Posted in links on Jun 19th, 2009
…Most Fridays I’ll try to post links to a variety o thangs… 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 […]
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Posted in links on May 29th, 2009
…Most Fridays I’ll try to post links to a variety o thangs… 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 […]
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Posted in Misc on Feb 27th, 2009
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 […]
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Posted in Misc on Jan 16th, 2009
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 view of symmetry […]
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Posted in Misc on Nov 14th, 2008
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 said […]
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Posted in Misc on Jul 4th, 2008
As American’s look up tonight to see the flashes of light produced by fireworks, they need to realize that those light bursts last a very long time. To get a really really REALLY short flash one needs to work a lot harder. Researchers have created the shortest-ever flash of light which lasted only 80 attoseconds […]
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Posted in Misc on Jan 9th, 2008
At last year’s TED conference one of the lectures that was taped was by the polymath and physicist Murray Gell-Mann. I highly recommend taking a look. http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/194 He talks a lot about symmetry. Symmetry goes way beyond simple mirror images about a line. Amazing symmetries also exists in magnificantly complex structures such as as E8. […]
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Posted in Ponderings on Nov 9th, 2007
I’ve been studying Futurist paintings for some time. The notion of using different representations of movement and change in a still image is intriguing to me. I also continue to read theoretical physics. In my mind an artist must tap from all manner of sources and combine this with their unique experiences to create interesting […]
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