Categories
Archives
Recent Comments
- Gary Nuetzel on THE OLDEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE STARTS ITS 32ND SEASON. (COMMENT).
- Francesca on EATING PEAS WITH A KNIFE.
- avon wilsmore on CHEATING IN CHAMPIONSHIP BRIDGE.
- Anonymous on THE LANGUAGE WEIRDNESS INDEX.
- James Friscia on THE SECOND OLDEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE.
- Ken Babcock on THE SECOND OLDEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE.
- Lickity Splitfingers on THE SECOND OLDEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE.
- Ken Babcock on THE OLDEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE STARTS ITS 32ND SEASON. (COMMENT).
- David Quemere on THE OLDEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE STARTS ITS 32ND SEASON. (COMMENT).
- Nicholas Schaefer on THE SECOND OLDEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE.
Meta
Category Archives: art
PHOTOGRAPHS OF BUBBLES FREEZING IN MIDAIR.
PHOTOGRAPHS OF BUBBLES FREEZING IN MIDAIR. This article in the Daily Mail features photographs from a video which was directed by Leila and Damien de Blink which shows bubbles freezing in midair. Feather, flower and star ice shapes form a … Continue reading
Posted in art, Science
Leave a comment
TATTOO NIGHT—A “BRYCE HARPER BOBBLEHEADESQUE” SUCCESS.
TATTOO NIGHT—A “BRYCE HARPER BOBBLEHEADESQUE” SUCCESS. I posted here earlier in the year on some of the promotions that the Syracuse Chiefs had scheduled for the year. July 1 was “Tattoo Night”, with an offer of general admission for life … Continue reading
THE PHILOSOPHY OF IMPRESSIONISM.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF IMPRESSIONISM. Grovier says that Mondrian was interested in “universal laws that are in eternal opposition to the mutability of the world around us”. Mondrian’s philosophy of art is directly opposed to Alain de Botton’s characterization of the … Continue reading
Posted in art
Leave a comment
MONDRIAN’S REJECTION OF NATURE.
MONDRIAN’S REJECTION OF NATURE. Kelly Grovier had a review of the Mondrian and his Studios exhibit in the TLS (July 11). The review called my attention to the exhibit. Grovier says that Mondrian told a visitor that he had whitewashed … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, art
Leave a comment
LIVING INSIDE A MONDRIAN PAINTING.
LIVING INSIDE A MONDRIAN PAINTING. The Tate Liverpool has organized an exhibition entitled Mondrian and his Studios to mark the 70th anniversary of Piet Mondrian’s death. Here is a description of the exhibit from the floornature blog, which points out … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, art
Leave a comment
MANHATTANHENGE.
MANHATTANHENGE. This article in the Economist reports on the celebration of Manhattanhenge at sunset on July 11. “Manhattanhenge” refers to the phenomenon that two times a year, on May 28 and July 11, “….the sun perfectly aligns with Manhattan’s streets … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, art, History
Leave a comment
IN DEFENSE OF UGLY PROOFS.
IN DEFENSE OF UGLY PROOFS. Ball draws attention to the ugliness of the proofs of Fermat’s Last Theorem and the Four Color theorem. Yet, perhaps it is simply the case that art critics have not yet created an esthetic defense … Continue reading
Posted in art, Science
Leave a comment
WHAT IS SCIENTIFIC BEAUTY, ANYWAY?
WHAT IS SCIENTIFIC BEAUTY, ANYWAY? Philip Ball asks how scientists define beauty (“We have to ask: what is this beauty they keep talking about?”). He posits that simplicity and symmetry go into a scientist’s idea of beauty. Ball describes two … Continue reading
Posted in art, Science
Leave a comment
CONCEPTUAL ART AND SYMMETRY.
CONCEPTUAL ART AND SYMMETRY. I commented in this post about LEGOS AND CONCEPTUAL ART that: “A lot of conceptual art bears only a few moments of looking. If you watch people at an exhibit of conceptual art, they will glance … Continue reading
Posted in art, Science
Leave a comment
“ORNAMENT AND CRIME”.
“ORNAMENT AND CRIME”. The title of the essay by Adolph Loos in which he called for everything to be white was “Ornament and Crime”. This article in wikipedia says that: “Loos introduced a sense of the ‘immorality’ of ornament, describing … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, art, History
Leave a comment