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Inclination Changes
Physicist Arthur Worthington's desire to prove the perfection of the splash, using drawings he made from observations of mercury droplets, was abandoned after flash photography made it possible to see...
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The Ministries of Oceania
I am beginning to wonder if I am feeling a strange sense of dislocation at the moment because I am a proponent of privacy and limits in a time that recognizes and respects neither. My generation...
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I Saw It That Way Too
When you first learn to draw objects or figures, you engage in training your mind, not your eye. A goal is to see the parts of everything before you. Gradually, your brain allows for a way of seeing...
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Your Mind A Bounded Set
All the planes were late; a gusty storm in San Francisco had everyone in an anxious hover. So as we waited and waited at the over-crowded gate for our plane to depart to Portland, I slowly browsed the...
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Lip Liner is Extra Credit
Watching the new trailer for the "Sex and the City" sequel (does it really count as a sequel?) confirmed for me that I know absolutely nothing about being female today. The same goes for watching clips...
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Aphelion is Imminent Too
Can one really understand how fear acts on the motion of belief? One NASA scientist who is tasked with answering the public's questions about the 2012 Doomsday end-of-the-world hoopla has named this...
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Everything, All the Time
I really believe that willful ignorance is a dangerous thing, right up there with intentional passivity and blind obedience. And it seems like this desire for mental safety (or for sentimental hygiene,...
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Whites at the End of Their Time
Pragmatic philosopher Richard Rorty's liberal ironist engages in self-creation as a way of living a purposeful life, as metaphysical considerations (or supernatural forces, or promises of what happens...
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World of Wonders
Every human starts out with one cell and we develop, via regulatory processes we are still learning about, into a collection of about 10 trillion cells. To date those 10 trillion cells have been...
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The Current-Worked Mind
I've been coming to an understanding about some things lately. For instance, Predators (the cinematic variety) may have awesome blade skills, but they see in low and slow infrared, while we humans (not...
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Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
Back in 1993, I took a graduate school course titled "Education in Future Social Systems" which was taught by an odd Libertarian-futurist who looked distractingly like Dr. Tyrell from Blade Runner....
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I See it Feelingly
When I am creating an image, I am aware of my own role in translating what I know and feel into an art piece, and I am aware also of having my own standards for that creative process. Those standards...
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Everything That Has a History of Its Own
Three scientists in bright orange jackets and black hats take up positions on the Antarctica ice just above an area where seals are cavorting and loudly communing. The scientists each have a different...
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Into the Same River Twice
Continuous circular thinking about the relevance of what one encounters in life is what blurs the distinction between being of one's time or being in one's time. And I am skeptical of the idea that one...
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This Virgin Mary is 62% Cacao
During the recent run up to Parliamentary elections in the region of Catalan, Spain, candidate Alicia Sanchez-Camacho defended her (conservative) People's Party's campaign video, which depicted the...
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The Angular Distance
A few years back I had a weirdly visceral experience of nostalgia while just walking across a post office parking lot. We'd been living in Seattle for about 4 years, and rather than get used to the...
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Houses of Being
Because I can intend to imagine a space or time or experience differently than what I observe or register daily, the exercise of imagination is not inherently liberating. And it strikes me too that to...
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The View From Where You Start
If one encounters the contemporary art on display at Dia:Beacon with one frame of mind -- say, a frame that holds that much of what populates the contemporary art world is MFA-ratified forms of...
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Ideas as Opiates
The gentleman seated to my right on the plane was thirty-ish, white, anxious looking, and gripped in both hands a fairly new copy of 'Atlas Shrugged'. A representative sample, right there next to me!...
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Freedom Creates Its Own Degrees
There seems to be no relief from feeling vulnerable when one is in graduate school. Classroom performance, conferences, presentations, face-to-face field work -- all opportunities to be confronted...
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