December 2011
2 posts
Dark into light
The Paris opera house is built to be a journey from darkness into light (past into future ) or (enlightenment)
October 2011
1 post
A Conductor is a time machine
Slipping forward and behind, around a pulse as it marches forward.
September 2011
1 post
Duchamp said →
July 2011
2 posts
June 2011
4 posts
The Left Gaze
When we look at faces our eyes look at the left side (the persons right side) of the face first. When we express emotion, our faces become asymmetrical. The majority of the emotion comes out on the right side of the face.
When looking at humans, dogs look at the left side of the face first as well.
From a Nova special on dogs.
Transatlantic cable maps
http://atlantic-cable.com/
http://www.davidrumsey.com/
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/15/map-of-undersea-cabl.html
Golden City Park
Amusement park in Canarsie. Nunley’s carousel was there first.
http://www.oldcanarsie.com/golden_city_park.htm
#2s
Spanky Spangler to Evel Knievel
Mario Manzini (Hoidini, Elvis)
Great American Thrill Show
April 2011
2 posts
Monarch butterflies and broken cycles
Monarch butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico. It takes one generation to go South but 3 or 4 to return home. They must travel 50 miles per day to get to Mexico. No one butterfly makes the entire trip but they know instinctively where to go. Cycles within cycles - no single one completing the trip alone.
Also, the clusters when they rest at end. ...
Invent your own calendar, stop time. →
January 2011
1 post
Buffalo Bill went dinosaur hunting.
As a guide for Marsh (Yale). Check Harpers Bazar for the dispatches.
November 2010
1 post
Disruption = amplification (messing something up...
A guitar string get amplified when the vibrating string disrupts a magnetic field.
October 2010
3 posts
Hiding in plain sight →
Charlie O'Connell - Mr. Roller Derby →
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
1 post
July 2010
1 post
June 2010
3 posts
Hardboiled Slang →
“It’s the tilt, not the distance.
The seasons are not caused by the...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solstice
May 2010
1 post
April 2010
1 post
March 2010
2 posts
February 2010
3 posts
Muscles don't push, only pull.
Muscles can only contract, so the act of pushing something away is really the act of pulling it towards you. Pushing away is an illusion.
We are stardust
“Every one of our chemical elements was once inside a star. The same star. You and I are brothers. We came from the same supernova.” Allan Sandage.
In 1957, in a long, groundbreaking paper in The Reviews of Modern Physics, Dr. Burbidge; his wife, E. Margaret Burbidge; William Fowler of the California Institute of Technology; and Fred Hoyle of Cambridge University — a collaboration...
January 2010
24 posts
The old Moon in the new Moon's arms →
Planetshine
“Film doesn’t exist unless it’s projected. Of all the Art forms,...”
– Martin Scorsese
“The Art of the future is not something you have to shine a light on. It’s...”
– Bill Viola
Johannes Kepler foretold the view of the Earth... →
Somnium (Latin for The Dream) is a fantasy written between 1620 and 1630, in Latin, by Johannes Kepler. In the narrative, a student of Tycho Brahe is transported to the Moon by occult forces. It presents a detailed imaginative description of how the earth might look when viewed from the moon, and is considered the first serious scientific treatise on lunar astronomy. Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov...
Eratosthenes discovered the Earth's circumference...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
“Volume 1, Proportions and Movements of the Human Figure. Entry# 389.
On hair...”
– The Notebook of Leonardo Da Vinci
“Volume 2, Astronomy. Entry# 863.
Each man is always in the middle of the...”
– The Notebook of Leonardo Da Vinci
“There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five...”
– The Art of War, V. Energy
“Entry# 54. TO PROVE HOW OBJECTS REACH THE EYE.
If you look at the sun or some...”
– The Notebook of Leonardo Da Vinci
“Measurement owes its existence to Earth; Estimation of quantity to Measurement;...”
– The Art of War, IV. Tactical Dispositions
Color design in It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie... →
Butte, Montana
Charlie Chaplan and Evel Knievel both spent time in Butte, Montana.
“Sound is the basis of images for me. Sound anchors the image. Ever watch...”
– Bill Viola
Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley melted her medals when she could no longer shoot.