TheArtist
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« Reply #16 on: October 08, 2007, 04:18:51 pm » |
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Yes a lot of it is about perception. How the city is perceived, how visitors perceive it etc. People like to gather and mingle in areas where there is a view, an open space to look out on. The Jenks Riverwalk for example, those famous Steps in Rome, the hillside of the Sacre Coeur. Plus they like being near water, whether its a lake, river, stream, or fountain. The development on the West side of the river in Tulsa will not only have a great space to look out over but a great view of downtown, not only for anyone living there, but for people visiting, dining, shopping or just going for a stroll and people watching. Its psychology and feelings, a sense of place.
Perhaps its because we dont currently have a really good example of that here that causes people to not really "get it".
I have seen some people look at a pic in a magazine or some design show and like the way a room is. They then go and try to create that look and feel on their own. They often fall short and wonder whats wrong. On the one hand they know what they like when they see it, but they dont know how to get there. As an artist I can point out where they went wrong. They thought they liked the room "or place" because of this and that reason, but they often get it all wrong. They often dont know what it is they are really liking and dont know how to create that attractive sense of place and feeling.
When you go to other cities and see the places where people tend to gather, there are reasons why people gather and like to go to certain places, or not go, even if the people there cant always tell you why.
Course there are some people that are completely devoid of any sense of anything like that at all, and they could care less lol.
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"When you only have two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other."-Chinese proverb. "Arts a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Mans spirit grows hungry for art in the same way h
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