...Because one may have it in one sphere does not imply one may have it in any other, so a sense of a broader superiority can be very misplaced indeed...
Wait, someone thinks that baking doesn't benefit from algorithms? That you just randomly experiment until you get it right rather than being taught very clearly by more experienced chefs or cooks about ratios of ingredients and temperatures and so on?What a lot of nonsense.
...I don't remember her ever being taught how to cook anything - and she was only fifteen years old...
Yes, yes, that would be nonsense. Which is why nobody said that.
If one thinks that teaching how to cook only starts after the age of 15... How about age six? My daughter also had cooking classes in middle and even high school. But I am sure that today, when she prepares something tasty, she would attribute that to her... talent Btw, every one of us has used algorithmized cooking, even when putting a frozen meal into a microwave: it is known as "instructions for use" on the back of the box. Follow it and you won't stay hungry that night. Or you can use your talent and guess the time and temperature... delivery is just a phone call away
Early onset of dementia much?
I know this is the internutz, but could we here at LuLa perhaps recalibrate to a more civil form of discourse?
Paraphrasing from memory something that is attributed to various jazz musicians and in various forms... I remember this one as attributed to Miles Davis:"First, learn everything there is to learn about jazz... then forget it all and play until you are dizzy."It seems to me that some of you guys want to skip the first part and jump straight to the forgetting part. Or you are so far from the first part, years-wise, that you forgot it ever existed.
... on the Internet the standard method of discourse is to read whatever the other fellow said in the stupidest possible way, dropping words, ideas, and paragraphs as necessary, and then respond as if the other fellow said that stupid thing.
What I said was, of course, more complicated and subtle than "baking doesn't benefit from algorithms" but on the Internet the standard method of discourse is to read whatever the other fellow said in the stupidest possible way, dropping words, ideas, and paragraphs as necessary, and then respond as if the other fellow said that stupid thing.
Even better: how about some more pictures from you?:-)Rob
My interpretation is that people here are saying this:Learn all there is to learn about composition by example, not by rules. Avoid the rules like the plague. Learning composition is like learning language. The rules, even as mere guidelines, don't help one iota in forming comprehensible sentences, and certainly not in forming meaningful poetry.
...And Slobodan: more architectural oversaturation please...
... Learning composition is like learning language. The rules, even as mere guidelines, don't help one iota in forming comprehensible sentences, and certainly not in forming meaningful poetry.
My point, which to be honest I have already stated clearly, is that "rules" are at best a starting point, and are certainly not the endpoint...
Where?
