Design books
Generative AI Design Patterns: Solutions to Common Challenges When Building GenAI Agents and Applications
by Valliappa Lakshmanan and Hannes Hapke
#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #AI #patterns
1st lines
My elder sister
raised me
and we lived
on and on.
The stacks of sacred vessels
were stretched out
like a low cliff.
Above them
hung noble swords,
with many sword handles
...
Hiraga Etanoa tr from the Ainu by Donald Philippi 1932
#1stlines #poetry #translation #Ainu
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
#Booksky #2books #Kwakiutl #Kwakwaka’wakw #stories
Design books
Ilkka Suppanen, Gustaf Kjellin
Lightness
Ilkka Suppanen Design
#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #Nordic
O Gaza, accursed, beloved, deranged, oppressed, outcast,
enchanted, forgotten, mentioned a thousand times
in the Book of War, you're not the Goddess of the Dead,
nor is your book called Sorrow of the Country.
April 12, 2024
Nasser Rabah tr by Alcalay, Zghal, Al-Hilli
#1stlines #poetry #Arabic
1st lines
They left without turning the moon of longing off behind them,
without shutting the door overlooking the dew of the steps
they'd taken, they don't drink water to know how to return
to water, they head towards ...
Nasser Rabah tr by Alcalay, Zghal, Al-Hilli
#1stlines #poetry #Arabic
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
#Booksky #2books #translation #LeviStruass #Structuralism #masks #Kwakiutl #Kwakwaka’wakw
1st lines
The more I walk in the pathways of language, the more I wish
I'd go back to where I started, every time I ready myself
to hunt down a thought, language leads me time and again
to its haunting vaults: ...
Nasser Rabah tr by Alcalay, Zghal, Al-Hilli
#1stlines #poetry #Arabic
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
#Booksky #2books #translation #LeviStruass #Structuralism #masks #Kwakiutl #Kwakwaka’wakw
Spring garden trimmings ...
#Vancouver #garden #spring
Learning from grandkids
New music (for me)
Lava La Rue
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T82Y...
#music #London #Lulu
For Emmy Noether
"For every continuous symmetry of the Lagrangian (or action), there is a corresponding conserved quantity."
Translation of time’s
Symmetry conserving energy
Across a life
...
#poetry #haiku #symmetry #conservation #physics
I am interested in open games so I am fascinated by this idea of 1D chess.
Seems there could be many variants and that part of the game play could be choosing pieces and placing them on the board.
rowan441.github.io/1dchess/ches...?
#games #chess #opengames
Love this story about modifying a Mac laptop by filing away the sharp edges. more of us should be willing to modify designs that don't work for us.
kentwalters.com/posts/corners/
#design #modification
Discovered Emna Zghal's work through her work translating the poetry of Nasser Rabah.
A lot to explore here.
Check out the Art & Text page
www.emnazghal.com
#Art #text
Congratulations to Emily Hermant on being long listed for the 2026 Sobey Award.
www.gallery.ca/whats-on/sob...
#Canada #art #EUD #Vancouver
Design books
The Workbench Design Book: The Art & Philosophy of Building Better Benches Hardcover by Christopher Schwarz
#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #workbench
2nd lines
Shadow holds a memory of sadness
walls pass it on from home to home;
and when my shadow passes me by
I find myself crying out of nowhere!
Nasser Rabah tr by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, Khaled Al-Hilli
#1stlines #poetry #Arabic #Gaza
1st lines
The birds are scared to perch
when passing my heart -
afraid they'd eat the bread of its sorrow,
and become, like it, a heart
and die.
Nasser Rabah tr by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, Khaled Al-Hilli
#1stlines #poetry #Arabic #Gaza
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
#Booksky #2books #translation #LeviStruass #Structuralism #masks
For Ohno Kazuo 大野 一雄
Language lost in a fall
Hips aching body memory
Dancing dancing
One arm dancing
His body confined
To a wheelchair
Grace dancing
Into one’s death
Still dancing
#haiku #poetry #Butoh #Ohno
Quiet Noise 3
For Hattori Yoshie 服部芳枝
The raindrop’s path
Of least action from
Cloud to glass
Glass covered not
With dust but rain static
Presence lost
The triangle of
Glass rain reflection
Speaking with each other
#poetry #haiku #field
Quiet Noise 2
For Hattori Yoshie 服部芳枝
A fine grid laid
From the floor onto the glass
Under the raindrops
Potential energy expended
By the rain on the glass and
Its slow glide
Surface tension beads
Water on the glass surface
As a pause in time
#poetry #haiku #field
Quiet Noise 1
For Hattori Yoshie 服部芳枝
Rain quiet decay
In reflection on
Our presence
Pixelation deep inside
The reproduction rippling
Across the grid
Kinetic potential
A path of minimum action
Traced across the field
#poetry #haiku #field
For Hijikata Tatsumi 土方 巽
Perched on the drying rack
Haunting the children
As I wait
Dancing with my
Image on the wall cradling
The projector
Dream of dreaming
In service of a body no longer
Able to dream
...
#poetry #haiku #AnkokuButoh #Hijikata
Design books
Fundamentals of Tool Design Hardcover by Society of Manufacturing Engineers edited by David Spitler
#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #tools
1st lines
WATER THIRSTY FOR WATER
It just so happens that I gather emptiness in my shirt pocket
and run like I have things to do or I'm chased by some
illusion, emptiness might exchange greetings ...
Nasser Rabah tr by Ammiel Alcalay, Emna Zghal, Khaled Al-Hilli
#1stlines #poetry #Atabic #Gaza
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
#Booksky #2books #translation #LeviStruass #Structuralism
Design books
Fundamentals of tool design by Edward G. Hoffman
#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #tools
1st lines
My little baby,
what could be bothering him
that both night
and day
he screamed
so that I could get
no sleep at all?
Night after night,
day afterday,
altogether six full days,
...
Shikata Shimukani tr from the Ainu by Donald Philippi 1936
#1stlines #poetry #translation #Ainu