www.gestaltweb.me.uk
Gestalt, gestalt g<e>S'talt. Etymology: G. = form, shape.
A "shape", "configuration", or "structure" which as an object of perception forms a specific whole or unity incapable of expression simply in terms of its parts (e.g. a melody, in distinction from the notes that make it up).
(Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition)
The Wisdom of Frank Zappa
The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of
compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent and 'regular' throughout is,
for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only good guys in it, or eating cottage cheese.
I chose this particular name as it seemed to me that it applied very
well to something like web or software development, where skills in a
number of areas were only useful if they could be combined to make something
greater than their constituent parts.
This is my own domain: a place where I can play around with ideas, note the things that I think and record them.
This site is deliberately fairly plain and minimal. I kind of like my web stuff to be like that as a rule. If I do work stuff in, I like it to try and fit with the overall feel of the site.
More about these pages. At least for the moment some Opera users may experience some problems with viewing the XML transformed pages in both the Album and CV sections. Everything seems fine if using Opera 9.50, however.
What am I doing now?