Posts in the past four weeks
Saturday
Mar 13 2010
17:32 UTC
... see a lot of eclipses in this painting by wassily kandinsky, although he called it several circles. i think it would be cool to have a first name like "wassily." his work reminds me of my grandmother's paintings. i like the bold geometric forms and colors. he manages to express the romance of a circle. i went to the lenbauchaus in munich, germany one time and was mesmerized by the shapes in this massive painting...... and the colors of this one.
Posted by astropixie
Sunday
Feb 28 2010
23:14 UTC
I'm back in Cardiff, exhausted but, at the same time, rather exhilirated by the past few days in Geneva. Before I crash out I thought I'd update the post I filed a couple of days ago. On Friday we visited CERN, the highlight of which visitwas, for me,seeing the facility where they test the superconducting magnets
Posted by In The Dark
Sunday
Feb 28 2010
16:16 UTC
... Dave Clements is also participating -- and blogging. The second night,
Posted by Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line
Friday
Feb 26 2010
08:30 UTC
... trios of architects, artists and scientists to produce works to be shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale later this year, and possibly the better-known Art Biennale in 2011. But beyond that broad outline, none of us know much about what we will b
Posted by Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line
Friday
Feb 26 2010
08:02 UTC
It's a cold and rainy morning here in Geneva, but I'm really looking forward to the next few days here. I arrived yesterday evening after a flight that was longer than it should have been. It seems the French air traffic controllers went on some sort of strike so my flight from Heathrow wasn't allowed
Posted by In The Dark
Wednesday
Feb 24 2010
07:45 UTC
the looks on the faces of the students in this 1895 painting by n. bogdanov-belsky are wonderful. i love moments when everyone is really focused on trying to figure something out. they are counting in their heads and feeling hopeful and confident that they can solve the puzzle shown on the board if they just think a little more... try it - no calculating aids allowed! via dark roasted blend
Posted by astropixie
Tuesday
Feb 23 2010
11:22 UTC
scanning electron microscopes (SEMs) were developed in the 1950s and are widely used in medical science. SEMs have the power to magnify objects hundreds of times more than regular optical microscopes because they monitor the way electrons react with a surface instead of focusing photons of light through lenses to form an image. below is an image created by chris supranowitz using an SEM. can you guess what the long path is? its the groove in a vinyl record. awesome!in an SEM, an electron be
Posted by astropixie
Sunday
Feb 21 2010
08:33 UTC
design by kontrastt
Posted by astropixie
Tuesday
Feb 16 2010
22:48 UTC
... used to make little flipbooks inside my notebooks in school, but this is pretty much the ultimate one! thanks mike!
Posted by astropixie
Tuesday
Feb 16 2010
00:06 UTC
... from mostly well-known artists with some connection to the recently-deceased Ballard or his themes. So there are the obligatory car crashes from Warhol, referencing the eponynmous Crash, probably Ballard's best-known novel. Indeed, works about cars and airplanes, sex and violence make up the bulk of the show. Tacita Dean's Teignmouth Electron, Cayman Brac (Ballard) seems to be a scene from
Posted by Andrew Jaffe: Leaves on the Line
Monday
Feb 15 2010
10:42 UTC
rhett and link have a clever stop animation t-shirt war!rhett and link also produced a funny facebook song several years ago, and the cornhole theme song!
Posted by astropixie
