#vikramchandra

#day15 of #WriteADayAPage #challenge by @blogchatter. #wordcount500.

“The incredible length of Bombay sped by, those endless sprawls of buildings, huts and shacks, children squatting and shitting by the tracks, refuse, the crowded grey roads twisting and winding between, all of it blurred but fearsome in its strength, in its very life that grew it unstoppably.” Vikram Chandra Love and Longing In Bombay Collection of short stories by Vikram Chandra, a little…

#day15 of #WriteADayAPage #challenge by @blogchatter. #wordcount500.

“The incredible length of Bombay sped by, those endless sprawls of buildings, huts and shacks, children squatting and shitting by the tracks, refuse, the crowded grey roads twisting and winding between, all of it blurred but fearsome in its strength, in its very life that grew it unstoppably.” Vikram Chandra Love and Longing In Bombay Collection of short stories by Vikram Chandra, a little…

“The incredible length of Bombay sped by, those endless sprawls of buildings, huts and shacks, children squatting and shitting by the tracks, refuse, the crowded grey roads twisting and winding between, all of it blurred but fearsome in its strength, in its very life that grew it unstoppably.” Vikram Chandra Love and Longing In Bombay Collection of short stories by Vikram Chandra, a little…

  So I think what Chandra means by beauty in coding has to do with having a lot of experience programming websites and computer programs. His passion to recognize the beauty comes from his involvement with the process and thinking how to make end result flow and produce an effective/useful tool. When I was a child I couldn’t see the beauty in writing because at that time writing didn’t make sense to me. But through the years I picked up hints and cues to the things that made writing beautiful to me. Similarly, I think the familiarity and contact with coding can allow us to recognize a kind of beauty within it.

This may be a bit far fetched but I think that at times when I teach swim lessons I am creating art in the way that I explain/express what a student needs to do in order to perform a stroke effectively. When I am able to reveal to a child how to manipulate the form of their body to swim a certain way there is an element of the art of rhetoric. I can see the exactly when it clicks in their mind that they can do it. I am in essence persuading them to perform an action how I believe it should be performed (cuz rarely to I show them physically). So I think articles like this are good to make us think about how we perceive subjects like art or beauty, and look for elements in things we don’t usually consider them to be in.

I think what you a both talking about boils down to experience (like I have said elsewhere). In Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Blink,” he explores why people have automatic reactions to things such as, an art expert just knowing that a sculpture is fake but not knowing why she feels that way, or a seasoned police officer noticing a perpetrator giving up their fire arm in slow motion even though it happens in a second or two. They have studied and analysed their craft to a point that they can see the eccentricities of objects and situations so clearly that even they can’t explain why something is beautiful or out of place. To them it just is. It becomes instinct.