Taco

Rick Thues January 9, 2024 Uncategorized 8 Comments

Episode #780 January 13, 2024 I have had the privilege of sharing my life with the most interesting human beings. Taco is one of the highlights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrekzvY2KMc The legend of Don Taco is a blur of lifelong memories of real and imagined events. In high school I met Taco on the “hill” in front of the admin building where the Honors group ate lunch. I was in various “groups” beginning in group 4 freshman year and proceeding to group 2 junior and senior years. I always liked the honors kids. They were smart and interesting and non conforming. When I...

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Design for People

Rick Thues January 6, 2024 Uncategorized 2 Comments

Episode #779 January 6, 2024 The trade show designers at GFB were trained at the prestigious Pasadena Art Center. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAgmPa3WpO4 At the Art Center designers are taught the importance of style and proportion. The Golden Ratio is woven into all their designs.  The Golden Ratio, often denoted by the Greek letter phi (φ), is a mathematical constant approximately equal to 1.618. It is a unique and aesthetically pleasing ratio found in various aspects of art, architecture, and nature. The ratio itself comes from the Fibonacci sequence, a naturally occurring sequence of numbers that can be found everywhere, from the number...

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Contradiction

Rick Thues December 28, 2023 Uncategorized 3 Comments

Episode #778 December 30, 2023 Arguments come in many shapes and forms. They can be as civilized as a formal debate and as primitive as a yelling match.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ67E2R77Uw During the holidays the mixing of relatives and friends comes inevitably with differences of opinion. It is OK to discuss these differences in a civilized way. Beware of stubborn recalcitrance that devolves into contradiction. One thing that arguments have in common is the exchange of ideas. Each side of an argument has a point of view. It is beholden to both sides to listen to the other’s belief. Yes, belief...

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Vincent

Rick Thues December 20, 2023 Uncategorized 3 Comments

Episode #777 December 23, 2023 “The Starry Night” is one of the most beloved paintings of all time.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk “The Starry Night,” by Vincent Van Gogh, is alive with the movement of the Universe. The stars and planets move in the sky. The trees reach upward, longing to be a part of the sky. The church spire can only hope to reach the heavens. The village is a static linear thing, confining its residents to the earth. The moon, Venus and the stars are not astronomically correct in Van Gogh’s painting. He saw the night sky through the lens...

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Key to the Kingdom

Rick Thues December 13, 2023 Uncategorized 4 Comments

Episode #776 December 16, 2023   I was given a key to Disneyland. It no longer gets me in for free. It doesn’t even give me a discount on tickets. It does make me part of history.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcZUPDMXzJ8 In the fall of 1982 the owners of Walter and Cline architectural mill bought a race horse. They were known gamblers. Bill and John used to lead the craps game in the alley after hours. Their luck at craps convinced them that they could make a fortune gambling on their race horse. “The best way to make a small fortune on...

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Demise of the Dial

Rick Thues December 8, 2023 Uncategorized 3 Comments

Episode #775 December 9, 2023 I grew up with dials. Rotary phones, volume knobs, speedometers, analog clocks and wiz wheels were everywhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMinaeFzSNw   A wheel for a dial was a natural evolution of sun dials, fibonacci moon phases and yoga Surya Namaskar (sun salutations). A sundial is a kind of analog dial with the only moving part being the spinning of the earth. The earth spinning is the wheel engine of a sundial.   A fibonacci moon phase chart is a circle of the 28 moon phases. It includes paisley fibonacci shapes to calculate the rising, setting and the...

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