Svyatoslav Ponomarev, Moscow, Russia, 1999
From the series Face to Infinity and Possibility of Transformation [+]
Color Print from Negative Film, Printed in 1999, Vintage Edition
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Posts tagged art.
A beautiful telling of the never-realized film “Dune” by the recently deceased artist Moebius.
Before the 1974-1976 project went belly up, Jodorowsky’s production team for Dune was perhaps the most insane who’s who in film history. Moebius and H.R. Giger were brought on to do production designs, Alien writer Dan O’Bannon was in charge of special effects, Pink Floyd was slated to do the soundtrack, and the cast included Mick Jagger, Orson Welles, David Carradine, and Hervé Villechaize (Tattoo from Fantasy Island). Also, Dalí was to play the Emperor, for a fee of $100,000 an hour.
1 year ago on March 11, 2012 at 05:33pm
After 8 years of renovations, the Met unveils 15 new galleries dedicated to Islamic art, called the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia. (360-degree tour)
Richard Feynman on Beauty
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers, and possible beliefs, and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and there are many things that I don’t know anything about. But I don’t have to know an answer, I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell possible - it doesn’t frighten me.”
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Our Childrens Earth ›
Under the title, Trash is Not Trash, photographer Gaby Herbstein worked with illustrator Pablo Bernasconi to come up with this wonderfully whimsical series which asks us to reflect on the importance of recycling and think about what we can do to reduce our ecological footprint. (Ecological footprint is a measure of human demand on the Earth’s ecosystems. It compares human demand with planet Earth’s ecological capacity to regenerate.)
2 years ago on April 18, 2011 at 03:44pm
Richard Feynman and Jirayr Zorthian on science, art and beauty
Richard P. Feynman: “I have a friend who’s an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “look how beautiful it is,” and I’ll agree. Then he says “I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing,” and I think that he’s kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is …
I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it’s not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there’s also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes.
The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don’t understand how it subtracts.” “
Richard P. Feynman and Jirayr Zorthian, BBC series Horizon, the episode is called “No Ordinary Genius”, originally aired in 1993 (via amiquote)
Ilkka Halso’s Museum of Nature
Because, really, what I’m trying to do now is redefine what counts as health. It’s a clinic like a health clinic at any other university, except people come to the clinic with environmental health concerns, and they walk out with prescriptions for things they can do to improve environmental health, as opposed to coming to a clinic with medical concerns and walking out with prescriptions for pharmaceuticals.
…The environment is implicated, radically implicated. This is not the germs that medicos were trained to deal with; this is a different definition of health, health that has a great advantage because it’s external, it’s shared, we can do something about it; as opposed to internal, genetically predetermined or individualized.
And what I like to think of is this is an interface that re-scripts how we interact with natural systems,specifically by changing who has information,where they have it, who can make sense of that information, and what you can do about it.
- Tadpoles as water-quality bureaucrats
- Mouse cohabitant as sample bioindicators for human health
- the “No Park” fire hydrant rain garden
- chelating fish sticks (which you can feed to fish or eat yourself) that bind dietary heavy metals and PCB’s into non-bioavailable salts
- Intensive urban agriculture facility as urban air filter
- “ooz” zoo promoting healthy urban animal populations
By actually taking the opportunity that new technologies, new interactive technologies, present to re-script our interactions, to script them, not just as isolated, individuated interactions, but as collective aggregating actions that can amount to something, we can really begin to address some of our important environmental challenges.
2 years ago on November 02, 2010 at 12:40pm
(snakefeather:calamity-physics inbar—1423) hyperballad by nokkasili
These 9 drawings were done by an artist under the influence of LSD as part of a test conducted by the US government in the late 1950’s. The artist was given a dose of LSD 25 and free access to an activity box full of crayons and pencils. His subject was the medic.
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