Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
We are inching ever closer to our day-job software release. It seems like it has been going on forever. Regular readers will know that Rich has put his beloved art-nude photography on hold until the software is finally released, despite my frequent attempts to persuade him otherwise. We do have a shoot booked in June with a lovely model with whom I’ve been corresponding for ages, and I’ve threatened Rich with a very nasty punishment (such as cabbage dinners for a month) if he cancels this shoot too.
I know I moan about him sometimes, but no-one can fault Rich’s dedication to duty. The reason he can’t shoot at the moment is because he is doing 70-80 hour weeks finishing this blasted software, and I barely see him nowadays. All of his creative juices are being poured into source code, leaving zero inspiration for creating art-nudes.
No matter how good he will get over the next thirty years at art-nude photography, (and that's pretty damn good, I'm sure), he will always be far more superior at software design.
Sorry Rich, but it’s true.
Software design is your gift.
Everything else is just wrapping paper, no matter how pretty the pattern.
Creating excellent software is an art-form. It requires more brain power than photography and (in my view) more creative genius. Lateral thinking outside the box, finding new, faster and more ingenious ways to design a new method of solving a software problem, requires the programmer to be completely immersed in the code. He lives and breathes it with a passion, in the same way that an artist is consumed by his art. The end result is software which is so well crafted that it is pure beauty, in a similar way that the image of a beautiful nude woman flows and has a resonance which captures the essence of both photographer and model.
I know it seems extremely weird that I do find a software product beautiful and sexy, but don’t forget that I know the blood, sweat and tears that went into producing the end result. In the same way that, as an accountant, I find a balance sheet beautiful (yes it’s true), and in the same way that a mathematician finds algebra a thing of eloquent perfection, a well crafted software product is an art-form. Sure it’s not as conventionally sexy as an image of a nude woman, and it probably won’t appeal to the readers of this blog, but it meets the definition of “art” in every sense of the word.
So the end result is that Rich has produced extremely cool software. And we hope others will think so too. Computer software may not be as visually beautiful as the lovely Claire Louisa below, but software sure earns more ingots than art-nude photography, and will hopefully give us enough gold to eat, pay for the kids, plus (most importantly) fund the all important acquisition of a Hasselblad.
He’s definitely earned it.
The beautiful Claire Louisa. Not as sexy as Rich’s new calendaring software, but she’s extremely well crafted nonetheless.
I know I moan about him sometimes, but no-one can fault Rich’s dedication to duty. The reason he can’t shoot at the moment is because he is doing 70-80 hour weeks finishing this blasted software, and I barely see him nowadays. All of his creative juices are being poured into source code, leaving zero inspiration for creating art-nudes.
No matter how good he will get over the next thirty years at art-nude photography, (and that's pretty damn good, I'm sure), he will always be far more superior at software design.
Sorry Rich, but it’s true.
Software design is your gift.
Everything else is just wrapping paper, no matter how pretty the pattern.
Creating excellent software is an art-form. It requires more brain power than photography and (in my view) more creative genius. Lateral thinking outside the box, finding new, faster and more ingenious ways to design a new method of solving a software problem, requires the programmer to be completely immersed in the code. He lives and breathes it with a passion, in the same way that an artist is consumed by his art. The end result is software which is so well crafted that it is pure beauty, in a similar way that the image of a beautiful nude woman flows and has a resonance which captures the essence of both photographer and model.
I know it seems extremely weird that I do find a software product beautiful and sexy, but don’t forget that I know the blood, sweat and tears that went into producing the end result. In the same way that, as an accountant, I find a balance sheet beautiful (yes it’s true), and in the same way that a mathematician finds algebra a thing of eloquent perfection, a well crafted software product is an art-form. Sure it’s not as conventionally sexy as an image of a nude woman, and it probably won’t appeal to the readers of this blog, but it meets the definition of “art” in every sense of the word.
So the end result is that Rich has produced extremely cool software. And we hope others will think so too. Computer software may not be as visually beautiful as the lovely Claire Louisa below, but software sure earns more ingots than art-nude photography, and will hopefully give us enough gold to eat, pay for the kids, plus (most importantly) fund the all important acquisition of a Hasselblad.
He’s definitely earned it.
The beautiful Claire Louisa. Not as sexy as Rich’s new calendaring software, but she’s extremely well crafted nonetheless.
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