I really enjoyed this Dennis! It reminded me of something similar to clay sculpting. Simon Lee, our teacher use the analogy of standing in different distances to focus our attention on how or what to build up the sculpture.
For example at 50 feet, we only see the big broad shape of the sculpture, the silhouette and main base form.
Then as we get to 10feet, see the sub main shapes, or parts of a body, you can tell the muscles that make up the arms, legs, torso etc.
Then at 5 feet, another level of detail where we see now the features, we can tell if it’s a human or creature. Seeing the emotion or weight of the gesture of each parts of the body, that this character is doing a particular action of running or pushing for example.
Then at 1 feet, we see the detail, the pores, the tension of the skin, the texture and stretch of the fur or clothing.
I’m paraphrasing here but the main thing is that by breaking up the way to approach of sculpting a character figure, this helps to focus and be able to execute building up the forms of a figure in different scales.
Will look more on reading about the use of the term ‘program’ to get some clue. Dont have the context so I’m having a hard time picturing what it means. Looking forward on the next post about this. What would you recommend reading about programs that your talking about?
thx so much for your feedback! And for being the first to comment on my new blog :)
I like your analogy to your sculpting practice a lot. Just like viewing a sculpture from different distances does not change the sculpture itself but only our perception of it, we can also view "units of work" from different distances.
The term and concept of a "program" is usually not used in personal productivity. What you see people do instead is defining bigger projects with "sub-projects". This is the wrong approach and the reason why I wrote my 4-part series on it:
Else, there is not much to recommend (I am not aware of anyone else using the term "program"). I borrowed the term from *professional/business* project management. If that is of interest to you you should dive into the classic literature on project management. But I doubt that you will get much more out of it for your personal life.
Thanks Dennis, this is perfect! Will read through them to get more context, especially in the realm of personal productivity. This interest me more.
Yeah, your exactly right. Because of this different levels of perception, I can then decide what tools to use to sculpt or how much detail resolution or patterns to create the effect. Looking forward reading the next article!!
I really enjoyed this Dennis! It reminded me of something similar to clay sculpting. Simon Lee, our teacher use the analogy of standing in different distances to focus our attention on how or what to build up the sculpture.
For example at 50 feet, we only see the big broad shape of the sculpture, the silhouette and main base form.
Then as we get to 10feet, see the sub main shapes, or parts of a body, you can tell the muscles that make up the arms, legs, torso etc.
Then at 5 feet, another level of detail where we see now the features, we can tell if it’s a human or creature. Seeing the emotion or weight of the gesture of each parts of the body, that this character is doing a particular action of running or pushing for example.
Then at 1 feet, we see the detail, the pores, the tension of the skin, the texture and stretch of the fur or clothing.
I’m paraphrasing here but the main thing is that by breaking up the way to approach of sculpting a character figure, this helps to focus and be able to execute building up the forms of a figure in different scales.
Will look more on reading about the use of the term ‘program’ to get some clue. Dont have the context so I’m having a hard time picturing what it means. Looking forward on the next post about this. What would you recommend reading about programs that your talking about?
Hey John-O,
thx so much for your feedback! And for being the first to comment on my new blog :)
I like your analogy to your sculpting practice a lot. Just like viewing a sculpture from different distances does not change the sculpture itself but only our perception of it, we can also view "units of work" from different distances.
The term and concept of a "program" is usually not used in personal productivity. What you see people do instead is defining bigger projects with "sub-projects". This is the wrong approach and the reason why I wrote my 4-part series on it:
https://fractalproductivity.substack.com/p/fractal-productivity?s=w
https://fractalproductivity.substack.com/p/discovering-the-personal-program?s=w
https://fractalproductivity.substack.com/p/the-personal-program?s=w
https://fractalproductivity.substack.com/p/we-need-to-go-meta?s=w
Else, there is not much to recommend (I am not aware of anyone else using the term "program"). I borrowed the term from *professional/business* project management. If that is of interest to you you should dive into the classic literature on project management. But I doubt that you will get much more out of it for your personal life.
Thanks Dennis, this is perfect! Will read through them to get more context, especially in the realm of personal productivity. This interest me more.
Yeah, your exactly right. Because of this different levels of perception, I can then decide what tools to use to sculpt or how much detail resolution or patterns to create the effect. Looking forward reading the next article!!