by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | May 10, 2013
Studying the Eye, In sight and the Touch of Seeing The Rhythm of Insight, Seeing-In — 1000 Eyes — the brushstrokes of Storytelling, the Rippling of Imagination I was looking into the eyes of a dragonfly that I’d arranged on a mapping, a cartographic...
by Tim Girvin | General | Apr 1, 2013
The Book as Sensate Storyteller It’s been said that the book is the most perfectly designed object for “reading.” That is according to earlier conversations with book and type design legend, Bill Hill, typographic theorist and book / tablet reading...
by Tim Girvin | Cool People, General | Feb 6, 2013
A calligraphy for a Lama’s retreat in the Himalayas In recent months, Girvin | Seattle had a blessing of place with a long-reclusive Lama Jigmela a practioner of prolonged retreats in absolute silence and deep meditation in a cave-like grotto in the Himalayas,...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, General | Jan 14, 2013
The love of Science, especially explosive science. Exploring the home laboratory Over the Christmas break, I was talking with family about my earlier days of exploring fire, chemistry and explosives. The key to any learning is about being close into it — closely...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Trends | Dec 19, 2012
The immediate illustration of place and being. Finding the moment, in momentum Image above, an instant | Jakarta, Indonesia | Girvin I contemplate the instantaneous — and the drawing out of the drawn, the painted or scratched statement of the moment, closely...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Dec 12, 2012
12.12.12. The end of the world, as we thought about what we know about it. Meditations on Apocalypse I contemplate the nature of the end of things, 12.12, 12. 21, whatever — and what is that, to the notation of the end. Apocalypse, etymologically [like Calypso]...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Oct 31, 2012
The metaphor of clouds Cloud-watching, the formation of ideas, cloudmind and the wind, the mist of crowds [Image above, the Palouse, Tim Girvin cloud watching — photographed by Dawn A. Clark] Coming from a farming family, I’m a skywatcher. Also, as a...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Storytelling | Oct 8, 2012
Returning to the Mother Seeking and Exploring the Metaphor of Ideas, Nature, Your Work A Love of the Ocean, the Sea of allegory — the original maker, the storyteller of us all When I was a child, growing up, Eastern Washington, in Spokane — sometimes [not...
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Places | Oct 5, 2012
The shock of the new, the spectacle of surprise Tim Girvin | Spain I like the idea of standing out — something that’s a surprise — it’s a shock. Then again, you probably know that surprise — etymologically, is the prize beyond, it’s...
by Tim Girvin | Brands, General, Places, Retail, Trends | Sep 26, 2012
Sometimes the best restaurant concepts are the simplest, the most honest, the most direct. They go back to the heart of giving, exchanging and trading enterprise. Asking the core questions — Why [do we love this idea — devoting ourselves to it]? Where...
