin.com/Entries/?p=786" target="_blank">the fascination with the corvid class</a>, the crows, ravens and jays for me.<br />
Why do people associate crows, ravens and jays with underhanded doings, evil, the dark arts &#8212; seers in the other side of this plane of experience.<br />
Perhaps?<br />
They are smart, seen as tricksters &#8212; and, to drawing &#8212; the boldly symbolic, <em>the</em> splashiest black, as wisps of smoke, spattered black on wood, stone and paper &#8212; they say a lot in the power of their presence.<br />
Drawing them, perhaps the draughtsman evinces that power?<br />
Like the sorcerer and the sigil, drawing that formulaic symbol stroke calls them forth,<br />
<em>the evocation and conjuring</em> &#8211;<br />
their name is called in the drawing.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_02.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /><br />
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<p style="text-align: center;">I favor <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=2775" target="_blank">the intuition of energy, capturing the ch&#8217;i</a> in<br />
the drawing, the spirit of the presence, and less to the<br />
lonely artifice of that which tries to draw the science of light and form,<br />
in the engineered facility of perfect alignment &#8211;<br />
what is scene, in scene, and what is seen &#8212; and known.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_04.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Drawing in the washy brush painting,<br />
&#8220;Zen&#8221; style of <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=suiboku+/+painting&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=tjJ0UY-hM4bKiwLbn4HoAw&amp;ved=0CDcQsAQ&amp;biw=1082&amp;bih=406" target="_blank">suiboku</a> &#8212; energized brush work,<br />
in blacks and grays, softened in water &#8211;<br />
the spirit of the subject comes out; this might be<br />
in the shattered black of &#8220;broken ink&#8221; style, haboku, or &#8220;flying white&#8221; &#8212; speed, and the reveal of white show forth &#8212; or, as below &#8212; the caw, caw, scrawling of scratch on stone, mark on wood.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~arth17/HatsubokuS.html" target="_blank">Hatsuboku</a></em> is wetter, watered, splashier and spattered &#8212; in these flash drawings, &#8220;<a href="http://www.beyondcalligraphy.com/flying_white_script.html" target="_blank">flying white</a>,&#8221; that captures drier airiness of energy, flying.<br />
I&#8217;m looking to capture the faster snatch of soul, in that moment.<br />
Seeing these birds, the flicker<br />
and explode in a ruffle of black.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_05.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I&#8217;ve been drawing on split timber, hauled and splintered with an axe.<br />
And stone, and found timber.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I&#8217;m looking for that energy. In a manner, as <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=4167" target="_blank">designers in the place of brand, enterprise storytelling and interpretation, it all comes down to energy</a> &#8211;<br />
<a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?s=attitude" target="_blank">how is that attitude, that cant, the interpretation rendered</a> &#8211;<br />
<a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=9172" target="_blank">the [il]lustration, the shining</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_06.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /><br />
<img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_07.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">And when someone likes <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=8230" target="_blank">the telling &#8212; do they hold it</a>?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Drawing it out,<br />
it&#8217;s like a burst of idea,<br />
formalized.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_08.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /><br />
<img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_09.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /><br />
<img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_10.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /><br />
<img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_11.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /><br />
<img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_12.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /><br />
<img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_13.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /><br />
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<p style="text-align: center;">Brush on wood, ink seeping into stone &#8212; there&#8217;s a heat in the translation; and in the drawing, you can smell the scent as it lays down &#8212; and a story is told in that formalized movement of translation, and transformation of that story &#8212; literally, physically, from one form to another.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>See here, the splash of black, that storytelling:</em><br />
<img title="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/black-raven-drawings_15.jpg" alt="The gesture of black, raven ink -- drawing the spirit of birds" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Point is, there are allegories in the work &#8211;<br />
deeper metaphors &#8211;<br />
the depth of the practice; of course, the journey might be, right now &#8211;<br />
what lies beneath, the layering of your efforts?</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Tim | <em>Girvin Island Studios</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drawing People [in] with Flowers, the Flow of Story in the Craft of Rendering Ideas In my beginnings, I drew flowers &#8212; and sold them as art pieces and gifts; then, at Christmas, I did groupings of flowers, silkscreened and &#8230; <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=10888">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Drawing People<br />
[in] with Flowers, <em>the Flow</em><br />
of Story in<br />
the Craft of<br />
Rendering Ideas</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In my beginnings, I drew flowers &#8212; and sold them as art pieces and gifts; then, at Christmas, I did groupings of flowers, silkscreened and signed in limited editions of thousands. People collected them. The list grew and grew, so that Christmas time became days of work signing the full sized serigraphed prints. I&#8217;d go places, visiting recipients and find that the flower prints were the key art in office suites, Doctor&#8217;s offices, clients, and friends&#8217; homes.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I was surprised how popular they were. Aside from their sheer graphical power, strikingly colored and profoundly saturated contrasts &#8212; they were simple treatments &#8212; brush-stroked renderings I still have parts of the run of every year during that period.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">What I realized, in the end, was that aside from their &#8220;prettiness&#8221; it was the fact that they were of <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=3435" target="_blank">archetypal imagery</a>. Everyone has a relationship to flowers &#8212; they, in their <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?s=symbolism" target="_blank">inherent symbolism</a> spoke to the opening that each of us feel &#8212; we see a flower and its type, its coloration, each reflect and say something about who we are,<br />
and when our<br />
hearts first opened.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">That patterning of the seed, the shoot, the stem, the bud, the efflorescence of blossom, the pistil and the stamen, the petal, the curling leaf &#8212; each part is symbolic, each tells a story and <em>each reaches into our history</em>, and the individual psychic place of memory and what we hold in our lives going forward. What we hold is everything; it&#8217;s what we carry &#8212; and in the etymology of carrying, <em>from the Latin relatus &#8212; it is our relationships, and the stories that we pass into our communities.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Later, I thought that the 18&#215;24&#8243; posters were too complicated to build, sign and distribute, [often me, carrying dozens, like a poster hanger to offices all around the town] so we created another version &#8212; a string of them, over the course of a couple of years.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Let us know if you&#8217;d like one.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=flower&amp;allowed_in_frame=0" target="_blank">Is it possible that flowers are really emblematic of <em>flow</em>?</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Flow,<br />
<a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?s=flow" target="_blank">notes</a> from<br />
our past.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>To flower is to <a href="http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=flourish&amp;allowed_in_frame=0" target="_blank">flourish</a>.<br />
An offering like these,<br />
to story, is a bridge to<br />
the gesture to<br />
the state<br />
of flourishing. </em></p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">Explore<br />
as you will,<br />
and let us know<br />
if you&#8217;d like one.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #000000;">TIM |</span> <span style="color: #ff0000;">GIRVIN</span> <span style="color: #000000;">|</span> <span style="color: #999999;">DECATUR ISLAND STUDIOS</span></strong><br />
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		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How are Designers, Creative Minds, Changed by Babies? Having met Tom Ford, albeit in a short quasi-interview and completely unscheduled encounter at a WWD &#124; BEAUTY + FASHION CEO SUMMIT; I&#8217;ll admit that I was afraid [of him.] When I &#8230; <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=10880">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>How are Designers, Creative Minds, Changed by Babies? </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Having met <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=2222" target="_blank">Tom Ford</a>, albeit in a short quasi-interview and completely unscheduled encounter at a WWD | BEAUTY + FASHION CEO SUMMIT; I&#8217;ll admit that I was afraid [of him.] When I was <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=942" target="_blank">working for YSL</a>, I was told that Tom would never come to the store unless it had been cleared of everyone. Yet, talking to friend <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?s=dawn+mello" target="_blank">Dawn Mello</a>, who might be credited with the first global boost of exposure for the power of the designer Tom Ford &#8212; &#8220;Tim, don&#8217;t worry, he&#8217;s just the nicest man.&#8221; In working with Shirin Von Wülffen, the wife of Frédéric Fekkai, while she was a publicity director at YSL &#8212; she said the same &#8212; &#8220;a super lovely man.&#8221; When I finally met him, connected live, eye to eye, there was a classical genteel mannerism, almost &#8220;Texas etiquette.&#8221;<br />
He was so kindly, accommodating, generous, that I was shocked.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;">What would my take be, to influence &#8212; now that Tom&#8217;s a dad, with his partner Richard Buckley &#8212; is greater youthfulness, vitality, energy, and likely grounded-ness. That would be a foolish prediction, given Ford&#8217;s confidence and concrete stability in terms of his visioning of direction. Still, a warm man will become warmer, humbled in the presence of a young human being. That openness that is seen in the presence of a baby is all open-eyed, persistent exploratory and a completely enlightened view of &#8212; <em>everything</em> &#8212; in the rawest of exposures.<br />
Everything&#8217;s new.<br />
Imagine being a designer and realizing that you&#8217;re missing what you&#8217;re seeing because you&#8217;re so loaded with baggage. The long line of luggage, as carefully chosen as it might be, still &#8212; there is something to the journey which many of us have had, <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=4019" target="_blank">the zen mind</a> of babies.<br />
<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babies.html" target="_blank">Wide open</a>. To everything.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Now, about ten years older than Tom, I&#8217;m past a father, I&#8217;m now a grandfather &#8212; and watching my grandson, I realize that return to the beatific power of open-sight that babyhood offers. That sentiment is holding true in Tom&#8217;s observations &#8212; commenting, as it was, to <a href="http://www.styleite.com/media/tom-ford-andre-leon-talley-interview/" target="_blank">US Vogue&#8217;s Andre Leon Talley</a> &#8212; even to the talk about changing diapers.<br />
Sure, Tom changes diapers. Being one of the design field&#8217;s most hands-on, detail-driven visionary, it&#8217;s hard [for me at least] to imagine that having a child would be merely a styled artifact. It&#8217;s not a stunt for Tom, but a commitment to being a dad, as he notes in the interview below.<br />
It&#8217;s a real dream, fatherhood &#8211;<br />
and, for the time being, he&#8217;s set some projects aside to focus on the future.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">From <a href="http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/videos/TMG9924009/Tom-Ford-on-fatherhood.html" target="_blank">the Telegraph</a>, London, an overview:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=dUGbxsrSf9I" target="_blank">Video</a>:<br />
<span style="color: #800000;">&#8220;When Tom Ford announced the birth of his first child, a son named Alexander John Buckley Ford, we probably weren&#8217;t alone in assuming that a coterie of multi-lingual nannies had been assembled to cater to the nipper&#8217;s every whim and whimper. But it appears we were wrong, and Ford is in fact a very hands on daddy to his little boy, who he calls Jack.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG9590241/Tom-Ford-welcomes-a-baby-boy.html" target="_blank">READ: Tom Ford welcomes a baby boy</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">&#8220;I feed him in the morning, I change his diaper, dress him, I play with him and I have a good two/three hours before I go to the office, just me and Jack,&#8221; Ford told USVogue&#8217;s Andre Leon Talley, who replied with a gob-smacked &#8220;You change diapers?!&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">&#8220;I didn&#8217;t have a child because I wanted to hand him off to somebody. I had a child because I&#8217;ve always wanted a child,&#8221; Ford retorts.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;">Of his fledgling career as a director, which saw his debut 2009 offering, A Single Man,nominated for a variety of high-profile awards, Ford says his second film is merely on hold while he focuses on his new family member. &#8220;My production this year was Jack Ford, and my second production was the show… you know, it&#8217;s coming soon.&#8221;</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/galleries/TMG9879316/London-Fashion-Week-Tom-Ford-autumnwinter-2013-in-pictures.html" target="_blank">IN PICTURES: Tom Ford autumn/winter 2013</a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">We wish him well, this journey,<br />
a profoundly powerful dimension<br />
to the ever-expanding range of his creativity</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">TIM | GIRVIN ISLAND STUDIOS | DECATUR</span><br />
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<strong>The Search for Beauty &#8212; the Beauty of You, The Brand of You, and Others.</strong></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">In the quest for the truth of brands, the soul and heart of their storytelling &#8212; invariably, appropriately, there are humans involved. People make brands &#8212; mostly for other people, so the notion of inherently building brands around the bigger ideas of human aspirations makes sense, though is widely decried&#8211; &#8220;brands don&#8217;t have souls, they&#8217;re not human, they don&#8217;t have a heart!&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=5281" target="_blank">The beauty of you, the brand of you</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><img title="You Are Beautiful" src="http://www.girvin.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/brands-beautiful_02.jpg" alt="You Are Beautiful" /><br />
<span class="image-tag"><a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=4156" target="_blank">Girvin writing and case studies on soul &amp; brand</a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Such persistent certainty is admirable. I love to study the contrarian rantings of the gesticulating expert, who is really only showing theory in the backgrounder case studies on their sites.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">I&#8217;d ask for truth.<br />
Please,<br />
show me the truth of the work<br />
that convinces you of such certain positioning.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Such <a href="http://tim.girvin.com/writings/stormbird.html" target="_blank">certainty</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">These days, who lives with anything in the way of certainty other than &#8211;<br />
&#8220;nothing&#8217;s certain.&#8221;<br />
The perpetual impermanence of &#8220;everything&#8221;<br />
is such that nothing could be taken for granted, or &#8211;<br />
to long range planning, any<br />
presumptions of certainty<br />
are a little questionable.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Things come, things go &#8211; it&#8217;s only in the warmth of <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=6886" target="_blank">their &#8220;holding&#8221;</a> that the utility usurps the operational value.<br />
They hold more, and are held, more.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">But beauty, and <a href="http://tim.girvin.com/Entries/?p=1153" target="_blank">the surprise of beauty</a> can know certainty, permanence, perpetuity &#8211;<br />
it can last:<br />
in wonder,<br />
in making,<br />
in miracle,<br />
in extending the rippling of<br />
the beautiful person,<br />
story,<br />
enterprise<br />
and brand.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Tim | <a href="http://www.girvin.com/blog/?p=5126" target="_blank">Girvin island studios</a><br />
| <em>decatur, s.j.c</em><br />
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