Balance

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:37 am

I have this obsession with symmetry. If I stretch one arm or leg I have to stretch the other. If the window blinds are open they have to be open the same height. Can't leave a picture crooked on the wall....

I like some asymmetrical stuff that is designed that way but only if it is well designed to maintain balance.

You?

(jimbo, we know you're unbalanced already)

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:45 am

koan;564613 wrote: I have this obsession with symmetry. If I stretch one arm or leg I have to stretch the other. If the window blinds are open they have to be open the same height. Can't leave a picture crooked on the wall....

I like some asymmetrical stuff that is designed that way but only if it is well designed to maintain balance.

You?

(jimbo, we know you're unbalanced already)
well you seem ok ,spot seems fine ,immy

seems fine , doh its me then:rolleyes:

DelicateDominatrix · Post by **DelicateDominatrix** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:49 am

I am more into inner balance.Peace harmony and stuff of that sort lol :-4

Even thought I admit I can be a bit of a drama queen :wah:

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:49 am

It's okay, everyone, jimbo's out of his cage for a moment but he's not dangerous.

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:51 am

When I put things on a shelf, I try to arrange it so both sides of the shelf have equal visual weight.

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:56 am

[QUOTE=koan;564613]I have this obsession with symmetry. If I stretch one arm or leg I have to stretch the other. If the window blinds are open they have to be open the same height. Can't leave a picture crooked on the wall....

I like some asymmetrical stuff that is designed that way but only if it is well designed to maintain balance.

It seems a bit "Patrick Bergen" to me!....:-3

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:12 am

dubs;564644 wrote:

It seems a bit "Patrick Bergen" to me!....:-3

I won't beat anyone silly for putting a soup can in the cupboard with the label the wrong way, if that's what you mean.

Just give them a dirty look. :wah:

Elvira · Post by **Elvira** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:15 am

koan;564613 wrote: I have this obsession with symmetry. If I stretch one arm or leg I have to stretch the other. If the window blinds are open they have to be open the same height. Can't leave a picture crooked on the wall....

I like some asymmetrical stuff that is designed that way but only if it is well designed to maintain balance.

You?

(jimbo, we know you're unbalanced already)

ok - this is getting wierd!

I'm exactly the same! I suffer from OCD, which means that everything has to be 'even' in every way!

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:19 am

Elvira;564664 wrote: ok - this is getting wierd!

I'm exactly the same! I suffer from OCD, which means that everything has to be 'even' in every way!

I've recently admitted that I have OCD issues.

The important thing is to be able to laugh about it.

I like my OCD. :-6

Elvira · Post by **Elvira** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:24 am

koan;564669 wrote: I've recently admitted that I have OCD issues.

The important thing is to be able to laugh about it.

I like my OCD. :-6

I suffered terribly with it through my teens and early 20s. As a result I was medicated, sectioned and had a LOT of psychiatric treatment.

I'm on top of it now and haven't been on the pills for over 4 yrs, but it's something that I have to be aware of.

You and I seem to be quite similar creatures. :-4

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:25 am

Elvira;564680 wrote: I suffered terribly with it through my teens and early 20s. As a result I was medicated, sectioned and had a LOT of psychiatric treatment.

I'm on top of it now and haven't been on the pills for over 4 yrs, but it's something that I have to be aware of.

You and I seem to be quite similar creatures. :-4

Perhaps a good reason for us to never meet. :wah:

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:04 am

Diuretic;564708 wrote: "What immortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry! "

Symmetry is beauty. I don't know if we live in a binary universe but I do know symmetry is innately appreciated in humans.

Koan - find a picture by Piet Mondrian. One that springs to mind is "Broadway Boogie-Woogie" I think it's called. Now block out (in your mind's eye) one of the big colour squares - the big ones, not the tiny ones. Does it look all wrong? It should. I remember my art teacher telling me that in high school. Take a segment out and it's all unbalanced. Symmetry is really beauty.

I actively hate Mondrian's art. :wah:

eta: but I love William Blake

Elvira · Post by **Elvira** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:16 am

koan;564681 wrote: Perhaps a good reason for us to never meet. :wah:

er......ok.

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:25 am

koan;564635 wrote: When I put things on a shelf, I try to arrange it so both sides of the shelf have equal visual weight.

I never really thought about it until you mentioned it. I do this too.

Elvira · Post by **Elvira** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:28 am

Diuretic;564721 wrote: Keep at it with Mondrian, I love his work - ignore the abuse committed on his art by fashionistas in the 1960s. I seem to remember seeing dresses which nicked a few ideas from De Stijl - in fact if I'm not wrong I think Mary Quant might have ripped it off. Oh - I'll probably be sued now - c'est la vie.

Blake - what a wonderful talent, poetry, painting, music, mysticism - who can't be move by Jerusalem and it doesn't even have to be at the last night of the Proms.

Right that's that then.

Back into phillistine mode.

Gawd! I can't stand Mondrian! But I guess thats because I don't consider what Mondrian does to be an 'art' it's more conceptualist work......

Now Blake is one of my very favourite artists - I did a tryptich based on his spirit of albion many years ago.

koan · Post by **koan** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:31 am

Elvira;564725 wrote: er......ok.

just a little self-effacing humour about how intolerable I am.

sunny104 · Post by **sunny104** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:42 am

I do things like that too. Like money always has to be arranged to face the same direction. I dunno, I just like things to look 'neat' I guess.....

CrazyCruizChick · Post by **CrazyCruizChick** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:06 am

I've got a thing about cushions being neat on the sofa

Even to the point that if I was to walk past a sofa store I always get irritated if the cushions are messy I just want to go in and arrange it :-3

Elvira · Post by **Elvira** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 11:10 am

Diuretic;564863 wrote: Conceptualist? I would have save that for that Tracy sheila with the tent.

I enjoy the Pre-Raphaelites for example and I like Mondrian as well. For me I let my eye wander over the Pre-Raphaelites but I like to engage with Mondrian, I can almost see the traffic lights changing in "Broadway Boogie Woogie".

I agree completely! Tracey Emin is a conceptualist, and a damned good one, but an artist she is not!

I adored the Pre-raphelite era, and had the Renaissance period not had such political importance to me, then I would have majored in that era. I was in LOVE with Dante Gabriel Rosetti when I was about 17!

S xxx

Indian Princess · Post by **Indian Princess** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:38 pm

Yup ocd!

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:51 pm

i have a ocd cousin that loves gardening...he and i are the exact opposites...he takes a half an hour to pick out the perfectly shaped plant...me? i grab wichever one looks healthy..crooked , leaning, what ever....this drives john nuts...everytime he waits untill he thinks i am not looking and replaces my plant with what he thinks is a better symetrical one.....cracks me up.............he hasn't figured out yet that i deliberately get the loppy plants just to mess with his head............

and i have a set of earrings i wear when i used to have to deal with my dad..one is a mouse and the other is a cat..opposite ears...they dont match and my dad would have a fit....and i loved it...........:p because there was absolutely no way to get his approval and the earrings reminded me to not even try.............

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:10 am

I must have 'order' in my life and that includes 'symetry'.

Ornaments have to be 'grouped' in 3s, 5s,7s etc.

Towels must hang 'just so' and match.

Cans and jars in the cupboards must have the labels facing the right way.

A room has to be decorated in neutral colours with only ONE proper colour as an accent colour.

I can't mix gold and silver jewellry

Photo or picture frames in a particular room must match

My car must be parked accurately between the lines in the car park

Clothes in my wardrobe are 'grouped' by colour and type.

Books on the shelves are displayed in descending size ~ largest on the leftI really worry about myself sometimes !

Rosette · Post by **Rosette** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:16 am

OH NO.....I couldn't be more different!

For me life is far too short and busy...... to spend my time making sure my house is just so..... I have messy kids and a busy work life...... plus i think my kids would be uncomfortable in a house that had things in its place!

But got to admit....I sometimes dream of having a lovely just so house........ maybe when the kids have grown up.....hehehehe but then again life would be even shorter!!!:wah:

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:39 am

guppy;565481 wrote: he hasn't figured out yet that i deliberately get the loppy plants just to mess with his head............

Evil. That's the only word for it.

Rosette, yes, having kids around makes keeping a house in order near impossible.

Tater Tazz · Post by **Tater Tazz** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:44 am

They call me annal at work, because everything has to be in the proper place. I can not stand when someone moves something out of place.

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:51 am

i just cant stand anything in order in its place , i have to mess things up that are ,a reminder of the way i dont fit into a normal world i spoze ,,,of course i know i have now given koan a piece of the workings of my mind to Annalise ... i'm going to regret this am i not ?????:-3 :-3

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:55 am

jimbo;565610 wrote: i just cant stand anything in order in its place , i have to mess things up that are ,a reminder of the way i dont fit into a normal world i spoze ,,,of course i know i have now given koan a piece of the workings of my mind to Annalise ... i'm going to regret this am i not ?????:-3 :-3

*writes in notebook - actively resists conformity

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:04 am

[quote=koan;565613]*writes in notebook - actively resists conformity[/quote

]oops

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:08 am

*writes in notebook - still hasn't figured out how BB code works

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:12 am

koan;565628 wrote: *writes in notebook - still hasn't figured out how BB code works

writes on forehead WTF IS BB CODE ????????

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:24 am

jimbo;565631 wrote: writes on forehead WTF IS BB CODE ????????

*writes in notebook - It's worse than I thought

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:30 am

koan;565637 wrote: *writes in notebook - It's worse than I thought

writes on cheek ..what is:wah:

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:42 am

Diuretic;565645 wrote: Look around you young Skywalker!

may the farce be with me..:wah:

thanks di still have no idea .. but i can deal with it :wah:

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:45 am

jimbo;565655 wrote: may the farce be with me..:wah:

thanks di still have no idea .. but i can deal with it :wah:

the problem all starts when you highlight something after you quote it and insert more code.

Just make sure you highlight only the text and all will be well.

I only tell you because this is a thread about nitpicking and balance and I worry that you might cause a homicidal flare in one of us if you don't stop.

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:55 am

koan;565657 wrote: the problem all starts when you highlight something after you quote it and insert more code.

Just make sure you highlight only the text and all will be well.

I only tell you because this is a thread about nitpicking and balance and I worry that you might cause a homicidal flare in one of us if you don't stop.

soo by just being me,im upsetting your thread making it unballenced mwoooaaaahhh mwaaaaoooohh

i bet there is more than one person here that would love to tell me to shut up :wah: :wah:

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:06 am

or i could of said

thats much better:wah: