Meditation: On Telling Fibs

Even your cramped studio has room for Fibs, the six-line poems that first appeared on Gregory K. Pincus's blog GottaBook and which have since turned up everywhere from Slashdot to the New York Times. Fibs are syllabic, expressing the Fibonacci series, in which every number after zero and one is the sum of the two previous numbers. If you're feeling cosmological (and this is a great day for it), you may be forgiven for thinking that the Fibonacci series, found in pineapples, nautilus shells, and tons of other natural growth patterns, reveals the messy world's hidden order.

Anyhow, a few examples:

None,
one,
the sum
of the two
that came before it:
that's the Fibonacci series.

You've
spilled
red wine
on my rug?
Don't give it a thought.
(And don't darken my door again.)

Feng
shui
just means
making sure
your stripes match your plaids
and your leather goes with your lace.

Your
pad
approached
the Golden
Mean, but then it took
a hard left into Space Pod kitsch.

House
cures
sometimes
are best planned
on a beach somewhere
far away from your dust bunnies.

Now you try it!

Photo credit: Designed by Robert J. Lang.
Folded by Phillip West. Uploaded by Pjil.

Comments (10)

This is beautiful, Shannon, thank you.

Always loved everything spiral and organized - and had no idea my leanings are so...natural!

[if I had a scanner, I'd post a shot of my 5th-semester residential design project, 12 years ago: an apartment for a porcelaine shells collector. I concieved it as 3d spiral, with rooms/areas generating on increasing radius spiral movement, with the center in the heart of the place - kitchen.]

posted by Tat on 2006-04-16 11:36:59

Wow, Tat, rush out and buy a scanner immediately. Your project sounds great--reminds me of Armando Munoz's La Mona in Tijuana (http://www.rut.com/mdavis/learningfromtijuana.html)

posted by Shannon on 2006-04-16 12:37:06

I
will
try it
in due time
for I live all day
in this lil place done with Feng Sui

posted by Russ on 2006-04-16 16:04:30

Cold
rain
leaves me
longing for
cheap plane tickets to
Arizona or Las Vegas.

Eek!
Smug
people
Seattle
dwellers say rain is
easy to deal with: Drink bourbon.

posted by wende in san francisco on 2006-04-16 17:01:57

Look?
SEE!
Beauty's
abundant
in the smallest things:
Beetle footprints on the sand pile.

Love
Me
Yourself
Each other
We're not so different
Maybe we both like Mac and Cheese.

Teach,
learn,
always.
No mocking
those with less knowledge
as they are learning... but are you?

posted by Andree on 2006-04-16 18:54:20

Sun
Kites
Church bells
Hyacinths
Blue on windowsill
Lacking sympathy for the ill

posted by Tat on 2006-04-16 19:51:36

What
IS
design?
GOOD design?
I must be stupid
I don't SEE it in some entries

Do
tell
me now
what it is
I should try to see
when I just don't like that color!

They
said
there was
a clear line
twixt taste/good design
To ignore the wall decor...HOW?

posted by Andree on 2006-04-16 19:59:40

Shannon, your link didn't work.

I'm trying to find the spiral garden that I swear I saw somewhere...or maybe it was a park?? That sound familiar? I thought it was Senosiain, but I guess it's not.

How about this spiral home plan?
http://www.zenzibar.com/spiralgarden/spiralhouse.htm

posted by Andree on 2006-04-17 00:30:29

Indoors,
Outdoors,
Flowers Grow.
Lightening Up Space,
Bringing life color and joy.

posted by Yevgeny Vilensky on 2006-04-17 00:35:55

I found the spiral garden, finally!
http://tinyurl.com/gwuh3

Shannon, I went in through the main site and was able to view the home. Wish they'd have shown the interior.

posted by Andree on 2006-04-17 07:15:18