Recently, while browsing the vast and infinite spaces of Internet, by pure accident I walked into a site that had an illustration made by M. C. Escher used in the article. Maybe I’m weird or something, but I’ve never seen his works before and even if I did, I didn’t know that it’s him. Anyway, I liked the picture so much I decided to take a deeper dive into the topic – what I found was a beautiful, abstract world made with psychedelic pictures based on mathematical formulas, visual tricks and skewed grids that made a great impression on me. Since I find his works very inspiring and I’m sure there are still people out there who haven’t seen his works, I decided to share some of it on my blog.
Who was M. C. Escher?
I will quote Escher’s biography on that:
Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in The Netherlands in 1898, the youngest son of an engineer. He was an indiferent student who especially disliked mathematics and barely graduated from high school. At the urging of his parents he pursued studies in architecture, but he soon gravitated to the arts and devoted the rest of his life to making lithographs and woodcuts. “I am a printmaker, heart and soul”, he said.
Currently, most of his works are available for the public in Escher’s Museum in Hague (that’s one of the places I have to see as soon as possible).
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As probably some of you know, we’re getting married this summer, so the preparations for everything are in progress. One of the very important part of the whole wedding process are invitations – I’m a picky bastard when it comes to those, mostly because the specifics of my work. Also, you wouldn’t believe what kind of crap are the so-called wedding invitation design companies trying to sell you (not mentioning the prices). On the other hand, you have beautifully crafted small pieces of art that are worth every money. Here’s a quick round-up of the ones I’ve found particularly inspiring, creative or simply interesting.
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One of the great sides of working in Lunar Logic Polska is the fact that it has really cool internal and side projects. We’ve got RubyTime, utype, Rubyusers and hell lot of fun things to do while not working on a paid project. That absolutely changed my point of view on internal projects, since in my previous company, working on internals was basically an equivalent for being sent to the quarry.
Recently, Paul, also known as Agile Activist, started to run his podcast about agile project management with Andy of CodeSprinters. Since I was working on my paid project mostly as a consultant – jump in, fix few things, help team accomplish something, jump out – Paul came to me with a proposition of making iTunes Artwork and site for his podcast.
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