there will be a flood of new posts in the next fews days... weeks... however long it takes me. i've been without the internet for the last few weeks.
kicking it off. i stumbled upon an artist doing some really nice time lapse videos. combining graffiti style, with outrageous dedication and collaboration. here's a taste of some of the recent work:
check out the sketchbook as well. the images are provocative if not disturbing. their is also a great gallery of large scale work.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Origins of the Hoodie and other stories
My ever new height reaching associative meaning surfing, has lead me, this morning, to some interesting articles. How do things develop? Something we take for so much granted... where did it come from? The article below on the origins of the Hoodie got my mind turning-- especially when it came to the end of the article with the blip on how high fashion designers adopted it- but only after 50 years of becoming popular. What does it mean to take things for granted? And, in the second article... an evolutionist questions why we run in shoes. Why do we?
Brief Origins of the Hoodie
Running Barefoot
Brief Origins of the Hoodie
Running Barefoot
Monday, October 5, 2009
Physics
Ever since I was recommended "Chaos" by James Gleick, I've begun a love affair with scientific philosophy. I stumbled across this article about Quantum Mechanics in Scientific American about new views of space relationships and nonlocality. The first few pages were sort of introductory, but it was the final paragraphs that grabbed my Architects' waning ADHD attention.
Follow the link below the few poetic excerpts I've highlighted.
"We believe that everything there is to say about the world can in principle be put into the form of a narrative, or story. Or, in more precise and technical terms: everything there is to say can be packed into an infinite set of propositions of the form "at t1 this is the exact physical condition of the world" and "at t2 that is the exact physical condition of the world," and so on. But the phenomenon of quantum-mechanical entanglement and the spacetime geometry of special relativity—taken together—imply that the physical history of the world is infinitely too rich for that."
"...we need to take seriously the idea that the world's history plays itself out not in the three-dimensional space of our everyday experience or the four-dimensional spacetime of special relativity but rather this gigantic and unfamiliar configuration space, out of which the illusion of three-dimensionality somehow emerges. Our three-dimensional idea of locality would need to be understood as emergent as well. The nonlocality of quantum physics might be our window into this deeper level of reality."
(Albert and Galchen, SA, 3.09)
See Full Article
Follow the link below the few poetic excerpts I've highlighted.
"We believe that everything there is to say about the world can in principle be put into the form of a narrative, or story. Or, in more precise and technical terms: everything there is to say can be packed into an infinite set of propositions of the form "at t1 this is the exact physical condition of the world" and "at t2 that is the exact physical condition of the world," and so on. But the phenomenon of quantum-mechanical entanglement and the spacetime geometry of special relativity—taken together—imply that the physical history of the world is infinitely too rich for that."
"...we need to take seriously the idea that the world's history plays itself out not in the three-dimensional space of our everyday experience or the four-dimensional spacetime of special relativity but rather this gigantic and unfamiliar configuration space, out of which the illusion of three-dimensionality somehow emerges. Our three-dimensional idea of locality would need to be understood as emergent as well. The nonlocality of quantum physics might be our window into this deeper level of reality."
(Albert and Galchen, SA, 3.09)
See Full Article
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