UNTITLED (GETTING ME OUT THE DOOR)
I’d rather have this one on a cake.
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You may wonder — if the rules are so simple to express — what is there that makes a builder great?
And indeed, there is an answer. Even though the rules are simple, by the time you have twenty, perhaps fifty rules like this in your mind, it takes almost inhuman singleness of purpose to insist on them— not to let go of them.
It is so easy to say— oh well, it is too hard to have light on two sides of this room, and that room — at the same time as all other things we are trying to do. It will be alright if we allow this room to have light on just one side. The fact is it will not be alright. But to insist, to keep all the rules which matter, freely in your mind, and not to let go of them — that does perhaps require unusual character of purpose.
—Christopher Alexander, The Timeless Way of Building
Submitted for your consideration as album cover of the decade.
(↝via my record collection)
full size view strongly recommended.
the white vinyl was a nice touch.
illustration style explores the territory between Boris Vallejo and the guy who draws Groo.
sergio aragones! in earlier days on the internet some guy on the groo list (“the groop”) was the only other person with my first name/last name combo that came up in searches.
now available on a shirt.
so we’ve covered t shirts and cross stitch, now we just need this image on a cake, as a tattoo, and laser etched onto a moleskine.
One of the French bicycle aficionados who loiters in front of my apartment was sporting the SY shirt a couple days ago too. If I’dve put him on here that would have covered the “shot in the wild” base.
Is French Bicycle Aficionados a new Brooklyn band?