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by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Aug 6, 2012
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... Read More
by Tim Girvin | General | Jul 20, 2012
The captivation of smoke. Smoke signals, fire, designed motion. [parfumare — “to smoke through.”] The layering of smoke, art, incense, color and the tinting of dust — the tracery of par fum. The smoky signals of journey. I was contemplating... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General | Jul 10, 2012
The Focus of Watch Fullness, Studying the Terrain Around You. I was hiking and, to every horizon line, path, water-lined and sanded beach and I studied the wind, the insects’ movement, the course of birds, the turning light and colour of green-cast tree-light.... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Cool People, Storytelling | Jun 27, 2012
I was talking to a girl. As I listened — she told me a story, it was about her life. And I told an other — a story, about her story, to another. And then another, that came from the one story, became another story. I was talking to a girl. As I listened... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, General, Motion Pictures, Storytelling | Jun 11, 2012
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN | Archetypes in storytelling, repetitive patterning in the mythic dimension The question and the quest for the lineage of story patterning. (in-theatre screen, street and subway shots / girvin) There is a story, in a story, in a story... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Retail | May 8, 2012
Uniqlo brand glow BIG Japan, made elegantly small: UNIQLO CALENDAR: NYC uniqlo | holiday | 2011 I embrace attitude. I like people that have attitude. Employees, friends, clients. And brands. I ponder, what is attitude? 300 years back, it was “posture and... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Places, Retail | Apr 5, 2012
DIWO @ FAB! Digital Dimension shop, Tokyo, Japan — from Fablab/Japan Hiroya Tanaka & Chiaki Hayashi | Fabcafé / FabLab [co]founders and Fab[lab]Visionaries/p> A CRAFTWORKS Café — collaborative, exploratory, experimental, “hack cultural.”... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Brands, Concepts, Cool People | Feb 3, 2012
There’s a story about beautiful garbage, based on the idea of one person’s — a team — visioning of a litter free place. That being — an alley. In Seattle, the founder team came up with the notion of “dumpster free” alleys, by... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts | Jan 24, 2012
the creative hunger, the force of passionate making raven, verb i"m thinking about the hunger that is beneath the hunger. I’m talking less about food and more about the notion of the food beneath food — that is, what drives the hunger itself?... Read More
by Tim Girvin | Concepts, Scent | Nov 30, 2011
ROUGH TRADE #3 The Perfume of Refuse, Decomposition and Excrement (The third of three essays on unusual scent strategies) In the beginnings of Das Parfum, authored by Patrick Süskind, there is a grouping of expressions that I’d first read in the original German.... Read More
