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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 2h

Design books

Issey Miyake can teach us about innovation in tradition.

us.isseymiyake.com/products/iss...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #fashion #Japan

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3h

from Burnt ~1990s

part of itself
repeating. part
of the day
made longer then
itself is lost.
the rest allowed
is part of
what we share.
held less than
equal. the even
infinite regress, a
hum subsides.

#poetry #place

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3h

1st lines

Wallslogan

Disfigured - an angel, anew, stops dead -
a face comes to itself,

the astral -
weapon with
the memoryshaft:
attentively it greets
its
thinking lions.

Paul Celan from Snowpart Schneepart tr by Pierre Joris 1970

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3h

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Alan Garner takes one deep into the English country side and into memory.

#Booksky #2books #YA #England

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 1d

Design books

Innovation Design: Creating Value for People, Organizations and Society by Elke den Ouden

Why do Springer books have to be so expensive!

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 1d

A few years ago I gave away my copy of Carver Mead's Analog VLSI and Neural Systems. Now I find myself wanting to reread it. Fortunately I could find a virtual copy.

www.scribd.com/document/719...

#VLSI #design #innovation #neuralsystems

Carver Mead - Analog VLSI and Neural Systems | PDF | Electronic Circuits | Electrical Network

Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site.

www.scribd.com

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 1d

from Burnt ~1990s

iron quiet water
in the mountain
din. the rare
earth’s actual presence
in the air
glows hard and
softening. each morning’s
chill deeper in
the rock. the
distance further in
time. elapsing.

#poetry #place

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 1d

1st lines

I remember when we fled the rebels
heading north through danger and hardship

starting out on foot
in the middle of the night

with the moon shining
over White Water Mountain
...

from Du Du 杜甫 The Pengya Road David Young translation around 758

#poetry #1stlines #China #DuFu #resistance

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 1d

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Alan Garner takes one deep into the English country side and into memory.

#Booksky #2books #YA #England

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 2d

Found a new koji product at Fujiya in Vancouver.

Preparing food with koji (a type of mold) has been a revelation over the past year.

I am finding this more versatile than shiokoji liquids.

#cooking #koji #Japan #Vancouver

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 2d

from Burnt ~1990s

cold clod stick
shaped even less
its balance gone.
trees all under
the water surface,
part of it
past, present in
the ground soft.

#poetry #place

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 2d

Design books

Elements of Parametric Design by Robert Woodbury

www.routledge.com/Elements-of-...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #parametricedesign #patterns #designpatterns

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 2d

1st lines

Up here it is almost as though
we stand astride the sky

a fierce wind
never ceases blowing

an since we human beings
are never far from fear

climbing this may well
stir up a few new terrors
...

from Du Du 杜甫 David Young translation around 755

#poetry #1stlines #China #DuFu #resistance

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 2d

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Katherine Rundell is not just a Donne scholar, she is also a wonderful author of YA and children's books.

#Booksky #2books #poetry #Donne #YA

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 3d

Design books

Faviken about the iconic Swedish restaurant by Magnus Nilsson.

Much to learn about deep design here.

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #Sweden #cooking #nature

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

from Burnt ~1990s

bird noise various
at precise intervals
stalls, rain quiet.
the glass thickening
weight of air.
wait. still. muttering.

#poetry #place

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

1st lines

The war carts creak
horses whinny

armed with their bows and arrows
the soldiers pass

parents, wives, children
line the road to wave good-bye

...

from Du Du 杜甫 Song of the War Carts 兵車行 David Young translation around 750

#poetry #1stlines #China #DuFu #resistance

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 3d

2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Katherine Rundell has written a wonderfully intelligent book on Donne's life and thought.

#Booksky #2books #poetry #Donne

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 4d

Important essay by Anni Albers worth revisiting.

The Pliable Plane: Textiles in Architecture
1957

www.albersfoundation.org/alberses/tea...

#textiles #design #architecture

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 4d

OK, should read Thinkertoys not Tinkertoys, but I like the idea of creativity as something assembled.

Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 4d

Thick dew tasting
Of dust and exhaust
Coating the tongue

#poetry #haiku #fall

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patternmind.bsky.social @patternmind.bsky.social · 4d

Design books

Tinkertoys by Michael Michalko

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/198264...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #creativity

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 4d

'Agatha's Almanac' Is a Masterclass on How to Live by Dorothy Woodend via @thetyee.ca

So much to learn here.

thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

#VIFF #Canada #docs

‘Agatha’s Almanac’ Is a Masterclass on How to Live | The Tyee

Don’t miss Amalie Atkins’ remarkable documentary portrait at VIFF.

thetyee.ca

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 4d

from Burnt ~1990s

stint on the sugar, tea
burns nostrils and a little
edge opens in the trap.
bleeding into the ground, choose
a process colour to wash.

#poetry #place

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Steven Forth @stevenforth.bsky.social · 4d

1st lines

Nah, Im Aortenbogen,
im Hellblut:
das Hellwort.

Near, in the aortic arch,
in the light-blood:
the light-word.

From Threadsuns (Fadensonnen) tr by Pierre Joris 1968

#poetry #1stlines #Celan #Germany #Paris #translation

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