Today an old friend of mine, a computer graphics pioneer, showed me a project he has been working on, to help make this pandemic easier to take. Every day, for the last 31 days, he has made a pencil drawing of an object he can place on his desk.<\/p>\n
One day he draws a stapler, the next a pair of scissors, or maybe a bottle of perfume, or a small animal figurine. Each is highly realistic, and each is beautiful.<\/p>\n
I admire this push against the relentless digitalization of expression. Just picking up a pencil and sketching on paper seems like a wonderful path to escaping the tyranny of the computer.<\/p>\n
And he seemed so happy to show me his drawings. The whole time he was beaming like a little kid.<\/p>\n
Come to think of it, maybe I will put down this computer and make some drawings. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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