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At the beginning of April (last week) we walked around Chelsea to see some of the shows at various Galleries.
The first stop was at Yossi Milo Gallery (525 west 25 Street, NYC) to see Myoung Ho Lee’s photographs.  The concept is simple but powerful, Lee singles out one tree in each of his images in [...]

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Linked in Friday no.3

Please, check my blog on Monday for an my exciting Art announcement, this one is cool! (6-March: sorry for the delay on any announcement, I’m still waiting for the official press release).
…Most Fridays I’ll try to post links to a variety o thangs…
Art:

Michael Fried: Why Photography Matters

Physics:

Entanglement and our presumption of “Locality”, Einsteinian errors?

Design:

Idea for [...]

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Andrea Wolff has posted images from her new series on her website. This series is a comment on bioethics of things we can do now and in the future.
She writes:
Like a well-meaning researcher, I started out exploring the wonders of nature, then I learned to repair nature, then I began to perfect nature. [...]

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Pink Elephant Saturday Night

The 4th Annual PINK ELEPHANT was last night. Many Many thanks to TJ Norris for making this all happen. It was a very fun event and good to spend some time catching up with some friends and meet some new ones.  For the read from the man himself, read TJ’s blog posting.

There were [...]

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The theme for FotoFest 2010 is “contemporary work about the United States” and will be curated by invited curators (so you can’t submit to that one). However ,there are many galleries (non-profit, commercial, artist run), corporate spaces, retail spaces and restaurant that also show art and you can apply to them by a juried [...]

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A year ago, I posted a link to Murray Gell-Mann’s TED talk called, Beauty and truth in physics. In this talk Gell-Mann talked a lot about about symmetry.
Basically “things” with some form of symmetry have characteristics that don’t change under certain transformations (read “change”). Beautiful. Symmetry goes way beyond most people’s [...]

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Snow in Portland

Below is an image from 15-Dec, it’s been snowing most days since then.
Now we are up to a foot at my house, and it just keeps coming…

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Thinking of Terry Toetemeier

Radio Tribute
The show Art Focus on KBOO (90.7fm in Portland) hosted by Eva Lake, will have a Terry Toedtemeier tribute December 18th (Thurs) from 10:30 to 11am. Guests on the show include his widow, Prudence Roberts, Jane Beebe of  PDX Contemporary Art (925 NW Flanders, Portland OR), and John Laursen (co-author of Wild Beauty: Photographs [...]

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Very sad day. I just heard that Terry Toedtemeier, Portland Art Museum’s curator of photography, has passed away. He was a great man, warm person, sharp intellect, and a fine curator. Very sad indeed.
Terry just published the book “Wild Beauty: Photographs of the Columbia River Gorge, 1867-1957” (134 photographs) associated with show at the [...]

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light backwards is faster than light

As if light wasn’t mystical enough… imagine light traveling backwards a a speed faster-than-light just to fit the other laws of light. Yes strange indeed.
Yes, current theories did predict this bizarre possibility that Robert Boyd discovered. Einstein, as it turns out, didn’t say nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, he [...]

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