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Paradox
What are the connections between variables and constraints and limitations within a system? Every wave is different yet similar in form. I cannot tell it to move in a different way that is outside of its universal design. Its form is a design of it’s functions. The water flows over, under, and through the rocks …
Roman Opalka
Roman Opalka (1931-2011) “Time as we live it and as we create it embodies our progressive disappearance; we are at the same time alive and in the face of death–that is the mystery of all living beings. The consciousness of this inevitable disappearance broadens our experiences without diminishing our joy. There is always the omnipresent …
Numbers
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000………….. = 0/9 = 0 0.111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111…………… = 1/9 0.2222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222222…………… = 2/9 0.333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333…………… = 3/9 = 1/3 0.444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444444……………… = 4/9 0.555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555555……………… = 5/9 0.666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666666………….. = 6/9 = 2/3 0.777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777…………….. = 7/9 0.888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888…………….. = 8/9 0.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999………… = 9/9 = 3/3 = 1!
Ernst Haeckel
Etienne-Jules Marey
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) Inquiry into motion with a camera. The ability to breakdown movement, revealing the complex in-betweens of mundane, everyday gestures, sitting, standing, walking…, freezing figures in mid air, defying physics, exposing the process of motion which the human eye can not see. Muybridge, photographic motion studies. 1872 – 1878 —
Patterns in Islam
Water
Water “Water is sometimes sharp and sometimes strong, sometimes acid and sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet and sometimes thick or thin, sometimes it is seen bringing hurt or pestilence, sometime health-giving, sometimes poisonous. It suffers change into as many natures as are the different places through which it passes. And as the mirror changes with the …