Successive Approximation: Unsilent Night edition

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You may recall, if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, that last year I pulled together Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night for its first run in Newnan (GA).

We’re back this year, and again we will be decorating lanterns at Backstreet Arts to get ready. Here’s the schedule:

  • Grown-ups only:

    • Thu, Oct 25, 6:00–8:00

    • Thu, Nov 1, 6:00–8:00

    • Thu, Nov 8, 6:00–8:00

    • Thu, Nov 15, 6:00–8:00

    • Thu, Nov 29, 6:00–8:00

  • Kids, too:

    • Wed, Nov 7, 6:00–8:00

    • Wed, Nov 14, 6:00–8:00

Why is this post supposedly about SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION? Because if you’re not a professional lantern maker, you will find yourself more than a little puzzled about how to fit your beautiful sketch — on a flat piece of paper — onto a globe.

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You will spend time working on the top half, adjusting the sketch to its new 3-D reality and warping your expectations along with the sketch — and then realize that your AUDIENCE is not going to see the top of the lantern.

You will then have to continue adapting your design while working with an upside-down lantern.

And it will all be okay. You will defeat your expectations of perfection, and you will have a thing of beauty. When you’re walking downtown, holding your lantern and surrounded by the angelic bells of Phil Kline’s new age pieces, notice one thing: no one is paying any attention to the obvious flaws in your lantern. That is because 1) they cannot see them; and 2) they are not flaws — they are part of the lantern.

Join us, both for lantern making and for the event itself.