Hi Andy:
Just for my 2 cents worth
What I am ascared of is that so many of the new arrivals to timberframing are looking at the same authors continuosly, and will end up not doing your own original thing.
to me it is like trying to create a flock of birds using only one parental line, I say to you don't be ascared to be different read everything, listen, look and examine, then create the new you and your creative art form!
See you in the future
NH
NH
GREAT POINT! But that goes with out saying about a whole lot of things doesn't it?
For me....right now I need to first learn the tried and true ways before I can deviate into my own ideas which I'm sure there will be plenty. I have many philosophys about how things are done in today's society from the way we build to the way we consume to the way we politic etc etc.
The feeling I'm getting with all due respect to modern technology is that we're getting further and further away from what life is all about...at least to me. I spose' there's not really any right or wrong. Just what is. Except when we find ourselves in unhealthy places and in denial about it all and where it's heading. I suppose to me...and it probably sounds pretty hockey to a lot of people is that we're forgetting where it all comes from. thats why I meditate. Nothing religous...spirtual maybe but not religous. It's all about hearing nothing but our breath...at least for a while during the day and nothing more and nothing less. I think people that are involved in the love of wood/nature can understand this maybe a bit better than those that never really walk out into the woods alone. That don't hear the silence long enough to.........
well you know.
If we can bring our selves back to some real basics like the original people on this planet. the people that built some of these basic timber structures...with no power tools...no sets of blue prints really...just the need for a function to survive somewhat comfortably. The need to shelter their families. I suppose after years and years we started thinking more about "form". More about appearances...then more about facades....and then....well you know what I'm saying...sorry for my dopey rambles...lol
andy
