Re: [-empyre-] learning tools

["Patrick Lichty" <voyd@voyd.com>]

> >The pen makes writing easier, but you don't "learn pen" or "learn pencil"
> >(the same way today you "learn flash" and "learn C++") in order to write
> >better!  you engage in history, thinking, discussion groups, classrooms,
> >whatever. same for artmaking practices.
>
> don't you remember how many hundreds and hundreds of hours it took
> you to learn to write with a pen? or to write fluently on a keyboard,
> for that matter. it seems to me artists of every kind have always had
> to spend a lot of time learning their medium.

Good point, and I think that TI'ms getting at the point that it takes two
different sets of cognitive functions, although they may have some relations
if you think about spatial relations and philosophy/critical thought both
arising from the anthropic principle.  However, I would argue that  typing
is not necessarily writing as using a pencil is not necessarily drawing,
although both can be done with the tools, and it takes time to learn the
tools.