Art:

• Cezanne: Can’t quit you man
• American Kinetic sculpture at BMW: selling it
• LA Traffic Photos, and the maths behind it

Physics:

• A Lecture Missed: What is Time Anyway
• Reality problem: Electrons…

Economics:

• Capitalism: Basically Feudalism

Math:

• Cities: Crazy coincidences or the basic geometry
  

Art:

• SFMOMA: Brought to Light: Microscopy and Taaffe
• American photography’s relationship to Hopper & Companion Book: Edward Hopper & Company: Hopper’s Influence on Photography
• low-contrast female vs high-contrast male?

Physics:

• Scientists image most distant object in the universe 13-billion light-years away

Maps:

• National Geo: Place name maps

Maps:

• California = Italy? Tennessee= Iran? Texas=Brazil? US States named for Countries with Similar GDP
• Watch those Continents fly aroundContinental drift animation that I’ve always wanted to see

Art:

• Goya’s Colossus actually painted by his assistant, says expert
• Zaha Hadid Architects has revealed images of its 200m-tall tower in Bucharest

, I blogged about Zaha Hadid’s work in NYC gallery late last year.

Physics:

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

One way of thinking about things. It may start slow but it quickly covers a lot of ground to an existential “bang”. Watch it all.

Link

Check out a book by Rob Bryanton – there is a lot more in it, you’ve seen is only a summary of the first chapter…

Photography:

• An audio interview with Roger Ballen for Lens Culture

Maps:

• Placenames – more romantic if ya don’t know what they mean?
• Heavy Metal all mapped out
• If you every wanted to see a map of European languages

Design:

• Car -o- wood
• New watch, if it wasn’t o damn expensive.

Science:

• Alongside greatness of Newton is al-Hassan Ibn al-Haythama a scientist born in AD 965 in what is now Iraq
• Monkeys, Monkeys, …and more Monkeys! …and Shakespeare
• Global warming for your neighbor who only listens to talk radio