Once, a guard mistook a series of abstract paintings as blueprints for an escape attempt and destroyed them.Many of the paintings show snapshots of prison life: convicts crouched in subservient squats for inspections, or curled morosely in tiny cells.
Harvest enough of these, and arrange them in the right order, and it is possible to knock together a piece of software that can perform any task you like.Frankenstein starts with a "semantic blueprint": an abstract description of what the program is designed to do.
Conservatives reject revolutionary Jacobinism's espousal of political rationalism, which attempts to reconstruct society from abstract principles or general blueprint, without reference to tradition.
The reference model in Section "Data infrastructure reference model" gives the basic blueprint with abstract entities and relationships that are more concrete in this section and focussed on the specific use case of a 'data replication service'.
It was never about music (it's no accident that Jay-Z's albums are numbered as volumes and "blueprints", like abstract paintings – one, two, three, four).
UNICEF envisions and promotes CFS models not as abstract concepts or a rigid blueprint but rather as "pathways towards quality" in education that reflect three key, and inter-related, principles derived from the Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF, in press): Child-centredness: Central to all decision-making in education is safeguarding the interest of the child.
Dubbing the works "blueprint studies," Helander creates large-scale abstract assemblages that hover between the recycled printed page and the language of paint.
"Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm," he has written, and "Don't be ashamed because you're human: be proud!
As superficial as this elementary practice may sound, it lays the foundation of a new blueprint which can be extended to grander, more abstract promises.
