Once upon a time there was a French achtiect named Pierre Jeanneret who was so Rock and Roll that, to this day, everyone calls him Le Corbusier (roughly translates into "The Crow")
Le Corbusier developed a proportioning system, the Modular, to order "the dimensions of that which is contained". He saw the measuring tools of the Greeks, Egyptions, and other high civilizations as being " infinitely rich and subtle because they formed part of the mathematics of the human body, gracious, and both mathematics (the aesthetic dimensions of the Golden Section and the Fibonacci Series), and the proportions of the human body (functional dimensions)".
http://www2.latech.edu/~wtwillou/A130images_sum01/Modulor1.jpg
Le Corbusier created a series of harmonic numbers; one was the avarage height of the human being (initially 1.75 m., later 1.829 m.), the other was the height of a man with raised arms. Several of the measurements were taken from other positions. Le Corbusier saw the modular not merely as a series of numbers with an inherent harmony, but as a system of measurements that govern lengths, surfaces and volumes, and maintain the human scale everywhere. "It could land itself to an infinity of combinations; it ensures unity with diversity-the miracle of numbers."
YEAH, well, we come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and even the miracle of numbers couldn't prevent me from walking groin-first and full stride into the edge of the kitchen counter last night.
Maintain the human scale, my ass. Parts of me are swollen and some parts of me might be missing.
What he COULD have done, if he is so great and revered, is to come back from the beyond in ghost-form and say "remember the modulorrrr...", so at least when I'm standing there saying "what the fuck?" I'm prevented from running around emasculating myself.
Le Corbusier developed a proportioning system, the Modular, to order "the dimensions of that which is contained". He saw the measuring tools of the Greeks, Egyptions, and other high civilizations as being " infinitely rich and subtle because they formed part of the mathematics of the human body, gracious, and both mathematics (the aesthetic dimensions of the Golden Section and the Fibonacci Series), and the proportions of the human body (functional dimensions)".
http://www2.latech.edu/~wtwillou/A130images_sum01/Modulor1.jpg
Le Corbusier created a series of harmonic numbers; one was the avarage height of the human being (initially 1.75 m., later 1.829 m.), the other was the height of a man with raised arms. Several of the measurements were taken from other positions. Le Corbusier saw the modular not merely as a series of numbers with an inherent harmony, but as a system of measurements that govern lengths, surfaces and volumes, and maintain the human scale everywhere. "It could land itself to an infinity of combinations; it ensures unity with diversity-the miracle of numbers."
YEAH, well, we come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, and even the miracle of numbers couldn't prevent me from walking groin-first and full stride into the edge of the kitchen counter last night.
Maintain the human scale, my ass. Parts of me are swollen and some parts of me might be missing.
What he COULD have done, if he is so great and revered, is to come back from the beyond in ghost-form and say "remember the modulorrrr...", so at least when I'm standing there saying "what the fuck?" I'm prevented from running around emasculating myself.
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*thumbs nose at Redskull*
p.s. Use ice for the first 72 hours following injury.