Berlin- A city in flux.

A pretty simple and neat but immediately poignant way of looking at change.

Revisited

East Germany's transformation over 10 years captured in photographs

Passing thoughts on material culture- (drawing parallels to my project? ) :P

Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India is a book by Professor Ram Sharan Sharma. The author surveys theories of social change and underlines the key role of production techniques together with climatic conditions in shaping ancient social formations. Several questions are raised: What was the extent of cattle pastoralism in early Vedic times and how was it linked with tribalism and booty capture? Why could the later Vedic people not develop a full-fledged state and class system? What part did iron play in war and production in northern India? Why did Buddhism appear around 600 BC and why did this happen in the middle Gangetic plains? How many forms of society are reflected in the epics? Rural relics of ancient life and its glimpses in terracottas are also discussed. To tackle these problems, Vedic, epic and Buddhist texts are examined in the light of material remains, tribal studies and archaic social survivals.

Review 5 with Koshy

Discussion in Brief:

contrasting two styles of writing

fonts

spacing

decorative

motifs

leitmotifs

content

colours

backgrounds

images

stick to same plan

don't go overboard

stick basically to two

time logistics

From color line and shape shift focus to contrast now- since you have the elements in place-

organic/inorganic

functional/aesthetic

planed/unplanned

shape of the book

form of the book

modernity -real

projected modernity

perception of that modernity

lived life

the gap

aspirations and ideals - disjunct

do the spaces/places colours lines shapes bleed into one another knowingly or unknowingly?

how am i as a reader going to get all this?

contrasts

1. text -surfaces -visuals - organic/inorganic, planned, unplanned, functional (dysfunctional)/aesthetic

book as object

Start making so as to get a hang of it. experiment by doing. make things whether you will use them or not.