Philosophy
I forgot to mention this yesterday...the birthday of M. C. Escher. One doesn't need psychedelic drugs to experience his fantastic drawings.
M. C. Escher [Website]
M. C. Escher [Wikipedia]
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Today is Einstein's birthday and as I put the finishing touches on the manuscript, Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion, I am thinking about the question in the last chapter -- why do we love Einstein?...
- The Feast Of Saint M.c.
Friends, This week saw the anniversary of the birth of Maurits Cornelius Escher. Traveling as a young artist, he found himself overwhelmed by the Alhambra. Mulsim artists largely found themselves required to create non-representational works. As such,...
- James Dean And Modern Cool
Yesterday would have been James Dean's 78th birthday. In just three films and a tragic accident, the man defined the modern notion of cool -- disaffected, alienated, but good-hearted. Is there anyone alive today who deserves mention in the same sentence...
- Psychedelic Art...drug Induced And Never Repeated
"Psychedelic art: what came out of it?" Psychedelic art was considered dangerously subversive 50 years ago. A new exhibition in London called Reflections from Damaged Life asks whether anything of aesthetic worth came out of the genre by Rupert Christiansen...
- Geometry In Science And Art
"Science, Art and Geometrical Imagination" by Jean-Pierre Luminet Abstract: From the geocentric, closed world model of Antiquity to the wraparound universe models of relativistic cosmology, the parallel history of space representations in science and...
Philosophy
M. C. Escher
I forgot to mention this yesterday...the birthday of M. C. Escher. One doesn't need psychedelic drugs to experience his fantastic drawings.
M. C. Escher [Website]
M. C. Escher [Wikipedia]
- Why Do We Love Einstein?
Today is Einstein's birthday and as I put the finishing touches on the manuscript, Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion, I am thinking about the question in the last chapter -- why do we love Einstein?...
- The Feast Of Saint M.c.
Friends, This week saw the anniversary of the birth of Maurits Cornelius Escher. Traveling as a young artist, he found himself overwhelmed by the Alhambra. Mulsim artists largely found themselves required to create non-representational works. As such,...
- James Dean And Modern Cool
Yesterday would have been James Dean's 78th birthday. In just three films and a tragic accident, the man defined the modern notion of cool -- disaffected, alienated, but good-hearted. Is there anyone alive today who deserves mention in the same sentence...
- Psychedelic Art...drug Induced And Never Repeated
"Psychedelic art: what came out of it?" Psychedelic art was considered dangerously subversive 50 years ago. A new exhibition in London called Reflections from Damaged Life asks whether anything of aesthetic worth came out of the genre by Rupert Christiansen...
- Geometry In Science And Art
"Science, Art and Geometrical Imagination" by Jean-Pierre Luminet Abstract: From the geocentric, closed world model of Antiquity to the wraparound universe models of relativistic cosmology, the parallel history of space representations in science and...