by Tim Girvin | Jan 9, 2011 | Diary
SAVORING THE SHINE Today, in NYC, the sun is out, it’s brilliantly shining. And in standing near our offices, off Madison Park, I’m looking up into the sun and savoring the shine of the light. A truck with a heart(full) calligraphy, sits there,...
by Tim Girvin | Jan 8, 2011 | Diary
I SAVOR THE STORM – AND THE STORY OF ITS SPINNING Sometimes, the most utilitarian is the most beautiful evocation. I think of seeing things as voice — there is a calling to the eye. Walking down an alley, in the lushly posh places made in South Beach...
by Tim Girvin | Jan 7, 2011 | Diary
Girvin, Inc. EXAMINATIONS OF FOCUS AND PRECISION | SLOW TIME, SLOW OBSERVATION — the art of looking slow. I spent some time, working in, and exploring, Florida. I will have to confess that — of all the places that I experienced — even while working...
by Tim Girvin | Jan 5, 2011 | Diary
EARLY MORNING I was out walking, just dawn, the southern shoreline — at the southernmost reach of the United States. Out there, the birds were extraordinarily friendly — it was like being there, at the southern border, nearly 200 miles downwards of...
by Tim Girvin | Jan 4, 2011 | Diary
THE WAYFINDER’S ART. THE DESIGN OF SIGNS. Where to? The art of being lost and finding your way. I WAS LOST, NOW I AM FOUND. What of the emotionality of that experience — I’m lost? I’m found. I’m finding my way? Pleas of positioning and...
by Tim Girvin | Dec 31, 2010 | Diary
Over time, I’ve been thinking about the idea of a construction being — a place made — built as a allegory of something bigger — a larger symbolic idea. The idea relates to ancient symbolism for architecture — it’s never just a...
