“It seems, as one becomes older,That the past has another pattern, and ceases to be a mere sequence….I sometimes wonder if that is what Krishna meant—Among other things—or one way of putting the same thing:That the future is a faded song, a Royal Rose or a lavender sprayOf wistful regret for those who are not yet here to regret,Pressed between yellow leaves of a book that has never been opened.And the way up is the way down, the way forward is the way back.”
Source: Time Fold
Block designs in several senses.
Source: Block Designs
Place and Placelessness
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Source: cornelius cardew’s treatise (1963-67) – The Hum Blog
It’s more like a rhythm.
Source: It’s Not a ‘Stream’ of Consciousness – The New York Times
The abstract beauty of science, made mesmerizingly visible.
Source: Berenice Abbott’s Minimalist Black-and-White Science Imagery, 1958-1960 – Brain Pickings
“…he purpose of the arguments was a defense of his teacher’s ideas. Parmenides believed that reality was one, immutable and unchanging. Motion, change, time and plurality were all mere illusions. This, of course, attracted many critics. Zeno’s paradoxes attempted to show that holding the opposite position, that reality was many, was contradictory and absurd. Therefore, “the one” must be the correct philosophy.”
Source: MathCS.org – Real Analysis: 9.12. Zeno of Elea (495?-435? B.C.)
Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope…now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into he visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.
—Provisional Instructions to Kino-Eye Groups, Dziga Vertov, 1926
Source: Dziga Vertov • Senses of Cinema
Reductionists believe that memories, emotions, and feelings can be broken down to nothing more than interactions between brain cells and their associated molecules. In other words, “you” are your brain.
Source: The Ghost in the Machine: Unraveling the Mystery of Consciousness | Big Think
The 2nd Edition of Deconstructing Time – essay-blogs about the human experience of time. We are immersed in time. We take time as a fact of life and think very little about its workings, yet we are at its mercy. In a sense time is all you have: on your gravestone will be your name and the date you were born and the date you died. What could we gain by obtaining a perspective, by standing a bit outside of time? Although the clock will still continue to tick, your relation to time will be changed. It is the modern human — i.e. Homo sapiens sapiens — sense of time that is the key difference between humans and the other animals. And further I believe that time, as we experience it, is created by our uniquely human brains and is critical to our sense of consciousness.
Pages 317 and 318 from a book titled Analyzing character, the new science of judging men: misfits in business, the home and social life (1917) by Katherine M. H. Blackford, M.D. and Arthur Newcomb.
Source: The Physiognomy of Hands (1917) | The Public Domain Review
Source: CVM – Mary Ellen Bute
Walking
For decades, we have known of only 14 convex pentagons that can do something called “tiling the plane.” Now there is a 15th shape, but mathematicians are still far from knowing exactly how many exist.
Source: With Discovery, 3 Scientists Chip Away At An Unsolvable Math Problem : The Two-Way : NPR
Jack Tworkov, Alternative IX (OC-Q1-78 #5), 1978, oil on canvas.COURTESY THE ESTATE OF JACK TWORKOV AND ALEXANDER GRAY ASSOCIATES, NEW YORK With a show of
Source: Drawing With Paint: Douglas Crimp on Jack Tworkov, in 1971 | ARTnews
Hyperspace, ghosts, and colourful cubes – Jon Crabb on the work of Charles Howard Hinton and the cultural history of higher dimensions.
Source: Notes on the Fourth Dimension | The Public Domain Review
The digital art pioneer’s solo show is currently on view at Carroll / Fletcher gallery in London.
Source: Manfred Mohr Plays The Machine, Turning Algorithms Into Visual Music | The Creators Project
A witty visual meditation on our comical control strategies, the predictability of modern life, and our constant tussle with productivity an
Source: Our Fraught Relationship with Time, in Clever Minimalist Illustrations | Brain Pickings
A pocket guide to Neapolitan nonverbal communication.Somewhere between his seminal manifestos on design as art and his timelessly deligh
Source: The Fine Art of Italian Hand Gestures: A Vintage Visual Dictionary by Bruno Munari | Brain Pickings
A visual “autobiography” of the legendary polymath that grants equal dignity to the grit and the glory.Freud once observed that the grea
Source: Beloved British Artist Ralph Steadman Illustrates the Life of Leonardo da Vinci | Brain Pickings
He transformed photography and laid the foundations for motion pictures, but Eadweard Muybridge has always been dogged by controversy. His biographer, Rebecca Solnit, defends the great innovator against a new campaign of innuendo
Source: Eadweard Muybridge: Feet off the ground | Art and design | The Guardian
“No matter how clearly we can see an object, there is something about the physical act of reproducing and interpreting it visually: in making marks, we infuse meaning into each element of the structure before us.”
Source: Ramón y Cajal and the Case for Drawing in Science – SA Visual – Scientific American Blog Network
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm. M. C. Escher
Selected works by M. C. Escher
Although I am absolutely without training or knowledge in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists. Escher
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