Artist, graphic designer, & tech consultant in Nelson County, VA
Category:Illustration
These are posts featuring illustrations designed by John LeMasney. In general, unless otherwise noted, they are licensed CC-Attribution, cc-by lemasney, and should contain a citation and linkback.
“Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.” ~David Hume.
I decided to use Inkscape to illustrate this quote with some of my Instagram-based photos of a recent collaborative sculpture project I helped to execute to help illustrate the story of that sculpture, from conception to execution. I thought the quote was apt. Please stay tuned to http://lemasney.com for the whole story of the maple seeds in the #PrincetonParklet.
Here’s an illustration of the idea that messages printed on paper, books and magazines are “dead words on dead wood”, and while a great many books of mine are beloved despite this, I have tried desperately to remove unnecessarily printed paper from my life. When something is printed, a snapshot of a living updating document, it’s kind of a waste, and we don’t need to do it anymore. I think the outdated-ness of a printed document (not a book, but an agenda) offends me most. It makes it a lot easier to use something like Google Drive to find, edit, collaborate on and share documents that are always up to date, backed up, and available. Please don’t read this idea as anything like a dislike for books, librarian friends, but rather a dislike for wasted paper on lesser messages. <3
Woke up this morning - Raymond Carver cc-by lemasney
Woke up this morning – Raymond Carver cc-by lemasney
About Raymond Carver
“Raymond Carver was one of a handful of contemporary short story writers credited with reviving what was once thought of as a dying literary form. His stories mainly take place in his native Pacific Northwest region; they are peopled with the type of lower-middle-class characters the author was familiar with while he was growing up. In a New York Review of Books article, Thomas R. Edwards describes Carver’s fictional world as a place where “people worry about whether their old cars will
Spoon feeding in the long run - EM Forster cc-by lemasney
Spoon feeding in the long run – EM Forster cc-by lemasney
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon – EM Forster
“Apparently, this quote is not from any of Forster’s novels, stories or published writings, but was made public in the column “Sayings of the Week” in the UK newspaper “The Observer” on October 7, 1951.” – Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. – Quote of the Day – English – The Free Dictionary Language Forums,
“If someone is persistently feeding you… you never learn to feed yourself. Likewise, if you are given what you need, you don’t learn to earn what you need. If you are told what you want to know, you will never learn to research and find what you want for yourself. “Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish…. he’s fed for life. And you can get rid of him on weekends.”” – What does spoonfeeding, in the long run, teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon mean? | Yahoo Answers, https://goo.gl/9xNbvc
Biography
Author Profession: Novelist
Nationality: English
Born: January 1, 1879
Died: June 7, 1970
Links
Amazon: E. M. Forster on Amazon
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Related Authors
Aldous Huxley, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, J. R. R. Tolkien, Thomas Hardy, Emily Bronte, Henry Fielding
Topics
Feeding, Long, Long Run, Nothing, Run, Shape, Spoon, Teaches, Us
Love makes your soul - Zora Neale Hurston cc-by lemasney
Love makes your soul crawl out – Zora Neale Hurston cc-by lemasney
On Zora Neale Hurston:
“Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature. Hurston was closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance and has influenced such writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara. In 1975, Ms. Magazine published Alice Walker’s essay, “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston”
If we see each other just as fellow human beings - Dalai Lama cc-by lemasney
If we see each other just as fellow human beings – Dalai Lama cc-by lemasney
If we see each other just as fellow human beings – Dalai Lama cc-by lemasney
“Everyone wants to be happy; happiness is a right. And while on a secondary level differences exist of nationality, faith, family background, social status and so on, more important is that on a human level we are the same. None of us wants to face problems, and yet we create them by stressing our
