020: a bench looks upon a landscape even without someone sitting on it
New ways of looking at things, new ways of looking at websites.
When did we forget to think in new ways. Maybe when we forgot how to play. I was just talking to a friend earlier today about how everyone knew how to draw as a kid. Everyone doodled. But now, when we think about drawing or ask someone to draw something, many people's initial response is...I don't know how to draw. Or I'm not good at it.
When we play as an adult, they're often experiences, things to watch, to take in, passive consumption. Compare that to play as a child, where we had a cardboard box and imagined a spaceship, we had a few friends and we created new variants of freeze tag.
We need to go back. Back to a time when amateur is the only way, when we are not rotted by the judgment of professionalism. Back to a time when we are not jaded by the inflexibility of structural powers, when we dreamed of spontaneous systems—a new game, a new future.
There is one way of doing things, and there is the other way of doing things. But what if there's a secret third way, a way of doing both, or neither. Even without knowing what thing we're talking about, there is some intrigue on this third path, because it's not about the thing itself, it's about the choice. It's about the ability to think beyond the binary.
At least, that's what I was thinking about while reading about hammerhead sharks. When it comes to vision, most animals either have eyes positions on the side of their head, to see more of their surroundings, or in front of their head, to better gauge depth and distance on a more narrow field. This is why most predator animals are the latter, and the animals that are usually prey are the former. But what if those weren't the only choices, what else is possible? The hammerhead shark has a bit of both, by changing it's head shape, a new possibility emerges.
Continuing from last week's tiny.site, VAST, scroll through SETTING and stay a while. Using a scrollable window, empty space not only exists, but continues.