Monthly Archives: June 2013

Archetypes and Visual Pangrams

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Graham Shawcross

This follows an earlier post on Visual Pangrams here Pangrams To recap, ordinary pangrams use every letter of the alphabet at least once to form a more or less meaningful sentence, for instance: – Jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz … Continue reading →

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Audio Illusion

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Graham Shawcross

Observation The following diagrams illustrate the way, until recently, our television was setup. The television and speakers were connected to a Media Centre, with both Speakers markedly offset to the left of the Screen. With this setup, when the television program is … Continue reading →

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Merely Conventional Signs

Posted on June 3, 2013 by Graham Shawcross

During a recent seminar on Vilém Flusser, organised by Ella Chmielewska and Fiona Hanley the discussion got round to the Borges story of Cartographers producing maps of larger and larger scales. I thought that Lewis Carroll had produced something similar … Continue reading →

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