Drawing Gods as a Meditation
The Rubin Museum | NYC | Geometric patterning of a Bodhisattva print GIRVIN | the digital assembly of 108 paintings of divinity -- the mala, the spiritual thread of prayer. Below is a photograph of the 16x20" poster of nearly all the paintings of the digital gathering...
The Soul of the Olympics
The last days of the Olympics | London 2012 The gift of the games, "the Soul of the Olympics." When you think about it, hasn't the Olympics, London 2012 been about the unbridled power, the spirit of the people who came: phenomenal? From small story to large media...
Designing perfumes for place: scent, memory, recollection, richness in experience
Creating sensate holism in place-making Color, perception, light -- happiness in moment -- personal voicing of story and gathered re-collection, all impact the moment of scent, the waft of an instant, reclaimed and recalled. summering scents -- could be: wood | salt...
Rippling – the metaphor of touch
Rippling - the metaphor of touch. One story, is another, and another. An other. You tell me your story, and I will hold it to heart, and carry that story as it becomes my own -- carried for you, by me. Care, beauty, sharing and community. What is the ripple? It might...
Flying with dragonflies
Flying with dragonflies One stroke, drawn, another. Sometimes, in the air, you are tracing lines -- like a conductor, lines drawn and gestured in the molecules of motion. That line, in the stroke of air, is your imagination -- again, like Nabokov's birds -- “Our...
Handwriting
Handwriting, the message, and the carriage of content I can look at a person's handwriting and know how it will work out [their relationship to me.] There are insights in the cartography of writing [handwriting as soul-mapping] -- and these interplays: [the mind, the...
The humanity of color | Pantone’s new human color numbering system & Angelica Dass:
Working in Vegas, over the course of four days, we all studied people. Our team was Cathy Mack, Girvin's San Francisco-based Director of Strategic Marketing, and Gabrielle Girvin [my daughter], Girvin's Seattle [and firm wide] Social Media Implementor and Participant...
Contemplations on the spin — us, our path, the ISS
Contemplations on the spin -- the whorl of us: our path, the ISS [a night journey]. And a question posed: Where have we been? Where are we going? And what will we do when we get there? Sometimes you need to get way out there to understand about where you've come from,...
Frank’s RedHot Vodka Cocktail
T H E S T O R Y O F C H R I S P F E I F E R -- A M A N A N D A D R E A M AND FRANK'S REDHOT! What if you had a dream -- the perfect new beverage composite -- a packaged innovation? How would you make it so? Happily coalescing an amazing...
Girvin Signage = Word Photography | One sign, another mark: just words, gathered
Just where, really -- are you going? And, if you're going, are you growing? And why, might be? Shooting words leads to the meditation on their meaning. Sure, you're thinking that you know what they mean, but what lies beneath that word -- could there be a hidden...