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Archive for November 2009
more math for artists
As an artist – as a hungry, wanting, miserable-existing, low-rent-living, desperately seeking appreciation artist – wouldn’t you want to have maximum exposure so that any one of us buyers and lovers of art might catch on that you, well, exist? More philosophically, if you have a showing of your work, and it lasts only one… (read more)
simian’s theorem of grasp
In order to further assist artists with their efforts in gaining a following and thus increasing their importance to the brotherhood of man, I thought to create a mathematical model that explicitly describes a winning formula. “Simian’s Theorem of Grasp” is a useful device for eliminating those individuals, who, in the end, don’t matter enough… (read more)
hello down there
Imagine you’re floating in a narrow hole in the ground, a mile deep in the earth’s crust. It’s useless to scream because nobody would hear you. And there you are, for the rest of your very quiet and still life, getting to know your new neighbor, mother earth. It wouldn’t be a comfortable way to… (read more)
contemporary means contemporary
In October of 2009, the internet turned 40 years old. Not the web, or as some would call it, the Google machine; I mean the internet, developed by ARPANET for the US military to withstand a Soviet nuclear missile attack. Images on the internet arrived later, around 1990, when the CERN Institute developed the world… (read more)