{"id":2370,"date":"2011-03-22T22:03:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T03:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/?p=2370"},"modified":"2014-12-14T20:29:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T01:29:54","slug":"serious-doodling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/serious-doodling\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Doodling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2371\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-talisman.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2371\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2371\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-talisman\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-talisman.jpg?resize=433%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-talisman.jpg?w=433 433w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-talisman.jpg?resize=216%2C300 216w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2371\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Talisman, 2011, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a defense of the practice of doodling.\u00a0 Doodling has a reputation for being aimless, mindless, pointless and devoid of artistic merit.\u00a0 As I am an incorrigible doodler, I might be seen as defending my own bad habits, although I would never write in defense of gluttony, bibulousness, lechery, or sloth, to all of which I would be obliged to cop, so clearly I am at least granting doodling an exalted tier among the vices.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2372\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-loopsgrowers.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2372\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2372\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-loops&amp;growers\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-loopsgrowers.jpg?resize=600%2C470\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-loopsgrowers.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-loopsgrowers.jpg?resize=300%2C235 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2372\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Loops &amp; Growers, 2011, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Doodle\" target=\"_blank\">The word<\/a> apparently derives from the German <em>dudeln<\/em>, meaning to play the bagpipes.\u00a0 The form <em>dudelkopf<\/em> was used to mean fool or idiot, and could I think be literally interpreted as &#8220;bagpipe-head&#8221;, perhaps an early form of our contemporary idiom &#8220;airhead&#8221;.\u00a0 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/library\/yankee.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yankee doodle<\/a>&#8221; was originally the British way of saying &#8220;American idiot&#8221;.\u00a0 Doodle in this sense is probably the source of the word &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dude\" target=\"_blank\">dude<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 Even meaning idiot, the word seems to carry some subtle aura of transcendence.\u00a0 Spoken with a certain intonation, the word &#8220;dude&#8221; is an expression of awe, and the indelible character of The Dude in <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/putz\/Public\/big_lebowski.txt\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Big Lebowski<\/em><\/a> has some of the same blessed qualities of the holy fool as Dostoevsky&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/2638\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Idiot<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0\u00a0&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=90725993\" target=\"_blank\">The Dude abides<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2373\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-ship.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2373\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2373\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-ship\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-ship.jpg?resize=392%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-ship.jpg?w=392 392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-ship.jpg?resize=196%2C300 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ship, 2011, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pictorial marginalia and abstract designs made while other parts of the mind are otherwise engaged have probably always been a part of the human behavioral repertory, but the verb &#8220;to doodle&#8221; in its contemporary meaning may originate in the 1936 Frank Capra movie<a href=\"http:\/\/sfy.ru\/?script=mr_deeds\" target=\"_blank\"> <em>Mr. Deeds Goes to Town<\/em><\/a>, staring Gary Cooper.\u00a0 The screenplay is written by Robert Riskin in snappy American vernacular poetry.\u00a0 In the film, Mr. Deeds defines doodling as an activity that facilitates thinking.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2374\" style=\"width: 414px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-incantation.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2374\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2374\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-incantation\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-incantation.jpg?resize=404%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"404\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-incantation.jpg?w=404 404w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-incantation.jpg?resize=202%2C300 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Incantation, 2010, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I was in high school the instruction usually seemed to be paced for the slowest students in the class, and I doodled because the activity soothed my boredom and frustration.\u00a0 I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">a good university<\/a> where the level and speed of the ideas being presented was considerably higher, enough to keep even my quicksilver mind thoroughly engaged, but by that time my habit of doodling in class was set, and so I generally doodled rather than, or in addition to, taking notes.\u00a0 This habit did no apparent harm to my learning; in fact, I believe it enhanced it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2375\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-predicament.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2375\" title=\"fredhatt-2010--predicament\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-predicament.jpg?resize=460%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-predicament.jpg?w=460 460w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-predicament.jpg?resize=230%2C300 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2375\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Predicament, 2010, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigdoodles.com\/downloads\/study-about-doodling-jackie-andrade-fulltext.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">New research<\/a> backs up this conclusion.\u00a0 Doodling seems to improve recall and help keep the mind focused.\u00a0 I tend to doodle while doing things that involve sustained listening with minimal visual or kinesthetic involvement: long phone calls, for instance, or listening to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">This American Life<\/a>&#8221; on the radio.\u00a0 Doodling isn&#8217;t the only activity that works this way.\u00a0 Some people like knitting or whittling.\u00a0 For me, distance driving is a nearly perfect accompaniment to listening.\u00a0 But doodling adds a creative element that is more satisfying.\u00a0 It engages the part of the mind that wants to move and see, while not distracting the part of the mind that listens, understands, and cogitates.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2376\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-terse.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2376\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2376\" title=\"fredhatt-2010-terse\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-terse.jpg?resize=585%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"585\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-terse.jpg?w=585 585w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2010-terse.jpg?resize=292%2C300 292w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2376\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Terse, 2010, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Texting and web-surfing are genuinely distracting, because they engage not the visual and kinesthetic mind, but the verbal and discursive mind, the part that needs to be kept present during a lecture or meeting or conversation.\u00a0 Having done both, I can attest that doodling helps focus while Googling dissipates focus.\u00a0 I think the transition from paper notebooks to electronic notebooks in the classroom is bound to diminish the school experience.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2377\" style=\"width: 461px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-splat.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2377\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2377\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-splat\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-splat.jpg?resize=451%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"451\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-splat.jpg?w=451 451w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-splat.jpg?resize=225%2C300 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Splat, 2011, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last year I saw a retrospective exhibit of <a href=\"http:\/\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/10\/burchfields-force-fields\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charles E. Burchfield<\/a>, a  painter close to my own spirit.\u00a0 The exhibit featured a significant  collection of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.askart.com\/askart\/artists\/search\/inquiry.aspx?artist=24179&amp;ad=131392&amp;searchtype=ART_FOR_SALE\" target=\"_blank\"> Burchfield&#8217;s doodles<\/a>, often made on telephone memo pads or  the score sheets for card games.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t recall seeing such casual  doodles being featured in a major art exhibit before that, but they were  a revealing part of the collection, showing the artist&#8217;s obsessive  exploration of the visual motifs he used to express the intangible and  ineffable aspects of Nature.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2378\" style=\"width: 445px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-upthrust.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2378\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2378\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-upthrust\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-upthrust.jpg?resize=435%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"435\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-upthrust.jpg?w=435 435w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-upthrust.jpg?resize=217%2C300 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2378\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Upthrust, 2011, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Since seeing Burchfield&#8217;s show, I&#8217;ve found my own doodles have become  more intense, actually interesting for me to look at after the occasion  of their making has passed.\u00a0 Doodles are a way of making patterns by  allowing the hand to move freely in response to subtle impulses.\u00a0 Thus,  doodling is a practice of feeling the movements of the life force and  manifesting them in line.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2379\" style=\"width: 454px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-arbre.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2379\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-arbre\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-arbre.jpg?resize=444%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"444\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-arbre.jpg?w=444 444w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-arbre.jpg?resize=222%2C300 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arbre, 2011, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Life force may seem a mystical concept.\u00a0 On a certain philosophical  level, it is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daoistcenter.org\/dao.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tao<\/a>, the mover of all things.\u00a0 But it can also be  understood in its most direct bodily manifestations, as the movement of  the breath, the flow of blood, the nerve impulses, the direction of  growth, and the response of the organism to move towards certain things  and away from others.\u00a0 All of these are things we can directly feel and express through bodily movement.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2380\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-folia.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2380\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2380\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-folia\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-folia.jpg?resize=470%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-folia.jpg?w=470 470w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-folia.jpg?resize=235%2C300 235w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Folia, 2011, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A sensitivity to these different qualities of movement, thrusting and  bending, rushing and meandering, the ever-changing weather of emotions  and the slow and indomitable determination to grow, gives life to the  lines.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2381\" style=\"width: 402px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-clown.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2381 \" title=\"fredhatt-2011-clown\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-clown.jpg?resize=392%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"392\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-clown.jpg?w=392 392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-clown.jpg?resize=196%2C300 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clown, 2011, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You don&#8217;t need to dedicate your life to art, as I have, to benefit  from  doodling, or to take doodling more seriously.\u00a0 Just doodle in your  own  way, but rather than thinking of it as a compulsive response to   extreme boredom, as the pacing of the caged, view it as the movement of   the mind making connections.\u00a0 Sometimes the different parts of the mind are most unified when they are separately engaged.\u00a0 Above all, choose doodling when it is appropriate.\u00a0 If you are sitting in a meeting, or listening to a lecture or sermon, or letting someone tell you the story of their life, and if you feel your attention flagging, don&#8217;t check your weather widget or BoingBoing &#8211; Doodle instead!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2382\" style=\"width: 492px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-crown.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2382\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2382\" title=\"fredhatt-2011-crown\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-crown.jpg?resize=482%2C600\" alt=\"\" width=\"482\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-crown.jpg?w=482 482w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fredhatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/fredhatt-2011-crown.jpg?resize=241%2C300 241w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 482px) 100vw, 482px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crown, 2011, doodle by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most of the doodles shown in this post were made on regular letter-size paper, sometimes folded in half, using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tombowusa.com\/CraftDetail.aspx?sku=10002\" target=\"_blank\">Tombow brush-markers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a defense of the practice of doodling.\u00a0 Doodling has a reputation for being aimless, mindless, pointless and devoid of artistic merit.\u00a0 As I am an incorrigible doodler, I might be seen as defending my own bad habits, although I would never write in defense of gluttony, bibulousness, lechery, or sloth, to all of 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