Originally posted on The Kellerdoscope:
Another watercolor painting by Svend Keller (watercolor and pencil on paper board). The original is slightly larger than what fits on my scanner, so I had to sacrifice a little bit of the sky and some areas at the edges. What can be seen here, however (about 23 cm x…
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Civilization / Creativity / History / Incompleteness / Philosophy / Science
Technological Creativity
Originally posted on Creativistic Philosophy:
Technology, from a simple stick or flake of flint to a modern computer or a bio-engineered organism, is part of human culture. At first glance, it seems to be a very controlled part of our culture, but is it? If it was possible to describe human culture completely in terms of…
Memories / Poetic prose / Poetry / Thoughts
Icy Stream – River Elbe in Winter
Originally posted on The Asifoscope:
On river Elbe, ice was drifting, sheets of floating ice. The sun was cutting through the haze, the drifting seagulls casting shadows, and the crows. Crystals of hoarfrost where coating the willow twigs and the tide was piling up the ice onto the sandy beach. There, under the ice, is…
The Swan’s Nest
Originally posted on The Kellerdoscope:
A pencil sketch by Rolf Keller, 21 x 29 cm (about 8.3” x 11.4”). The inscription reads: “Das Schwanennest Hbg. 10. Aprill 33 von Oma Dankers Balkonzimmer aus in der Lorzingstraße. Die Motorboote der Wasserschutzpolizei wurden von den brütenden Schwänen mit Elan angegriffen!” (The swan’s nest. Hbg. [Hamburg] 10th April…
To a Young Man
Young man, your path Is still foggy, hidden in mist. You cannot distinguish Brush-wood from tarmac. But do not stand still, Walk on and your path Will be husked Out of the haze. Continue reading
Harvesting Hay
Originally posted on The Kellerdoscope:
Pencil drawing on paper, in a card board passe-partout, 18 cm x 16.5 cm (7.1” x 6.5”). The brown stain at the top of was maybe caused by adhesive tape. A sketch by Rolf Keller, unsigned. Inscription on the sketch (lower right corner) “Grüna, 13. Juni 35” (Grüna, June 13th,…
Limits of Complete, Exact Descriptions
Originally posted on Creativistic Philosophy:
A complete, exact description of an object is one from which all properties of the object can be reconstructed. If the object is information, e.g. a text, a data structure, an image or sound file etc., this means that the original data structure can be reconstructed from the description. If…
