Arts and Culture

Metaphors drawn from visual arts, music, literature, and cultural practice.

Entries (93)

• Alchemy metaphor
• Ansible Is Instant Communication metaphor
• Art Is a Battle, a Mill That Grinds metaphor
• Art Is Making Something Better Without Knowing What Better Is paradigm
• Art Is Never Finished, Only Abandoned mental-model
• Beauty Is a Flower metaphor
• Best Carpenters Make the Fewest Chips mental-model
• Brave New World Is Technological Control metaphor
• Callback metaphor
• Casting Is Ninety Percent mental-model
• Character Is Conduct mental-model
• Clapter metaphor
• Comedy Is Truth and Pain mental-model
• Coming of Age archetype
• Composting metaphor
• Creative Process Is Construction metaphor
• Creative Process Is Gardening metaphor
• Cyberspace Is a Place metaphor
• Deep Space Is the Unknown Frontier metaphor
• Director as Obstetrician metaphor
• Dovetail metaphor
• Dyson Sphere Is Megastructure Ambition metaphor
• Dystopia Is Social Warning metaphor
• Easter Egg metaphor
• Every Scene Is a Chase Scene metaphor
• Form Follows Function metaphor
• Frankenstein Is Technology Risk metaphor
• Gilding the Lily metaphor
• Good Art Carries High Density of Choice mental-model
• Grabbing Attention vs. Rewarding Attention pattern
• Hat on a Hat metaphor
• Holodeck Is Total Simulation metaphor
• In Art, Remedy Mistakes by Taking Advantage of Them mental-model
• Intuition Precedes Analysis mental-model
• Kill Your Darlings mental-model
• Killing Kittens metaphor
• Lampshading pattern
• Laying Pipe metaphor
• Less Is More metaphor
• Let the Tool Do the Work mental-model
• Lightning Rod Joke pattern
• Load-Bearing Pun metaphor
• Mentat Is Human Computer metaphor
• Middle-Out Compression metaphor
• Nail It metaphor
• Negative Space metaphor
• Negative Space Is as Important as Positive Space pattern
• Offers and Blocks metaphor
• Ornament pattern
• Oxbow Lake metaphor
• Patina metaphor
• Pod People Are Conformist Replacement metaphor
• Polished metaphor
• Raptor Pit metaphor
• Red Pill Is Awakening metaphor
• Rehearsal Is Not Performance metaphor
• Robot Is Artificial Worker metaphor
• Secret Place pattern
• See First, Name Later metaphor
• Shit Sandwich pattern
• Shokunin paradigm
• Singularity Is Technological Transcendence metaphor
• Skynet Is AI Apocalypse metaphor
• Space Colonization Is Business Expansion metaphor
• Spice Is Scarce Enabling Resource metaphor
• Staging Environment metaphor
• Status Transactions metaphor
• Talk to the Character, Not the Actor mental-model
• Technology Is a Dark Mirror metaphor
• Terroir mental-model
• The Anima / Animus archetype
• The Divine Child archetype
• The Duty Is to the Text mental-model
• The Ensemble mental-model
• The Hero archetype
• The Jackpot Is Slow Apocalypse metaphor
• The Magic If mental-model
• The Maiden archetype
• The Matrix Is Hidden Reality metaphor
• The Painting Replaces Your Ideas with Its Ideas metaphor
• The Rule of Six mental-model
• The Shapeshifter archetype
• The Trickster archetype
• Three Laws Is Ethical Programming metaphor
• Time Travel Is Historical Counterfactual metaphor
• Veneer metaphor
• Vomit Draft metaphor
• Wabi-Sabi in Woodwork paradigm
• Without the Eye the Head Is Blind metaphor
• Work Should Look Easy, However Elaborate mental-model
• Workmanship of Certainty paradigm
• Workmanship of Risk paradigm
• Yes, And pattern