Very cool, well explained video about all the dimensions (we know of), which is, believe it or not, 10! Everything is explained very straightforward and, though the ideas are complex, in a way that even I was able to get. I’m considering picking up the book; if not for me, than for my father, who I would think would be very interested in these kind of things.
Most of us have gotten used to the idea of there being four dimensions: but how can we possibly imagine the tenth? This project starts from the unique argument that time really is just one of the directions in the fourth spatial dimension, and our spacetime universe is being created one planck length at a time as we twist and turn in the available branches of the fifth dimension. This “new way of thinking about time and space” is not the traditional position of mainstream science: still, many people around the world feel this new idea has resonances with their own ways of understanding reality.
I feel I am a combination of both my parents when it come to holding on and letting go of things. I have a tough time parting with sentimental objects or things that I’m worried I will need again but I’m really not using at the moment. But then, I have bursts of everything-must-go-itis, getting so frustrated with the clutter that all I can do is throw nearly everything into a big black bag.
Though I like the idea of narrowing all I own down to 100, I’m not so sure I could do it. All those photographs and art projects… hmmm. What’s more along my lines is probably the New York couple who said they would “within a year to have only things that we use daily in our apartment.”
If nothing else this TIMES article is very motivational and got me thinking about what things are really important.
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ISO50 posted a great, detailed step-by-step of his “Progress” poster, created for Obama’s fund-raising efforts. The guy is meticulous and talented with textures and color!
Poking around the New York Times website, I was so inspired by these two articles.
Mystery on Fifth Avenue
When Steven B. Klinsky and Maureen Sherry hired Eric Clough to renovate their Fifth Ave. apartment they knew they had brought on a smart designer. But, when Klinsky made an offhanded request about hiding a poem for his wife and children in the walls, Clough took the idea and turned it into a Da Vinci Code style scavenger hunt through their own apartment.
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When Mom and Dad Share It All
To Amy and Marc Vachon, they are truly each others partner and teammate. They work the same hours, bring in the same amount of money, and spend the same amount of time with the children and on housework. Now, for me children are very very far down the road for me. But what struck me about this particular article (and the great accompanying video) was Vachon’s outlook and how their decision had made their lives more peaceful and fulfilling.
I may have never been a “plant person,” but I’m very tempted to try this out. I love the mixture of rebellion, environmentalism and, in my opinion, art this is.
Jonathan noted today’s LA Times profile about militant gardening, with Angelenos looking to change the urban landscape one seed bomb at a time. Hidden in the article is a helpful photo instructional how-to, as shown above. Don’t mistake those seed “bombs” above for truffles…they’re the arsenal of the urban gardeners mentioned in today’s LA Times article.
1. Caroline Kim takes us through the step-by-step process of making seed bombs that gardeners on the go drop into the soil of barren, forlorn spots. Start with organic earthworm castings. Then add clay soil. Mix dry.
2. Add wildflower seeds to the mixture of clay and earthworm castings.
3. Next, Caroline adds water and mixes together wildflower seeds, clay soil and earthworm castings into a mud pie-like consistency.
4. She scoops up little mounds of the mixture and rolls them into bombs, more like balls.
5. The seed bombs are left to dry for a day outside in a plastic container.
6. With the seed bombs stowed in her red bag, the stiletto-wearing Caroline takes off on her bike in search of vacant patches of public space. To plant the seed bombs, she digs holes with a trusty tool — the heel of her shoe. “Stilettos work really well,” she says, grinning.
I’ve gotta rep my old school, SCAD! Great and informative video.
In this ~9-minute video, Daniel Floyd, a professor at Savannah College of Art and Design, convincingly advances the theory that the major problem with sex in video-games is that there isn’t enough sex in video games — that video-games’ failure to come to grips with sex as part of the artistic message and aesthetic in games (in addition to the hypersexualized juvenile Lara Croft/Duke Nukem stuff), it can’t convincingly argue that games are an actual artistic medium that deserves to be considered on the same terms as painting, literature, sculpture, film, and other media that often feature sexual material.
The planning that must have gone into this is amazing and the results are even more so! Artist, Erik Nordenankar, created a self portrait, spanning the globe, measuring 40,076,594M x 40,009,153M.
With the help of a GPS device and DHL, I have drawn a self portrait on our planet. My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS device, being sent around the world. The paths the briefcase took around the globe became the strokes of the drawing.
Extremely insightful and moving things said by a group of 4 to 8 year-olds when asked “What does love mean?” Here are a few of my favorites:
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.” Billy - age 4
“Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss.” Emily - age 8
“Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.” Chris - age 7
“Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day.” Mary Ann - age 4
“When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.” Karen - age 7
“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.” Jessica - age 8
