Imagine science film festival
Just a quick note before I doze off for tomorrow’s work. NYC, befitting its status as one of the more interesting places to live in around the world, is the host to this amazing event called the Imagine Science Film Festival. Now I’m nuts for all things science, but I especially love this festival in … Read more
Le Corbusier, The City of To-Morrow And Its Planning
It’s 12:15 AM and I’m dead tired from writing proposals all day. So here’s a quote from Le Corbusier’s ‘The City of To-Morrow And Its Planning’ that I found especially profound. We prefer Bach to Wagner, and the spirit which inspired the Parthenon to that which created the cathedral… This modern sentiment is a spirit … Read more
Lisa Randall opera
Brief post amidst a mild snowstorm nursing a mug of hot chocolate: The prominent particle physicist/cosmologist Lisa Randall is apparently hard at work writing an opera with the artist Matthew Ritchie, according to a detailed interview on the Boston Globe. The opera is an hour-long piece between two performers with the title of “Hypermusic Prologue: A … Read more
artscience rant
Just a little something I jotted down a moment ago on notepad, about art, science, and artscience (and possibly what artificial life has to do with it all) A machine to create as we know it can only a machine that follows certain mathematical patterns giving output that can be interpreted by both the … Read more
Neal Stephenson notes
I’ve been googling some Neal Stephenson articles on the net in preparation for his new upcoming book, Anathem. Here is an interesting excerpt from a Wired article I encountered from a blog about Neal Stephenson and his upcoming work (I recommend you read the full article as well if you are interested in current status … Read more
Abstraction- Engines of Art
The update at this blog had been intermittent for a while due to my personal circumstances, with moving to a new apartment, and the need to write up bunch of papers happening all at once. Now that I am a bit more settled I should be able to write here regularly. At least I hope … Read more
