Memory Palaces 1

more file archives from my past, moving to safer keeping here on LJ:

== '''Memory Palaces 1/ Reorganizing the Web in 3D''' ==


''I've been Moving towards something specific. Catching glimpses in the fog, chasing. In dreams, in my art, in words. It has felt oh so Important...yet I'd had great trouble putting it into words.
My fiance (now husband?!!)would sometimes lose patience with my enthusiastic yet scattered talk. "I'm sorry, I just don't see what you're getting at...why recreate your grandmother's house..(online/3D) or the house you grew up in...sure you can imbed the objects with text/links/filefolders as you say..but why would someone..a stranger..visit?" And I couldn't answer...I just knew it was a sample..of a type of mapping..a type of organization ...that would change the way the web is experienced...make us capable of accessing and Experiencing eachother and in a way Integrating the memories of the Others more intuitively. And something about when we really and truly do that consistantly..we are Remembering...and zooming towards..._________. I would throw my hands up..frustrated..so much wanting to come through..but garbled at the gate.Blueprints!...mandalas!..familiar steps/memories..virtual worlds..billions of users...Enlightenment!REintegration!GUrglegaaa!!
I had come upon the term Memory Palace in my reading and it seemed/felt the perfect word.
And now, with a bit more prodding in the web...diving, I come up with relevant Pages in my teeth...( continued )

Memory Palaces 2

I'm moving some of my older files/texts/writings onto LJ for mirror keeping, tagging.

........2005
"I bring up [http://mappa.mundi.net/cartography/Palace/ Memory Palaces] not to necessarily encourage a return to the ancient art in its same form.

The Art of Memory and the Method of Loci (back in the days) was really quite an immense visualization trick...and a feat I think that few people today would consciously use. What I'm very excited about is the probability that we're entering a new phase in the internet and a new form of memory retention (which traces back to this concept of memory palaces) will become second nature to the masses:( continued )

The Emperor of Scent/ libraries

just finished reading 'The Emperor of Scent'. I first picked it up at Borders and became completely engrossed. Thrilled when i found it at the library. LOVEDLOVED the portions which explored in depth the mystery of scent with details and descriptions of various mixtures and historic perfumes, but grew very impatient with the drawn out scientific community politics and personality battles surrounding the theory (which unfortunately was given priority focus in the ...book- just not interesting to me). I'd like to take out my favorite pages and make a smaller pamphlet on scent and memory.
Read the first pages: here

http://www.amazon.com/Emperor-Scent-Perfume-Obsession-Mystery/dp/0375507973

stopped at the library after work, and sat there to finish reading that book so I could finally return it and leave with another bag full of books, mags and films. A new book by Diane Ackerman, and one on The Age of Empathy...more on perfume/scent, foreign films. libraries=endorphin rush for me. mmmm mmm yeah♥

Evolution of a Greater Eye

...now imagine each of us as a receptor in the evolution of a larger eye....input, filter and 'post'.....
so....evolving the eye...it may take a long while...but we are in some interesting stages...
training our global eyes to see where help is needed (instead of military target). this is evolution.:
please read this article
New 3-D Aerial Images of Haiti Will Aid Recovery and Research

'Awaiting a Vision' (nails, enamel, resin on wood, 60"x60"